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The vaccine ‘CoronaVAC’, produced by the Chinese Sinovac Biotech company, is effective against the UK and South African variants of COVID-19, Director of Brazil-based Butantan Biomedical Center Dimas Kovas said, a source in the Management Union of Azerbaijan’s Medical Territorial Units (TABIB) told Trend on Feb.22. According to Covas, the …

Azerbaijan’s export-oriented products are being presented at the International Food Exhibition Gulfood 2021, Economy Ministry has reported. The exhibition opened on February 21 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. At the exhibition, Azerbaijani companies working in the food industry will feature their products at a single national stand “Made in Azerbaijan”, organized …

Human Rights Commissioner Sabina Aliyeva has urged international organizations and states to recognize as genocide the mass killing of Azerbaijanis by Armenians in Khojaly settlement in Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region in 1992. Aliyeva made the remarks in the February 22 statement posted on the website of the Azerbaijani ombudsman’s office on the …

Azerbaijani and Turkish Youth Foundations have organized “Karabakh Victory” Art Competition to mark Azerbaijan’s victory in the Second Karabakh War. The main goal of the project was to show the Victory to the general public through the eyes of young artists of Azerbaijan and Turkey, to further strengthen fraternal relations. More than 200 …

Azerbaijan increased the volume of exports of oil and oil products to Georgia by 10,600 tons in January 2021, Azertag has reported. In January, Georgia imported 10,800 tons of oil and oil products worth $4.7 million from Azerbaijan. In the meantime, Georgia’s natural gas imports from Azerbaijan in January decreased …

This year marks the 880th anniversary of the great Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi. In this regard, President Ilham Aliyev signed an order declaring 2021 the Year of Nizami Ganjavi in Azerbaijan. The Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum …

Swedish-Azerbaijani Association (SAF), acting in Sweden, has called on Parliament of the country (Riksdag) to recognize the Khojaly genocide, committed by Armenians at the end of the previous century, Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with Diaspora told Trend on Feb.20. According to the committee, the statement addressed to the Swedish …