Politics
12 June 2006 [16:57]
The Georgian Times interviews Azeri Ambassador to Georgia Namig Aliyev.
12 June 2006 [16:55]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on 12 June at President Palace received Secretary General of the Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos.
12 June 2006 [15:36]
Special representative of Council of Europe General Secretariat appointed on Azerbaijan, Denis Bribosia, arrives in Baku tonight.
12 June 2006 [15:17]
Heads of nine states will gather at the 2nd Summit of Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building in Asia (CICMA) on June 17 in Almaty, an official spokesperson of Kazakhstan MFA Yerzhan Ashikbayev has briefed today in Astana.
12 June 2006 [14:27]
Foreign companies continue to invest capital to Azerbaijan's territories under Armenian occupation to exploit natural resources there.
12 June 2006 [13:46]
"Turkey is a great and powerful state. Therefore, Turkish authorities should have protected the leader of the South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement, Mahmoudali Chohraganli for the sake of Turk-loving."
12 June 2006 [13:39]
National infrastructure minister hints in speech Israel interested in strategic cooperation with Muslim country that borders with Iran.
12 June 2006 [12:53]
The parliamentary delegation of Poland led by Chairman of the Seym’s (Parliament) European Union Affairs Committee Karol Karski, arrived in Azerbaijan on June 11 to discuss prospects of inter-parliamentary links and other areas of bilateral relations, according to press service of the Milli Majlis (Parliament) of Azerbaijan.
12 June 2006 [12:20]
Leader of the South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement (SANAM) Mahmoudali Chohraganli was deported from Baku by the local secret services.
12 June 2006 [12:15]
Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers are due to meet in Paris tomorrow, Armenian FM Vardan Oskanyan told journalists.
12 June 2006 [08:33]
Elmira Suleymanova, Ombudsman of Azerbaijan, has left for Vienna in order to take part in the meeting of European Ombudsmen in Vienna, the capital of Austria, June 11-13.
12 June 2006 [08:22]
The North Atlantic Council (NAC) at the level of defence ministers met at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.
11 June 2006 [22:29]
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul says he will not attend a European Union meeting Monday on EU accession, unless the 25-member bloc first resolves the latest dispute over the divided island of Cyprus.
11 June 2006 [22:26]
'Azadlig bloc' will boycott municipal elections which will be held on October 6 for 1942 places in 604 municipality.
11 June 2006 [19:11]
Iran on Sunday gave its most negative assessment of proposals offered by six world powers aimed at persuading Tehran to give up sensitive nuclear work that the West fears is being used to make bombs.
11 June 2006 [19:01]
An official visit by the President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) Pierre Lellouche to Azerbaijan was postponed until September or October, said Ziyafat Asgarov, First Deputy Chairman of Parliament of Azerbaijan, head of the Azerbaijani delegation to NATO PA.
11 June 2006 [18:42]
The summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will kick off June 26 in Strasbourg, according to press service of the Azerbaijani Parliament's standing commission on international relations and inter-parliamentary ties.
11 June 2006 [12:52]
Iran's Foreign Ministry rejected some proposals from six world powers trying to persuade it to stop its atomic fuel work and said Tehran will offer its own amendments, a ministry official said on Sunday.
11 June 2006 [12:39]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message of felicitations to the Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the people of her country on the occasion of the national holiday, the Queen's Birthday.
11 June 2006 [12:34]
Iran's foreign minister said Saturday that the government would issue a counteroffer to an incentive proposal by Europe, China and the United States to get Iran to give up enriching uranium in the short term.
11 June 2006 [12:27]
The 4th sitting of Azerbaijan-Pakistan intergovernmental commission will be held in September this year in Islamabad and Azerbaijan delegation will be headed by Yagub Eyyubov, the first deputy Prime Minister.
11 June 2006 [12:17]
Fires set on by Armenian armed forces in the occupied territories still continue.
11 June 2006 [12:14]
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 of Azerbaijan Fikrat Mammadov met June 9 with Paulius Koverovas, State Secretary of the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice.
11 June 2006 [12:09]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Armenian armed forces have been torching several occupied villages of Azerbaijan’s region Aghdam in Garabagh for ten days.
10 June 2006 [14:08]
President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus familiarized himself with the Sangachal Terminal on June 9.
10 June 2006 [09:16]
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]
The 15th session of the OSCE Parlaimentary Assembly will be held in Brussels July 3-4.
10 June 2006 [08:38]
"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]
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, 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]
Russian Minister of Emergencies Sergei Shoygu is paying an official visit to Baku.
09 June 2006 [22:11]
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]
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]
Work resumed as Tehran received plan to suspend activities.
09 June 2006 [16:11]
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]
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]
The top official of an influential Islamic organization has urged Armenia to vacate the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
09 June 2006 [15:42]
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 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 of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today received Russian Minister of Emergencies Sergey Shoygu.
09 June 2006 [13:23]
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]
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]
Roman Gotsiridze, President of the National Bank of Georgia met with Namig Alyev, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Georgia on Thursday.
09 June 2006 [09:51]
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]
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]
Azeri Parliament Chair congratulated newly-elected Armenian Speaker.
09 June 2006 [09:24]
Polish parliamentary delegation will visit Azerbaijan next week at the invitation of Azerbaijani parliament.
09 June 2006 [09:16]
South Azerbaijan National Revival Movement (SANRM) Chairman Mahmudali Chohragani held press conference in Istanbul.
09 June 2006 [09:10]
Minister for Emergencies of Azerbaijan, general-colonel Kamaleddin Heydarov has received UNO DP resident coordinator in Azerbaijan, Marco Barsotti.
09 June 2006 [09:05]
"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]
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]
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]
"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]
Today two-day visit of Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus has started to Baku.
08 June 2006 [23:05]
Minister of Emergencies, Colonel General Kamaladdin Heydarov today received Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.
08 June 2006 [23:01]
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]
Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer held a press conference on his three-day visit to Baku.
08 June 2006 [16:55]
"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]
"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 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]
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]
"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 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]
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]
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]
"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]
"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 has assumed the presidency in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Parliamentary Assembly for the next 6 months.
08 June 2006 [10:14]
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]
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.
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