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Azerbaijan’s Food and Safety Agency has suspended import of poultry products from some regions of Iran and Scotland, the agency has reported. The ban is in line with the World Organization for Animal Health warning against infectious animal diseases that may enter Azerbaijan’s territory from other countries. According to the Organization, a highly pathogenic …

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has received in a video format co-chair of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center Ismail Serageldin, Azertag reported today. Nizami Ganjavi International Centerwas founded in 2012 under the decree of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. The main goal of the Center is to provide the reader of Global Policy Analysis with …

Azerbaijan’s Energy Ministry and BP have signed a memorandum of understanding on assessing potential for large-scale decarbonized and integrated energy and mobility systems, including renewable energy projects in Azerbaijan’s regions and cities, the ministry’s press service reported on February 22. “The document signed today provides new opportunities for cooperation with …

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 …