Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense presented an overview of the events of last week in the form of an informational video.

Co-organized by ADA University and the Center of Analysis of International Relations, the forum titled “Karabakh: Back Home After 30 Years. Accomplishments and Challenges” has been held with the participation of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, at ADA University, Report informs, citing AZERTAC.

The event brought together 60 experts representing 30 countries

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Co-organized by ADA University and the Center of Analysis of International Relations, the Forum titled “Karabakh: Back Home After 30 Years. Accomplishments and Challenges” gets underway with the participation of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at ADA University.

Report informs via AZERTAC that the event brings together 60 experts representing 30 countries.

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ADA University is hosting an international forum themed “Karabakh: Back Home After 30 Years. Accomplishments and Challenges.”

Report informs that President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev is expected to speak at the event and participate in the discussions.

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On December 6, an international forum themed “Karabakh: Back Home After 30 Years. Accomplishments and Challenges” will be held at ADA University.

Report informs that President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev is expected to speak at the event and participate in the discussions.

Co-organized by ADA University and the Center of Analysis of International Relations, the Forum titled “Karabakh: Back Home After 30 Years. Accomplishments and Challenges” gets underway with the participation of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at ADA University.

Residents of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France, oppose neo-colonialism, dependence on the metropolis and fight for a free future for the indigenous people – the Kanaks, Report informs.

At a large rally, participants demanded the cancellation of the results of what they consider to be an illegitimate referendum on December 12, 2021, and the holding of a new one.

Participants chanted slogans against France’s colonial policies in these territories and demanding independence.

The protesters expressed dissatisfaction with the imposition of the final status of New Caledonia after the referendum, and advocated the abolition of the militarization of their country by France. Among the demands was also the protection of local labor resources.

At the protest against French neo-colonialism in New Caledonia, along with Kanak flags, there were also Azerbaijani ones as a sign of Azerbaijan’s support for the Kanak position within its chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement.

The demonstrators explained this by saying that “Azerbaijan is always close to them and supports their fight against neo-colonialism.”

On November 21, the Baku Initiative Group of the Non-Aligned Movement organized a conference in the capital of Azerbaijan on the topic “Decolonization: Women’s Empowerment and Development.”

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, addressing the conference participants, noted that Azerbaijan, as the chair of the Non-Aligned Movement, supports peoples fighting colonialism and striving for freedom.

In accordance with the training plan for 2023, Air Defense Units conducted combat firing.

Report informs citing Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry that during the practical firing, air targets of imaginary enemy were detected and destroyed with high precision using anti-aircraft missile complexes.

The military personnel demonstrated high professionalism, and successfully accomplished the assigned combat tasks.

An explosion tore apart a house in Arlington on Monday night, sending flames, smoke, and debris into the air after police tried to investigate shots from a flare gun, The Washington Post said, Report informs.

No fatalities were reported, police said, and no officers were seriously injured. The police had no information on the condition of the person who had been inside the house in the Bluemont/Ballston area.

The massive blast shattered windows, was heard for miles, and attracted the attention of top Virginia officials as far away as Richmond.

The blast was a “major explosion” and “very, very scary,” US Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) said in a message on X.

A neighbor who witnessed it from nearby called it an “enormous explosion” that shook her house, littered it with broken glass, and left her shaken. “It took me like an hour to stop quivering,” she said.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense presented a review of the events of last week.

The First Deputy Minister of Defense – Chief of the General Staff of the Azerbaijan Army, Colonel General Karim Valiyev and other officials of the Ministry attended military units stationed on the border with Armenia in Gadabay, Dashkasan and Kalbajar directions.

Report informs citing the Ministry of Defense that the Chief of the General Staff held meetings with servicemen in the units deployed in the mentioned directions, delivered the tasks set to the Azerbaijan Army by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Mr. Ilham Aliyev, and gave specific instructions regarding their implementation.

The organization of troops service and combat duty was inspected in the units stationed in the positions in high mountainous areas. It was reported that the service is conducted 24 hours a day in an intensive working mode according to the daily routine, combat duty is organized.

