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 Under the mandate of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the line of contact near Mezem village of Gazakh region will be monitored on September 30. Defense Ministry’s press service told APA that the monitoring will be conducted by field assistants of Personal Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Imre Palatinus and Irji Aberle in Azerbaijani side. |
 Presidential candidate Gulamhuseyn Alibayli has held meetings in Lankaran and Masalli within the framework of election campaign, APA reports. The meeting was held in Olympic Complex in Lankaran. Lawyers of Alibayli Iltifat Rahimov, Gorkhmaz Ibrahimli made speeches and provided information about the life and activity of the candidate. |
 Azerbaijan National Independence Party (AMIP) and the Swedish ruling Moderate Party held an international conference on “The role of Azerbaijani women in the socio-political life”. Female representatives of the Azerbaijan’s political parties and non-governmental organizations attended the conference, APA reports. They discussed intensifying the women’s political activity. |
 Presidential candidate Hafiz Hajiyev met with the voters in Salyan Region on September 26, Chairman of the 50th Electoral District of Salyan Region Salamat Karimov told APA. He said at the meeting held in Salyan’s “Babak” Cinema House Hafiz Hajiyev informed the voters about his program and answered the questions interested them. |
 On the margins of the UN General Assembly session in New York, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Ambassador Yuri Merzlyakov, (Russia) Ambassador Bernard Fassier,(France), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza, (United States) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, met with the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on September 24, and organized a meeting between the Foreign Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian and the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov on September 26. |
 The 6th Ministerial Conference on the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) will be held in Baku on November 19-21. The Asian Development Bank’s Office in Baku said about 140 representatives from Azerbaijan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and other countries are due to join the event. |
 Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AzPromo) and Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry will hold a joint business forum in Sofia on September 30. AzPromo said Samir Valiyev, Officer of the Ministry of Economic Development, will lead Azeri delegation to the forum. Valentin Ivanov, Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Economy and Energy, will also attend the event. |
 Media representatives of the different countries apply to the Central Election Commission for watching the October 15 presidential elections in Azerbaijan. Russian NTV, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Azerros newspaper, Turkey’s TRT, US Bloomberg and EPA agencies, Reuters, Spanish El Pais newspaper have already applied to CEC, Press Service of the Commission told APA. Registration of the foreign journalists at CEC will be ended in 5 days before the voting. |
 The first phase of the mass actions within the schedule prepared by the Executive Secretariat of New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) for the “Ilhamla Ireli” (“Forward with Ilham”) election campaign of the party’s presidential candidate Ilham Aliyev, was finished. YAP Press Service told APA a large part of voters attended the meetings and mass actions within the first ten days of the campaign. According to the Electoral Code, meetings and mass actions were held in the places assigned by the local executive powers. |
 Presidential candidate Fazil Gazanfaroglu has today met with voters in Sumgayit. The party’s press service told APA that the meeting had been held in Cultural Center named after Narimanov. The candidate’s lawyer Elkhan Shukurlu briefed the voters about Fazil Gazanfaroglu’s political activity. |
 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev began his visit to the northern region of the country. The head of state visited Heydar Aliyev’s monument at the Heydar Aliyev Park in Guba, the local officials told APA.President Ilham Aliyev met with the intellectuals and representatives of the public community of the region. Then the head of state attended the opening ceremony of the park named after Zarifa Aliyeva. |
 The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, signed an order approving 2009-2011 State Prosecutors Office Activity Modernization Program in order to improve activity and structure of procurator's agencies, strengthen staff potential, form new generation of procurators, raise professionalism and increase material and technical base of the Prosecutors Office. |
 We do not support the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem in a military or peaceful way, such a statement was made by the Chairman of opposition Great Establishment Party, presidential candidate in Azerbaijan, Fazil Gazanfaroglu, during his meeting with the electors in Azerbaijan¿s city of Ganja. According to Gazanfaroglu, for him the priority is such questions as to protect the rights on inviolability of property, ensure social rights of citizens, resolve the unemployment problem, re-payment of people¿s bank deposits from the times of the USSR, etc. |
