Azerbaijan adopts state monopoly on artificial insemination
Private artificial insemination will soon be banned in Azerbaijan and will only be available for a specific range of people.
Gulmirza Poladov, head of section of the medical aid organization of the Azerbaijani Healthcare Ministry, said that private clinics were unable to provide the necessary level of support for pregnant women inseminated artificially.
Poladov explained that artificial insemination had a higher risk of miscarriage. Early-born children were prone to defects. Private center cannot give full care to such children.
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May 24 2013 - 12:53
The Azerbaijani parliament has introduced amendments to the law on international passports, allowing children aged under 1 to receive international passports valid for a year, children aged 1-3 to have passports valid for 3 years and children aged 3-8 to have passports valid for 5 years, 1news cites Ali Guseynli, head of the parliamentary committee for legal policy and state construction.Adults will receive passports for 18 years.Release of biometric passports was postponed from June 1 to September 1, 2013.
May 23 2013 - 17:56
The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, received in Baku the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Ian Kelly (USA), Jacques Faure (France) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Andrzej Kasprzyk.Issues related to the current state and prospects of the negotiations on the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were discussed at the meeting, the official website of the President of Azerbaijan reports.
May 23 2013 - 11:06
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May 23 2013 - 10:49
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May 22 2013 - 16:13
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May 22 2013 - 08:26
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May 21 2013 - 16:51
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