{"id":102170,"date":"2024-10-18T13:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=102170"},"modified":"2024-10-18T14:27:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T10:27:50","slug":"european-parliament-to-discuss-political-situation-in-azerbaijan-focusing-on-relations-with-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/102170\/","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament to discuss political situation in Azerbaijan, focusing on relations with Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>On Oct. 22, MEPs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/agenda\/briefing\/2024-10-21\/5\/parliament-to-assess-political-situation-in-azerbaijan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will debate<\/a> with the Commission the political and human rights situation in Azerbaijan, followed by a vote on a resolution on Oct. 24.<\/p>\n<p>The debate and resolution will also center on Azerbaijan&rsquo;s relations with neighboring Armenia, with the Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan recently having stated that a peace deal between the two countries could be agreed before Baku hosts the UN&rsquo;s COP29 climate conference next month.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been embroiled in a decades-long conflict, which culminated in Baku launching a military assault and seizing the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh last year, leading to an exodus of approximately 100 000 ethnic Armenians. At the time, MEPs strongly condemned the unjustified military attack as a gross violation of international law and called for the EU to reassess its relations with Azerbaijan, including in the energy field.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 22, MEPs will debate with the Commission the political and human rights situation in Azerbaijan, followed by a vote on a resolution on Oct. 24. The debate and resolution will also center on Azerbaijan&rsquo;s relations with neighboring Armenia, with the Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan recently having stated that a peace deal between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":102150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,95,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-azerbeijan","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}