 The Co-chair of the left Azerbaijan Social Democratic Party (ASDP), Araz Alizade, said that over the past five years, the party has achieved more successes than losses. “Many people used lack of financial opportunities of the party. In 2003 the party had more than 6,000 members. In that year we held an extraordinary congress regarding Ayaz Mutallibov’s coming to the party and after this, flow began into the party. The number of the members exceeded 26,000. They expected that Ayaz Mutallibov will return, take a post and help their advancement. |
 Bahar Muradova, the vice-speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament, believes that the Law on Political Parties should be changed after the presidential elections. “A new political situation will arouse in Azerbaijan after the presidential elections and the Law on Political Parties should be adjusted to new realities,” Muradova, the vice-speaker, said at a news conference, which was held in connection with the autumn session of the parliament on 27 September. |
 President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has congratulated the people of Azerbaijan and all Azerbaijanis worldwide on the occasion of holy Muslim holiday Ramadan. “The month of Ramadan, when Quran, a treasury of wisdom, was sent down, is one the months which purifies hearts and minds of people and invites them to peace, solidarity and moral purity. In this month, Muslims gain an opportunity to perform their moral duty before Allah and their religion and their good deeds, kindness, purified morality win over their passion,” the congratulatory letter by the President said. |
 On 27 September, the President of the Azerbaijan Republic, Ilham Aliyev, congratulated the Jewish community of the country in the honor of the ancient holiday of the Jewish people, Rosh Hashanah - New Year. In his congratulatory message, the Head of State said that the Jews have never undergone anti-Semitism and discrimination in Azerbaijan, for a period of centuries had friendly and fraternal relations with the peoples, preserved their language, cultures, traditions, living under the conditions of calmness in the multinational society, where religious-ethnic tolerance rules. |
 Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers need to push negotiation process, Khazar Ibrahim, head of Press Services Department of the Foreign Ministry, told Trend News agency over telephone from New York. The Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov visited New York to talk with his Armenian counterpart and OSCE Co-Chairs. Furthermore, Elmar Mammadyarov had a vis-a-vis talks with Armenia’s Edward Nalbandian, Khazar Ibrahim said. |
 Activities of the format of `four¿ of Azerbaijani opposition parties have been stopped temporarily. The four will restore its activities after the presidential elections. After the elections the four will be transformed into another format or will stop its activities, chairman of the Azerbaijani Democratic Party (ADP) presented in this format Sardar Jalaloglu said to Trend News. Four unites the Azerbaijani opposition parties, including ADP, Musavat and the Party of National Independence of Azerbaijan, and also the Public Forum for Azerbaijan. |
 Azerbaijan - Geostrategic Area before Presidential Elections will be the key topic at discussions to take place in Paris on 30 September. The Graduates Association of the Centre for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies (Anciens du Centre deEtudes Diplomatiques Strategeiques - ACEDS), Institute for Future and Security in Europe (Institut Prospective et Securite en Europe - IPSE), Union of the Associations of the Highest State Insitute for Defence and Security (Union des associations de l¿Institut des hautes etudes de defense nationale pour la defense et la securite (UNION-IHEDN), State Association for National Security Study (Association nationale des anciens auditeurs de l'INHES - ANA-INHES), Ural Atlantic College and the Observatory for Revolutions, Centre said to Trend News. |
 Norwegian Foreign Ministry will study the pre-election political situation in Azerbaijan. Norway’s Deputy FM Raymond Johansen will visit Azerbaijan for this purpose at the beginning of October. The visit will be paid on 1-2 October within the Johansen’s tour to South Caucasus, Norwegian Embassy in Azerbaijan said to Trend News on 27 September. |
 Women in Azerbaijan will support current President Ilham Aliyev in the upcoming presidential elections, Hijran Huseynova, chairman of State Committee for Problems of Family, Woman and Children, said in the third conference of Azerbaijani women on 26 September. The presidential elections in Azerbaijan will be held on 15 October. Women in Azerbaijan support providing public and social security, rapid development of economy and solution of social problems, she said. |
 Invisible ink, transparent ballot boxes and ultra-violet detectors (lamps), which will be used in the presidential elections in Azerbaijan, were brought to Azerbaijan from Denmark. “We have begun to distribute elections tools to the District and Station election commissions,” Rovzat Gasimov, the head of the International Relations Department of the Azerbaijani Central Elections Commission (CEC), told Trend News on 26 September. More than 5,000 election stations function in Azerbaijan. One mobile and non-mobile transparent ballot boxes are put to each station. |
 A new head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Azerbaijan has been designated, Committee said to Trend News on 26 September. Tun Vandenhoof will today take his new duties. He was promoted from the position of ICRC Administrator to Croatia, ICRC representative to Georgia, Angola, Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, deputy head of ICRC delegations in Ethiopia and Serbia, head of ICRC delegations in Macedonia and Sri-Lanka. |
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