The official visit of Azerbaijan’s Minister of Digital Development and Transport Rashad Nabiyev to Iraq continues,The minister held several meetings, Azernews reports.
Day: December 8, 2023
The fifth Belt and Road Women’s Forum, focusing on women’s development and cultural exchanges, opened Thursday in Sanya, south China’s Hainan Province.
Themed “She Power: Jointly Building and Sharing a Beautiful Life,” the forum attracted around 400 participants, including diplomatic envoys in China and business representatives. It runs through Friday.
The event includes a youth leadership forum and themed forums centering around women’s exchanges and cooperation, sci-tech innovation and development, gender equality and cultural exchanges among Belt and Road participating countries.
According to He Dan, head of the China Population and Development Research Center, China has established a legal system that fully protects women’s rights and interests, including more than 100 laws and regulations. The political and economic status of Chinese women has improved across the board, along with their education level, she added.
The forum highlights women’s unique role in jointly building the Belt and Road, promotes women’s comprehensive and sustainable development, strengthens people-to-people exchanges, and serves as a platform for female exchanges and communication, said Li Xikui, vice president of the Chinese People‘s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.
A man fired a shotgun twice outside a synagogue in upstate New York, hours before the start of Hanukkah on Thursday, then said “Free Palestine” as he was taken into custody, police said.
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The Russian side positively assesses the joint statement of Armenia and Azerbaijan on their intention to normalize relations and conclude a peace treaty, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
“Moscow welcomes the Joint Statement of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, confirming the mutual intention to normalize relations and conclude a peace treaty between the two countries,” the diplomat said.
She noted that Moscow is ready to continue to provide all possible assistance in unblocking transport communications, delimiting the border, concluding a peace treaty and contacts through civil society.
“We welcome the agreement between Baku and Yerevan on the release of Armenian and Azerbaijani military personnel,” Zakharova added.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry recalled that Russia has consistently promoted the idea of exchanging detainees on the principle of “all for all.”
“This contributes to mutual strengthening of trust and opens up new opportunities in promoting the process of Armenian-Azerbaijani normalization in line with the comprehensive trilateral agreements of the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia of 2020-2022,” Zakharova explained.
Russia welcomes joint statement by Armenia and Azerbaijan – Public Radio of Armenia Public Radio of Armenia