Politics
29 May 2007 [13:16]
Armenian Armed Forces violated ceasefire again, Defense Ministry's press service told.
29 May 2007 [12:30]
80 Azerbaijanis detained by Iran law enforcement bodies during meeting in Urmia on May 22 imprisoned.
29 May 2007 [12:13]
Local Armenian residents tried to impede to the opening of new administrative building of Azerbaijan Consul of America in California on May 28 – Republic day of Azerbaijan.
29 May 2007 [11:40]
Azerbaijani MP Huseyn Abdullayev left Azerbaijan, his relatives told the APA. He left Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic for Turkey. Abdullayev's relatives said that he left the country for medical treatment.
29 May 2007 [11:38]
Several US cities officially marked May 28 – Azerbaijan's Republic day.
29 May 2007 [08:41]
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has extended sincere congratulations to Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the happy occasion of the national day of the republic of Azerbaijan.
29 May 2007 [07:46]
Azeri Ambassador to Amman Elman Arasli on Monday commended Jordanian-Azeri relations which are progressively developing in various fields due to efforts by the two countries leaderships.
28 May 2007 [21:15]
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has congratulated President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on the national holiday – the Republic Day.
28 May 2007 [12:39]
The Azerbaijani Embassy in Ankara hosted a reception over the weekend on the occasion of the national day of Azerbaijan.
28 May 2007 [12:22]
The Kazakh president's son-in-law, the Central Asian nation's former ambassador to Austria, has been put on an international wanted list, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
28 May 2007 [11:58]
Iran and the United States resumed public diplomacy Monday for the first time in more than a quarter century. The meeting in Baghdad between ambassadors on security in Iraq could produce a chapter in world history for its success or a footnote for its failure.
28 May 2007 [11:53]
Japan's agricultural minister died Monday after reportedly hanging himself just hours before he was to face questioning in parliament over a political scandal, officials said.
28 May 2007 [10:32]
Azerbaijan marks on Monday the main state holiday – Republic Day.
28 May 2007 [09:32]
Two U.S. war planes violated Turkey's airspace over the border with Iraq for four minutes this week, Turkey's military said Sunday.
28 May 2007 [08:12]
Azerbaijan on Sunday paid tribute to close ties of cooperation with Jordan which have been further strengthened by the two countries' leaderships.
27 May 2007 [18:21]
Azerbaijani Ambassador to Seoul Rovshan Jamshidov said that National Day of Azerbaijan is a day to remember the first democratic state in the East and that's why it is called the Day of the Republic.
27 May 2007 [18:15]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is scheduled to pay a visit to Iran, the country's ambassador to Tehran said on Sunday.
27 May 2007 [12:00]
Iran's Foreign Ministry on Sunday said a meeting between its leading nuclear negotiator and the European Union's foreign policy chief has been postponed.
26 May 2007 [14:50]
Economic Development Minister Heydar Babayev will visit Milan in October.
26 May 2007 [14:47]
Georgia's Parliament Speaker Nino Burjanadze addressed the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's Spring Session in Portugal, saying her country takes vital part in delivery of the Caspian energy resources to Europe.
26 May 2007 [14:43]
It's premature to speak of full success in the Nagorno Karabakh peaceful process unless agreements on all provisions of the negotiation agenda are achieved, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told a news conference in Baku after a meeting with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs.
26 May 2007 [14:37]
Turkey will assume the command of Multinational Task Force South (MNTF-S), one of the five regional commands of the Kosovo Force (KFOR), a NATO-led international force responsible for establishing and maintaining security in Kosovo, for a period of one year as of Tuesday.
26 May 2007 [14:34]
OSCE Office in Baku intends to implement several new projects, head of the OSCE office in Baku Jose Luis Herrero Ansola told.
26 May 2007 [14:31]
Iran's Vice President and head of the Department of Environment Ms. Fatemeh Vaez-Javadi on Friday stressed on expansion of cooperation with Azerbaijan.