Colonel General Valiyev also inspected combat readiness of the artillery, engineering and commando military units. He heard the reports of the commanders regarding the daily activities of the units and the taken measures. It was noted that the assigned tasks are conducted based on the plan, special attention is paid to the organization and conduct of combat training measures in accordance with the requirements.

In the end, the Chief of General Staff watched training and exercises on combat readiness of one of the commando units, and set specific tasks for the command staff to further increase quality and intensity of exercises, as well as to improve the practical skills of the servicemen and develop the level of readiness.

According to the training plan for 2023 approved by the Defense Minister, training shooting carried out with the aviation equipment of the Azerbaijan Air Force, Report informs, citing the ministry.

Practical flights were conducted after the delivery of safety rules to the personnel.

After carrying out combat maneuvers along the specified routes, Su-25ML aircraft fired 250- and 500-kilogram smart air bombs at ground targets from a long distance.

In order to improve the combat training of military pilots, the assigned targets were destroyed from a long distance by precise air strikes.

Since the first day of its establishment, Haber Global’s YouTube channel, which provides news to Türkiye and the world in the fastest way, ranks first in terms of viewing in Europe, according to YouTube’s official measurement partners Social Blade and VidIQ’s statistics, Report informs.

According to the information, Haber Global was the first news channel to reach 2 million subscribers on YouTube, and 1,125 million views were recorded on this channel in the last year.

UK’s Sky News is in 2nd place, followed by the BBC and Germany’s DW News.

The social media manager of Haber Global, Ali Agirbas, said: “There is a lot of competition in YouTube right now. Being the most-watched channel in Türkiye and Europe shows how much quality work we do. This quality is ensured by our social media team and our editorial staff in the newsroom.”

AzerEnergy has rebuilt and put into operation 6 small hydroelectric power stations (HPS) in the Kalbajar district, Report informs.

According to information, the “Kalbajar-1” station with a capacity of 4.4 megawatts was put into use in 2022, the “Chirag-1” station with a capacity of 8.33 megawatts, “Chirag-2” with 3.6 megawatts, “Gamishli” with 6.33 megawatts, “Soyugbulag” with 5.3 megawatts, and “Meydan” with 3.4 megawatts were launched in 2023.

At present, 4 HPS (Ashagi Vang, Yukhari Vang, Nadirkhanli, and Zar) are under construction in Kalbajar and planned to be commissioned in 2024.

The summit of the UN Special Program for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) is also a message reflecting the unity of Turkic states from a political point of view, Fuad Huseynaliyev, Director of the Report News Agency said on Baku TV.

According to him, the SPECA summit has expanded and shifted from an economic to a political format.

“The fact that the summit was hosted in Azerbaijan has generally increased the importance of SPECA in connection with the processes taking place in the world recently. If we look at the map, we will see that the SPECA countries are located on a route called the Middle Corridor. The presence of the Prime Ministers of Georgia and Hungary among guests who visited Baku, indicates that a new perspective for the development of SPECA is opening up within the framework of the Middle Corridor. The speeches of the guests who arrived at the summit indicate that being aware of the importance the Middle Corridor represents, the SPECA countries want to organize work on its further development,” Huseynaliyev said.

He noted that the importance of SPECA is currently increasing.

“Given that many countries included in SPECA are Turkic states, I think that this is also a message reflecting the unity of the Turkic states from a political point of view. However, let’s take into account that since SPECA is a purely economic association and is focused on economics, the development of the Middle Corridor will make a greater contribution to the economy and unity of these countries,” the head of the news agency said.

A protest rally against French colonialism was held in Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia, Report informs.

10,000 people participated in the protest organized against French colonialism.

The participants of the protest rally, organized by the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front, shouted slogans against the colonial policy of France and demanded independence.

The participants raised the flags of Azerbaijan, the UN, and New Caledonia.

They carried the state attribute of Azerbaijan in the front row and pinned it to the tribune. When the police asked the reason for waving the flag of another country, the protesters said that Azerbaijan is always with them and supports the fight against neo-colonialism.

