Politics
15 July 2006 [10:09]
Azeri MPs have submitted evidence concerning the arsons committed by Armenians across the occupied territories of Azerbaijan to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
15 July 2006 [09:23]
Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Ms. Akino Yamanaka held press conference on the visit in Azerbaijan.
15 July 2006 [09:09]
Yesterday Azerbaijani Prime Minister Artur Rasizade has received a delegation led by Akiko Yamanaka, Japanese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan.
15 July 2006 [09:04]
"The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs will meet again in Paris early next month," said Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
15 July 2006 [08:49]
The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers discussed the report drawn up by the AGO Monitoring Group on the latest visit in the South Caucasus states.
15 July 2006 [08:30]
38 members of the pro-opposition Azerbaijan Democratic Party branches in Ganja, Khanlar and Dashkasan regions released statement on their resigning from the party membership.
15 July 2006 [08:05]
The Azerbaijan National NGOs Forum (NNGOF) today held a meeting related to the Armenian Armed Forces torching and committing ecological terror in the occupied Azerbaijani territories.
14 July 2006 [22:37]
Next week Baku will host the third round of talks between Azerbaijan and the European Union on the Individual Cooperation Plan in the frames of the European New Neighborhood Policy.
14 July 2006 [22:27]
Head of the AGO Monitoring Group from the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, German Ambassador Roland Wegener's diplomatic mission in Strasbourg has expired.
14 July 2006 [22:10]
The European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby is expected to visit Baku in the end of July.
14 July 2006 [22:01]
Saleh Kamrani, Azerbaijani lawyer imprisoned in Iran, is facing charges of action against the state.
14 July 2006 [21:54]
Azerbaijani Emergency Minister, Colonel General Kamaladdin Heydarov today received Laurie Bristow, Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Azerbaijan.
14 July 2006 [16:01]
Some activity in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement is expected in the second half of 2006, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told reporters in Yerevan today.
14 July 2006 [14:49]
"Turkey is connected to the peoples of Caucasus with deep historical roots, and I cordially hope that peace, stability, and prosperity will soon become symbols of the South Caucasus. I believe that the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC) as a model of cooperation of Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Georgia will become a warranty of prosperity for the whole region," President of Turkey Ahmet Necdet Sezer stated at the BTC completion ceremony July 13.
14 July 2006 [13:12]
In an interview to Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said no compromise is possible concerning the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
14 July 2006 [10:13]
President Aliyev's speach at the officiak inauguration of the Heydar Aliyev Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan main export oil pipeline.
14 July 2006 [01:37]
The US Embassy in Azerbaijan has announced attitude to Yeni Fikir youth group's trial.
14 July 2006 [01:30]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev sent congratulation letter to Jacque Chirac on national holiday of France - Bastille Day.
14 July 2006 [01:23]
Deputy foreign minister of Japan, Akino Yamanaka arrived in Baku on Thursday.
13 July 2006 [21:13]
On Thursday Turkey-Azerbaijan Friendship Park was opened in Ceyhan, Adana of Turkey.
13 July 2006 [19:51]
Speaking at an inaugural ceremony of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey on July 13, President Saakashvili called for development of more regional economic projects and stressed on importance of Baku-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway link.
13 July 2006 [18:40]
Iran's president said Thursday that Tehran is ready to hold talks with European negotiators but the United States should refrain from raising tensions around the country's controversial nuclear program.
13 July 2006 [15:22]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has met with Deputy PM, FM Abdullah Gul.
13 July 2006 [12:09]
Ministers tell Tehran it must halt uranium enrichment. They plan to seek U.N.
13 July 2006 [12:02]
Israel widens Lebanon reprisals, 36 civilians die.
13 July 2006 [10:50]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev visiting Turkey on Wednesday sent a strongly-worded message to Armenia.
13 July 2006 [10:39]
A German expert says Azerbaijan and Armenia should refrain from military action to settle the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and the only solution is peace talks.
13 July 2006 [10:34]
The Council of Europe Ministerial Committee's Ago group in charge of monitoring the commitments of South Caucasus states before the CE on Wednesday issued a report on the outcomes of a recent visit by its representatives to the region.
13 July 2006 [10:29]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan Tony Lloyd and Andres Herkel are due to arrive in Baku in fall to conduct monitoring of the country’s commitments before the organization.
13 July 2006 [10:16]
Italy is one of the largest trade partners of Azerbaijan and its companies aspire to do business in the country, the Azeri ambassador Emil Karimov said in a recent meeting with Italian Under-secretary of the State for Foreign Affairs Famiano Crucianelli.
13 July 2006 [01:12]
Ambassador of Azerbaijan in Jordan Kingdom Elman Arasli has presented the copy of his credentials to Foreign Ministry Secretary general Nabih Shogma.
13 July 2006 [01:07]
"OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs are looking forward to initiative of the conflicting sides," said OSCE MG American co-chair Matthew Bryza.
13 July 2006 [00:50]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said Wednesday that the inauguration of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Oil Pipeline would further boost Turkish-Azerbaijani relations.
13 July 2006 [00:48]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who has left for Turkey to participate in Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Main Export Oil Pipeline official opening ceremony, on Wednesday received delegation headed by the US deputy Secretary of Energy Jeffrey Clay Sell in Istanbul.
13 July 2006 [00:23]
On Wednesday Musavat Party chairman Isa Gambar appointed his deputies.
13 July 2006 [00:16]
The delegation headed by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is already in Turkey.
12 July 2006 [16:28]
July 13 marks the official inauguration of the $4 billion Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline at the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
12 July 2006 [15:56]
Fire by Armenians on the occupied territories of Azerbaijan on Tuesday night covered Nagorno Karabakh.
12 July 2006 [15:32]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Turkey to participate in the opening ceremony of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Main export Oil Pipeline will hold series of meetings there.
12 July 2006 [15:25]
President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to pay a visit to all cities of his country where Azerbaijanis live.
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.