Business
05 December 2006 [21:09]
The delegation of French businessmen led by Christian Monse, Chairman of the Central Asia and Caucasus department of MEDEF, Movement of the French Enterprises, arrived today in Baku, French Embassy to Azerbaijan said.
05 December 2006 [20:42]
Communications and Information Technologies Minister Ali Abbasov interviewed by APA.
05 December 2006 [17:37]
All the facilities in Inam trade centre were closed in the morning in Ganja. The traders were allowed to remove their goods till the evening.
05 December 2006 [15:41]
Russia's Premier Mikhail Fradkov digested an unpleasant surprise at the very start of his visit to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The Azeri counterpart of Fradkov, Artur Rasizade, said that, from Jan. 1, his country can independently meet its gas requirements and won't call on Moscow to cut down the tariff rates for oil deliveries via Baku-Novorossiisk pipeline. In this environment, Russia is forced to soften the negotiating rhetoric.
05 December 2006 [15:22]
Today WAP version of the website of Azerbaijan Taxes Ministry has been opened.
05 December 2006 [14:34]
Gas escaping from a 500-mm gas main pipeline caused a fire in Sulu Tepe (a Baku suburb).
05 December 2006 [10:45]
In late November, Unified Energy Systems, Russia's electricity monopoly, announced that it would cut electricity supplies to Azerbaijan from 300 megawatts to 60 megawatts in 2007.
05 December 2006 [10:40]
In total the deals concluded on all instruments at the Baku Stock Exchange during the period of January-November stood at approx. AZN 1.130bn.
05 December 2006 [10:35]
Against planned AZN 462.54m the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan transferred taxes and duties of AZN 471.99m to the State Budget during January-November of 2006. The forecast was met by 102.04 percent
05 December 2006 [10:35]
107 deals were registered at 40 trading sessions held at currency department of Baku Interbank Currency Exchange (BICEX) during November. The auctions were attended by 21 banks. In total deals of AZN 147 508 000 were concluded.
05 December 2006 [10:34]
SOCAR imported 364.4m cubic meters of gas from Russia in November for thermal power stations.
05 December 2006 [10:33]
Russia's state-controlled natural gas monopoly on Monday formally proposed more than doubling the price Azerbaijan pays for gas, prompting a cool response from Azerbaijan's prime minister.
05 December 2006 [10:33]
Provision of customers with electric and gas meters delays in Lenkeran.
05 December 2006 [10:33]
In November, according to the calculations by the Analytical Department of the BSE, in the government securities market (excluding repo operations market) Koch Bank Azerbaijan headed the ranking of dealers with dealer operations in the total amount of AZN 18 130 353,70.
05 December 2006 [10:32]
During November Azerbaijani manat (AZN) strengthened against the US dollar by 0.07%- from 0.8722AZN/USD1 to 0.8716AZN/USD1at the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange.
05 December 2006 [10:32]
Standard Insurance increased the total volume of premiums by 2.3 times, year-over-year, in January-September, to AZN 6 514 000.
05 December 2006 [10:28]
As of November 1, the total assets of Atabank grew by 65% in the period of January-October to AZN 51.4m.
05 December 2006 [10:24]
Azerbaijan Rural Investment Project has to date spent $175 475 and 27 projects have been implemented, 24 projects are in assessment, 57 projects are online, 62 projects are in preparation, Project deputy director Gulbaniz Gambarova said.
05 December 2006 [10:23]
Construction of Baku Module Power Station has continued to progress and the plant will be commissioned in January, 2007.
05 December 2006 [10:22]
Barmek-Azerbaijan Electric Network Limited Liability Company (LLC) president Huseyn Arabul will sue Azerbaijan State Television and Radio Programs Closed Joint-Stock Company.
05 December 2006 [10:21]
National Depositary Center registered 12 contracts on maintaining and registration of the stocks of joint stock companies.
05 December 2006 [10:21]
Azercell Telecom continues its work on expanding field of its coverage and to provide high-quality telecommunication services in the country.
