Politics
17 February 2007 [16:55]
Moscow and Yerevan's vision of the Armenian-Russian partnership and the Nagorno Karabakh problem weren't traditionally a topic of bilateral consensus, head of the department of international relations at the institute of political and military studies Sergey Markedonov said.
17 February 2007 [16:51]
The Crimea AR Supreme Rada Speaker Anatoliy Grizenko received Azerbaijan's ambassador to Ukraine Talat Aliyev and Ukraine Azerbaijanis Congress official Ali Orujov.
17 February 2007 [14:32]
The meeting of Azerbaijan Democrat Party's Supreme Assembly will be held at the headquarters of Classic Front Party.
17 February 2007 [13:47]
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will hold winter session in Vienna on February 22-23.
17 February 2007 [13:35]
Putting Putin's 'US-bashing' speech on the Web site of the Turkish Office of the Chief of General Staff amounts to a warning to Washington, says retired Maj. Gen. Kuloglu. Meanwhile, the Russian leader promoted defense minister Ivanov to first vice premiership in another move seen as a sign of Putin.s consolidating his power.
17 February 2007 [13:23]
"Georgia is going to join NATO and this accession will occur in a few years," said "foreign minister" of separatist Abkhazian regime Sergey Shamba.
17 February 2007 [09:35]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan met with the Prime Minister of Baden-Wurtenberg, a Federal Land of Germany, Gunther Ettinger, February 16.
17 February 2007 [09:30]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that granting independence for Kosovo would have "the most negative consequences" for the Balkans and Europe, Russian media reported — some of the strongest language yet on an issue that has deepened Moscow's disagreements with the West.
17 February 2007 [09:25]
A Georgian court held closed hearings Friday on appeals from three men convicted of being accomplices of a Russian who smuggled weapons-grade uranium to an agent posing as a rich foreign buyer, a court spokeswoman said.
17 February 2007 [09:10]
Azerbaijani soldier Vusal Garajayev who was released form Armenian capture was transferred to Bayil isolation ward #1.
17 February 2007 [08:25]
Turkish Armed Forces General Staff Chief, General Yasar Buyukanit visiting the US met with his American counterpart Peter Pace and Deputy Secretary of Defence, Eric Edelman.
17 February 2007 [08:10]
The Board of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is expected to discuss 25 issues at the meeting.
17 February 2007 [08:00]
Moldovan Prime Minister Vasile Tarliyev will meet with the members of Caspian Integration Business Club within his visit to Azerbaijan.
17 February 2007 [07:55]
The ruling New Azerbaijani Party (YAP) press service made statement on tried former Health Minister Ali Insanov's statement at the Court of Grave Crimes concerning the party.
17 February 2007 [07:50]
European Union president Germany said Friday that the bloc is willing to help the new leadership of Turkmenistan implement democratic reforms and urged the nation's new president to free political prisoners.
17 February 2007 [07:35]
Ankara Businessmen Circle held a conference on the theme "Turkish-Armenian relations - past, present and genocide claims" in the capital of Turkey Ankara.
17 February 2007 [07:05]
A Turkish court on Friday sentenced seven suspected al-Qaida militants to life in prison for the deadly 2003 bombings in Istanbul.
17 February 2007 [07:00]
Police in Azerbaijan prevented activists from holding a demonstration Friday in front of the Iranian Embassy, where they had planned to protest alleged persecution of ethnic Azeris in the neighboring country.
16 February 2007 [20:36]
An expert group headed by chief of the international legal cooperation department of the Justice Ministry of Azerbaijan Zaver Gafarov from 12 to 15 February has visited Morocco, embassy of Azerbaijan to Morocco said.
16 February 2007 [20:34]
President Ilham Aliyev met on February 16 with German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Michael Glos.
16 February 2007 [20:31]
On April 16 Latvia's Foreign Minister Artis Pabriks will pay official visit to Baku.
16 February 2007 [20:29]
A range of events will be organized on the 15th anniversary of Khojali genocide in the US.
16 February 2007 [20:28]
"If Penah Huseyn continues to quarrel in Parliament, we'll invite him to the Disciplinary Committee meeting and interrogate him. Parliamentarian shouldn't exchange words with speaker," Milli Majlis Disciplinary Committee chief Agajan Abiyev said.
