Politics
08 September 2006 [09:59]
Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Bureau will meet on 15 September.
08 September 2006 [09:57]
The Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in partnership with Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities is implementing a project to support establishing Association of Local Authorities in Azerbaijan.
08 September 2006 [09:56]
The Kingdom of Norway will appoint a new ambassador to Azerbaijan.
08 September 2006 [09:54]
The delegation from the Association of the European and Mediterranean Police Forces and Gendarmeries with Military Status (FIEP) has arrived in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.
08 September 2006 [09:41]
The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the U.N. to urgently assist in preventing environmental damage from fires in the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh.
08 September 2006 [09:28]
Azerbaijan's President is expected to issue a pardon decree on the occasion of the 18 October - Independence Day.
07 September 2006 [21:01]
The U.S.-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) Freedom House has issued its annual compilation of the world's most dictatorial nations.
07 September 2006 [20:58]
07 September 2006 [20:45]
Human Rights Commissioner of Azerbaijan Mrs. Elmira Suleymanova met with Polish Ambassador Kszistof Krajewski.
07 September 2006 [20:39]
President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko arrived on an official visit in Azerbaijan on September 7.
07 September 2006 [20:19]
GUAM Foreign Ministers will meet within the 61st session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
07 September 2006 [20:08]
The European Parliament gave a young Dutch MEP, who wants to make his career from Turkey, the task of preparing a report on Turkey.
07 September 2006 [15:57]
No serious pathology was recorded in Azerbaijani imprisoned ex-economic development minister Farhad Aliyev's health.
07 September 2006 [15:42]
Azerbaijani ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu presented a protest note to Russian Foreign Ministry.
07 September 2006 [14:07]
Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko went on a two-day official visit to Azerbaijan on Thursday.
07 September 2006 [11:39]
GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) has asked the UN to put the of issue so-called 'frozen conflicts' on the agenda of the General Assembly's 61st session.
07 September 2006 [09:36]
Official Baku intends to invite Ukraine to the projects on the development of the military industry of Azerbaijan.
07 September 2006 [09:19]
"PACE October session will not consider any issue directly connected with Azerbaijan. The issue will be discussed in January and April sessions," said Samad Seyidov, head of Azerbaijani Parliamentary delegation to PACE.
07 September 2006 [09:17]
Moldova's Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry Konstantin Mikhaylesku will visit Azerbaijan.
07 September 2006 [09:16]
The 972nd meeting of the Council of Europe Committee of Representatives discussed the Azerbaijani delegation head Rafael Huseynov's question "Legal, political and historical responsibility of Armenia for its crimes against humanity."
07 September 2006 [09:13]
The preparation work for the 5th conference of the Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers scheduled for September 9-12 in Baku ended.
07 September 2006 [09:01]
Azerbaijani Parliament's autumn session will start September 30.
06 September 2006 [22:52]
Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said here Wednesday that Iran has, for the first time, designed and produced a 2,000-pound guided bomb named 'Qassed'.
06 September 2006 [22:49]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged the West to turn to God's path and said on Wednesday that failure to do so would tempt fate.
06 September 2006 [22:25]
Ogtay Asadov, speaker of Milli Majlis (Azerbaijan Parliament) met September 5 with the Secretary General of Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PA BSEC).
06 September 2006 [21:54]
"An official of an international organization expressing such opinion about the parliament of the country he is represented in is absurd."
06 September 2006 [21:47]
The leaders of Turkic language-speaking countries, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, will meet in Antalya on November 17, five years after their last meeting.
06 September 2006 [21:44]
The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia may meet in London September 13 to outline principles for resolving a long-running territorial dispute, the Azeri minister said Wednesday.
06 September 2006 [21:42]
Azerbaijan and Turkey always supported Iran in the South Azerbaijan problem.
06 September 2006 [21:41]
The Armenian government's top official in charge of detecting and investigating tax evasion was killed in a car explosion in downtown Yerevan early on Wednesday.
06 September 2006 [21:21]
The preliminary investigation on Azerbaijani former high ranking officials is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
06 September 2006 [16:11]
Editor-in-chief of the key pro-opposition newspaper "Iravnuk" Ovannes Galajyan has been assaulted by unidentified persons.
06 September 2006 [15:16]
Head of the Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Samad Seyidov commented on the Council of Europe's statement that it will not monitor the arsons committed by Armenians in the occupied Azerbaijani lands.
06 September 2006 [14:46]
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) is forming a fact-finding mission of professional international experts to monitor the cultural heritage in the Armenian-occupied Azerbaijani lands.
06 September 2006 [14:11]
"I was pleased that Russian prominent politicians did not attend the latest events in Khankendi (Stepanakert)," Azerbaijani parliament member, head of Russian community of Azerbaijan Mikhail Zabelin stated.
06 September 2006 [14:02]
President Ilham Aliyev today received the credentials from Moldovan Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Ion Robu.
06 September 2006 [09:58]
Nagorno Karabakh, one of the world most frozen and forgotten conflicts, surfaced at the UN on Tuesday, if only for ten minutes.
06 September 2006 [09:25]
Following the bomb blast that hit the Turkish region of Van last night, killing at least two people and injuring about twenty, Rene van der Linden, President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), conveyed his sympathies to the families of the victims and expressed his solidarity with all those injured or affected.
06 September 2006 [08:53]
Secretary General of Egypt's Fund for Technical Cooperation with the CIS, Ambassador Vahid Jalal will visit Azerbaijan on September 10, Egyptian embassy in Azerbaijan told.
05 September 2006 [22:11]
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed concern at what it calls "increasing judicial harassment" of Iranian journalists.
05 September 2006 [20:59]
The Turkish parliament is expected to decide today whether to contribute Turkish troops to the strengthened UN force for southern Lebanon.
