Politics

11 June 2006 [12:17]

Fire continues in occupied territories

Fires set on by Armenian armed forces in the occupied territories still continue.
11 June 2006 [12:14]

President Aliyev congratulates President Putin on Russia's Day

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message of congratulations to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the occasion of the Day of Russia.
11 June 2006 [12:11]

Justice Minister meets Lithuanian State Secretary of Justice

Justice Minister of Azerbaijan Fikrat Mammadov met June 9 with Paulius Koverovas, State Secretary of the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice.
11 June 2006 [12:09]

Security Minister meets Undersecretary of the Lithuanian Security Department

Azerbaijan's Minister of National Security, Lieutenant-General Eldar Mahmudov met with Darius Jurgelevicius, Undersecretary of the Lithuanian State Security Department, to discuss prospects of cooperation between the two countries' security authorities, as well as transnational organized crime, terrorism, migration, and other issues of mutual concern.
10 June 2006 [14:33]

Azerbaijan National Front appeals to US President for supporting Azerbaijanis' national struggle

Head of the Azerbaijan National Front (ANF) Ali Nazmi Afshar has written to US President George Bush regarding the Iranian authorities' policy on non-Iranians asking him supporting the national struggle of Azerbaijanis living in that country.
10 June 2006 [14:30]

Araz Alizade: "U.S. has never supported idea of united Azerbaijan"

Co-Chairman of Azerbaijan's Social-Democratic Party (SDPA) Araz Alizade stated that Iranian events are quite different in reality, comparing with their interpretations in Baku.
10 June 2006 [14:21]

Prosecutor General: "No Armenian POWs in Azerbaijan"

Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov received the delegation led by Leo Platvoet, rapporteur of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population of the Council of Europe Parlaimentary Assembly.
10 June 2006 [14:16]

Armenians torching several occupied villages in Karabakh

Armenian armed forces have been torching several occupied villages of Azerbaijan’s region Aghdam in Garabagh for ten days.
10 June 2006 [14:08]

Lithuanian President visits Sangachal Terminal

President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus familiarized himself with the Sangachal Terminal on June 9.
10 June 2006 [09:16]

MPs refutes Ogtay Asadov's congratulating Armenian speaker

Azerbaijani parliamentarians Musa Guliyev and Asef Hajili held a press conference dedicated to their participation in the 27th plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) in Yerevan.
10 June 2006 [08:43]

Azerbaijani delegation to discuss Karabakh issue at OSCE PA session

The 15th session of the OSCE Parlaimentary Assembly will be held in Brussels July 3-4.
10 June 2006 [08:38]

Elmira Akhundova: "Right defenders taking bribe for preparation of political prisoner list, confirmed"

"We have raised a question on right defenders taking bribe for preparing prisoners list. But community and the international organizations suspected this issue then. Now these people convict each other because of not having an accord between them. This proves state to be right in conviction of right defenders taking money. The names of well to do men were not included in the list of political prisoner collaborating with Sadval organization in vain, murdering of 20 persons and convicted in other state accusations."
09 June 2006 [22:41]

List of Azerbaijanis arrested by Iranian government forces

98 Azerbaijanis arrested by Iranian government forces have been identified. APA reports quoting Seyid Naimi, head of Committee of Defense of South Azerbaijani Prisoners. 14 detainees are journalists.
09 June 2006 [22:37]

Ramiz Hasanov: "Azerbaijan must gradually switch to international standards"

Ramiz Hasanov, the Director of State Agency on Standardization, Metrology and Patents (SASMP), held a press-conference devoted to the activities of the Agency.
09 June 2006 [22:27]

Azerbaijani and Russian Emergencies Ministries sign cooperation protocol

Russian Minister of Emergencies Sergei Shoygu is paying an official visit to Baku.
09 June 2006 [22:11]

Leo Platvoet: "Azerbaijani and Armenian State Commissions agreed on cooperation"

The Council of Europe Parlaimentary Assembly (PACE) rapporteur for missing persons Leo Platvoet held a press conference on the talks he had in Baku.
09 June 2006 [21:54]

Mahmoudali Chohraganli arrested in Turkey to be deported

The leader of the South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement (SANAM) Mahmoudali Chohraganli, who has been arrested by Turkey's law enforcement bodies, will be deported from this country.
09 June 2006 [16:15]

Iran enriching more uranium

Work resumed as Tehran received plan to suspend activities.
09 June 2006 [16:11]

Iran cleric says nuclear proposals unacceptable

A powerful Iranian cleric said on Friday a package of incentives offered by six major powers would never stop Iran making nuclear fuel.
09 June 2006 [15:47]

