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The further implementation of the “UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for 2021-2025” between Azerbaijan and the UNB includes social programs, Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Population Anar Kerimov said, Trend reports.

He made the remark during the session of the joint steering committee on the implementation of the “UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for 2021-2025” between the UN and Azerbaijan.

According to him, the main directions of this project are the sectors of education and employment.

“A total of 21 meetings are expected to be held this year to discuss the project implementation process,” he said.

Kerimov noted that this project will also allow for establishing equality between cities and districts, the level of wages, education, and other rates.

“I would like to note that Azerbaijan has already achieved great results. Other countries are studying Azerbaijan’s experience of implementing this project. Even at global events, the UN cites our implementation reports as a model of implementation of the “UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2021-2025,” he added.

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Green” energy from Azerbaijan will soon be as important as natural gas, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said at a meeting held on March 13 in Berlin with the heads of leading German companies, Trend reports.

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President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent an appeal to the participants of the XXVI Eurasian Economic Summit.

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Azerbaijan is the only country that has received high marks on sustainable development reports, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Minister Sahib Mammadov said, Trend reports.

He made the remark during the session of the joint steering committee on the implementation of the “UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for 2021-2025”.

According to him, Azerbaijan will submit the next report under this project to the UN in 2024. He also noted that Azerbaijan and the UN have carried out activities on this project in five directions.

“At today’s event, is expected to summarize the results of this project. To date, $24.5 million has been spent within this project, and a total of $32 million has been allocated for its implementation,” he said.

Mammadov noted that Azerbaijan is committed to the policy of introducing green technologies and green development, which is an integral part of the project and the country’s obligations to the UN.

“In 2022, real GDP grew by 4.6, and GDP per capita by 4.1 percent. Over the past 10 years, the non-oil sector has become a driver of the country’s economic development. In addition, billions of dollars of investments were attracted to the Azerbaijani economy from 2011 to 2021. The sustainable development of Azerbaijan’s economy has allowed our country to take a leading position among the countries of the South Caucasus, the 50th place among the 163 countries of the world,” he said.

The deputy minister also noted that the UN supports Azerbaijan in the mine clearance process on the liberated territories.

“Last year, parties started implementing various projects both to de-mine the territories and to resettle former internally displaced persons to their homelands. All this was facilitated by the introduction of innovations and modern technologies while de-mining the territories and restoring cities and villages,” he said.

Mammadov stressed that this year it is also expected to hold events to spread awareness about the dangers of mines and unexploded ordnance.

The Azerbaijan-UN Joint Steering Committee controls the execution of the cooperation framework, as well as ensures its adaptation to the contexts of developing countries, national, regional, and international development processes, mechanisms, and goals, as well as voluntary national reviews, etc. It supports resource mobilization and development financing opportunities through cooperation. The Joint Steering Committee monitors progress, challenges, and opportunities, and guides the implementation process.

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The Extraordinary Summit of the Organization of Turkic States will be held in Ankara on March 16, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu tweeted, Trend reports.

“The Summit, organized by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will take place at the Presidential Complex. The meeting will address the issue of emergency management and humanitarian assistance during natural disasters,” Cavusoglu wrote.

On November 11, 2022, the IX summit of the Organization of Turkic States was held in Samarkand.

As an intergovernmental organization, the Organization of Turkic States was founded in 2009 with the aim of expanding cooperation between Turkish-speaking countries in the fields of politics, economics, science, education, transport, and tourism. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Türkiye are its founding members. Uzbekistan became a full member at the 7th Summit, which took place in Baku in October 2019.

During the Organization’s 6th Summit in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, in September 2018, Hungary was granted observer status. Turkmenistan joined as an Observer Member of the Organization at the 8th Summit in November 2021, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus did the same in November 2022.

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The dynamics of the development of the situation in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan is intensifying; in fact, the segmentation of the Armenian minority is taking place. And if 35 years ago the cancer of separatism originated in Karabakh, called the “Karabakh Movement” by the Armenians themselves, today there are the beginnings of a kind of “Karabakh Movement 2.0” but this time for reintegration with Azerbaijan.

