Initiative by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to hold trilateral meeting of Armenian, Russian and Azerbaijani Presidents in Moscow can serve as an incentive for accelerating talks on the resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Novosti Armenia quoted Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan as saying.
“Armenian attaches great importance and welcomes Russian President’s initiative that can give a push to negotiations. We are hopeful that the meeting will open new opportunities to accelerate talks which will lead to the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” he told press conference on 30 October.

The project of the Amnesty Act which was presented to the Parliament of Azerbaijan envisages reducing imprisonment term of all prisoners by one year.
“In addition, the project envisages replacing life-term imprisonment with 20 years in prison,” MP Panah Huseynov, member of Musavat Group of MPs representing opposition in the Parliament, told Trend News on 30 October.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin believes other countries could join implementation of a range of Russia-Iran projects, ITAR-TASS quoted. “We have a plenty of bilateral and multilateral prospective projects,” Putin said at his meeting with Iranian First Vice-President Parviz Davoodi in Astana on 30 October. According to Putin, besides Russia and Iran, Azerbaijan also can take part in the development of transport infrastructure and Qatar in the power engineering field.

Labor pensions and subsistence minimum will be raised in Azerbaijan next year, said Hadi Rajabli, chairman of a parliamentary commission for social policy.
“The insurance and basic parts of pensions need increasing not less than once a year. Usually, the lowest rise is 25%. Therefore, the next rise will be remarkable,” he added.
He added that there are some discrepancies in the pension system of the country.

MPs, chairmen of opposition parties, former presidential candidates in Azerbaijan do not consider it possible to create the fraction of MPs in the Parliament.
“Palette of MPs, presenting opposition political movements in the Parliament, is various. This variety prevents,” Chairman of Umid Party, former Presidential candidate, Igbal Agazade, told TrendNews on 30 October.
The question of establishing the fraction of oppositional MPs in the Parliament was raised repeatedly; however, it has not been realized yet. According to the Charter of Parliament, at least 25 people must come together for creating the fraction in the Parliament.

The candidature of the eminent scientist will be nominated to the chairmanship position to the new established opposition party of Azerbaijan.
“Although I initiated establishment of the party, I want it to be headed by eminent scientist,” Aydin Guliyev, the chief editor of the Baku Khabar newspaper, told Trend News.
At present, the works have been carried out to announce members of the Organization Committee of the party. Guliyev did not announce the name of the candidate to the chairmanship position.

Before the meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia on November 2 in Moscow, foreign ministers of the three countries will meet on October 31 in the Russian capital, executive foreign minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists, APA reports.
The minister said they would report on the results of the meeting to the presidents and after that the leaders of the three countries would meet. Responding the question about the recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh independence, Mammadyarov said this issue was not a subject of the negotiations.

There is not any need to change the Law on Freedom of Assembly again, the Azerbaijani Parliament believes. “Issue on injection of changes into the Law of Freedom of Assembly was removed from agenda,” Latif Huseynov, the head of the Azerbaijani Parliament’s Department of Legislation for State Establishment and Azerbaijani representative at the Venice Commission, told TrendNews on 30 October

The book entitled Turkic World and Greater Armenia Dream by Azerbaijani authors was presented on 30 October.
Authors of the book - professor Vagif Arzumanli, doctor of philology and Khoshgadam Hidayat gizi, editor-in-chief of Uch Nogta newspaper said the book is dedicated to misdeeds and violence committed by Armenians for the last two centuries. The book aims at informing world once again about the violence against Turks.

Huge financial support is needed to establish a TV channel, which will be aired in Caucasus, Nushiravan Maharramli, the chairman of the National Broadcasting Council (NBC), said.
“Strong financial support is necessary to establish TV channel to be aired in Caucasus. It should meet interests of the state. It should not be given to a monopoly of separate people,” Maharramli told TrendNews on 30 October.
There are seven channels in Azerbaijan, which are aired across the territory of the country. The NBC chairman offered to establish TV channel to be aired in whole Caucasus.

Nasimi District Court of Baku made a decision on arresting the editor-in-chief of Ideal newspaper.
The arresting decision with regards to the editor-in-chief of Ideal newspaper was made several days ago and a search was announced to arrest him.
As the editor-in-chief did not come to the court process on the claim regarding him, the court made a decision on arresting him. Although Elman Ahmadov, judge who made the decision, confirmed making decision arresting the editor-in-chief, he did not provide details of the case.

Former presidential contenders in Azerbaijan have developed financial reports and will submit them to the Central Election Commission (CEC). “We have developed the financial report and will deliver it to CEC early next week,” Igbal Agazade, the Chairman of the opposition Umid party and former presidential contender, told Trend News.
Agazade said that his party spent over AZN 200,000 to the election campaign. The Election Code says that in case a candidate fails to gain less than 3% of votes he must return the allocated sum to CEC. We gained less than 3% of votes and will return AZN 28,800 to CEC.
Siyaush Novruzov, plenipotentiary of the former presidential contender from the governing New Azerbaijan party (NAP), said that the party had delivered the financial report to CEC several days ago.