Sergei Lavrov to visit Azerbaijan June 19

Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov will arrive in Baku to attend the 33rd meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Foreign Ministers Board from June 19 to 21.
09 June 2006 [15:46]

OIC head urges Armenia to free Azeri territories

The top official of an influential Islamic organization has urged Armenia to vacate the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
09 June 2006 [15:42]

Report may stir Azeri-Lebanese diplomatic row

A diplomatic row may arise between Azerbaijan and Lebanon after a report was published on the Lebanese President Emile Lahoud's website saying the head of state has recently met with the foreign minister of the self-proclaimed Nagorno Karabakh Republic Georgi Serasian.
09 June 2006 [14:32]

Azerbaijan House possibly to open in Lithuania

"Azerbaijan and Lithuania must come closer in economic relationships like in political cooperation and we will make all attempts to do it," told Heydar Babayev, Economic Development Minister of Azerbaijan, in his interview to journalists in Azerbaijan-Lithuania business forum today in Baku.
09 June 2006 [14:23]

President receives Russian Emergencies Minister

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today received Russian Minister of Emergencies Sergey Shoygu.
09 June 2006 [13:23]

Armenian FM: "Karabakh issue has limit of compromise Armenia will never go beyond"

There is a limit of compromise in the Nagorno Karabakh problem Armenia will never go beyond, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated in an interview with the Armenian television.
09 June 2006 [09:55]

Moscow Times: "Ex-Azeri leader begged for apartment"

The first president of independent Azerbaijan, Ayaz Mutalibov, had to beg the Kremlin for an apartment after he fled a rebellion in 1992.
09 June 2006 [09:53]

President of National Bank of Georgia meets Azerbaijani Ambassador

Roman Gotsiridze, President of the National Bank of Georgia met with Namig Alyev, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Georgia on Thursday.
09 June 2006 [09:51]

Dozens arrested in Maragheh on charges of participation in uprisings in Azerbaijan Province

Sohrab Eqbali, the prosecutor of Maragheh, admitted in an interview with the state-run daily Resalat the scale of the people's uprisings in the city and said, "Dozens of rioters were arrested in the recent events which came about following the publication of the insulting cartoon in the daily Iran."
09 June 2006 [09:46]

Tahir Taghizadeh: "CIA secret jails reference due to "Azerbaijan's strategic location"

The fact Azerbaijan was included in a report of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) concerning secret jails presumably run by the US Central Intelligence Agency in Europe is due to its strategic geographic location, the Foreign Ministry spokesman Tahir Taghizadeh has said.
09 June 2006 [09:42]

Armenian parliamentry delegation to visit Baku in November

Azeri Parliament Chair congratulated newly-elected Armenian Speaker.
09 June 2006 [09:24]

Polish MPs to visit Azerbaijan June 13

Polish parliamentary delegation will visit Azerbaijan next week at the invitation of Azerbaijani parliament.
09 June 2006 [09:16]

Mahmudali Chohragani asked support from Turkey for South Azerbaijan

South Azerbaijan National Revival Movement (SANRM) Chairman Mahmudali Chohragani held press conference in Istanbul.
09 June 2006 [09:10]

Emergencies Minister received UNO DP resident coordinator

Minister for Emergencies of Azerbaijan, general-colonel Kamaleddin Heydarov has received UNO DP resident coordinator in Azerbaijan, Marco Barsotti.
09 June 2006 [09:05]

Valdas Adamkus: "European Union should mediate in settlement of Karabakh conflict"

"The Nagorno Karabakh problem should be solved peacefully. As the European Union member state, Lithuania thinks the EU should play its role as a mediator in the solution of the Nagorno Karabakh problem," Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus told at briefing following the one-on-one meeting with President Ilham Aliyev.
09 June 2006 [09:00]

Nagorno Karabakh: No longer abstract and distant for EU

A gathering of Black Sea leaders in Bucharest, on June 5, also served as the venue for the latest set of talks between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan about the status of Nagorno Karabakh, legally part of Azerbaijan but controlled by ethnic Armenian separatists since 1994.
09 June 2006 [08:38]

Ardij Durdu: "Caspian Sea oil to make 35% of world oil production in 15 years"

Caspian Sea oil will make 35% of world oil production in next 15 years and Brand oil extracted in Northern Sea will be substituted with Caspian and Russian oil.
09 June 2006 [08:28]

Abbaseli Hasanov: "Regnum and Iran News agencies' reports are false"

"Russian pan-Armenian "Regnum" and Iranian "Iran News" news agencies' 27 and 29 May reports on the recent events in Iran quoting Azerbaijani Ambassador to Iran Abbaseli Hasanov are not true," the letter with signature of Abbaseli Hasanov reads.
08 June 2006 [23:13]

