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Congressman Markwayne Mullin has joined a working group on Azerbaijan at the US House of Representatives.Thus, the number of members of the working group has reached 59 people.Congressman Markwayne Mullin was first elected to serve the people of Oklahoma’s Second Congressional District in November 2012.Mullin currently serves on the House …

Salome Zurabishvili has won the runoff presidential election in Georgia with 59.52% of votes, while Grigol Vashadze secured 40.48% of votes, the Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) reported on Thursday, according to TASS.According to the CEC, after counting votes from all 3,705 voting stations, 1,147,627 voters (59.52% of votes) supported …

Azerbaijani Ruslan Lunev has become the winner of an International Shooting Tournament commemorating Shota Kvarashvili in Tbilisi, Georgia.He secured the gold medal in the men’s 10m air pistol event with 575 points.

There are plans to open the House of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Baku in 2019, chairman of the board of the Agency for the Development of SMEs in Azerbaijan Orkhan Mammadov told reporters in Baku Nov. 29.He said that in the coming days, the opening of centers “Friend …

The next UK-Azerbaijan Joint Intergovernmental Commission (JIC) is planned to be held on April 4-5 2019 in the UK, Steve Smith, the Head of Trade and Investments Department of the UK Embassy in Baku told Trend.“Currently, we are working on the proposed agenda and possible venue,” he said, adding that …

Anglo Asian Mining PLC expects gold production to be around 78,000-84,000 ounces in 2018 in Azerbaijan, President & CEO of the company Reza Vaziri told Trend.He said that it is expected 2018 production to be at top of the range.Vaziri said that the production is growing strongly, adding that the …

By Leman Mammadova The landslide zones in Azerbaijan occur mainly in the southern and north-eastern slopes of the Greater Caucasus, in the north-eastern part of the Lesser Caucasus, in the lower and middle parts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and the Talish Mountains, in large river basins.The landslide has been …