26 May 2007 [14:29]
Azerbaijan's Independence Day will be marked in the capital of the United States.
26 May 2007 [14:25]
Azerbaijan's Embassy in South Korea has started to issue visa for those intending to visit Azerbaijan.
26 May 2007 [14:22]
"We will continue to support the freedom of speech and improvement of media in Azerbaijan. We want suitable conditions to be created for the improvement of independent media," Head of the OSCE office in Baku Jose Luis Herrero Ansola told.
26 May 2007 [14:03]
National Forum of political and public organizations was held on the initiative of Open Society Party.
26 May 2007 [13:56]
Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharian will meet on June 9 in St. Petersburg, Russia, OSCE Minsk Group French Co-chair Bernard Fassier and Russian Co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov stated.
26 May 2007 [13:52]
Official reception was organized on 28 May by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
26 May 2007 [13:51]
"Nagorno Karabakh is an inalienable part of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan's territorial integrity is its indefeasible right and this can not be subject to any talks. We will not change our position."
26 May 2007 [13:38]
The conference for the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea – the first legally binding agreement on any subject ever adopted by the five Caspian neighbors – started in Baku on May 23 ended yesterday.
26 May 2007 [13:30]
Speaker Oktay Adaov spoke on the education bill in today's meeting of the parliament. He said the parliament is responsible for postponing debating on Education Law.
26 May 2007 [13:29]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev today received OSCE Minsk Group Russian Co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov and French Co-chair Bernard Fassier.
26 May 2007 [11:59]
"We recognize Nagorno Karabakh as a part of Azerbaijan," OSCE Minsk Group Russian co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov told a press conference in Baku.
26 May 2007 [11:54]
US President George Bush congratulated Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on 28 May - the 89th anniversary of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.
26 May 2007 [09:32]
The United States and Russia are making joint efforts for a peaceful solution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, said Daniel Fried, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs addressing to the Helsinki commission members.
25 May 2007 [15:19]
Israeli Parliament (Knesset) hosted a ceremony on May 28 Republic Day of Azerbaijan May 24.
25 May 2007 [15:08]
Azerbaijan and Ukraine have started negotiations over establishment of joint military contingent within GUAM, Ivan Androsenko, head of international department of Ukrainian Defense Ministry told.
25 May 2007 [14:01]
President of France Nikolas Sarkozy will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan.
25 May 2007 [14:00]
Yuri Merzliakov, Russian Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group and his French colleague Bernard Fassier together with OSCE Chairman-in-Office's personal representative Andrzej Kasprzyk met Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
25 May 2007 [13:27]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today attended the inauguration of monument "Declaration of Independence".
25 May 2007 [13:15]
State commission to be established soon will uncover not only massacres committed in Guba, but also all the massacres committed by Armenians in Azerbaijan.
25 May 2007 [11:58]
Armenian Armed Forces violated ceasefire again.
25 May 2007 [08:40]
Azerbaijan's Ambassador to Ottawa Fakhraddin Qurbanov met with Canadian MP, Chair of the Parliament's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development Kevin Sorenson.
25 May 2007 [08:38]
Embassy of Azerbaijan to Italy has arranged an official dinner at Marriott hotel in Rome to mark two momentous dates: the Azerbaijan's Republic Day (May 28) and the 15th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Azerbaijan and Italy.
25 May 2007 [08:30]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has sent a letter of condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin on a methane blast killing and injuring dozens of people in Siberia's Kemerovo region.
25 May 2007 [08:28]
Foreign Ministers will meet on June 25 before Black Sea Economical Cooperation Organization's (BSECO) summit.
25 May 2007 [08:27]
Baku declaration will be the main document to be signed during the 2nd summit of GUAM – International Organization for Democracy and Economic Development.
25 May 2007 [08:24]
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) publicized a report on Azerbaijan.
25 May 2007 [08:19]
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammerberg is planning to visit Azerbaijan early in September.
