Day: November 19, 2024

Separatist Leader Of Georgia’s Breakaway Abkhazia Resigns Amid Protests  Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Water and food are more affected by climate change than anything else in the world, Claudia Muller, Parliamentary State Secretary of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture stated at a COP29 event titled “Launch of the Baku Harmony Climate Init

The de facto leader of Georgia’s Moscow-backed breakaway Abkhazia region has signed his resignation amid ongoing protests by opposition supporters against a property deal with Russia.

The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) and Egypt’s national news agency Middle East News Agency (MENA) launched a news exchange for the first time. BTA Director General Kiril Valchev and MENA Chair and Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Kamal signed a cooperation agreement on Monday in Cairo.

News  Armenia News

Updated: Georgian police disperse protesters in Tbilisi, 16 detained.  Kyiv Independent

On 15 November 2024, Resolution A/C.3/79/L.35 on “Missing persons” was adopted by consensus in the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee. 56 UN Member States joined the resolution as co-sponsors. Azerbaijan is a main co-sponsor of this resolution which has been reintroduced on a biannual basis since 2002.

Abkhazia’s president resigns after protests over investment deal  Euronews

In January-October 2024, 4,433 passenger cars were produced (assembled) in Azerbaijan, or 2,057 more (+86.6%) compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, Azernews reports, citing the monthly report of the State Statistics Committee.

In Azerbaijan, 46 percent of total employment is in agriculture. The issues of sustainable transformation and transition are important here, Azernews reports, citing the Ecology and Natural Resources Minister, President of COP29 Mukhtar Babayev, as he told at the official opening of the Food, Agriculture and Water Day, launching the Baku Harmony Climate Initiative for Farmers within COP29: empowering farmers for climate resilience.