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Azerbaijan Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev rejected a letter from U.S. lawmakers criticizing his country’s human rights record and urging the release of political prisoners ahead of the COP29 climate conference, which Azerbaijan will host. Sixty […]

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Armenia The Armenian Constitutional Court has ruled that the Declaration of Independence holds no legal significance unless its principles are explicitly included in the Constitution. The court has also upheld the constitutionality of the Armenian-Azerbaijani […]

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The Region in Brief

Armenia Armenian parliament speaker Alen Simonyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Sahiba Gafarova are set to hold a bilateral meeting during the 149th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva this October. The meeting will […]