Politics
10 December 2006 [09:05]
In the frame of her visit to the United States, First Lady of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva has met Karen Hughes, the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy.
10 December 2006 [08:55]
"The statements of Milli Majlis officials make me surprised lately. Ziyafet Asgerov obliterated government's economical policy by making complaints of living standards though his salary is near $2000. And Bahar Muradova obliterated government’s internal policy by noting that there is no political opposition in Parliament," said Joint Azerbaijan Popular Front Party leader, parliamentarian Gudret Hesenguluyev.
10 December 2006 [08:52]
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev received French Minister-Delegate for Regional Development Christian Estrosi.
09 December 2006 [17:40]
One more echelon loaded with weapons, military supplies and equipment withdrawn from Russian military base in Georgia, was delivered to Russian servicemen at Yalama station at 11.00, Azerbaijan State Railway told.
09 December 2006 [13:18]
Delegation headed by U.S Deputy Assistant Secretary Jim MacDougall visits Azerbaijan, U.S Embassy press service told.
09 December 2006 [01:12]
Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Army General Rashid Nurgaliyev, at invitation of his Azeri counterpart colonel-general Ramil Usubov will pay an official visit to Baku on December 13.
09 December 2006 [00:55]
"I have stated that democratic principles are not observed in the management of the Party. But seeing the reactions of the Party leader and other members of Divan I did not think of including this issue in the agenda," said Musavat Party member Vurgun Eyyub.
09 December 2006 [00:51]
National Television and Radio Council made a decision about the 24-hour broadcasting of Liberty and VOA radios in FM 101.7.
08 December 2006 [21:35]
Azerbaijani soldier Vusal Garachayev, 18, was taken prisoner by Armenian Armed Forces in the contact line in Aghdam.
08 December 2006 [21:20]
Half the countries in the world do not provide a stable environment for companies to operate in.
08 December 2006 [16:30]
Today, offered amendment to the labour code caused the discontent of some parliamentarians in the sitting of Milli Majlis.
08 December 2006 [15:50]
Milli Majlis speaker Ogtay Asadov met December 7 with Peer Christopher Stanchina, Germany's ambassador to Azerbaijan.
08 December 2006 [15:49]
"Russian proposal to Azerbaijan on expensive gas supplies is discussed at the level economical structures of both countries. The authorities are aware of the discussions, as well. But there is no need to politicize it," Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov told reporters.
08 December 2006 [13:55]
The positions of parliament majority and opposition on the importance of Georgia’s leaving CIS coincide, said Jemal Inaishsvili, Georgian Parliament's Vice-Speaker, chairman of Georgian Chamber of Commerce.
08 December 2006 [13:39]
"Inevitability of borders immunity and territorial integrity mean holy principles for Romania," stated Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu.
08 December 2006 [13:37]
"Today there is a group of officials and famous men in North Azerbaijan who cooperate with Iran special service bodies. They want to put Azerbaijan under the blow. Rafig Tagi who wrote an article that insulted Prophet Muhammad helped Persian regime," said the chief of South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement Mahmudali Chohraganli.
08 December 2006 [13:35]
Resolving frozen conflicts under the UN umbrella serves our interests, Novruz Mammadov, the head of President Office International Relations Department told journalists.
08 December 2006 [13:31]
Romania will show its sensibility to frozen conflict after it enters to EU, said Romania Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu.
08 December 2006 [13:29]
The representative of Venice Commission for external affairs Tatiana Mishelova gave exclusive statement to APA Europe bureau about the results of the discussions on draft laws on Freedom Assembly and election legislation held between the experts of Venice Commission and Azerbaijani delegation on December 6-7 and she said that the meeting was constructive.
08 December 2006 [13:26]
Embassy of Japan to Azerbaijan hosted a reception to mark emperor Akihito's birthday at the Excelsior hotel.
08 December 2006 [13:24]
Armenian A1+ media organization conducted a survey among Armenian.
08 December 2006 [13:23]
National NGO Forum made a statement as a protest against constitutional referendum to be held on Dec 10 in Nagorno Karabakh.
08 December 2006 [13:22]
Azerbaijani consul general to St. Petersburg Gudsi Osmanov visited Murmansk.
08 December 2006 [13:21]
Azerbaijani embassy will be opened in Tajikistan soon.
