Turkey is closely monitoring the situation in Ukraine, Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said following the Munich Security Conference, Trend reports citing the Turkish media.

„The military activity is observed there”, Akar said. „This activity has some consequences. The media outlets spread this news. It is necessary to evaluate the news thoroughly because there is disinformation, fake news. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent some undesirable situations”.

The Movement of the Enterprises of France (MEDEF) is following political and economic situation in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to study the best calendar and the objectives that could be used for a possible business mission, Chief Operating Officer of the MEDEF Bogdan Gadenne-Feertchak told Trend.

In Gadenne-Feertchak’s words, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan have different economic profiles and their own development models which result in different positioning of the French companies on these two markets.

Turkmenistan discussed preparations for the extraordinary presidential election in the country with the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) and Organization of Turkic States (OTS), reports Orient News.

This was discussed during a meeting among Rashid Meredov, Turkmen Foreign Affairs Minister, Rune Castberg, Officer-in-Charge of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat and Baghdad Amreev, Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States.

Turkmenistan’s total exports to European Union countries rose by 63 percent in January-October 2021 compared to the previous year and reached 440.3 million euros, Eurostat told Trend.

Turkmenistan exported to Italy goods worth 59.2 million euros during the reporting period, compared to 74.6 million euros in January-October 2020.

A preliminary agreement has been reached on the export of sheep wool from Azerbaijan to Europe, the Food Safety Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan stated.

According to the agency, work on expanding cooperation between the Agency and the relevant structures of the EU countries, and bringing Azerbaijan's veterinary control system up to standards of the World Organization for Animal Health (formerly the Office International des Epizooties (OIE)) is underway.

A memorandum on the development of high technologies and digitalization in Azerbaijan is expected to be signed between the Finance Office of the Presidency of Turkey and the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan (CBA) next week, Executive Director of the CBA Farid Osmanov told reporters, Trend reports.

According to him, issues on the introduction of Turkish practice in Azerbaijan, namely the digitalization of the insurance sector and the capital market, will be discussed within the memorandum.

Topographic surveys and site reserch have been completed on 200 hectares of ‘Araz valley economic zone’ industrial park in Azerbaijan’s Jabrayil district [liberated from Armenian occupation in the 2020 second Karabakh war], Trend reports referring to the Ministry of Economy.

The territory of the industrial park will be divided into agricultural, industrial, social and technical zones.

The construction of Khudafarin and Giz Galasi hydro junctions has been completed and the installation of turbines at the hydro junctions has begun, Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Seyyed Abbas Mousavi stated.

He made the remark during a press conference on the 43rd anniversary of the victory of the Iranian Revolution and the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

In Peter (the colloquial name of St. Petersburg among the city's residents), the hysteria over the snow continues.

Strange, inexplicable people. Why don't they like the snow, as they say? Here, they like "Crimea - ours", they like "Syria - ours", they like "Donbass - ours", they like all kinds of fighters, anti-aircraft guns, bombs and missiles, and they don't like the snow.

Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR has dismissed the information about purchasing a bitumen plant in Armenia.
Armenian media reported that allegedly, SOCAR is in talks over purchasing a bitumen plant in this country with Georgia’s mediation.

Ibrahim Ahmadov, deputy head of the public relations and events department at Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR told Trend that such absurd statements are incompatible with the level of SOCAR.