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Buta Airways airline company performs daily flights in Baku-Tehran-Baku direction in the framework of the winter schedule, and at the present stage it is not planned to make changes in the schedule of flights in this direction, Buta Airways told “APA-Economics”. In case of making any change, the airline company …

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has officially opened its election observation mission (EOM) for the 9 February early parliamentary elections in the Republic of Azerbaijan, said Ambassador Peter Tejler, head of the OSCE/ODIHR EOM at a press conference in Baku. Tejler said that the mission’s …

A park named after great Azerbaijani poet and thinker Nizami Ganjavi is planned to be created in Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv in 2020 where a monument to him will also be erected, Azerbaijan’s Embassy in Kyiv has told AZERTAC. According to the Embassy, necessary documentation is now being finalized. …

Makhachkala-Baku and Makhachkala-Tehran direct flights are planned to be launched in 2020, Director General of Makhachkala Airport JSC in Russia’s Republic of Dagestan Arsen Pirmagomedov said. “Presently, we are considering the issue of launching direct flights to Iran’s Tehran city and Azerbaijan’s Baku city this year,” Pirmagomedov added, Trend reports referring to …

As many as 2,296 people have applied for participation in the early parliamentary election in Azerbaijan to be held Feb. 9, said the head of the country’s Central Election Commission (CEC) Mazahir Panahov at a meeting of CEC on Jan. 6, Trend reports. Panahov said that 463 candidates for MP have been …

NATO suspended its training mission in Iraq, the alliance said Saturday after a U.S. drone strike killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad, according to news organization Politico. NATO has been advising the Iraqi defense forces on how to keep ISIS from regaining strength. However, those “training activities are temporarily …

On January 4, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov had a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Javad Zarif. The ministers discussed the latest developments that aggravated the tension in the region. It was noted that the Azerbaijani side calls on all parties involved …