As many as 52.9 percent of the population lives in Baku, 50.2 percent of women and 49.8 percent of men live in the capital, according to the Azerbaijani State Statistics Committee.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received a delegation led by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense of the United States Laura Cooper.

The delegation headed by Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has left for Italy, the city of Milan, to participate in the 25th session of the OSCE Ministerial Council, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry told Trend.

There are strong relations between Azerbaijan and the UAE, Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Azerbaijan Mohamed Ahmed Hamel Alqubaisi said.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received a delegation led by Vice-President for Global Innovations at CISCO Guy Diedrich.

Presıdent of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Konstantin Noskov.

Twenty-two people will face trial regarding the events in Azerbaijan’s Ganja city, reads a joint statement by Azerbaijan’s Interior Ministry, the State Security Service and the Prosecutor General’s Office Dec. 3.

Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahrami will visit Azerbaijan Dec. 3 to attend the 24th Azerbaijan International Telecommunications, Innovations and High Technologies Exhibition and Conference “Bakutel 2018”, Iranian Embassy in Azerbaijan told Trend.

There are about 620,000 people with disabilities in Azerbaijan, reported in the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Azerbaijan.

The State Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Azerbaijan will be drafted.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov participated in the inauguration ceremony of Andres Manuel López Obrador, the President of the United States of Mexico, held on December 1, 2018 at the Congress building of Mexico, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a message.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva are doing everything to develop sports, and this is a very big plus for Azerbaijan, Vice-President of the Gymnastics Federation of Ukraine Irina Deryugina told Trend on the sidelines of the 82nd FIG Congress held in Baku Dec. 2.

Election of Mehriban Aliyeva as President of Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation (AGF) gave a great boost to beautiful sport of gymnastics in the country, said Azerbaijan’s Minister of Youth and Sports Azad Rahimov.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has sent a condolence letter to US President Donald Trump over passing of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the US.

Azerbaijan once again confirms its commitment to the goals and objectives defined in the UN Charter, Ziyafat Asgarov, first deputy chairman of the Azerbaijani parliament, said.

Azerbaijan is rich in cultural values, and it is necessary to represent this culture and cultural services at the level of modern requirements, Minister of Culture Abulfas Garayev said Nov. 30.

Following the logic of the comment by the Russian Foreign Ministry, Bako Sahakyan came for rest to Lake Baikal, and not to Moscow, where he held meetings as a so-called head of an illegal regime created in the Azerbaijani territories, occupied as a result of the use of force and ethnic cleansing, Leyla Abdullayeva, acting spokeswoman of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, told Trend Nov. 30.

A draft law on amending Azerbaijan’s Electoral Code was discussed at a plenary session of the Azerbaijani parliament Nov. 30.

The Azerbaijani parliament at a plenary session has submitted for discussion a draft permit for the deployment of Azerbaijani military personnel of four people in South Sudan as staff officers and military observers under the command of UNMISS (United Nations Mission in South Sudan) and participation in this mission.

A charity concert and a small fair organized by the Embassy of Hungary in Azerbaijan together with the Nargis magazine and fund will take place on December 15, 2018.

Rainy weather is expected in Baku and Absheron peninsula on December 1-2. North-west wind will intensify on December 2, the Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry reported.

Relations with Turkey in all spheres are of great importance for Azerbaijan, Deputy Chairman of the Azerbaijani Parliament Bahar Muradova said at a meeting with representatives of the Platform for Women of the Turkic World (TÜRKAP) on November 29.

"Ateshgah" intellectual games club in Estonia will host an international intellectual festival dedicated to the State Flag Day of Azerbaijan on December 1-2.

Azerbaijan and Romania are strategic partners, Ambassador of Romania to Azerbaijan Dan Iancu said at an event dedicated to the Day of National Unity of Romania on Nov. 29.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has congratulated Salome Zurabishvili on her election as president of Georgia.