04 December 2006 [20:53]
04 December 2006 [20:49]
The weighted average exchange prices made up 0,8723 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on December 4.
04 December 2006 [20:31]
Azerbaijan can provide itself with natural gas, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov told journalists after a meeting with his Azeri counterpart.
04 December 2006 [20:30]
Negotiations on Russian natural gas supplies to Azerbaijan are underway and will be completed before the end of December, Valery Golubev, the Acting Deputy Chairman of Gazprom's Management Committee, told journalists in Baku on Monday.
04 December 2006 [17:39]
Azerbaijan is interested in the continued operation of the Russia-controlled Baku-Novorossiisk oil pipeline, and will not reduce its own oil transit tariffs, the country's prime minister said Monday.
04 December 2006 [16:33]
The Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku railway project is supposed for implementation in spring 2007, Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli told reporters.
04 December 2006 [15:44]
Russian Premier visits Azerbaijan.
04 December 2006 [15:04]
On Monday Azerbaijan-Austria business forum was held in Baku by Azerbaijan Economic Development Ministry.
04 December 2006 [12:20]
On the eve of Russian Premier Mikhail Fradkov's visit to Baku, Azerbaijani authorities made it clear they are ready for a long-term conflict with Moscow. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev ordered to his Cabinet to estimate the possibility of declining oil transit through Russia's territory in response to the growth in prices of Gazprom's gas supplies to Azerbaijan. The attempt to include Baku into the anti-Georgian bloc might be considered as failed.
04 December 2006 [12:15]
Talks with Russian TV companies that blame Azerbaijani B&BTV and other cable televisions for piracy has begun.
03 December 2006 [13:46]
The State Ecological Examination Dept. has evaluated the environmental impact of the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) offshore oilfield development project.
03 December 2006 [13:44]
Azerbaijani banks have issued over 1 million VISA cards.
03 December 2006 [13:42]
SOCAR's President received the Conoco Phillips delegation headed by its Executive Vice-President, William Berry.
03 December 2006 [13:40]
SOCAR has received the Citadel and Baki ships built to the Kaspmornefteflot/BUE Caspian's order. Kaspmornefteflot (Caspian Sea Oil Fleet) is SOCAR's oil fleet.
03 December 2006 [13:39]
The Grave Crimes Court of Azerbaijan will convict six employees of Barmek Azerbaijan (the former manager of the Baku Electricity Grid).
03 December 2006 [13:37]
Two more Azerbaijani banks will probably join VISA International soon.
03 December 2006 [12:40]
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said on Friday his country would reduce or suspend altogether oil exports via Russia in response to Moscow's promise to cut gas supplies to Baku.
03 December 2006 [12:35]
Agriculture Ministry presented the Draft state Program on the development of agrarian sector in 2007-2015 to the cabinet of ministers, Agriculture Minister Ismet Abbasov told the journalists.
03 December 2006 [12:14]
On December 1 Baku Metro began to limit selling of tokens in the stations where the number of passengers are more.
02 December 2006 [14:23]
The sixth bond issue of Bank Standard was placed at the Baku Stock Exchange.
02 December 2006 [14:16]
"2007 will be a year of example in the cooperation between Azerbaijan and Georgia," Zurab Nogaideli said.
01 December 2006 [18:20]
Heydar Babayev, Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, has met with member of the House of Lords of the UK Parliament, Baroness O'Cathain.
01 December 2006 [17:06]
Ganja automobile plant signed a protocol of cooperation with Minsk tractor plant to start production of Belarussian tractors, Director of the Ganja plant Khanlar Fatiyev said.
01 December 2006 [16:48]
Mortgage lending is expected to more than double in Azerbaijan next year.
01 December 2006 [14:54]
The widely anticipated handover to a Russian company of a pipeline that will supply Armenia with Iranian natural gas is not a forgone conclusion, Prime Minister Andranik Markarian claimed in a Russian newspaper interview published on Friday. He also reiterated Yerevan’s hopes that Russia will defuse its festering confrontation with Georgia.
01 December 2006 [14:50]
Armenia's parliament on Wednesday passed a 2007 budget with a deficit equivalent to US$155 million (euro118 million).