According to Armenian media and sources, the Armenian community tends to believe that there really are no other options left but integration. Moreover, there were also calls for a positive attitude toward the invitation to the second meeting, published the day before by the Office of the President of Azerbaijan. The so-called “Foreign Ministry” of the separatists eventually refused to make contact without the mediation of Russian peacekeepers.

The situation shows that there is a certain split among Karabakh Armenians: some of them want to live a normal life, develop and improve their existence. The others, however, intend to continue to parasitize their own compatriots, plundering resources belonging to Azerbaijan and profiting from “struggle”, “self-determination” and other equally loud concepts.

Meanwhile, Azerbaijan’s position remains unchanged: as the Azerbaijani president stated, Baku is determined to establish contacts and dialogue, but no contacts with the Armenian community were considered until Ruben Vardanyan, the Russian billionaire of Armenian origin, sent from Moscow, was one of its leaders. As soon as Vardanyan was “dismissed”, real contacts began, and the first meeting took place. This is the firm and clear position of Baku: Azerbaijan is ready to talk if there is constructive dialogue.

And there is more and more understanding of this position among the Armenian minority. At the same time, the “war party”—Araik Harutyunyan, who is afraid of everything, and his so-called “officials” – continues to hold their own fellow compatriots hostage, hoping that they will be able to play for time forever.

For the stubborn ones, it would be wiser to recall the other words of President Ilham Aliyev: “If the separatist movement had not been started against us, they could live as people do in all the other parts of Azerbaijan now. The conditions they live in now are obvious. There are those who have gone and seen the conditions they live in. Therefore, whoever does not want to become our citizen, the road is not closed, it is open. They can leave, they can go by themselves, no-one will hinder them. They can go under the awning of peacekeepers’ trucks or they can go by bus. The road is open.”

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The smuggling of 24.13 kilograms of drugs from the Islamic Republic of Iran to Azerbaijan was prevented in the ‘Goytapa’ and ‘Lankaran’ border detachment areas of the Azerbaijani State Border Service’s border troops, as part of measures to ensure reliable protection of the state border, as well as combat drug trafficking, the Service told Trend.

As a result of the operational and investigative measures conducted in the ‘Goytapa’ border detachment area, near the Yardimli district’s Deman village, Azerbaijani citizen Novruz Dadashov, who was trying to illegally cross the state border, was detained at 21:55 (GMT+4) on March 13.

When inspecting the detainee, drugs with a total weight of 5.98 kilograms were found.

Following operations carried out in the ‘Lankaran’ border detachment area, near the Archivan village of Astara district, border guards recorded unknown persons attempting to illegally cross the state border with Azerbaijan at 05:30 (GMT+4) on March 14, 2023.

It was established that residents of Baku Kamil Hasanov and Novruz Mirzoyev, who tried to escape from the territory in a Mitsubishi car with a state license plate 99-DK-727, were detained.

During the inspection of the car, two bundles of drugs with a total weight of 18.15 kilograms were found and seized.

The corresponding operational and investigative measures are being taken.

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The Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations has issued a report on human rights and freedom violations in Armenia, Trend reports.

The report refers to violations of human rights and freedoms in Armenia in 2020-2022, ill-treatment of the civilian population, people detained during demonstrations, criminal cases against journalists, etc.

According to the report, international human rights organizations have always been applying double standards toward Azerbaijan, whereas Armenia’s anti-democratic and inhumane treatment of its people has been ignored over the last two years.

In particular, during the period from April through July 2022, international organizations, for some reason, turned a blind eye on the police brutality against demonstrators in Armenia, as well as the use of sound grenades.

Although Pashinyan’s government positions itself as “democratic” in Armenia, the facts envisaged by the mentioned report give grounds to say that this governance is far from democratic in its practical activities.

The Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan urges international human rights organizations to be sensitive to the inhuman processes occurring in Armenia, as well as staying away from double standards.

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