Politics
04 September 2006 [13:28]
Official Baku protested against the report dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the "Nagorno Karabakh Republic's" 'independence' that was shown Saturday by the Russian Television, said Azeri Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov.
04 September 2006 [13:13]
Members of the European Parliament are set to vote on a report highly critical of the slow pace of reforms and freedoms in European Union-aspirant Turkey.
04 September 2006 [13:08]
Exercise Cooperative Marlin 2006, a NATO command post exercise to provide interoperability training with partner nations, will take place in Sevastopol, Ukraine from 19 - 28 September 2006.
04 September 2006 [10:39]
The forum's headquarters were formally inaugurated by Turkish Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc who at the same time launched the "Youth Alliance of Civilizations" project – an initiative designed to promote friendship between youths from the Muslim world and Western societies.
03 September 2006 [21:25]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday Iran wanted to find a negotiated solution to its nuclear dispute with the West but would not freeze uranium enrichment ahead of any talks.
03 September 2006 [12:55]
A state-of-the-art gunboat was handed over to the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg Friday.
03 September 2006 [12:48]
Defense Minister General Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar said Iran is currently exporting military equipment to 57 countries in the world.
02 September 2006 [13:53]
On September 1, Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan, colonel-general Safar Abiyev has met the ambassador of Greece in country Temistokles Dimidis, the former military attache of the Armed Forces of this country in Azerbaijan, general Johannes Solias and the new attache, colonel Seokharis Militiades Kollatos.
02 September 2006 [13:49]
The third stage of the extensive war games codenamed 'Blow of Zolfaqar' was started by the Iranian air force on Saturday.
02 September 2006 [11:23]
Togran Torosian, Speaker of Armenian National Assembly and Chinese Ambassador Zuo Xueliang, Ambassador of China, discussed the issue of China's participation in the construction of Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku railroad.
02 September 2006 [10:26]
"Negotiations are being held at the United Nations and the OSCE related to the arsons the occupied Azerbaijani lands committed by Armenians. The UN will consider this issue separately next week," Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists.
02 September 2006 [10:23]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will visit Uzbekistan, the Minister told journalists.
02 September 2006 [09:40]
"Turkey can face undesirable conflicts if it deploys peacekeeping forces to Lebanon. As the West comments, the developments in Lebanon is the practice of the possible conflict, military operations between U.S and Iran," deputy leader of main pro-opposition Republic People's Party, parliamentarian Onur Oymen told.
02 September 2006 [09:35]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev congratulated the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Minh Triet on his country's Independence Day.
02 September 2006 [09:22]
"It is impossible to live without faith and hope. But we cannot hope for more. Because, the failure of hopes causes tragedy," Armenian Defense Minister Serj Sarkisyan said while commenting on the Nagorno Karabakh problem.
01 September 2006 [22:19]
"We think the proposal on amendments to the Electoral Code are not topical," Ali Hasanov, President's Office Socio-political Department chief told journalists.
01 September 2006 [22:11]
Defense Minister, Col.Gen. Safar Abiyev received British Ambassador to Azerbaijan Laurie Bristow.
01 September 2006 [22:00]
Deutsche Welle radio will broadcast program about so called Nagorno Karabakh Republic, which is integral territory of Azerbaijan.
01 September 2006 [15:12]
GUAM alliance (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) re-appealed to the UN General Assembly.
01 September 2006 [12:06]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov commented on the 'road map' offered by Matthew Bryza, U.S co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, which mediates for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
01 September 2006 [12:00]
"Armenia is responsible for the fires that broke out in Nagorno Karabakh and around it. Because, Armenia controls these territories," Russian ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov told journalists.
01 September 2006 [11:57]
"I assessed the 1915 'Young Turks' government's actions against Armenians as genocide and I do not retract this statement," said John Evans, the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Armenia"
01 September 2006 [11:53]
Romania's President Traian Basescu will pay a two-day official visit to Azerbaijan on October 11.
01 September 2006 [09:30]
Azerbaijan-Poland intergovernmental commission's first meeting will be held in Warsaw on September 11-13, Vochekh Guretski, representative of the Polish Embassy in Azerbaijan told.
01 September 2006 [09:20]
"Azerbaijanis living in Georgia realized there is no need to worry about the threatening papers distributed in Marneuli region. These are declamations written by unknown persons," Zurab Gumberidze, Georgia’s extraordinary and plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan told journalists.
