Azerbaijan Rises In Annual Index Of Economic Freedom
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The
January 2019
of the Embassy’s digest features news about President Ilham Aliyev’s participation in World Economic Forum and sideline meetings in Davos, Ambassador Suleymanov kicking off a discussion at the Turkish Heritage Organization and giving an interview to the John Batchelor Show on Azerbaijan’s 1990 “Black January;” the confirmation of a new U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan; a milestone for Azerbaijan’s natural gas production; Azerbaijan’s rising economic freedom score and a host of cultural notes.
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Jan. 23, 2019
President Ilham Aliyev held numerous meetings on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, including an informal meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
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Dec. 5, 2018
President Ilham Aliyev visited the U.S. Embassy in Baku to personally offer his sympathies on the death of President George H.W. Bush. He signed the book of condolences and recalled his memories of the late president.
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Jan. 30, 2019
President Aliyev and National Security Advisor John Bolton discussed a range of issues in their phone call, including energy security, security cooperation and negotiations on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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Recalling the Martyrs of ‘Black January’ -- the 1990 Slaughter of Civilians in Baku by Soviet Troops
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Jan. 24, 2019
LISTEN:
Ambassador Elin Suleymanov discusses the tragic events of January 1990 with radio host John Batchelor on his nationally syndicated news show.
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Jan. 23, 2019
“On the night of January 20, 1990, approximately 26,000 Soviet troops stormed Azerbaijan’s capital city of Baku in tanks and armored vehicles,” Rep. Cohen said. “That night, the Soviet military bulldozed innocent Azerbaijanis and opened indiscriminate fire on peaceful demonstrators, including women and children.”
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Jan. 27, 2019
Azerbaijan rose into the global top third of all countries in terms of its economic freedom, according to Washington D.C.’s influential Heritage Foundation think tank. Azerbaijan showed improvements in property rights, government spending and integrity, judicial effectiveness and investment freedom.
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Dec. 17, 2018
Ambassador Elin Suleymanov kicked off the Turkish Heritage Organization’s Ambassador Series roundtable discussion, addressing government officials, business leaders and think-tank experts at the Organization’s Washington D.C. headquarters.
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Jan. 3, 2019
The U.S. Senate confirmed Earle D. Litzenberger, a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be ambassador of the United States to the Republic of Azerbaijan. He has served in Brussels, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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Jan. 1, 2019
“It is possible to say with certainty that 2018 was a successful year for our country,” President Ilham Aliyev said in a new year’s address. “Our country has developed successfully in all directions. Azerbaijan has asserted itself as a strong country in the world.”
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Azerbaijan Solidarity Days in Chicago, San Diego
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CHICAGO:
Mayor Rahm Immanuel proclaimed Dec. 31, 2018, as Azerbaijani Solidarity Day in Chicago, noting that the Windy City has long been home to a vibrant Azerbaijani-American community. The proclamation adds that Azerbaijan has worked to promote peace, stability, tolerance and multiculturalism in the Caucasus.
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SAN DIEGO:
Mayor Kevin Faulconer proclaimed Dec. 31, 2018, as Azerbaijani Solidarity Day in San Diego, saying that San Diego and the Azerbaijan capital of Baku became sister cities in 2011. It recalls Azerbaijan’s history as the first Muslim-majority country to empower women’s rights.
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Jan. 7, 2019
Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz gas field has produced 100 billion cubic meters of gas, BP says. "The milestone was achieved at the end of December, exactly 12 years after we first announced the start-up of commercial gas production from the field and start-up of operations of the South Caucasus Pipeline," said a message from BP.
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Jan. 16, 2019
Episodes from the new season of “Grand Tour,” the British motoring show featuring Jeremy Clarkson of “Top Gear” fame, was filmed in Azerbaijan and premiered this month on Amazon Video.
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Dec. 8, 2018
Ambassador Elin Suleymanov hosted a celebration of the 100
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anniversary of the Azerbaijan Parliament and a screening of the documentary, “Lifelong Mission,” the story of Azerbaijan’s delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, at the United States Navy Memorial in Washington D.C.
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Nov. 28, 2018
Yalli (Kochari, Tenzere), the traditional group dances of Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, have been included in the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. The dances are typically performed in a circle, chain or line, and involve elements of pantomime, physical exercise and movements.
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Jan. 11, 2019
President Aliyev has proclaimed 2019 at the Year of Nasimi, honoring the great 14
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/15
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-century Azerbaijani poet and mystic, Imadaddin Nasimi. He penned more than 300 poems. In one of his most famous poems, Nasimi wrote: “Both worlds can fit within me, but in this world I cannot fit/I am the placeless essence, but into existence I cannot fit.”
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Dec. 31, 2018
CNN’s travel editors write: “The gray slurry within shifts in endless turmoil, gas rising again and again to form bubbles that swell then burst, with a greedy plop. This is
Azerbaijan, mud volcano capital of the world
, and it's the closest I'll get to a trip to Mars.”
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