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14 April 2006 [08:30]
Due to sharp increase of concentration of gases creating hothouse effect in the atmosphere of the Earth, the radiation balance of the planet became affected, what lead to global rise of annual yearly temperature.
14 April 2006 [08:20]
Chief of the Military Registration and Enlistment Office (MREO), major-general Aliagha Huseynov will be sent into retirement due to retirement age soon.
13 April 2006 [20:27]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's (PACE) culture committee decided to sent a British MP, Edward O’Hara to study the condition of historical and cultural monuments in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, including occupied Azerbaijani territories.
13 April 2006 [20:26]
Presentation of Azeri-English translation software Dilmanc has been held April 13 within the framework of "Creation and modernization of Azeri-English translation software" project executed jointly by the Ministry of Communications and IT and UNDP.
13 April 2006 [16:00]
However, Shamsaddin Hajiyev, Chairman of Milli Majlis Commission for Science & Education Affairs informed that the law on Education will be submitted to the MM spring session, but majority of Commission Members did not know about it.
13 April 2006 [15:56]
Recently the Public Association of Detention Places and Azerbaijan Regional Development Center held round table focused on "Prisoners' social problems and ways of their solution" at International Press Center.
13 April 2006 [14:28]
Debutant Hasan Kabze salvaged some pride for ten-man Turkey as his late goal earned a 1-1 friendly draw in Baku.
13 April 2006 [13:12]
On April 13 President Ilham Aliyev got familiar with the process of construction of a module power station in Shaki District, north Azerbaijan.
13 April 2006 [10:31]
The government is going to make decision on "golden amnesty", Society for Women Rights Defense named after Dilara Aliyeva informs.
13 April 2006 [10:28]
European Union expert Thomas Zabranski will visit Azerbaijan from 13 April to 15.
13 April 2006 [09:35]
The first national conference on juvenile justice, "Perspectives of Juvenile Justice Development in Azerbaijan", will be held at the Excelsior hotel in Baku Thursday and Friday.
13 April 2006 [09:33]
The implementation of the European Union-funded South Caucasus Anti-Drug (SCAD) program will be discussed at a three-day meeting of experts from the Ministries of Health and Justice, and the State Statistics Committee, due in Baku Thursday, the SCAD office said.
13 April 2006 [09:31]
A section of the website of the Iranian embassy in Baku, www.iranembassy.az, designed for its press-service has been launched.
13 April 2006 [08:54]
President's visit to north-west region continues.
13 April 2006 [08:26]
Azerbaijan's Health Ministry said on Wednesday that a bird flu outbreak was easing in the country and that two teenage girls had recovered sufficiently from the virus to be discharged from hospital.
12 April 2006 [17:03]
At the PACE session Bulgarian parliamentarian Alexander Arabadjiev presented his report on human rights of members of armed forces.
12 April 2006 [17:00]
Event titled "Day of Azerbaijan" has been recently held in the French city of Toulouse at the initiative of Azerbaijan communities and Azerbaijani students, the State Committee on Azerbaijanis residing abroad informs.
12 April 2006 [16:05]
The Azerbaijani mountain–climber, Israfil Ashurli postponed climbing Everest till the next year.
12 April 2006 [14:40]
International Red Cross Committee (IRCC) alongside Defense Ministry is leading training for militaries of Azerbaijan's army.
12 April 2006 [14:05]
Executives of the International Olympic Committee have positively estimated the changes made in the world’s boxing judging practice.
12 April 2006 [11:59]
President Ilham Aliyev attended ceremony of new hospital's foundation in Balakan.
12 April 2006 [02:24]
Tests conducted at a WHO collaborating laboratory in the United Kingdom have retrospectively identified an additional human case of H5N1 infection.
12 April 2006 [02:09]
On April 14 international rapid chess tournament starts in San-Sebastian city of Spain
12 April 2006 [01:56]
Famous Turkish singer is getting ready for the concert to be held on June 25 at the Tofik Bharamov.
12 April 2006 [01:30]
Court proceedings against 16-memebr gang charged with committing terrorism acts and other crimes started today in the Azerbaijan's Court for Grave Crimes.
11 April 2006 [22:38]
Mehriban Aliyeva, the President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, received delegation of US Jewish Community Federation headed by Lev Levayev.
