Azerbaijan delegation to make a speech at the meeting. Winter session of OSCE PA will be held in Vienna on February 18. At the meeting Azerbaijan will be represented by parliament delegation, Lent.az informed. The chief of the permanent commission on human rights of Milli Majlis and the member of Azerbaijan delegation for OSCE PA Rabiyyat Aslanova stated that Azerbaijan delegation will make a speech at OSCE PA meeting and will raise issues on Mountainous Karabakh conflict, military operations of Armenian terrorists and their cultivation of narcotic plants in the occupied lands. According to the head of the Commission the issue about military equipment and weapons sold by Russia to Armenia will be the focus of attention.

Twining projects will give opportunities for Azerbaijan state bodies to develop their administrative means, to implement laws and to control the guarantee of legislation, Belgian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Philip Jetard informed. The Ambassador stated that those reconstruction works would bring close Azerbaijan to the European Union and would give opportunity to implement EU standards and would be useful in free circulation of capital, service, commodity and citizens. At present 2 twining projects continue and 4 projects are at the stage of preparation and yearly programming.

The 44th President of the United States Barack Obama - the first African American President of the country - was sworn in on Tuesday before the U.S. Capitol Hill and offered an inaugural address. Hundreds of thousands of people watched the inauguration ceremony. After the inauguration ceremony the new president Barak Obama made a speech before Capitol Hill. Afterwards he and first lady Michelle Obama saw off ex-president George Bush with his family to the helicopter taking them back to Texas. President Obama’s coming from Capitol Hill to the White House was accompanied by a festive parade.