Note that Baku hosted an international conference on “Decolonization: Women’s Empowerment and Development,” organized by the Baku Initiative Group, on November 21.

Addressing the participants of the conference, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that as the chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement, Azerbaijan supports the peoples who are fighting against colonialism to be free.

“Most of the bloody crimes in the colonial history of humanity have been committed by France. France, which occupied dozens of countries in Africa, South-East Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, and Latin America, plundered their wealth and enslaved their people for many years, committing numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity. The French armed forces discriminated against their ethnic and religious affiliation and subjected hundreds of thousands of civilians to genocide. The slave trade, which France was actively engaged in, is one of the most shameful pages of humanity. Millions of Africans fell victim to the French slavery policy,” Ilham Aliyev said in his address.

The Baku Initiative Group (BIG) was established on July 6, 2023, in Baku by participants in the Complete Elimination of Colonialism conference within the framework of the ministerial meeting of the Coordination Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement chaired by the Republic of Azerbaijan.

BIG supports the struggle for the freedom of peoples in various regions of the world still suffering from colonization in the 21st century.

Distinguished Visitors Day of Dogu Akdeniz-2023 international exercise was held on November 23 in fraternal Türkiye, Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense said, Report informs.

The Commander of the Turkish Naval Forces, Admiral Ercüment Tatlıoğlu, representatives of the Azerbaijan Naval Forces and other friendly and allied countries attended Distinguished Visitors Day.

The guests watched the fulfillment of tasks for the next episodes of the exercise. According to the scenario, the tasks on evacuating citizens, including the wounded, from the shore to the TCG Anadolu vessel were successfully accomplished due to the earthquake.

The servicemen who waved Azerbaijani and Turkish flags while descending from helicopters to the vessel aroused great interest.

The progress of the Doğu Akdeniz-2023 international exercise, in which a group of military personnel of the Marine special forces of Azerbaijan Naval Forces were also involved, was evaluated positively.

Azerbaijan, as the chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), pays special attention to the fighting against France’s neo-colonial policy and to the exposure of its illegal acts, said a reportage by Russia 24 TV Channel, Report informs.

In the reportage, the words of the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, are especially emphasized: “Many of the bloody crimes of the history of colonialism in humanity were committed by France. France occupied dozens of countries in Africa, Southeast Asia, the region of the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, and Latin America, looted their wealth, and enslaved their people for many years. France destabilizes not only its past and present colonies but also our region, the South Caucasus, by supporting separatists.”

Currently, its overseas territories and former colonies are more freed from French influence: “Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have moved away from France only in recent years. This trend continues to grow. The Non-Aligned Movement unites 120 countries that have declared their existence based on the principles of independence and equality as the basis of their course.

Moscow is working hard on a comprehensive normalization of relations between Baku and Yerevan on the basis of trilateral agreements, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on November 22 at a briefing, answering a question from News.ru, Report informs.

She noted that the risk of relapse remains in the South Caucasus region.

“In this regard, Russia is consistently working to transform the region into a zone of stability and prosperity based on the balance of interests of all countries in the region and their neighbors. In this logic, we are building interaction within the 3+3 consultative regional platform. We are working on a comprehensive normalization of relations between Baku and Yerevan on based on trilateral agreements at the highest level,” Zakharova added.

She noted that the West is seeking to turn the South Caucasus into an arena of geopolitical confrontation, ignoring the interests of the countries in the region: “They are doing nothing to ensure the security, stability and prosperity of this region.”

Preparatory training for Doğu Akdeniz-2023 international exercise (Eastern Mediterranean-2023) was held in the city of Marmaris, Türkiye.

Report informs citing the Ministry of Defense that involved servicemen accomplished tasks on inspecting the captured ship, as well as landing from a helicopter in enemy’s depths.

It should be noted that a group of servicemen of Marine Special Forces detachment of the Azerbaijan Naval Forcesis are participating in Doğu Akdeniz-2023 international in Türkiye.