11 April 2006 [16:48]
The Azerbaijani delegation will take part at "Bird flu" conference in Ankara, the Health Ministry's press-release says.
11 April 2006 [16:27]
The Court of Appeals will consider the appeal by Musavat Party on restoration of Aynur Jamalgizi in the ranks of the party on Wednesday, Ibrahim Ibrahimli, the chair of the Central Control Inspection Commission (CCIC), stated.
11 April 2006 [14:26]
The Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev has accepted the President of the CIS Jewish communities' federation, Lev Levaev.
11 April 2006 [13:47]
Johan Reshut, President of Austrian Supreme Court of Justice, left for Guba region on Tuesday, Allahverdi Nehramli, the Head of press service of the Azerbaijani Supreme Court, informs.
11 April 2006 [09:50]
The US government stopped receiving Azerbaijani immigrants within the Refugees Program.
11 April 2006 [09:43]
International Migration Organization will hold training for state organizations representatives being busy with migration "Migration Management bases".
11 April 2006 [09:04]
International gymnastics tournament is over in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
11 April 2006 [08:59]
English language library was opened in secondary school #1 in the region of Zagatala by the initiative of US Peace Corps volunteer David Rizinburg.
11 April 2006 [00:06]
A bird flu quarantine is being maintained only in one Azerbaijani district, the press service of state veterinary service at the Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry said.
10 April 2006 [21:11]
The Azerbaijani Health Ministry started renovation at the Clinical Medicine Center, former Semashko hospital.
10 April 2006 [21:02]
The Azerbaijani Prosecutor General's Office addressed to the Georgian Prosecutor General's Office to hand over Azer Samadov, the head of the Center of Defense of Religion and Liberty of Conscience, who was arrested in Tbilisi in early April, to Azerbaijan.
10 April 2006 [16:38]
Farhad Mammadov, a co-constitutor of "Irali" (Forward) all-republican youth movement, will participate in the meeting of the presidium of the Union of Youth and Student Organizations from 12 to 13 April, as well as the first forum of the representatives of the creative intelligentsia of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) from 14 to 15 April.
10 April 2006 [14:21]
The State Veterinary Service (SVS) under the Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry completed disinfection of all territories on the shore of the Caspian Sea.
10 April 2006 [12:56]
Aleksi Aleksishvili, Georgian Finance Minister demands introduction of stricter control at the customs checkpoints.
10 April 2006 [12:50]
The agenda of workshop "Media of Azerbaijan and Turkey: similarity and differences" is divided into 4 items.
10 April 2006 [09:21]
The State Veterinary Service (SVS) under the Ministry of Agriculture spread information on the results of the Bird flu tests conducted in 2005-2006.
10 April 2006 [09:14]
The members of the South Azerbaijan National Movement (SANAM) Mustafa Avazpur and his two brothers were arrested by law-enforcement bodies of Iran in Tebriz city.
09 April 2006 [23:02]
Antalya hosted on Saturday a "general assembly" amid the Dialogue Eurasia Platform’s four-day meeting over "media".
09 April 2006 [21:46]
A scandal broke off in Azerbaijan after the Minister of communications and informational technologies claimed that the local secret services tap every call from the country to the neighboring Armenia, local media reported.
08 April 2006 [18:31]
Two Azerbaijani criminals were killed on Moscow's Leninsky Avenue on Friday evening. The police think that it was a mob war.
08 April 2006 [18:16]
Recently third meeting of steering project group on creation of National Associations of local authorities started.
08 April 2006 [17:46]
Sevindzh Abdullayeva, who had been an Itar-Tass correspondent in Baku for the past 13 years, was put in charge of a leading independent television company of Azerbaijan, Space, on Friday.
08 April 2006 [17:15]
Moscow prosecutors have ordered the arrest of four suspects in an attack on an NTV television producer, the Prosecutor's Office said Saturday.
08 April 2006 [11:04]
Commissioner for Human Rights of Azerbaijan Elmira Suleymanova has received resident–coordinator of UNO, UNO Development Program (DP) Head in our country Marco Barsotti.