01 December 2006 [14:23]
"The energy security of the world depends directly on Caspian oil and production perspectives.” UN European Commission Economic (UNECE) report 'A Global Overview and Global Energy Security and the Caspian Sea Region' says.
01 December 2006 [13:44]
Azerbaijan's Agriculture Ministry has asked Japan for a new grant of $8 million to buy agricultural equipment.
01 December 2006 [13:39]
Anglo Asian Mining PLC said its Gedabek project in Azerbaijan has a resource estimate of 1.08 mln ounces of gold equivalent with a possibility of expansion in a number of directions.
01 December 2006 [12:55]
General Director of KazTransGaz, Serik Sultangaliev, says that Kazakhstan is interested in joining the South Caucasus natural gas pipeline (also known as the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum or Shah Deniz pipeline).
01 December 2006 [11:00]
A plan that paves the way for an integrated common energy market between the European Union and governments of the oil and gas rich Caspian and Black Sea regions was agreed at a ministerial conference held in the Kazakh capital, Astana.
01 December 2006 [10:52]
Taxes Ministry Operational Control Department have to date examined 153 097 various kinds of trade facilities and found serious irregularities in 35 958 of them.
01 December 2006 [10:51]
The total assets of Atabank grew by 65% in the period of January-October to AZN 51.4m.
01 December 2006 [10:50]
Azerigas sent a letter to 13 regions of Azerbaijan to warn them against unsatisfactory collection of gas bills.
01 December 2006 [10:49]
Azerenergy has sent a letter of warning to executive power heads of 46 regions on unsatisfactory level of collection of the electric bills.
01 December 2006 [10:49]
Azercell Telecom JV has concluded a roaming agreement with Pakistan's Telenor.
01 December 2006 [10:47]
A meting of Permanent Secretariat of TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission and national secretaries of the member states will take place in Chisinau, Dec. 14-15.
01 December 2006 [10:36]
Bank Standard concluded a trilateral agreement with Azauto and ITOCHU Corporation.
01 December 2006 [10:35]
The weighted average exchange price made up 0.8716 AZN/USD at trading sessions held at the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange.
01 December 2006 [10:34]
The assets of Azerbaijan Credit Bank Joint Stock Commercial Bank grew by 53% in January-September to AZN 7.8m.
01 December 2006 [10:33]
2 200 customers were found illegally using electricity in Ganja.
01 December 2006 [10:32]
Azerdemiryolbank JSB will issue chip cards from January 1, 2007.
01 December 2006 [10:31]
Two intersection bridges and one pedestrian tunnel will be in operation by this year's end.
01 December 2006 [10:30]
A subregional conference examining various fields of transportation will take place in Tehran on Dec. 18-19.
01 December 2006 [10:23]
Azerbaijan International Operating Company increased oil output by 82%, year-over-year, to 18 498 000 metric tons in Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli during the period of January-October.
01 December 2006 [10:20]
As of November 20, Azersu JSC has to date installed 151 794 water meters.
01 December 2006 [10:12]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev approved the agreement on air connections between Azerbaijan and Korea.
01 December 2006 [00:46]
Visiting Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli met with members of the Caspian Integration Business Club at the Baku Business Center.
01 December 2006 [00:45]
Azerbaijan's Minister of Agriculture Ismat Abbasov met with Attache of the United States Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, Ralph Gifford.
01 December 2006 [00:43]
Azercell Telecom joint company started to render new roaming services through three more networks of Indian Bharti Airtel company - Kerala, Gujarat, Punjab, increasing the number of its roaming agreement with Bharti Airtel company's networks to ten.
01 December 2006 [00:17]
Russia's RAO UES (Unified Energy Systems) has agreed to provide electrical energy to Azerbaijan on previous terms from December 1.
01 December 2006 [00:01]
Georgia intends to buy 1.4 billion cubic meters of gas from Azerbaijan next year, Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said at a news conference following talks with the Azerbaijani leadership here on Thursday.
30 November 2006 [14:37]
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