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Stories under this heading cover the South Caucasus – a region encompassing Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, as well as the unrecognised entities of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Dunya Mijatovic: "Entrenched harmful stereotypes and prejudice against LGBTI people still prevail in segments of Georgian society, including some politicians"

Dunya Mijatovic: "Entrenched harmful stereotypes and prejudice against LGBTI people still prevail in segments of Georgian society, including some politicians"

On March 27, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, issued a statement calling on the Georgian government to “fully respect” its human rights obligations as a Council of Europe member state, “including with regard to the protection of the human rights of LGBTI people,” in response to the ruling party’s initiation of two draft constitutional laws on “family values and the protection of minors.” “I am concerned about the present political discourse in Georgia, as illustrated by the announcement made by the Georgian Dream Party of their initiative to amend the Constitution and to adopt a new constitutional law on ‘Protection of Family Values and Underaged Persons’. It is reflective of entrenched harmful stereotypes and prejudice against LGBTI people which still prevail in segments of Georgian society, including some politicians, and is capable of having a strong, negative impact on the human rights, safety and well-being of LGBTI people and defenders of their rights. It also represents the political manipulation of LGBTI-phobia in the run-up to elections, which I have previously condemned, and which should have no place in a democratic society, based on the rule of law and respect for human rights of everyone.

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Political expert: Critical stage has come in the Karabakh negotiating process because of Ramil Safarov's pardoning
Political expert: Critical stage has come in the Karabakh negotiating process because of Ramil Safarov's pardoning

Political expert: Critical stage has come in the Karabakh negotiating process because of Ramil Safarov's pardoning

Critical stage has come in the Karabakh negotiating process because of Ramil Safarov's pardoning, political expert, Stepan Grigoryan, said at today's press-conference.
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Parliament of Armenia launches debates on draft statement on extradition of Azerbaijani criminal Safarov by Hungary
Parliament of Armenia launches debates on draft statement on extradition of Azerbaijani criminal Safarov by Hungary

Parliament of Armenia launches debates on draft statement on extradition of Azerbaijani criminal Safarov by Hungary

The Armenian National Assembly has launched debates on a draft statement on extradition of Ramil Safarov, who killed Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan, by the Hungarian authorities and his pardoning by the Azerbaijani president.
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Azerbaijan's PR work to promote the image of a new, modernizing, dynamic country now has to contend with a contrary image of the government welcoming home an axe-murderer: expert
Azerbaijan's PR work to promote the image of a new, modernizing, dynamic country now has to contend with a contrary image of the government welcoming home an axe-murderer: expert

Azerbaijan's PR work to promote the image of a new, modernizing, dynamic country now has to contend with a contrary image of the government welcoming home an axe-murderer: expert

This is a black week for those who are seeking a peaceful settlement of the long-running Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, Thomas de Waal, senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, says in his BBC article concerning Ramil Safarov, an Azeri officer sentenced by a Hungarian court to life in jail for brutally killing an Armenian in Budapest in 2004 but recently extradited to his home country and pardoned by the local authorities.
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Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan: Safarov is part of big game of Azeri-Turkish authorities, a game where he is doomed to die
Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan: Safarov is part of big game of Azeri-Turkish authorities, a game where he is doomed to die

Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan: Safarov is part of big game of Azeri-Turkish authorities, a game where he is doomed to die

Ramil Safarov is part of a big game of the Azeri-Turkish authorities, a game where he is doomed to die, Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, hero of the Nagorno-Karabakh war, said during a press- conference on Tuesday.
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Robert Kocharyan's Office: If Budapest is not in collusion with Baku, Hungary must recognize independence of Nagorno Karabakh
Robert Kocharyan's Office: If Budapest is not in collusion with Baku, Hungary must recognize independence of Nagorno Karabakh

Robert Kocharyan's Office: If Budapest is not in collusion with Baku, Hungary must recognize independence of Nagorno Karabakh

If extradition and pardoning of the Azerbaiani officer Ramil Safarov, who decapitated Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan, is not the result of a criminal collusion of Hungary with Azerbaijan, Budapest must recognize independence of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, says the statement disseminated by the Office of the ex-president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, on September 4.
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Rally of public movements of Hungary to be held in front Hungarian parliament
Rally of public movements of Hungary to be held in front Hungarian parliament

Rally of public movements of Hungary to be held in front Hungarian parliament

At 5:00 PM on 4 September numerous rally organized by several public and youth organizations of Hungary, will be held near the building of Hungarian parliament. The participants in the rally will express their indignation with the decision of the authorities of the country to extradite Azerbaijani criminal Ramil Safarov to his motherland.
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Azerbaijan to assume chairmanship of CIS Council of Interior Ministers
Azerbaijan to assume chairmanship of CIS Council of Interior Ministers

Azerbaijan to assume chairmanship of CIS Council of Interior Ministers

Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan will chair the CIS Council of Interior Ministers in the order of rotation. Transfer of chairmanship powers by Armenia to Russia has no legal grounds, a source in the Bureau for Coordination of the Fight against Organized Crime and Other Dangerous Crimes in the CIS told RIA Novosti, Monday.