08 December 2006 [11:53]
Russia is interested in the development of energy sector in occupied Azerbaijani territories.
08 December 2006 [11:46]
Iranian Defense and Azerbaijani Defense Industry Ministers are expected to meet next year.
08 December 2006 [11:41]
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian met with NATO Secretary General Yaap de Hoop Scheffer.
08 December 2006 [11:38]
The working group of CIS Foreign Ministries will hold a meeting in Minsk on Friday.
08 December 2006 [11:32]
First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva met on December 7 at the White House with US First Lady Laura Bush.
08 December 2006 [11:22]
Georgia opposition has renewed discussions about Georgia's existence in the Commonwealth of the Independent States (CIS) following the Minsk summit again.
08 December 2006 [10:37]
The date of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe winter session has been scheduled for 22-26 January 2007.
08 December 2006 [01:47]
Armenia condemned on Thursday Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova for joining Azerbaijan in strongly criticizing Sunday's referendum in Nagorno Karabakh on a constitution that declares the disputed territory an independent state.
08 December 2006 [01:42]
Defense Minister Safar Abiyev received the delegation headed by U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Jim MacDougall.
08 December 2006 [01:41]
Russian military equipment, as well as armored carrier, Bradley Fighting Vehicle and vehicles were placed in the military bases in Armenia-Azerbaijan border line, Ijevan, Tavush and Vardenis.
08 December 2006 [01:39]
"Though Turkey has offered to open a port and an airport, it was possible for Greeks to accept this offer. Because, according to their view point, their recognition by Turkey side is more important than opening the port and airports," said Mensur Akgun, the executive director of Turkey economic and Social Studies Foundation, one of the main specialists of Turkey in EU.
08 December 2006 [01:37]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev is expected to visit Russia twice next year.
08 December 2006 [01:31]
MP Bakhtiyar Aliyev, will head to the Jordanian capital, Amman, to participate in the high-level meeting of the countries which ratified the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
08 December 2006 [01:30]
Minister of National Security, Eldar Mahmudov, met with the United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP (United Nations Development Program) Resident Representative, Marco Borsotti, as the latter recently completed his mission in Azerbaijan, press service of the Ministry said.
08 December 2006 [01:28]
Minister of Taxes Fazil Mammadov met December 6 with Ambassador of Belarus to Azerbaijan Nikolay Pastkevich.
07 December 2006 [16:40]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev visited northern regions of Azerbaijan
07 December 2006 [16:30]
Turkey has offered to open a port and an airport to EU member Cyprus in return for trade to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in a bid to avert a partial freeze of EU entry talks, reports said Thursday.
07 December 2006 [16:13]
As its ties with the EU grow stronger, Azerbaijan must take care not to weaken already established ties with its regional neighbor Russia.
07 December 2006 [16:08]
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday evening backed a resolution that would bloc the US Eximbank from providing a credit loan for the construction of a railway linking Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
07 December 2006 [16:04]
"We are satisfied with the special program of the Council of Europe for holding fair elections in Armenia," Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said while meeting with the CE Secretary General Terry Davis.
07 December 2006 [15:37]
Definite improvements made in the talks held for defining the status of the Caspian Sea held in Tehran, the chief of the delegation who participated in the meeting of five experts group of Caspian countries, Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov told.
07 December 2006 [14:03]
Defense Minister Safar Abiyev received the delegation headed by Turkey Gendarme Forces Commander-in-chief, Army general Ishik Koshaner yesterday, Defense Ministry Press Service told.
07 December 2006 [13:47]
New Azerbaijani Party deputy and executive secretary Ali Ahmedov met with Great Britain deputy Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Colin Wels, NAP information service told.
07 December 2006 [10:24]
15 more georgians having been detained in Derbend checkpoint for two weeks returned to their motherland through Azerbaijan.
07 December 2006 [10:05]
1,356,484sq.m areas of Azerbaijani territory were cleared from mines and unexploded ordinances (UXO) and 10,740 UXO have been rendered harmless in November, National Agency for clearing territories from mines told.
07 December 2006 [09:48]
Interior Troops Commander-in-chief, major-general Zakir Hasanov has today received Turkey Gendarme Forces Commander-in-chief, army general Ishik Koshaner.
