2020 in Azerbaijan
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Events from the year 2020 in Azerbaijan.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- February 9 - 2020 Azerbaijani parliamentary election.[1]
- February 28 - 1st case of COVID-19 in Azerbaijan, a Russian national who had traveled to Iran.[2] 2 more cases were later confirmed in the country and they were all isolated. They were Azerbaijani nationals who returned from Iran. On the same day Azerbaijan closed borders with Iran for 2 weeks.[3]
- July 12-15 - Artillery fire was reportedly exchanged with the Armed Forces of Armenia in the Tovuz District.[4]
- September 27-November 10 - The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
- December 10 - Victory parade was held in Baku.
Deaths
[edit]- Polad Hashimov - military officer (b. 1975)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Azerbaijan to hold snap parliamentary election on February 9 Al Jazeera, 5 December 2019
- ^ "Azerbaijan reports first case of coronavirus - Ifax". Reuters. 2020-02-28. Archived from the original on 28 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-02-28.
- ^ "COVID-19 cases jump in Iran as Italy toll rises: Live updates | News | al Jazeera".
- ^ "The units of the armed forces of Armenia committed a provocation in the Tovuz direction of the front". Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Azerbaijan. July 12, 2020.
Starting from the afternoon on July 12, units of the Armenian armed forces, grossly violating the ceasefire on the direction of the Tovuz region of the Azerbaijani-Armenian state border, subjected to fire on our positions using artillery mounts.
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