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Turkey does not see the EU refugee crisis as a bargaining issue but as an opportunity to help Syrian refugees fleeing war and persecution back home, said Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, on 17 March, conducted a monitoring exercise on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan as part of his mandate, read the message posted March 18 on the OSCE’s website.

The United States is facing five global strategic challenges, while at home sequestration poses a great risk to the funding of critical investments, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told lawmakers on Thursday, according to U.S. Department of Defense.

The parliament of Azerbaijan has discussed amendments to article No 213-1.3 of the Criminal Code at the plenary meeting today.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Azerbaijan in early April, a diplomatic source told Trend.

A meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents may take place as part of the Nuclear Security Summit that will start in Washington, D.C. on March 31, the Armenian newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak reported.

The State Statistics Committee has spread a statement.

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan has today held the next currency auction.

As of March 1, 2016, SOFAZ (State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan) has earned $790 from Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) block of fields, $14M from Shahdeniz field.

Economic relations between Austria and Azerbaijan can be qualified as well-established and on a solid base, Heinz Fischer, President of Austria, said in his interview to “The Business Year” magazine.

An Armenian soldied died at 17.30 on March 17 in one of the military units in occupied Nagorno Karabakh.

“The Azerbaijani delegation that President Ilham Aliyev will lead to Iran tomorrow includes a number of ministers and during the visit economic, political, and energy issues will be discussed,” Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Hossein Jaber Ansari said in a statement to APA during the weekly press conference.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Monday that a military ground operation in Syria by Turkey and Saudi Arabia is not on the agenda and any such move would need to involve all countries in the U.S.-led coalition against Daesh.

The 2015 report by Azerbaijan’s Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) has been submitted to the Milli Mejlis (parliament).

Azerbaijan’s law-enforcement authorities have issued an international arrest warrant for another businessman.

Traffic will be restricted in some streets and avenues of Baku due to the events to be held on occasion of anniversary of Khojaly genocide.

Armenian armed units violated ceasefire with Azerbaijan 122 times on various parts of the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenia troops in one day, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Feb.22.

10 cooperation agreements between Azerbaijan and Iran are expected to be fully agreed tomorrow, Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, co-chairman of the intergovernmental commission Mahmoud Vaezi told APA.

Azerbaijan has been elected a member of Erasmus Student Network at a meeting of the organization`s Council of National Representatives in Jyvaskyla, Finland.

Nigeria backed Saudi Arabia and Russia in freezing oil production while giving Iran and Iraq a way out to regain some of their lost market share due to sanctions and war, Bloomberg reports.