Day: September 18, 2024

COP29 initiative aims to turn Middle Corridor into “green” route

The Belgian company Camco Technology is in early discussions with Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan to automate container operations in ports, Werner Peeters, a company representative told Report.

Switzerland-based global shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has announced its intention to establish an office in Azerbaijan, Azernews reports.

The statements of Isobel Coleman, the deputy administrator of the US International Development Agency, are disrespectful to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said, Report informs.

Midnight plane from Georgia: easyJet to launch Luton-Tbilisi link  The Independent

Midnight plane from Georgia: easyJet to launch Luton-Tbilisi link  The Independent

On September 18, Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov met with a delegation led by Joshua Haq, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Azernews reports.

Praising Georgian Dream Honorary Chair Bidzina Ivanishvili’s promise to apologize to “Ossetian sisters and brothers” for the August 2008 war, Grigory Karasin, head of the Russian Federation Council’s International Affairs Committee, stated in a Telegram post on September 17: “Georgia has matured politically over the past 16 years. The futility of eternal confrontation has become clear to many.”

He said that Ivanishvili’s statement created “an opportunity to create a new atmosphere” in relations with the occupied Tskhinvali region, and that “it was met with great interest in the Caucasus and around the world.”

He adds: “There is a growing realization that hostility and confrontation after Saakashvili’s adventurism in 2008 must give way to reason and stability” and that “For many, the futility of eternal confrontation became clear.”

Karasin also said that Ivanishvili’s statement, which was met with harsh public outcry and came in the pre-election period, “predictably caused an explosion of scandalous emotions of focal groups who are not satisfied with the calm development of political processes in their own country.” He added that forces around the world “who see their strategic interest in destabilizing Georgia and the region” would aggravate the situation on the eve of the elections.

On September 14, during the ruling party’s pre-election regional tour in Gori, the party leader Bidzina Ivanishvili again accused the former UNM government of starting the war in 2008 and said that after the elections “we, Georgians, will find it in ourselves to apologize for the fact that the treacherous “National Movement”, acting on orders, set Ossetian sisters and brothers on fire”.

Also Read:

• 18/09/2024 – Tskhinvali Says It Expects “Practical Measures” After Ivanishvili Promises Apology to Ossetians
• 16/09/2024 – Reactions from Occupied Abkhazia, Tskhinvali Region to Ivanishvili’s Announced Intention to Apologize “to Ossetian Brothers and Sisters”
• 16/09/2024 – Domestic Reactions to Ivanishvili’s Announced Intention to Apologize “to Ossetian Brothers and Sisters”

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan touched on the issue of the Zangazur Corridor during the discussion of foreign and internal security issues at the II World Armenian Summit. He again tried to draw attention with his ambitious statements.

The winner of the first renewable energy auction in Azerbaijan will be announced during the COP29 conference in Baku, head of the State Agency for Renewable Energy Sources under the Ministry of Energy, Javid Abdullayev, told Report.