The Kremlin has announced the date of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Address to the Federal Assembly, the event will be held on February 29, According to Report.
Day: February 20, 2024
On February 20, dedicated to the 28th and 29th sessions of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, a high-level roundtable discussion will be held at the International Energy Agency headquarters, Azernews reports, citing the post shared by Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, on his official X account.
The representatives from Azerbaijan and St. Petersburg discussed the roadmap of cooperation in trade, economy, scientific-technical and cultural spheres for 2024-2028, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting Azernews, citing a post shared by the First Deputy Economy Minister Elnur Aliyev on his official X account.
“At the meeting with the co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Commission on Economic and Humanitarian Cooperation between Azerbaijan and St. Petersburg, member of the St. Petersburg government – chairman of the Committee for External Relations Evgeny Grigoriev, we discussed the prospects of expanding the economic agenda,” Aliyev said.
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The 14th plenary session of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) will be held in Baku from February 21 to 24, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting Azernews, citing Milli Majlis’s public relations department.
Dedicated to the topic of “Strengthening regional cooperation for the sake of sustainable development in Asia”, a parliamentary delegation of 40 countries, including speakers from 10 countries, will participate in the session.
Within the framework of the event, meetings of the institution’s Executive Council, plenary session, political, economic, budget, social, and cultural committees will be held, relevant issues will be discussed, and several organisational issues will be considered.
At the end of the session, the Baku Declaration and the APA’s final report will be adopted.
The Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) was incepted in 2006 at the Seventh Session of the Association of Asian Parliamentary for Peace (AAPP). In other words, the APA is the continuation of an organisation that was established in 1999. The APA comprised, in 2007, 41 Member Parliaments and 17 observers. Each member of Parliament has a specific number of seats in the Assembly based on the size of their population. The number of total seats, and therefore, the number of votes, is currently 206. Members of the Assembly must be elected by members of the Member Parliaments. The APA Charter and Tehran Declaration lay out a framework of cooperation among Asian countries and point out a vision; that is Asian integration.
During the year 2009, the application of the India Group of IPU for membership in the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) was considered by the Executive Committee of APA during its session held in Bandung from December 7 to 10, 2010, and India became a member of APA.
In a significant development that underscores the shifting dynamics of Asian geopolitics, Azerbaijan is set to assume the chairmanship of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) by the end of February. This announcement was made by the Secretary General of the APA, Mohammad Reza Majidi, during a press conference held in Baku on February 8, 2024.
The forthcoming transition of the chairmanship from Türkiye to Azerbaijan will coincide with the conclusion of the APA’s meeting scheduled for the end of this month. Moreover, established in 2006, the APA serves as a critical forum for parliamentarians across Asia, providing a space for the exchange of views, ideas, and experiences.
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Azerbaijan will start supplying around 275 million cubic metres of natural gas to Hungary via Türkiye in April, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting Azernews.
This statement was made to Hungary’s Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister, Peter Szijjarto.
The move makes Hungary the first non-bordering recipient of Türkiye’s natural gas exports.
“We struck an agreement to deliver 275 million cubic metres of natural gas. Deliveries will begin on the first of April. In other words, for the first time, Turkey will supply gas to a non-bordering country. We are pleased to be the first country,” Szijjarto said.
Szijjarto hailed the long-standing friendship between his country and Türkiye, with each having an association with the Organisation of Turkic States, with Türkiye as a permanent member and Hungary as an observer.
He noted that the recent changes in world politics and the global economy have stressed the importance of regional supply and transit routes and energy resources.
With Türkiye’s geopolitical prominence for gas transportation, Szijjarto said the TurkStream pipeline, which transports Russian gas to Türkiye along the 930-kilometer-long (580-mile) pipeline under the Black Sea, serves as the number one distribution route from Russia to Hungary.
Last year, Budapest and Baku signed a political agreement, according to which the volume of Azerbaijani gas supplies to Hungary will increase to about 1 billion cubic metres.
Earlier, the Hungarian energy company MVM CEEnergy and the Azerbaijani oil and gas company SOCAR signed an agreement to supply 100 million cubic metres of gas to Hungary by the end of 2023, with a possible increase to 2 billion cubic metres per year.
Hungary attaches great importance to energy cooperation with Azerbaijan and always appreciates the important role played by our country in ensuring Europe’s energy security. The friendly country supports the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) project and has expressed interest in joining it. As a rule, the Hungarian side is represented at the ministerial level at the annual ministerial meetings of the Consultative Council of the CSDP. The relevant agreement on strategic partnership in the field of green energy between the governments of Azerbaijan, Hungary, Romania, and Georgia, signed in Bucharest on December 17 last year, plays an important role in energy cooperation between our countries. As a result of that agreement, efforts are being successfully continued towards the implementation of the project related to the construction of an underwater electricity cable that will pass through Georgia and the Black Sea in order to transfer “green energy” between the mentioned countries. It should be noted that the implementation of this project will play an important role in the expansion of electricity export opportunities between the region and European markets, as well as the diversification of Europe’s energy security, especially thanks to the great wind energy potential in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea.
Azerbaijan and Hungary successfully cooperate within the framework of the Organization of Turkic States (TDT) and other international organizations. Since 2018, the Representative Office of TDT has been operating in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, which is an observer in the Organisation of Turkic States and attaches great importance to the development of cooperative relations with the organisation. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a statement in 2018 that Hungarians consider themselves descendants of the Hun ruler Attila and that the Hungarian people are based on Hun-Turkish roots.
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