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 An Azeri-Turkish Business Forum will take place on December 3-4, said Azerbaijan Export and Investment Foundation (AzPromo). The event will take place during Turkish Minister of State Kursad Tuzmen’s visit to Baku. 90 Turkish and 100 Azeri businesspeople engaged in energy, transport, finance, healthcare, industry, construction, communications and other sectors will join the forum. |
 All the parties in the conflict should make compromise in order to resolve conflicts in the Caucasus. “It is necessary to compromise in order to reach agreement. Indeed, making compromises we have to sacrifice something. We should find a decision, which will not displease any of the conflict parties and all fully satisfy all,” Gianni Buquicchio, the Venice Commission secretary, said in an interview with TrendNews. |
 Azerbaijan’s opposition parties can not reach agreement to set up a coalition because of lack of mutual understanding. “If Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) included in Azadlig bloc decides to struggle with Musavat, we will welcome it,” Avaz Temirkhan, acting chairman of the Liberal Party of Azerbaijan, part of Azadlig bloc, said to Trend News. Temirkhan said PFPA does not think so. “Classic Popular Front Party should also join the union of opposition. |
 The European Court on Human Rights has begun correspondence with the Azerbaijani government about four appeals filed about the 2005 parliamentary election in Azerbaijan, Intiqam Aliyev, who protects rights of petitioners in the European Court, said to Trend News. These appeals have been filed by the head of For Azerbaijan public forum Eldar Namazov, former speaker Yagub Mammadov, Namat Aliyev and Elchin Rzayev. |
 Exclusive interview with Gianni Buquicchio, Secretary of the Venice Commission, with Trend News. Question: Changes and supplements were made to the Electoral Code and Law on Freedom of Assembly prior to the October presidential election in Azerbaijan. How do you assess use of these laws in the election? Answer: As to the technical sides of conduct of election, we can say that we are satisfied. The work that we carried out with the Azerbaijani government yielded results. |
 The changes to the Constitution to lift article banning one person to run for presidency more than twice, can be discussed in the parliament. “If there is a proposal, changes to the Constitution will be discussed in the parliament,” Ali Huseynov, chairman of the Standing Parliamentary Commission on Legal Policy and Statehood, said to Trend News. Under item 5 of Article 101 of the Azerbaijani Constitution, one person can not be elected president more than twice. The presidential term of office is five years |
 In many respects the media outlets influence public opinion on one or other questions and therefore, much depend on the purposes and tasks of the media outlets, Mikhail Shvidkoy, co-chairman of the Intergovernmental Fund of Humanitarian Cooperation (IFHC), said today in Moscow, giving a speech at the forum of the national media outlets of the CIS countries. On 1 December, the forum of the national media outlets of the CIS countries “Media outlets and humanitarian potential of the Commonwealth of Independent States”, which is held by the Russian international news agency RIA Novosti in co-operation with the Intergovernmental Fund of Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS participating countries commenced in Moscow. |
 Last preparations for the broadcasting of Media FM radio will end by December 20. Media FM radio won the competition announced by National Television and Radio Council on 105.7 MHz frequency in Baku and Absheron. Director General of the radio Tural Aliyev told APA that Media FM would be on air as from January 1. The Director General said though they had not announced competition, about 30 journalists applied for work |
 “We are concerned that AIDS is becoming a young person’s disease in Azerbaijan,” Minister of Youth and Sport Azad Rahimov told APA. The Minister said the number of AIDS-infected young people increased compared with 2007. “In 2007 AIDS-infected persons aged 25-29 made up 13-15 percent of the patients, while this figure reached 20 percent in the ten months of this year. We should think seriously about it,” he said. |
 Justice Minister of Germany plans to visit Azerbaijan next year. Azerbaijani Justice Ministry’s press service told APA that it was noted at the meeting of Ambassador of Germany Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Per Christopher Stankina with Justice Minister Fikrat Mammadov. It was said that the above-mentioned government bodies of the two countries reached an agreement to prepare document on cooperation during the recent visit of Azerbaijani delegation to Germany |
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Monitoring Election Campaign Finance (A Handbook for NGOs)