16 February 2007 [20:18]
"GUAM countries had no intention to impede any constructive measures and the negotiating process for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," said Foreign Ministry Press and Information Policy Department chief Tahir Tagizadeh.
16 February 2007 [17:16]
Secretary of the Council of Europe Venice Commission Giovanni Buquicchio has been interviewed by the APA.
16 February 2007 [14:37]
"Any action anywhere, including in the UN General Assembly could undermine the positive developments of recent months," the statement reads.
16 February 2007 [14:31]
Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will visit Azerbaijan on February 18 within his visit to the South Caucasus.
16 February 2007 [14:00]
February 15, in Paris, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian met with OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs and Personal Representative of OSCE CiO, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.
16 February 2007 [13:54]
Azerbaijan's parliament will meet on February 26 to debate on the 15th anniversary of Khojaly tragedy, Speaker Ogtay Asadov said.
16 February 2007 [12:56]
The Iranian capital's vast market is the centre of the nation's economy. But President Ahmadinejad's foreign policy, and the sanctions it has provoked, are proving bad for business.
16 February 2007 [12:51]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said he would like to resolve the conflict with Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh peacefully, but did not rule out a war for the enclave.
16 February 2007 [12:49]
The European Commission is drafting a new EU policy for trade and security cooperation among Black Sea states, but Russia - a major regional player with a naval force in the Crimean peninsula - has already begun sniping at the scheme.
16 February 2007 [09:40]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met with Michael Zukkow, a president of the Germany's Michael Zukkow Foundation, February 15.
16 February 2007 [09:30]
On February 15, the second day of his official visit to the Federative Republic of Germany, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met with Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit.
16 February 2007 [08:25]
The amount of NATO's aids to Azerbaijan will be determined due to the results of the present stage, NATO coordinator to Azerbaijan Lorenz Meyer Minnemann, who is on a visit in Baku said.
16 February 2007 [08:20]
Azerbaijan's Defence Industry Minister Yaver Jamalov will visit Romania at the invitation of Romanian Defence Industry Minister on February 19-25.
16 February 2007 [08:05]
Chairman of Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) Supreme Assembly Akif Shahbazov appealed to Justice Minister Fikret Mammadov.
16 February 2007 [08:00]
The meeting of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov, Matthew Bryza, Bernard Fasier and personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk in Paris is over.
16 February 2007 [08:00]
Azerbaijani Diaspora Organizations will hold protest actions on the 15th anniversary of Khojali genocide on February 26.
16 February 2007 [07:55]
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, welcomed today the work of the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities, Rolf Ekeus, which he described as "crucial for stability across the 56-country OSCE region."
16 February 2007 [07:45]
Milli Majlis will hold next meeting on Friday.
16 February 2007 [07:05]
Baku Mayor's Office allows Musavat Party holding rally on February 18.
15 February 2007 [23:11]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday dismissed the president of the war-battered republic of Chechnya and named its widely feared prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov as acting president, according to the Kremlin press office.
15 February 2007 [23:10]
Serbia's prime minister on Thursday warned of "dangerous" consequences if the breakaway province of Kosovo gets independence.
15 February 2007 [23:06]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday promoted hawkish Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov to first deputy prime minister in a reshuffle just over a year before presidential elections in which the close Putin ally is seen as a top contender.
15 February 2007 [22:55]
Russia is satisfied with Armenia's air defense capabilities but will continue to help strengthen and modernize them, the visiting chief of the Russian Air Force said on Thursday.
15 February 2007 [22:46]
The welfare of the armed forces and relationship with civil society were the focus of a discussion at a two-day OSCE meeting which ended in Baku on Thursday.
15 February 2007 [22:43]
Preliminary trial of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants held at Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes.
15 February 2007 [19:07]
Foreign Ministers of five Caspian Sea littoral states are scheduled to convene in Tehran late February to prepare the final version of a joint statement on the legal regime of the Caspian Sea for a subsequent summit of their heads of state.
15 February 2007 [18:54]
"Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) members' statements contradict one another. It is difficult to assess the situation," Musavat Party Central Executive Board chief Arif Hajili said.
