Russia & CIS

At its regular meeting on Thursday the Armenian government decided to dismiss Vahagn Vershmishyan from the post of head of the Urban Planning Committee ARKA reports

State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan has appealed to the population of the country over the deadly coronavirus spread around the world APA reports

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has received Gabriel Jara Chargés daffaires ad interim of Chile in Azerbaijan upon the termination of his diplomatic tenure

A break has occurred in electricity supply as a result of the accident taken place on the highvoltage line covering some territories of Surakhani and Nizami districts of Baku City APAEconomics reports citing the statement made by Teymur Abdullayev head of public relations and media center of Azerenergy OJSC

Russia will suspend flights to Iran since February 28 due to the spread of coronavirus and an increase in the death toll Russian Transport Ministry says APA reports

There are no Azerbaijani citizens among the patients suspected of being infected with coronavirus in Georgia the Georgian Ministry of Health Labor and Social Affairs told Trend

The condition of 186 people suspected of being infected with coronavirus is controlled by doctors in Azerbaijan Trend reports on Feb 27 referring to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Health

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has presented the Order For Service to Motherland 1st Class to Artur Rasizde

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday called the coronavirus outbreak a crisis an epidemic that is on the way Reuters reported

Azerbaijans Defense Minister Colonel General Zakir Hasanov on Thursday met with the Personal Representative of the OSCE ChairmaninOffice Andrzej Kasprzyk

Oil prices have decreased on the world markets

Turkish Airlines has suspended flights to Azerbaijans Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Turkish Airlines Chairman of the Board and the Executive Committee lker Ayci Trend reports Feb 27

Japan said on Thursday that preparations for a rare state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping planned for April were going ahead even as it called for sports and cultural events to be scaled down to contain the spread of the new coronavirus Reuters reported

Greece and Bulgaria pledged to accelerate the construction of the Interconnector GreeceBulgaria IGB in tandem with the Trans Adriatic Pipeline TAP Trend reports with reference to the Joint Declaration of the 4th High Level Cooperation Council between the Government of the Hellenic Republic and the Government of Bulgaria

Azerbaijani oil price has decreased on the world markets

UK Prime Ministers Trade Envoy Baroness Nicholson had a warm and productive meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev the UK Embassy in Baku wrote on its Facebook page

Azerbaijans Ministry of Health and State Agency for Compulsory Medical Insurance together with other relevant structures have begun to study reports on the detection of the COVID19 virus in a Georgian citizen who arrived in Georgia from Iran via Azerbaijan on Feb 25 press services of the abovementioned organizations said in a joint statement Trend reports

The preventive measure will remain unchanged in respect of the Armenian third president Serzh Sargsyan the countrys Prosecutor General Gor Abrahamyan told newsam

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received a delegation led by the UK Prime Ministers Trade Envoy to Azerbaijan Baroness Emma Nicholson

There is no reason to panic over the threat of the coronavirus as the government has a total control of the situation said Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia Trend reports citing Georgian media