31 August 2006 [23:35]
The Democratic Party of Azerbaijan is the third opposition party to be rent by infighting this year. By the end of the year, it seems, its leader will have left to found a new movement.
31 August 2006 [22:05]
Iran failed to stop nuclear work by a Thursday deadline, the U.N. atomic watchdog said, clearing the way to possible sanctions by the Security Council due to Western fears Tehran could be trying to make atom bombs.
31 August 2006 [21:24]
Cooperation between Azerbaijan and Armenia is essential in order to put an end to fires in occupied Azeri territories, said the OSCE acting chairman's personal envoy Andrzej Kasprzyk.
31 August 2006 [21:14]
Ukraine's Vice-Premier Andriy Kliuyev and Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev have discussed the prospects for stepping up the bilateral cooperation, in particular in energy sector, and the forthcoming visit of Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko to Baku.
31 August 2006 [21:01]
Georgia has denied refugee status to an Azerbaijani human rights opposionist, despite claims that he will suffer persecution if he is returned home.
31 August 2006 [20:47]
"Most of the Azerbaijanis evacuated from Lebanon are living refugee life. Like the Lebanese people, Azerbaijanis also suffer from the troubles caused by Israel," said Azerbaijan's honorary consul in Lebanon Nazih Gassoub.
31 August 2006 [20:43]
"Azerbaijan's Embassy can be opened in Israel if Azerbaijan offers," Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan Arthur Lenk told journalists.
31 August 2006 [20:41]
French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Bernard Fassier in his telephone talks with Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov offered the foreign ministers (Azerbaijani and Armenian) to meet either in Paris on 12-13 September or in London on 14-15 September.
31 August 2006 [20:39]
Turkey's Foreign Ministry commented on the U.S co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Mathew Bryza's calling for the parties to the Nagorno Karabakh to make a trade-off.
31 August 2006 [20:32]
"The facts on the arsons committed in Azerbaijani occupied territories by Armenians were presented to international organizations, but they are indifferent to these facts.
31 August 2006 [15:00]
"I do not rule out the re-start of hostilities in Nagorno Garabagh. But I think Azerbaijan will not take this step which might lead to its annihilation," said Arkadi Gukasyan, head of the separatist regime functioning in the occupied Azerbaijani territories.
31 August 2006 [14:26]
Azerbaijan will not hold talks with the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno Karabakh at the current stage of conflict settlement.
31 August 2006 [13:30]
Azerbaijan's southern border is violated more often, State Border Service head Elchin Guliyev told journalists.
31 August 2006 [13:23]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan congratulated the president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov on the country's national holiday - Independence Day.
31 August 2006 [13:22]
President Ilham Aliyev congratulated leader of the Libyan Revolution, Head of the People's Socialist Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Muammar Al-Gaddafi, on the national holiday of his country - Day of Revolution.
31 August 2006 [13:21]
President Ilham Aliyev congratulated the president of the Republic of Slovakia Mr. Ivan Gasparovic on the country's Constitution Day.
31 August 2006 [13:19]
President Ilham Aliyev sent a message of congratulations to the President of the Republic of Korea Roh Moo-hyun on his 60th birthday, wishing health, happiness and success in his activity.
31 August 2006 [11:53]
4607 candidates will compete in elections in 603 municipalities on 82 districts for 1931 seats, appointed for October 6, press service of the Central Election Commission said.
31 August 2006 [11:50]
Representatives of the US Department of State, the Marshall Heritage Institute, the International Trust Fund of Slovenia and the Rotary Club International will be in Azerbaijan with a working visit on September 4.
31 August 2006 [11:50]
"It is no matter that EU commissioner is dissatisfied with the increases in defense expenditure in Azerbaijan," stated Azerbaijani Defense Minister, Col.Gen Safar Abiyev.
31 August 2006 [11:41]
"Military relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey are developing, and we are making serious efforts to strengthen this cooperation," Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev told journalists.
31 August 2006 [11:38]
Russia's appearance on the list of threats to U.S. national security is a curious event.
31 August 2006 [11:34]
Interior Minister Ramil Usubov has taken a leave for 12 days.
31 August 2006 [10:16]
The negotiations between Azerbaijan and the European Union on the European Neighborhood Policy action plan have not yet ended.
31 August 2006 [09:40]
A strategic forum "Caspian Outlook 2008" took place on August 27 - 28 in Bled, Slovenia.