05 September 2006 [20:53]
A Russian man who was arrested in Armenia late last year for allegedly spying for Azerbaijan protested his innocence and claimed to have been brutally mistreated in custody as he went on trial on Tuesday.
05 September 2006 [20:40]
Central Election Commission in connection with preparation for municipal elections has conducted in Beylagan district constituency number 81 training for members of district and local election commissions.
05 September 2006 [20:22]
President Ilham Aliyev issued an executive order on dismissal of Ibrahim Nabioglu from the post of Azerbaijani consul-general to Istanbul.
05 September 2006 [20:21]
Hungarian court today held next trial hearing on jailer's claim against Ramil Safarov, Azerbaijani Army officer, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Markarian in Hungary
05 September 2006 [20:11]
It is a daydream to expect Turkey to recognize the so-called Armenian genocide.
05 September 2006 [19:56]
05 September 2006 [17:04]
Non-Governmental Organizations, newspapers and news agencies have been warned to leave the 16-storied building located at 85 Salatin Asgarova Street.
05 September 2006 [15:03]
"Statements of Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian regarding the terms of Yerevan's further participation in the Nagorno Karabakh peace talks cause at least surprise of official Baku, stated Head of the Information Department of the Azeri MFA Tahir Tagizade.
05 September 2006 [14:57]
"Azerbaijan does not wish resumption of the war with Armenia, however, in case peace talks on the Nagorno Karabakh settlement fail it will have to consider other ways to solve the issue of territories controlled by the NKR Defense Army," stated head of Azeri President's Administration Ramiz Mehtiyev.
05 September 2006 [14:32]
The Council of Europe is not credible to investigate the arsons Armenians committed in the occupied lands of Azerbaijan.
05 September 2006 [14:20]
The Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Farhad and Rafig Aliyevs has appealed to the foreign embassies and the OSCE Office in Baku.
05 September 2006 [13:51]
The coordination group for establishing the Association of Local Authorities in Azerbaijan will hold its first meeting in Baku on 7 September this year.
05 September 2006 [13:31]
The Halo Trust Mine Clearance Organisation registered in Britain is still functioning in Armenian-occupied Azerbaijani lands despite the Azerbaijani government's protest.
05 September 2006 [12:46]
Turkey should recognize the Armenian 'genocide' as a condition for its EU accession, MEPs argue in a highly critical report adopted by a broad majority in Strasbourg on Monday (4 September).
05 September 2006 [12:43]
A Romanian delegation headed by Minister of Defense Teodor Atanasiu is to arrive for a 3-day visit to Armenia on September 6, 2006.
05 September 2006 [11:34]
A report on Azerbaijan's adherence to the principle of presumption of innocence, released today, suggests that the country's journalists, police officers, prosecutors and judges often treat suspicion of guilt and proof of criminal behaviour as if they are the same thing.
05 September 2006 [09:13]
"My comments on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, which I made during the visit to Baku in May this year, have been distorted," said Israeli parliamentarian Joseph Shagal to journalists.
05 September 2006 [09:01]
Working Group has been set up for establishing NGO International Cooperation Council in GUAM+4.
05 September 2006 [08:57]
Azerbaijan's Central Election Commission's Training Group experts held four more trainings for repeat, additional, new and first time local elections.
05 September 2006 [08:53]
The delegation from the Association of the European and Mediterranean Police Forces and Gendarmeries with Military Status (FIEP) is due to arrive in Baku on 7 September.
05 September 2006 [08:48]
On Monday, the chief of the Federal Police Department of Vienna Peter Stiedl arrived in Baku.
05 September 2006 [08:41]
Azerbaijani peacekeepers can serve jointly with Turkish forces in Lebanon as in Kosovo and Afghanistan, said Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Turan Morali.
04 September 2006 [20:15]
04 September 2006 [20:10]
"It is difficult to comment on the Turkish Parliament's decision to be made tomorrow on deploying peacekeeping forces to Lebanon."
04 September 2006 [20:06]
The United Nations General Assembly will meet in New York from September 19 till 22 this year.
04 September 2006 [19:35]
Ali Abbasov, doctor of philosophic sciences, head of department of the Institute of Philosophy and Political-Legal Research of the National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan (NASA), have an interview to Regnum news agency.
04 September 2006 [19:34]
Armenia will refuse to hold further peace talks with Azerbaijan if the latter persists in trying to get the United Nations to deal with the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian indicated on Monday.
04 September 2006 [16:48]
Tony Lloyd, new co-rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee from the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), vice-president of PACE and another co-rapporteur Andres Herkel will arrive in Baku early in November this year.
04 September 2006 [16:28]
Russia also wants to participate in forming Azerbaijan's defense establishment, Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov told.
04 September 2006 [16:24]
Documents were submitted to the European Court of Human Rights for restoration of property rights of Azerbaijanis, who have been deported from Armenia.
04 September 2006 [16:23]
OSCE mission led by Miklos Haraszti, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media will arrive in Azerbaijan this week.
04 September 2006 [16:06]
Iran has given the green light for a government newspaper that was banned for printing a cartoon that led to ethnic riots to publish again after its chief editor was acquitted.
04 September 2006 [13:40]
Visiting Turkey President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met at Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to exchange views on a wide range of issues concerning Azerbaijan-Turkey bilateral relations.
04 September 2006 [13:35]
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, has expressed concern over recent cases of prosecution of journalists in Azerbaijan and proposed a legal reform as a way out of the situation.
Azerbaijan, Japan discuss strengthening bilateral cooperation
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AZPROMO explores cooperation opportunities with Kars Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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Azerbaijan Defence Ministry presents weekly review
Milli Majlis amends law on efficient use of energy resources and energy efficiency
Azerbaijan's Parliament approves visa exemptions with Saudi Arabia and Indonesia