Azerbaijani and Lithuania Presidents signed joint declaration

Today two-day visit of Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus has started to Baku.
08 June 2006 [23:05]

Israel offers cooperation to Azerbaijan's Emergencies Ministry

Minister of Emergencies, Colonel General Kamaladdin Heydarov today received Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.
08 June 2006 [23:01]

Azerbaijani MPs reject Leo Platvoet's proposals

The Council of Europe Parlaimentary Assembly (PACE) rapporteur for missing persons Leo Platvoet and PACE member Mack Nevil had several talks today in Baku. They first visited the International Committee of the Red Cross office in Baku.
08 June 2006 [22:46]

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer: "Iran poses threat to not only BTC oil pipeline but entire world community"

Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer held a press conference on his three-day visit to Baku.
08 June 2006 [16:55]

Azerbaijanis living in Iran will march to Babek tower

"Every year march-rally placed in front of Babek tower is national ceremony, and not any state can prevent it," the statement was made by South Azerbaijan Prisoners Defense Committee chief Seid Neimi from Tehran.
08 June 2006 [16:14]

Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers to meet soon

"The Armenian party is not going to make assessment of the past talks in Bucharest," Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan told a news conference in Yerevan.
08 June 2006 [14:59]

Azerbaijani Ambassador to US gives briefing in the Congress

Azerbaijani Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the United States Hafiz Pashayev gave a briefing in the Congress in the Capitol at initiative of working group on Azerbaijan.
08 June 2006 [14:41]

Aynur Sofiyeva: "FIDE recognizes territorial integrity of Azerbaijan"

In the next congress of FIDE held in Turin city of Italy, there was a dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia Chess Federation leadership.
08 June 2006 [14:33]

Serj Sarkisyan: "Azerbaijan misses the opportunity to solve Karabakh conflict peacefully"

"Azerbaijan is missing the opportunity to solve the Nagorno Karabakh conflict peacefully," said Armenian Defense Minister Serj Sarkisyan.
08 June 2006 [14:08]

Al-Qaeda's Zarqawi killed in Iraq

Al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, blamed for the beheading of foreign captives and the death of hundreds in suicide bombings, has been killed in a raid north of Baghdad, Iraq's prime minister said on Thursday.
08 June 2006 [13:46]

Meeting of Emergency Ministers wraps up in Sochi

According to the Ministry of Emergencies of Azerbaijan, ministers for emergencies and heads of emergency services of the member-states of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation gathered for a meeting June 6-7 in Sochi.
08 June 2006 [12:52]

Terry Davis was informed of law violations in Iran

Insulting of Azerbaijanis in Iran as well as dispersing of peaceful demonstration by Iran police caused irritation of Azerbaijani organizations in Europe.
08 June 2006 [12:47]

Pakistan's Ambassador: "We have no relations with Armenia"

"The objective of my visit to the villages of Tovuz region on border with Armenia is to familiarize with the living conditions of people here," Pakistan's Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohammad Hafiz said.
08 June 2006 [10:34]

Rafael Huseynov: "I proposed to discuss Azerbaijani prisoners of war at PACE Human Rights Committee"

"Rapporteur Dick Marty in his report has listed seven Council of Europe member states which colluded in CIA detentions and transfers. According to the report, several more colluded, actively or passively, in the detention or transfer of unknown persons," said Azerbaijani MP Rafael Huseynov, who attended PACE meeting in Paris.
08 June 2006 [10:20]

Azerbaijan assumes BSEC PA Presidency for next 6 months

Azerbaijan has assumed the presidency in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Parliamentary Assembly for the next 6 months.
08 June 2006 [10:14]

OSCE MG Co-Chairs say peaceful resolution is 'imperative and achievable'

The three Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, which deals with the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh, have issued a statement following their June 4 meeting in Bucharest with the presidents and foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
08 June 2006 [10:08]

Iranian Ambassador: "US, Israel want ethnic tensions in Iran"

Iran's ambassador to Azerbaijan said that the United States and Israel "have an interest" in stoking tensions between Iran's majority ethnic Persian population and the large Azeri minority in the country.
08 June 2006 [09:41]

Khalaf Khalafov: "It is premature to say whether military alliance KASFOR is for Azerbaijan's benefit"

Russia's proposal to establish military alliance named KASFOR in the Caspian Sea is being considered by the coastal states.
08 June 2006 [08:47]

President receives delegation of England-Azerbaijan Society

President Ilham Aliyev received the delegation headed by Chairman of the England-Azerbaijan Society Lord Frazer.
08 June 2006 [08:40]