25 May 2007 [08:18]
25 May 2007 [08:14]
OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs Bernard Fassier (France) and Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia)- mediators in the settlement for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, have arrived in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku on Thursday night.
25 May 2007 [08:06]
Appeals Court received an appeal against the court decision on ex-health minister Ali Insanov.
25 May 2007 [08:04]
Occurrence of fires in Armenian-occupied Azerbaijani territories again this year demonstrate our right position, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told journalists.
25 May 2007 [07:57]
The Appeals Court considered the appeal of Mehdi Mehdiyev, member of Musavat Party, accused of organizing mass unrest during the 2003 presidential elections and beating journalist Sahil Kerimli and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
25 May 2007 [07:55]
Reporters Without Borders strongly denounced a recent wave of restrictions and repression targeting Azerbaijan's independent media and urged the authorities to restore press freedom.
24 May 2007 [23:08]
Today closed debate on draft bill on education was held in Azerbaijani Parliament's science and education standing commission.
24 May 2007 [23:04]
Today the report on missing persons in the South Caucasus was debated at the meeting of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Standing Committee in Belgrade.
24 May 2007 [22:44]
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) publicized a report on Azerbaijan in Paris today.
24 May 2007 [16:22]
On May 23, the Embassy of Azerbaijan to Germany gave official reception on the occasion of the national holiday of Azerbaijan- The Day of Republic.
24 May 2007 [16:19]
MPs Akram Abdullayev and Fuad Muradov left for the Turkish city of Adana to attend a seminar of the Islamic Conference Youth Forum on Dialogue and Cooperation.
24 May 2007 [16:14]
A concrete decision should be made before Azerbaijan and Armenia presidents meet as the presidents have discussion on concrete issues, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said.
24 May 2007 [16:04]
There is no problem regarding the visit of the mission from the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on monitoring the South Caucasus cultural monuments.
24 May 2007 [16:01]
Azerbaijan always had a principle position on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. We support peaceful solution to the conflict and are ready to use all resources, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said.
24 May 2007 [15:03]
State Committee for Refugees and IDP and Executive Powers of the occupied regions of Azerbaijan held a roundtable devoted to the tasks about which President Ilham Aliyev spoke in meeting with the IDPs during the opening of new settlements in Yeni Ramana of Sabunchu region on May 4.
24 May 2007 [14:57]
Governments and armed groups around the world are using "the politics of fear" to crush human rights and encourage dangerous divisions in society, according to Amnesty International’s 2007 human rights report, released on Wednesday.
24 May 2007 [14:50]
Georgian Economy Minister, Giorgi Arveladze, Azerbaijan's Transport Minister, Ziya Mammadov and Kazakhstan's Transport and Communications Minister, Serik Ahmadov, have today come together in Tbilisi to discuss a number of issues of mutual interest.
24 May 2007 [14:36]
Prime Minister, Artur Rasizade, has left for Yalta to attend the meeting of CIS Council of heads of governments.
24 May 2007 [14:26]
New plan of actions is being prepared on future cooperation between NATO and Azerbaijan. Araz Azimov, deputy Azerbaijan foreign Minister told the journalists.
24 May 2007 [13:51]
The Economic Research Center has today delivered a presentation of "The Concept of Strengthening Municipalities in Azerbaijan".
24 May 2007 [12:54]
Azerbaijan and the European Union (EU) will hold negotiations on the country's WTO accession efforts in late May, Brussels.
24 May 2007 [12:39]
Armenian President Robert Kocharian agreed to OSCE Minsk Group co chairs' offer to meet Azerbaijan president in Saint Petersburg, Yuri Merzlyakov, Russian co chair of OSCE Minsk Group told the press conference in Yerevan on his visit.
24 May 2007 [11:54]
A criminal case has been opened against Rakhat Aliyev, the son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarabayev, on abduction charges, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
24 May 2007 [11:52]
Another train carrying Russian military hardware from a Soviet-era base in Georgia left the Caucasus state Thursday, the Georgian Defense Ministry said.
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