, Elnur Soltanov has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of COP29 Azerbaijan, COP29 said on its official X account. APA reports. Elnur Soltanov taught at Texas Tech University, Slippery Rock University, and Truman State University in 2004-2009. He also worked as a researcher at the Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies in Trkiye in 2000-2003 and then completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at Texas Tech University (2009), USA, in 2003-2009. Soltanov worked at ADA University as Senior Teacher, Director of the Caspian Energy and Environment Center and Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs in 2009-2018. Since 2018, he has served as Deputy Minister of Energy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, responsible for renewable energy and energy efficiency issues. Source: Azeri-Press news agency BAKU: Another group of families of former internally displaced persons (IDPs) arrived in Lachin town of Azerbaijan, Trend reports. The newly arrived families were handed keys to apartments. Officials from Azerbaijan's State Committee for Refugees and IDPs, as well as the Special Representative Office of the President of Azerbaijan, attended the ceremony in the Lachin district, part of the East Zangazur Economic Region. The families will be settled in the houses where they lived in Lachin town before the occupation and which were restored and rebuilt on the instructions of the head of state after the liberation of Azerbaijani territories. At this point, 23 additional families (72 people) had been resettled in Lachin town. Thus, 431 families, i.e., 1,627 people, have been permanently resettled in Lachin town. Source: Trend News Agency