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Azerbaijan’s Culture Minister Abulfas Garayev, as part of his visit to Paris, met with a delegation led by Mechtild Rossler, director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre, Trend reports March 27 with reference to Azerbaijan’s Culture Ministry. As chairman of the 43rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, Abulfas Garayev spoke about …

Azerbaijani MPs Nagif Khamzayev, Azer Karimli and Rufat Guliyev will leave for Kyiv to observe the presidential election to be held in Ukraine March 31, Trend reports with reference to the parliament’s statement. Nagif Khamzayev will participate in the election observation process as part of the PACE observation mission. Azer Karimli will …

First passenger train launched by the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway arrived in Georgia, Trend reports citing Georgian media. The passenger train of the Swiss company Stadler launched by BTK in test mode. The train belongs to “Azerbaijan Railways”. A few days ago the train arrived in Istanbul from Switzerland. From Turkey, the train …

The 4th SOCAR International Caspian and Central Asia Downstream Forum – Trading, Logistics, Refining, Petrochemicals marking 96th anniversary of national leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev will be held in Baku on April 22-25. The event will be co-organized by Baku Higher Oil School (BHOS) and Confidence Capital Ltd. (UK). As …

On the sidelines of the Francophonie weeks, the Embassy of Switzerland will organize concerts of two Swiss musicians, one in Baku and the other one in Sumgait cities. The duo – Marc Aymon and Ephraim Salzman will perform in Baku Mugham Centre on 30th March. On 1st April, the Swiss …

Trend: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) plans to attract a consultant to support the Ministry of Energy of Azerbaijan in the development and implementation of a competitive (auction) scheme for renewable energy producers, Trend reports referring to the bank’s website. It is planned to begin the implementation of these …

The Azerbaijani company “Sirab” plans to expand the list of export destinations by the end of 2019, Fagan Alishanov, the head of the company’s export department, told Trend. He noted that the Arab countries will become a new export destination of the company in 2019. “We plan to arrange exports to …