Politics
12 July 2006 [12:53]
Likening his feelings about a ceremony to be held in Ceyhan to officially launch the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan project (BTC) to those one experiences when a child graduates from university, a senior U.S. State Department official has underlined the importance attributed to the project by Washington.
12 July 2006 [12:31]
There is still no framework agreement at peaceful negotiations on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict, reportedly said Yuri Merzlyakov, the Russian co-chairman of OSCE Minsk Group.
12 July 2006 [12:12]
Armenia breached ceasefire on the frontline in the early hours on Tuesday.
12 July 2006 [12:09]
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad will visit the country's regions populated by ethnic Azeris shortly.
12 July 2006 [12:05]
Russian President Vladimir Putin received the country's newly-appointed ambassador to Azerbaijan, Vasiliy Istratov, on Tuesday.
12 July 2006 [03:40]
On Tuesday attorney Adil Ismayilov met with Farhad Aliyev.
12 July 2006 [03:30]
Amnesty International to present two reports on Azerbaijan by the year end, representative of the organization, Laurens Bryans has arrived in Baku for this purpose.
12 July 2006 [03:28]
Azerbaijan Democratic Party chairman (ADP) chairman Rasul Guliyev will found international social organization in the autumn months.
12 July 2006 [03:06]
Armenians and Azerbaijanis accuse each other of deliberately starting blazes on disputed land, while others blame the heat of a dry summer.
11 July 2006 [18:07]
Azerbaijani and Turkey presidents are expected to meet in private and in full context on July 12.
11 July 2006 [17:52]
Gela Bezhuashvili met in Tbilisi on July 10 with OSCE mission head Roy Reeve to discuss developments in the South Ossetian conflict zone.
11 July 2006 [17:32]
Optimism of the OSCE MG on solving the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in 2006 is groundless, Director on Political Affairs of ARF Dashnaktsutyun Bureau Kiro Manoyan told journalists on Tuesday.
11 July 2006 [15:11]
Today there are no opportunities for rapprochement of Yerevan and Baku positions over settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian stated at a joint news conference with Lebanese FM Fauzi Salluh in Yerevan on Tuesday.
11 July 2006 [12:01]
U.S. seeks ways to route natural gas around Russia.
11 July 2006 [11:56]
Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharian are not expected to table settlement to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict during the upcoming G8 summit in St. Petersburg, despites reports suggesting otherwise.
11 July 2006 [11:53]
The current situation around the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict allows some countries to enter the format of the mediating OSCE Minsk Group, Armenian parliament vice-speaker says.
11 July 2006 [11:50]
Japanese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Akiko Yamanaka is due to arrive in Baku on Thursday.
11 July 2006 [11:49]
The ruling body of major Azeri opposition party Musavat decided on Saturday to grant its members the right to run for the repeat local elections as independent candidates.
11 July 2006 [11:45]
Azeris and Latvians are the most law-abiding diplomats working at the UN headquarters in New York, a recent study says.
11 July 2006 [11:06]
The Grave Crimes Court on Monday read out the indictment for the members of an opposition youth movement charged with attempting to topple the government with the aid of the Armenian secret service.
11 July 2006 [02:25]
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday it was time for Iran to give a definitive answer to a major powers' proposal for the Islamic republic to negotiate over curbs on its nuclear programmes.
11 July 2006 [02:15]
Regnum's interview with Arif Yunusov, political analyst, head of Conflictology and Migration Department, Institute for Peace and Democracy, Azerbaijan.
11 July 2006 [00:48]
Karabakh Liberation Organization chairman Akif Naghi has left for Istanbul to participate in international conference at the invitation of Turkey organization.
10 July 2006 [20:33]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has gone on leave of short-time duration since July 9.
10 July 2006 [20:29]
Armenians continue massive fire in the territories of Azerbaijan.
10 July 2006 [20:26]
"Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan is efficient project from economic and all viewpoints. We worked and implemented this jumbo project together.