15 February 2007 [17:41]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev sent a letter of congratulations to the new President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov.
15 February 2007 [17:35]
Former Health Minister Ali Insanov states he is not guilty in charges brought against him.
15 February 2007 [17:02]
Undaunted by their failure to broker a solution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict last year, international mediators are making another push for an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace accord.
15 February 2007 [16:58]
OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos is going to pay a visit to Azerbaijan and Armenia till summer.
15 February 2007 [16:54]
"Since Azerbaijan is integrating into Euro-Atlantic structures, democratic control over security, defense forces and police is necessary," said Sami Faltas, Executive Director of Center for European Security Studies (CESS) of the Netherlands, who is visiting Baku.
15 February 2007 [16:09]
Minister in the Malaysian Prime Minister's Department Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz and his delegation on February15 visited the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.
15 February 2007 [15:17]
Armenian frontier guards have detained three Azerbaijani residents of Tezekend village in Marneuli region of Georgian, officer of Azerbaijani Embassy in Georgia Elkhan Polukhov told.
15 February 2007 [14:07]
On 14 February, after his inauguration ceremony, the newly elected president of Turkmenistan Gurbangulu Berdimahammadov has met heads of delegations in private.
15 February 2007 [14:04]
Turkey has summoned its ambassador to Buenos Aires for consultations in Ankara in order to review bilateral relations with Argentina, which adopted a bill marking April 24 as "The Action Day for Tolerance and Respect between Peoples for the Memory of Armenian Genocide."
15 February 2007 [13:52]
Preparatory trial on case of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants started Thursday at Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes.
15 February 2007 [13:45]
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in remarks published Thursday that economic sanctions against Iran would force Tehran to "review" its nuclear program.
15 February 2007 [13:29]
Armenia and Azerbaijan have once again traded accusations amid a bilateral conflict over a breakaway region, with Yerevan claiming an Azerbaijani sniper killed an Armenian officer, and Baku denying the allegation.
15 February 2007 [13:19]
The first shipment of arms produced by the Kragujevac-based weapons manufacturer Zastava Oruzje will head for Armenia toward the end of the week, although it was announced earlier that the first shipment would take place in mid-January.
15 February 2007 [13:11]
Azerbaijani embassy in Turkey will organize a range of events on the 15th anniversary of Khojali genocide – February 26.
15 February 2007 [12:55]
Exhibition on Khojali genocide will be held in the foyer of the Turkish Parliament on occasion of the 15th anniversary of the genocide February 26.
15 February 2007 [09:40]
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian will meet with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs on February 15 in Paris.
15 February 2007 [09:05]
Robert Simmons, NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia is planned to visit Baku in spring.
15 February 2007 [09:00]
NATO information and communication department program director Dr Hadassah Yakobovich and NATO public diplomacy department representative Yeter Yaman visited Euro-Atlantics center.
15 February 2007 [07:40]
Russia plans to modernize the weaponry and other equipment of its troops stationed in Armenia, a top Russian military official said on Wednesday at the start of a three-day visit to his country’s closest regional ally.
15 February 2007 [07:35]
Turkish Armed Forces General Staff Chief Yashar Boyukanit, in the frame of his visit in the United States, has met with representatives of Turkish Diasporas in Washington.
15 February 2007 [07:00]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will be on visit to Kazakhstan on February 26-27.
15 February 2007 [00:10]
Ilham Aliyev, president of oil-rich Azerbaijan, said Wednesday in Berlin he needed another five years to raise human-rights standards to match levels required under good-neighbour agreements with the European Union.
14 February 2007 [23:32]
Spring session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly will be held in Budapest in May, deputy chairman of parliament, chief of permanent commission for defense and security Ziyafet Asgarov said.
14 February 2007 [23:30]
NATO assessment group visited Azerbaijan on February 12 will assess Azerbaijan's fulfillment of commitments in the framework of Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) signed between NATO and Azerbaijan, First Vice-Speaker, chairman of the standing commission on Defence and Security issues Ziyafat Askerov said.
14 February 2007 [23:29]
"The national roundtable organized by OSCE was efficient for parliamentarians, military structures and representatives of Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry.
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