Day: September 17, 2024

The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag, Michael Roth, will visit Armenia on September 18-19, Report informs, citing the Armenian press.

Budapest R6 (women): India beat Armenia to become sole leaders  Chess News | ChessBase

Azerbaijan’s firm stand against neo-colonialism: BIG blasts Netherlands’ agenda  AzerNews.Az

Baku continues to set a precedent for countries to confront these challenges head-on, shining a light on the hidden realities of neo-colonialism.

Chairman of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) Taleh Kazimov met with the delegation led by Rolande Pryce the Regional Director of the World Bank (WB) for the South Caucasus, Kazimov said on X, Report informs.

Another Georgian fighter, deputy chief of the Georgian Warriors-Special Unit, Giorgi Roinishvili was killed in Kursk, Russia, while fighting on the Ukrainian side, the Unit reported on September 17. The Georgian Foreign Ministry confirmed this to Civil.ge. Three other fighters of the Unit were wounded.

The latest casualty brings to 57 the unofficial number of Georgian citizens who have died fighting in Ukraine since the Russian invasion on February 24.

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The International Mugham Center has signed Memorandums of Cooperation with two higher education institutions in Uzbekistan, Azernews reports.

Arsen Kharatyan, Armenian journalist, the founder and editor-in-chief of an independent non-profit bilingual Georgian-Armenia media platform Aliq Media based in Tbilisi, and the former advisor to the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, was denied entry to Georgia on September 17, he was held up for 4 hours and forced to go back to Europe with no explanation. From the late 1990s he has been part of different pro-democracy movements in Armenia, which played a crucial role in Armenia’s non-violent Velvet Revolution of 2018.

Kharatyan shared the story of his detention on his social media. He noted that he was denied entry even though he had a ticket for a connecting flight from Tbilisi to Yerevan the next day, September 18. He was told that under Georgian law he couldn’t be sent to his destination and had to be sent back from where he was flying to.

“All these are technicalities… the biggest problem here is the fact that no one has explained to me the reason why I was denied entry to Georgia, where I lived for over 5 years, created a media, co-founded various organizations, helped build bridges between Armenia-Georgia and so on,” noted Kharatyan in his post.

Kharatyan has been detained for hours at airports before. On 11 September, he was stopped for two hours after his flight from Yerevan to Tbilisi. He was handed a document denying him entry, and under the reason for the denial it was written: “Other cases provided for by Georgian legislation”. Eventually, however, he was allowed to enter the country.

“By now I have no doubt that this entry denial a.k.a. deportation is political, which ultimately means that current Georgian authorities are either afraid of people like me or have patrons from Moscow or Baku telling them to “clear up the space” before the elections,” stressed Kharatyan in his recent post.

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• 16/09/2024 – Belarusian Journalist Denied Entry to Georgia, Faces Deportation
• 28/02/2024 – Confirming the Trend, Georgia Denies Entry to Another Putin Critic

The partnership between Azerbaijan and the World Bank was discussed during the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), Azernews reports citing the Ministry of Economy.

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