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A Gender Equality Hearing is Held at Milli Majlis
The Milli Majlis Committee for Family, Women’s and Children’s Affairs organised a hearing ‘The Enforcement Status of the Law “On the Maintenance of the Gender Equality (of Men and Women)”: Opportunities and Complications’ with the involvement of MPs, government officials and civil activists on 4 March.
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At the Meetings of the IA CIS Commissions
The permanent commissions of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Member Nations of the Commonwealth of the Independent States on Science and Education, and on Budget Oversight held their respective videoconferenced meetings on 4 March.
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Labour and Social Policy Committee Had a Meeting
The Milli Majlis Labour and Social Policy Committee had a videoconference on 3 March at which Committee Chairman Musa Guliyev announced they would be discussing in the second reading the draft amendments to the Labour Code of the Azerbaijan Republic.
Deputy Chair of Milli Majlis Adil Aliyev Met with Uzbek Ambassador to Azerbaijan
Deputy Chair of the Milli Majlis and Chairman of the parliamentary Youth and Sports Committee Adil Aliyev met with the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Azerbaijan Bahrom Ashrafkhanov on 3 March.
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A Meeting with Representatives of Azerbaijan Innovations Export Consortium
Members of the Milli Majlis Committee for Economic Policy, Industries and Enterprising met with representatives of the Azerbaijan Innovations Export Consortium (AZINNEX) on 3 March.
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Chair of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova Met with Ambassador of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to Azerbaijan
Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova had a meeting on 3 March with the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to our country Christopher A Martinez Berroteran.
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PABSEC Working Group for Rules of Procedure Held a Meeting
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) Working Group for Rules of Procedure held an online meeting attended by the representatives of the member-states including Deputy Chairman of the PABSEC and Leader of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Assembly MP Eldar Guliyev and the PABSEC Secretary General Asaf Hajiyev for Azerbaijan on 1 March.
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Members of Lithuanian Sejm Condemn Khojali Genocide
As we already reported, the interparliamentary friendship groups of the Milli Majlis and the Sejm of Lithuania had a videoconferencing-mode meeting and exchanged opinions about the 29th anniversary of the Khojali Genocide on 25 February. The official website of the Sejm has a detailed coverage of that meeting.
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The Statement of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States on the occasion of the Khojali Genocide’s 29th Anniversary
The Parliamentary Union of the Member-States of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation that supports Azerbaijan invariably and recognised the genocide committed in Khojali has placed a statement at its official website (en.puic.org) marking the 29th anniversary of the Khojali Events.
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Colombian Congress Issues a Statement on Khojali Genocide
The Permanent International Relations Commission of the Colombian Senate and the Colombia-Azerbaijan Friendship Group of the Colombian Congress’ Upper Chamber (Senate) have issued a statement marking the 29th anniversary of the Khojali Genocide.
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Italian-Azerbaijani Friendship Group’s Letter on Khojali Genocide Anniversary
The leader of the Italian-Azerbaijani parliamentary friendship group Senator Stefano Lucidi has sent a letter to the leader of the Azebraijan-Italy interparliamentary relations group Azer Karimli on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the Khojali Genocide.
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An Art Show on Khojali Genocide Put Up at Milli Majlis
An exhibition of the paintings by an artist of the YARAT Modern Arts Centre and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts of Belgium Ramal Kazim dedicated to the Khojali Genocide was organised and graced by the visit of Speaker Sahiba Gafarova in the foyer of the office building of the Milli Majlis on 26 February.
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Relations between Azerbaijan’s Milli Majlis and US Congress Talked Over at a Videoconference
The Milli Majlis Working Group for the Azerbaijan-USA interparliamentary contacts and the US Congress Working Group for Azerbaijan that consists of almost forty Congressmen right now, incidentally, held a joint videoconference on 25 February.
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Khojali Genocide Talked Of at the Meeting of Azerbaijani, British Parliamentary Friendship Groups
Chairman of the British Parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for Azerbaijan Bob Blackman, members of the House of Lords and of the House of Commons, Leader of the Milli Majlis Working Group for Great Britain Javanshir Feyziyev, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the United Kingdom Tahir Taghizade and Deputy Head of the International Relations Department of the Milli Majlis Staff Babek Agayev all took part in the general annual meeting of Mr Blackman’s Group held on 25 February.
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Azerbaijani and Czech Parliamentary Friendship Groups Had a Meeting
Leader of the Milli Majlis Working Group for interparliamentary contacts with the Czech Republic Elnur Allahverdiyev and Leader of the Czech Parliament’s Friendship Group for Azerbaijan Zdeněk Ondráček had an online meeting on 25 February.
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Azerbaijani and Lithuanian Parliamentary Friendship Groups Had an Online Meeting
The friendship and bilateral parliamentary contacts groups of Azerbaijan’s Milli Majlis and Lithuania’s Sejm held a videoconference session on 25 February.
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Khojali Genocide Victims Commemorated at International Conference
Representatives of Azerbaijan joined the international applied research conference ‘War Crimes and Genocidal Offences on the Local Scale’ held in Ukraine online on 24 February. The event was moderated by Serghey Tupik, Director of Putyvl State Historical and Cultural Preserve.
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Azerbaijan-Bosnia and Herzegovina Parliamentary Friendship Group Had a Meeting with Bosnian-Herzegovinian Parliamentarians
The Milli Majlis Working Group for interparliamentary relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina had an online meeting with a group of parliamentarians and public as well as political actors of this Balkan country. Held on 24 February, the meeting was dedicated to the 29th anniversary of the genocide in Khojali.
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Azerbaijani, Pakistani Parliaments’ Friendship Groups Held a Meeting about Khojali Genocide
The friendship groups of the Azerbaijani and Pakistani parliaments held a joint remote meeting marking the 29th anniversary of the Khojali Genocide on 24 February.
Azerbaijani-Jordanian Co-operation Setting High Standards
A videoconference dedicated to the 29th anniversary of the Khojali Genocide brought together the Milli Majlis Working Group for the Azerbaijan-Jordan interparliamentary relations, the former Senate Chairman of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Taher al-Masri and Jordanian politicians and reputed academics on 23 February.