30 August 2006 [21:08]
President Ilham Aliyev has sent a message of congratulations to his Kyrgyz counterpart Kurmanbek Bakiyev on the occasion of the Independence Day of Kyrgyzstan.
30 August 2006 [21:05]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent congratulatory messages to Supreme Head Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin and Prime Minister Abdulla bin Ahmad Badawi of Malaysia on the country's Independence Day.
30 August 2006 [20:56]
Armenian President's press secretary Viktor Soghomonian gave a press briefing in Yerevan.
30 August 2006 [20:47]
"It's early to talk about Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents' meeting," Armenian President Robert Kocharyan's press secretary Victor Sogogmonyan told a press conference today in Yerevan.
30 August 2006 [20:41]
Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko will visit Azerbaijan on September 7-8.
30 August 2006 [20:32]
The International Day of the Disappeared, 30 August, is when we remember those who have been abducted, are held in clandestine places of detention, tortured and, in some cases, killed.
30 August 2006 [20:22]
The Council of Europe Venice Commission expects the Azerbaijani government to present a project compiled on the basis of its recommendations on the Electoral Code.
30 August 2006 [19:55]
"Azerbaijan's deploying peacekeeping forces to Lebanon inside international peacekeeping contingent is not topic of discussion," Azerbaijan's Defense Minister Safar Abiyev told journalists.
30 August 2006 [16:52]
"Though 2006 is the promising year for the resolution of the Nagorno Garabagh conflict, Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents failed to reach an agreement in Paris and Bucharest," OSCE Chairman, Belgium Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht told Russian media.
30 August 2006 [13:45]
New German Ambassador to Azerbaijan Per Christopher Stanchina, who presented his credentials to President Ilham Aliyev on 3 August, held a press conference today.
30 August 2006 [10:18]
"We'll never cosent to the attempts to consolidate some part of Azerbaijani territories with Armenia," leader of Turkey's Working Party & chief coordinator of Talat Pasha Movement Dogu Perincek told.
30 August 2006 [09:56]
The Karabakh Liberation Organization's Elderly Council appealed to Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member states presidents for holding a high level conference on the Karabakh conflict.
30 August 2006 [09:49]
Fires in territories, bordering to Nagorno Karabakh, have been lasting for about two months.
30 August 2006 [09:47]
Office of Caucasian Muslims chief Sheykhulislam Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh received new Belarus Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikolay Patskevich.
30 August 2006 [09:11]
New German Ambassador to Azerbaijan Pyer K. Stankina accepted Azerbaijan Women's Rights Defense Society chairwoman Novella Jafaroghlu, Oilman’s Rights Defense Committee chairwoman Mirvari Gahramanli and Development Fund chairman Murad Sadeddinov.
30 August 2006 [08:59]
One more echelon loaded with weapons, military supplies and equipment withdrawn from Russian 62nd military base in Akhalkalak, Georgia started off from Chalka railway station of Georgia at 9:00a.m today.
30 August 2006 [08:54]
Central Election Commission Training Group specialists held trainings in six more constituencies due to repeat, additional, new and first time local elections today, Azer Sariyev, CEC press service officer informs.
29 August 2006 [21:21]
Ilham Aliyev states the negotiation process is a primary option.
29 August 2006 [21:17]
Representatives from 36 countries are scheduled to attend September 9 in Baku, the 5th conference of Tourism Ministers of the Organization for Islamic Conference (OIC) member states, Aydin Ismiyev, head of tourism department of the Ministry of Culture & Tourism said.
29 August 2006 [21:13]
In the framework of his official trip to Slovenia, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First lady Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva today visited National Assembly, the lower house of the country's parliament.
29 August 2006 [20:49]
Brussels has voiced alarm at the mounting risk of open warfare in the EU's southeast neighbours - Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - amid European plans to sign new cooperation pacts and build new pipelines in the region.
29 August 2006 [16:44]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced defiance on Tuesday as a deadline neared for Iran to halt work the West fears is a step toward building nuclear bombs, and challenged President Bush to televised debate.
29 August 2006 [15:50]
Next round of talks on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict will take place in mid-September.
29 August 2006 [14:02]
Armed Forces peacekeeping party started trainings related to deploying peacekeepers to Lebanon.
29 August 2006 [13:40]
"The Karabakh peace talks are at a critical point, and the international community must do its best to bring Azerbaijan back into constructive course for serious discussion of the principles that are currently on the negotiating table," Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said while speaking at the Caspian Prospects 2008 congress in Bled, Slovenia.
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