10 July 2006 [20:18]
Iran will not give its final answer at a meeting this week to a package of proposals backed by six world powers that aims to end a nuclear standoff with the West, an Iranian nuclear official said on Monday.
10 July 2006 [19:41]
A deputy chairman of Armenia's parliament said Monday that Russia had hit Armenian interests after it closed a checkpoint on the Russian-Georgian border for construction work.
10 July 2006 [19:40]
Russia's No.1 terrorist Shamil Basayev has been killed in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia, Russia's security chief said Monday.
10 July 2006 [16:47]
The Armenian delegation is quite content with the results OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) summer session.
10 July 2006 [16:36]
Elmar Mammadyarov to attend BTC opening ceremony.
10 July 2006 [16:31]
President Ilham Aliyev is expected to hold a second meeting with the Azerbaijani ambassadors to foreign countries in late July-early August, officials say.
10 July 2006 [16:24]
The movement of ethnic Azeris in neighboring Iran should not be related to the United States, says head of the Committee for Protection of the South Azerbaijan National Movement.
10 July 2006 [16:19]
A meeting of world Armenian youth will be held in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan from July 26 to August 1.
10 July 2006 [16:16]
The US mediator brokering settlement to the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict says the "creative potential" of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs has run out, but this does not mean an impasse in the peace process.
09 July 2006 [00:30]
Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said on July 8 that Russia has unilaterally closed down border crossing point in Zemo Larsi without prior notification of the Georgian side.
09 July 2006 [00:28]
The Russian side closed the Zemo Larsi checkpoint on the Russo-Georgian border, citing the necessity of carrying out repair works.
09 July 2006 [00:04]
"NATO membership means rebuilding relations with that organization - something Armenia is not ready for today," the vice speaker of the Armenian parliament Vahan Hovhannissyan said during a roundtable with NATO representatives.
08 July 2006 [12:10]
Azerbaijani soldier was caught by mine in the frontline.
08 July 2006 [09:45]
"Nagorno Karabakh can not take part in negotiations at present as a side, the international community knows identity of talks and conflicting sides," MFA Press and Information Policy Office Chief Tahir Taghizade said.
08 July 2006 [00:02]
Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Friday that his country would take its time considering nuclear proposals from the West despite pressure for a quick response.
07 July 2006 [23:10]
At the close of its fifteenth Annual Session, held from 3 to 7 July, the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE elected Goran Lennmarker (Sweden) as its new President, to serve a one-year term.
07 July 2006 [20:58]
A monitoring by OSCE representatives confirmed facts concerning the arsons committed by Armenians across the occupied Azerbaijani territories presented by Azerbaijan.
07 July 2006 [20:03]
"There are principles, unacceptable for Armenia, in the framework agreement, presented by OSCE MG co-chairs to the parties of Karabakh conflict.
07 July 2006 [19:58]
Ex-economic development minister Farhad Aliyev was asked to stop hunger strike by the investigation group dealing with his case.
07 July 2006 [19:56]
On July 6 Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova met with ex ministers Farhad Aliyev and Ali Insanov detained in detention place of MNS.
07 July 2006 [19:46]
Beginning from July 5 in the evening hours Armenians began to set fire in occupied Azerbaijani territories opposite with Hasangaya village of Terter region.
07 July 2006 [19:34]
By the President's decree Weight lifting Federation secretary general Ismayil Ismayilov appointed deputy minister of ministry of youth and sport.
07 July 2006 [19:32]
"Despite the ceasefire between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Armenians violate ceasefire regularly, village population fired. People live in fear on borderline territories."
07 July 2006 [19:23]
Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov who is on a visit in Germany, yesterday visited Marshal Foundation of Germany, joined the seminar with participation of private company, strategical institute, and other organization leaders.
07 July 2006 [15:18]
Members of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) comprise a majority among the nominees running for repeat and by-elections to local self-administration bodies due on October 6.
