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IOM-supported project for the restoration of ancient irrigation systems – kahrizes in regions of Azerbaijan will contribute to Azerbaijan’s efforts to fulfill three Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the IOM official told Trend. The IOM official noted that the project is among the most crucial and timely activity undertaken by the IOM …

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has expressed support for neighbouring Georgia’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. “Azerbaijan supports independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia within its internationally recognized borders,” the ministry stated on its official Twitter account on August 8. The statement added that  Azerbaijan and Georgia enjoy strategic partnership based on the respect …

A tunnel will be built on the Toganaly-Kalbajar highway in Azerbaijan, Deputy Head of the Main Department for Operation and Repair of Roads of the State Agency of Azerbaijan Automobile Roads Idayat Rustamov said at a briefing on the results of the first half of 2021 and further tasks, Trend reports on …

Azerbaijan will send another group of firefighters to help extinguish massive forest fires across Turkey, Minister of Emergency Situations Kamaladdin Heydarov told APA on August 6. Heydarov said that 200 employees of the Special Risk Rescue Service will be sent to Turkey, reminding that 510 employees of the ministry, Be-200 …

Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have discussed the deadly wildfires in Turkey and the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Azertag reported on 6 August. In a telephone conversation that took place at Aliyev’s initiative on August 6, the Azerbaijani leader once again expressed his …

The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Iraq increased by more than 35 percent year-on-year in the first six months of 2021, after a decrease of 30 percent in 2020, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Economy Minister Sevinj Hasanova has said. She made this remark during the second meeting of the Joint Commission on Trade, …

Director General of Trend News Agency Ilgar Huseynov and the agency’s Editor-in-Chief Rufiz Hafizoglu held meeting with the Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Cahit Bagci in Baku on August 5, Trend reports. The agency’s leadership expressed condolences due to victims of forest fires in Turkey and regrets for this disaster. During the talk, …