Azerbaijan Refused To Participate In The Meeting Of The CIS Interior Ministers' Heads
1- 12.08.2025, 20:04
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The meeting was held on August 12 in St. Petersburg.
A representative of Azerbaijan did not go to the meeting of the CIS Council of Interior Ministers held in St. Petersburg on August 12, the republican agency APA reported. According to its information, Interior Minister Vilayat Eyvazov refused to participate in the event. The reasons were not specified. The meeting was chaired by the head of the Russian Interior Ministry Vladimir Kolokoltsev. It discussed issues of cooperation and joint fight against crime, problems of illegal migration and the use of information and communication technologies. The heads of delegations also took part in commemorative events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
In his welcoming speech, Kolokoltsev touched upon the topic of "attempts to rewrite the common history" of the CIS countries, which used to be part of the USSR. He also emphasized that "the desire to preserve the socio-cultural identity of the commonwealth countries and adherence to traditional spiritual and moral values is the component without which it is impossible to further build the security architecture." "In fact, we are talking about one of the cornerstones in the foundation of our good-neighborly relations," Kolokoltsev noted.
Baku began distancing itself from Moscow in late 2024, when an Azerbaijani Airlines airliner was shot down over Grozny by a Russian air defense strike. Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to acknowledge the country's culpability for the incident, which led to the downing of the plane and the deaths of 38 people on board.
The situation worsened in late June, when a raid in Yekaterinburg resulted in the detention of members of the Azerbaijani diaspora on murder charges, with two of them - brothers Ziyaddin and Husein Safarov - dying. Baku claimed that their deaths were caused by brutal beatings, which was confirmed by an autopsy in their home country. After that, Azerbaijan began canceling all joint events with Russia and visits by officials.
In July, the republic's president, Ilham Aliyev, called on Ukraine "not to agree to the occupation," and in August, according to Caliber, a publication close to the government, began considering arms supplies to Kiev. This came after Russia struck the facilities of state-owned oil and gas company SOCAR in the Odessa region, critically wounding four people.
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