07 July 2006 [15:16]
The Council of Europe (CE) considers ex-economic development minister Farhad Aliyev charged with complicity in a coup attempt as a political prisoner, his lawyer maintains.
07 July 2006 [15:13]
The "framework agreement" on settling the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict disclosed recently by the mediating OSCE Minsk Group (MG) includes quite a few provisions in favor of Azerbaijan, a political analyst has said.
07 July 2006 [15:08]
President Ilham Aliyev on Thursday dismissed a district mayor, in the latest series of dismissals and re-appointments of executive officials in Azerbaijan.
07 July 2006 [02:08]
Russia wants Iran to respond faster to the proposals of Iran-6 mediators on its controversial nuclear program, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
07 July 2006 [02:07]
Chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani met European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Thursday and said Tehran was serious about pursuing nuclear talks with the EU.
07 July 2006 [01:27]
OSCE chairman in-office personal representative Andrzey Kasprzyk is on a visit in Yerevan.
07 July 2006 [01:25]
Valentin Buravlov, vice-governor of Chelyabinsk province of Russia has met with Azerbaijani Prime Minister Artur Rasizade on Thursday.
07 July 2006 [01:11]
As a result of setting fire to the villages of Fusuli under occupation by Armenians mass stream of wild animals and snakes starts to the territories of Azerbaijan.
07 July 2006 [01:08]
An award has been adopted on one of the activists of the Azerbaijanis living in Iran - Abdulaziz Azimi.
07 July 2006 [01:02]
"In the statement of OSCE Minsk Group in reality it is meant that there is not any more international level talks format for settlement of Nagorno Garabagh conflict," said Sabina Freizer, Director of the Caucasus project of the International Crisis Group (ICG).
06 July 2006 [20:38]
The former staff member of the Ministry of State Security of Azerbaijan Ilkham Yismail considers that the secret services of Iran as early as 1993 have placed in Azerbaijan a large net of agents.
06 July 2006 [14:27]
The new law on espionage that will be reviewed by the Iranian parliament in the beginning of the next week would be used for the purposes of the stiffening of repressions against the local Azerbaijani population.
06 July 2006 [14:20]
"Azerbaijan cannot return Karabakh by force and we do not have and will not have power to rebuff the Russian-Armenian alliance,said political scientist Hikmet Hajizade.
06 July 2006 [11:38]
The new US ambassador to Armenia Richard Hoagland will arrive in Yerevan immediately after his approval to the post in two weeks, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and the new co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group (MG), Matthew Bryza, has said.
06 July 2006 [11:35]
The latest statements by the OSCE mediators brokering settlement to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh are aimed to put pressure on the sides, an Azeri analyst says.
06 July 2006 [11:32]
The state agency in charge of dealing with Azeri expatriates said Wednesday it will not work with ethnic Azeris living in Iran, terming as the neighboring country's internal affair.
06 July 2006 [11:18]
The US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group (MG) has played down reports suggesting that Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharian are expected to table settlement to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh during the upcoming G8 summit in St. Petersburg.
06 July 2006 [11:16]
Elmar Mammadyarov's visit to Germany continues.
06 July 2006 [11:11]
Matthew Bryza made a statement.
06 July 2006 [11:03]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli on Wednesday.
06 July 2006 [02:29]
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Wednesday not to delay talks aimed at ending its nuclear program.
06 July 2006 [02:09]
Iranian and Armenian officials signed up seven Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the fields of energy, economic and industrial infrastructures, legal and cultural heritage cooperation here Wednesday evening.
06 July 2006 [02:05]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tehran welcomes development of all-out ties with Armenia, in the spheres of transportation, culture, sports, tourism and energy in particular.
06 July 2006 [02:02]
The head of an exiled Iranian opposition group accused Western nations on Wednesday of appeasing Tehran with incentives to halt uranium enrichment that she compared to moves to placate Hitler before World War Two.