Mahmoudali Chohraganli: "I hope there will be no obstacle to my arrival in Azerbaijan"

"I am in Turkey now and having talks with journalists and some friends here. I'll give new conference in Istanbul later," leader of the South Azerbaijan National Revival Movement (SANRM) Mahmoudali Chohraganli stated.
08 June 2006 [08:35]

Local by-elections to be conducted October 6

The Central Election Commission (CEC) will conduct partial repeat, additional, new and first local elections in some constituencies in Azerbaijan October 6 this year.
08 June 2006 [08:30]

Chingiz Ganizade: "I do not consider Ali Insanov and Farhad Aliyev as political prisoners"

"I did not sign the appeal sent to President Ilham Aliyev by right defenders last month on changing imprisonment about ex Economic Development minister Farhad Aliyev."
07 June 2006 [16:31]

Ukraine declared Vladimir Zhirinovski persona non grata

Ukraine's Security Service declared Russian State Duma Vice-President, Head of Liberal Democratic Party, Vladmidir Zhirinovski persona non grata.
07 June 2006 [16:24]

Novruz Mammadov: "International organizations' forecasts on Karabakh conflict settlement did not come true"

"The negotiating process between Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents is very slow and tough."
07 June 2006 [15:23]

Turkey wants unblocking of its border with Armenia

Turkey wants its border with Armenia to be unblocked, Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) committee on legal and political questions, member of the Turkish Republican People's Party, MP Mehmet Sevigen has announced talking to the press.
07 June 2006 [12:13]

Gultekin Hajiyeva: "Torosian's proposal is unacceptable"

We do not accept the proposal of Torosian on establishing three-sided working group of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Karabakh representatives related to missing people during the conflict" this statement was made by Azerbaijani delegation member to PACE, parliamentarian Gultekin Hajiyeva.
07 June 2006 [08:35]

Russian diplomat: "Azerbaijan intends to make use of Russian practice in defense establishment"

Azerbaijan intends to make use of Russian practice in the rehabilitation and improvement of defense establishment. In this connection, Azerbaijan gets advice from Russian bodies.
07 June 2006 [08:15]

Elmar Mammadyarov: "Replacement of American co-chair won't have negative impact on negotiations"

"Replacement of Steven Mann, American co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group will not have any negative impact on the negotiating process for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists.
07 June 2006 [07:50]

Vardan Oskanyan: "Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents fail to reach agreement in Bucharest"

"No progress was made at the meeting between Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharian in Bucharest," Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian stated.
07 June 2006 [07:40]

Kamaladdin Heydarov participates in the meeting of BSEC member countries

Black Sea Economic Cooperation member countries (BSEC) ministers for emergencies and for liquidating emergency cases relevant service leaders held meeting in Sochi city of Russia yesterday.
07 June 2006 [07:35]

Azerbaijan is among European nations aided CIA renditions, report says

A Council of Europe report on the CIA's practice of abducting and transporting terrorism suspects for interrogation in secret detention centers, to be made public Wednesday in Paris, says that several European countries acted as staging areas or transfer points in the program's global network.
07 June 2006 [07:34]

Elmar Mammadyarov: "The sides come to closure on the discussed issues"

"No any serious advance achieved in the meeting of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian President Robert Kocharyan," Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov states.
07 June 2006 [07:21]

SOCAR produced 757,4 thousand tons of oil in May

State Oil company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) produced 757,4 million tons oil in May this year, that is 10 thousand tons or 1,3% more than a prognosis.
06 June 2006 [23:06]

U.S. to give nuclear technology, Iran's early response is mixed

Iranian officials are reacting cautiously to a package of incentives proposed by six world powers in a bid to convince Tehran to end its nuclear enrichment program. Iranian leaders are promising to study the plan.
06 June 2006 [22:42]

Novruz Mammadov: "Presidents to meet again this year"

"Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharian are expected to meet again this year," said Novruz Mammadov, Head of Presidential Administration Department for International Relations.
06 June 2006 [21:22]

Bush, Blair urge democracy for Azerbaijan

President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday urged Azerbaijan to keep on a democratic course as a key pipeline to Western markets from the oil-rich Caspian Sea nation is poised to become fully operational.
06 June 2006 [21:19]

President Aliyev receives Israeli National Infrastructure Minister

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev today received the delegation led by Israel's National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.
06 June 2006 [21:16]

Zaman: "Russian clouds over Black Sea Forum"

The future of the Romanian initiated Black Sea forum, organized to find solutions to problems in the region, seems problematical since the regions largest country, Russia, was poorly represented.