Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Culture continues the work on creating new and developing the existing cultural routes in the country, connecting to the network of cultural routes of the Council of Europe, creating closer relations with this organization and Azerbaijan’s decent representation in it, a source in the ministry told Trend.

The unjust attitude of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has once again reminded one that we live in an age of hypocrisy and double standards.

The European Council has adopted a revised regulation concerning measures to safeguard the security of gas supply, said the message on the Council’s website.

The European Union expanded the list of sanctions against North Korea in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution of September 11, 2017, including three legal entities and one individual, the EU press service reported.

The European Council said that the sanctions against several Iranian organizations were lifted.

Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, underlined that the EU is looking forward to deepening the EU-Azerbaijan relations further through negotiations on a new bilateral agreement as part of the summits in Baku during his visit to Azerbaijan, spokesperson for the EU Foreign Affairs Council Susanne Kiefer said in an interview with Trend July 31.

Georgia is one of the foregoers of the Eastern Partnership, said a top European Council official, adding that rather than a praise the remark was a mere fact.

Johannes Hahn, Member of the European Council, Representative of the European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations to Georgia, addressed the Georgian people, congratulating the nation on the ratification of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement by European Parliament.

The European Council and European Parliament agreed on the allocation of 46 million euro to Georgia as macro-financial assistance.