08 April 2006 [10:55]
The draft law "On making additions and amendments to some legislative acts to combat corruption" was discussed in the second part of today’s session of Parliament.
08 April 2006 [10:42]
Health Minister Ogtay Shireliyev met with parents of thalassemia patients in the Hematology Institute.
08 April 2006 [10:18]
Court sitting on suit brought by the Barmek Azerbaijan Electricity Network Limited Liability Company (LLC) against the Ministry of Taxes was deferred in the Court of Economy of Azerbaijan because no representative from the Ministry was present at the sitting.
08 April 2006 [09:11]
Center for Restoration of Wild Nature and Watch for epidemiological Situation has been established, Minister Ecology And Natural resources has told journalists.
08 April 2006 [09:01]
Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management, the office of which is located in Georgia, invites Azerbaijani journalists to participate in the program to get master's degree.
08 April 2006 [08:23]
Additions and amendments to the bill on war veterans were discussed and adopted in the first part of Parliament session yesterday.
08 April 2006 [07:29]
"We are ready to provide all conditions to conduct the meeting against Azerbaijani national football team in Yerevan," said Armenian FM Vardan Oskanian.
08 April 2006 [07:01]
"Some TV channels and newspapers aim at generating public excitement by having recently spread reports that mobilization has been ordered in Azerbaijan, and military units in home front have been dislocated to battle field," Defense Ministry spokesman, major Ilgar Verdiyev, stated.
07 April 2006 [23:52]
The Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree on April 7.
07 April 2006 [23:36]
19 year old Karen Avanesyan can be forcefully deported from the UK to Baku.
07 April 2006 [23:02]
In 2006 serious work will be carried out in the school-construction in Azerbaijan under the decree by President Aliyev.
07 April 2006 [17:47]
The next Azerbaijani-Russian negotiations on cooperation in education will be held at the end of April, the Education ministry's head of the external relations and coordination, Mahir Aliyev stated.
07 April 2006 [17:08]
The Azerbaijani Education Ministry confirmed 33 diplomas of graduates of foreign universities, submitted to the commission on nostification.
07 April 2006 [15:58]
Russian border guards have detained and brought to Mahachkala port the Azerbaijani vessel suspected in poaching.
07 April 2006 [15:03]
Additionally, there are places where pollution depth reaches several meters, the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Huseyn Bagirov stated.
07 April 2006 [14:45]
Destruction of forests at the occupied by Armenian Azerbaijani territory shows real intentions of the Armenian politics, the Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Minister, Huseyn Bagirov told at the press-conference April 7.
07 April 2006 [13:12]
The reforms in the self-government bodies will allow bringing of the Azerbaijani legislative base to conformity with the European Self-government Charter, which was ratified in Baku in 2002, Caroline Martin, the Project Director on the National Association of Minucipalities of Azerbaijan (NAMA), representing the Secretariat of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (CLRA CE), stated.
07 April 2006 [10:54]
Delegation headed by Commander of Internal Forces of Azerbaijan, general-lieutenant Zakir Hassanov will pay visit to Turkey on April 10-14.
07 April 2006 [10:41]
Following special order of the President, the Emergencies Ministry, Civil Defense regiment rescuers took humanitarian aid to Lorestan province of Iran which has suffered devastating earthquake recently.
07 April 2006 [10:38]
The chair of the State Customs Committee (SCC) Aydin Aliyev received the program manager of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property Daniel P. Keller.
07 April 2006 [10:33]
70 Azerbaijani citizens have been deported from Istanbul, Turkey.
07 April 2006 [10:12]
"Military Prosecutor's Office continues investigation into the crimes committed by Armenians. Interpol issued international notice for 72 accused and set card index on 532 suspects over these crimes," Military Prosecutor Khanlar Valiyev told.
07 April 2006 [08:13]
Minister of Labour and Social Protection of Population of the Azerbaijan Republic Mr. Fizuli Alekperov and Ms. Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Director for Azerbaijan have officially opened the Training and Research Center in Population and demography in Baku.
07 April 2006 [00:14]
Reports from Tbilisi and Baku say Georgian security forces have arrested an Azerbaijani religious-freedom campaigner.
06 April 2006 [23:00]
Azerbaijani police today dispersed dozens of students who were picketing the Education Ministry.