06 December 2006 [21:43]
An Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reserve officer went on trial Wednesday, charged with high treason for allegedly passing military secrets to Russia, a Baku military court official said.
06 December 2006 [20:43]
President Ilham Aliyev sent a message of congratulations to the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias on thr occasion of his re-election to the post of country's President.
06 December 2006 [20:38]
The conduction of elections and referenda in Nagorno Karabakh traditionally arouse calls not to recognize them, said OSCE Minsk Group former Russian Co-chair Vladimir Kazimirov.
06 December 2006 [20:32]
Minister of Cooperatives Mohammad Abbasi called here Wednesday for expansion of economic cooperation with the Republic of Azerbaijan.
06 December 2006 [20:28]
"I am following the process of development of Azerbaijani Interior Troops. I believe that this process will go on," Turkey's Gendarme Forces Commander-in-chief Ishik Koshaner said at the briefing.
06 December 2006 [20:26]
Some days ago the customs officers stopped the cars transferring 22ton of special products used in ballistic missiles from Azerbaijan to Iran, the chief of State Customs Committee Chief Aydin Aliyev told the journalists.
06 December 2006 [20:22]
Discussions on the law 'On Freedom of assembly' of Azerbaijan between Azerbaijani government and Venice Commission experts began in the Council of Europe.
06 December 2006 [17:24]
The second round of negotiations between Iran's minister of defense, Brigadier General Mustafa Mohammad Najar, and his Azerbaijan's Defence Industry Minister counterpart Brigadier General Yavar Jamalov was held in Tehran on Wednesday.
06 December 2006 [17:19]
US ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse is for lifting Section 907.
06 December 2006 [15:46]
The OSCE MG Co-chairs are going to visit Madrid to inform next OSCE Chairman-in-Office, the Spanish Foreign Minister, on the current situation, Azeri FM Elmar Mammadyarov told Zerkalo newspaper when commenting on the Brussels meeting. In his words, there was a proposal to organize another meeting of the FMs.
06 December 2006 [15:27]
"The return of Lachin and the referendum are not those issues which block the negotiation process», said Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov in an interview to Day.Az referring to those two issues which are not agreed yet.
06 December 2006 [15:20]
Divergences of idea in Diaspora caused the closure of Azerbaijani school in Riga.
06 December 2006 [15:15]
A group of MPs are visiting border region.
06 December 2006 [13:48]
First lady of Azerbaijan, chair of the working group on Azerbaijan-US inter-parliamentary relations, UNESCO goodwill ambassador Mehriban Aliyeva is on working visit to the US.
06 December 2006 [13:25]
The next meeting of working group on fighting for terrorism, organized crimes, illegal turnover of drugs and other dangerous crimes is held in Baku.
06 December 2006 [10:29]
The preliminary trial of President's Office ex-Administrative Office chief Akif Muradverdiyev's appeal will be held in the Court of Appeal on December 13.
06 December 2006 [10:27]
A trial of 15 Al Qaida members found guilty in Articles 120.2.3, 120.2, 279.1, 228.3, 315.1 and others of the Criminal Code will be held in Supreme Court on Dec 18.
06 December 2006 [10:21]
Ex-minister of economic development Farhad Aliyev appealed to MNS ward leadership of treatment in Penitentiary Service Treatment Centre remains unanswered.
06 December 2006 [10:07]
On December 6 the ceremony on donation of two special automobiles to Azerbaijan State Customs Service will be held.
06 December 2006 [09:57]
No decision or recommendation was made in the first meeting of the committee established to solve the problems of Azerbaijanis trading in Russia, the member of the commission.
06 December 2006 [09:55]
"According to the legislation National Television and Radio Council should not report to the Parliament. But I can willingly report to the Parliament," expressing his position on MPs' demand about making report on the broadcasting of ANS TV and ANS ChM to the Parliament, NTRC chief Nushiravan Maharramli told.
05 December 2006 [21:07]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message of congratulations to President of Finland Mrs. Tarja Halonen and the people of her country on the occasion of the national holiday, the Independence Day.
05 December 2006 [20:58]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Turkey Gendarme Forces Commander-in-chief, Army General Ishik Koshaner.
05 December 2006 [20:54]
The working group composed of Caspian states' experts will have a meeting on Caspian’s status tomorrow in Tehran.
05 December 2006 [20:53]
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