Politics 21 January 2021, 11:43 236
Azerbaijan has started preparatory activities on the ‘Kharybulbul’ festival and ‘Days of the Poetry of Vagif (famous Azerbaijani poet of 18th century)’ in the liberated (during the 44-day war from late Sept. through early Nov.2020 from Armenian occupation) Shusha city, said the Minister of Culture Anar Karimov, Trend reports.
Karimov made the remark during the meeting with the delegations of the International Organization of Turkic Culture (TURKSOY), the Council of Cooperation of Turkic-speaking States (Turkic Council), and the Foundation of the Turkic Peoples and Turkic Culture.
The meeting was attended by the Turkic Council’s Secretary-General Bagdad Amreyev, Secretary-General of TURKSOY Dusen Kaseinov, President of the Foundation for Turkic Culture and Heritage Gunay Afandiyeva, Deputy Secretary-General of the Turkic Council Gismet Gozyalov, project directors of the organization Farrukh Dzhumayev an
Economy 21 January 2021, 12:47 305
A meeting between the Turkish delegation, which is on a visit to Baku, headed by Chairman of the board of TÜMKİAD, Ilham Ozturk, and representatives of the National Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Employers’) of Azerbaijan was held on Jan. 21, Trend reports.
In the course of the meeting, the sides discussed issues related to reconstruction work in Azerbaijan s liberated lands, providing employment for people who will live there.
Ozturk noted that the organization led by him is ready to provide support for restoration work in the liberated lands, and the visit is aimed at discussing these issues with the relevant structures of Azerbaijan.
Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Julian E Barnes and Adam Goldman, The New York Times
Published: 16 Jan 2021 01:15 PM BdST
Updated: 16 Jan 2021 01:15 PM BdST A portrait of Nargis Mohammad Hasan hanging in her home in 2012. Ms Hasan, an Iranian woman who served as an Afghan police officer, has been in prison until this past fall. Mohammad Ismail/Reuters
Nargis Mohammad Hasan was serving as an Afghan police officer when she shot and killed an American civilian adviser Dec 24, 2012, in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital. It was considered the first known attack by a woman in the Afghan security forces on a coalition member since the US invasion in 2001.
Pakistan to help rebuild Azerbaijan’s newly liberated areas
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January 15, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday assured Azerbaijan of its support for rehabilitation and reconstruction activities in the newly liberated territories of the country.
According to a Foreign Office press release, the bilateral ties were discussed in “extensive talks” between Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and his visiting Azeri counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov here on Wednesday, following the conclusion of 2nd Trilateral Meeting of Pakistan-Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Qureshi underlined the exceptional quality of Pakistan-Azerbaijan political ties and underscored the importance of building a stronger economic relationship.
The two sides reaffirmed the resolve to comprehensively upgrade cooperation in the political, security, trade and economic, energy, connectivity, education and cultural arenas.