Day: October 9, 2025

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev addresses international conference on missing persons  AnewZ

Georgian IDPs can return to Abkhazia only if security, political, and international conditions align  finchannel

The Baku Fintech Forum 2025 has officially opened, bringing together leading voices from the global financial technology ecosystem, Azernews reports.

The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on “Cooperation with Georgia” on October 8 by consensus, calling for “immediate and unimpeded access” for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and other international and regional human rights mechanisms to Georgia’s Russian-occupied territories.

The resolution highlights ongoing human rights violations and humanitarian concerns in Russia-occupied Georgian regions. The UN Human Rights Council, among others, reaffirms its commitment to Georgia’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, and expresses serious concern at various forms of discrimination against ethnic Georgians in the occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions.

“By adopting the resolution by consensus, the Human Rights Council expressed unprecedented support towards Georgia,” the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, noting it was the first such consensus since Georgia began submitting the resulution in 2017.

“For 17 years, Russia’s unlawful military grip on Abkhazia and South Ossetia has defied international law and denied ethnic Georgians their basic human rights. This occupation must end,” UK Minister of State Stephen Doughty said on the resolution.

Also Read:

• 15/10/2024 – UN Human Rights Council Adopts Resolution on Occupied Regions of Georgia

The famous Colombian painter and sculptor, Fernando Botero, who created the “Boterismo” style by presenting oversized representations of people, animals, and various figures, will have his works exhibited for the first time in Baku on October 31, as part of the “Fly to Baku. Art Weekend. Sense the Future NOW” project organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Azernews reports.

Georgian citizen Giorgi Kinoiani has reportedly been released from Armenian custody after Yerevan refused to extradite him to Russia.

Kinoiani, 29, who fought for Ukraine and was sentenced by a Russian court to seven years in prison in absentia, was detained in early September after crossing the Georgia–Armenia border. His family, along with Georgian civil society groups, feared that extradition to Russia would put his life at serious risk.

Another Georgian fighter, Vano Sabashvili, remains in Armenian custody in a similar case and faces possible extradition to Russia. After Kinoiani’s release, he is expected to be freed as well.

Also Read:

• 10/04/2025 – Russian Court Sentences Georgian National to 9 Years for Fighting in Ukraine, Another to 14 in Absentia

An international conference titled “Combining Efforts and Expanding Cooperation to Resolve the Issue of Missing Persons” is being held in Baku today within the framework of the Baku Dialogue on Missing Persons, Azernews reports.