Politics
30 May 2006 [20:28]
Defense Minister of Ukraine Anatoliy Hrytsenko and Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev talked over the opportunity of setting up a joint peacemaking subdivision within the framework of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM.
30 May 2006 [20:24]
The arrangement of effective elements in the debate over Iran's nuclear case has now entered a new phase.
30 May 2006 [20:20]
In the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO session operating in London for Conflicts and new state organization center director Denis Summut has dealt with Nagorno Karabakh problem and conflicts in Georgia, in his report dedicated to conflicts in South Caucasus.
30 May 2006 [20:14]
Black Sea countries will convene in Romania next month within the framework of "Black Sea Partnership and Dialogue Forum," sources said on Monday.
30 May 2006 [20:12]
In a meeting with his top lieutenants on Monday, Judiciary Chief Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi denounced Iranian Azeris as being 'discredited' and 'defeated counter-revolutionary elements that infiltrate through specific channels'.
30 May 2006 [20:01]
The International Cooperation Council (ICC) of NGOs of GUAM states (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova) will be established at the initiative of the National Non-Governmental Organizations' Forum (NNGOF).
30 May 2006 [16:38]
Black Sea Forum for Dialog and Partnership will be held in Bucharest (Romania) June 4-5.
30 May 2006 [16:22]
President Ilham Aliyev today met with France's President Jacques Chirac in France.
30 May 2006 [15:47]
The Azeri-Kazakh interstate relations are high level: Azerbaijan is of great importance for Kazakhstan, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Russia Jhanseid Tuymebaev stated.
30 May 2006 [14:21]
The Tallinn summit of parliament speakers of the European Union member states commences May 30.
30 May 2006 [13:25]
Does the new GUAM have sticking power, or is its new reincarnation just an addition to the region's alphabet soup?
30 May 2006 [13:17]
Next sitting of the Commonwealth of Independent States Council of Defense Ministers will commence in Baku on 31 May, press service of the Defense Ministry said.
30 May 2006 [12:42]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message of condolence to President of the Republic of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to share grief on heavy human loss and destructions in this country as a result of quakes.
30 May 2006 [11:58]
President of Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev attended May 29 the opening ceremony of the new building for the Azerbaijan Embassy in Paris.
30 May 2006 [09:00]
Iran will not allow anybody to create chaos in the country, Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Purmohammadi said.
30 May 2006 [08:57]
The exiled son of Iran's late shah on Monday called on the Bush administration to put action before rhetoric in ousting Tehran's Islamic regime, which he said has long been the source of global instability.
29 May 2006 [21:17]
The European Union is poised to open actual accession talks with Turkey on June 12, a Turkish Internet website reports on Monday.
29 May 2006 [19:56]
Turkey reassured its ally Israel on Monday that it opposed Iran, arch-foe of the Jewish state, acquiring nuclear weapons and said it wanted to see the whole Middle East region freed of the atomic threat.
29 May 2006 [19:24]
Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is to pay an official three-day visit to Iran on Wednesday, Iranian Ambassador to the OIC Mohammad-Kazem Khansari said on Monday.
29 May 2006 [19:23]
Armenia and Azerbaijan both claimed fatalities after a shootout between soldiers in the region of Nagorno Karabakh, and accused each other of breaching a ceasefire agreement Monday.
29 May 2006 [19:14]
Azerbaijani parliamentarian Akram Abdullayev said that the Nagorno Karabakh problem is a legacy of the Soviet Union to Azerbaijan and Armenia and therefore the key to a solution rests in Russia's hands.
29 May 2006 [19:09]
May 25-26, the Foreign Ministries of Azerbaijan and Ukraine held consultations on consular matters.
29 May 2006 [19:04]
A group of Azeris held a demonstration outside the Iranian Consulate General in Istanbul on Sunday, protesting an offensive caricature published in a state-run Iranian daily.
28 May 2006 [23:10]
Quite probably, this week Moscow will achieve a large geopolitical success in the Middle East. This will happen if Tel Aviv would manage to reach an agreement with Ankara on the deliveries of Russian oil to Israel by the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline...
28 May 2006 [23:07]
Four people were killed and 43 others injured in northwest Iran during protests over a cartoon in a government newspaper deemed insulting to ethnic Azeris, the ISNA news agency quoted a police official as saying Sunday.
28 May 2006 [23:06]
Iran's supreme leader said Sunday the United States would fail to provoke ethnic strife in the Islamic republic after several days of protests over a cartoon that insulted the country's largest minority.
28 May 2006 [17:34]
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani and his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov in a meeting here Sunday held their first round of talks.
28 May 2006 [17:33]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message to Elham Aliev extended congratulations to his Azeri counterpart, government and nation on the country's national day.
27 May 2006 [21:17]
The U.S. administration has fired ambassador to Armenia John Evans, after the diplomat deviated from U.S. policy and called Armenian killings during World War I "genocide", sparking uproar among pro-Armenian lawmakers at the House of Representatives.
27 May 2006 [21:11]
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted on Saturday as saying European nations should stand by his country in the dispute over its nuclear programme or suffer damages.
27 May 2006 [18:38]
Azerbaijani Ambassador to Tehran Saturday stressed that his country has not intervened in Iran's domestic affairs.
27 May 2006 [17:16]
The Bush administration is beginning to debate whether to set aside a longstanding policy taboo and open direct talks with Iran, to help avert a crisis over Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons program, European officials and Americans close to the administration said Friday.
27 May 2006 [15:54]
Iranian Azerbaijanis are going to visit Tehran in order to hold a protest action there on the Republic Day.
27 May 2006 [15:51]
27 May 2006 [15:42]
Azerbaijan's Central Election Commission (CEC) in today's sitting prepared the final protocol on the 13 May partial re-run of the parliamentary elections and sent to the Constitutional Court. CEC Secretary Natig Mammadov reported about the results of the elections.
27 May 2006 [14:07]
27 May 2006 [13:59]
The hope would be that the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia might at that point be able to come to closure on some of the issues that divide them within the context of settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, stated Sean McCormack, an official of the US Department of State.
27 May 2006 [13:56]
On May 27 in Milli Majlis government representatives and NGO's representatives working group held discussion on political prisoner problem.
27 May 2006 [13:03]
"My younger brother Husein Sababi was arrested by the officers of Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and National Security (Ettelaat) in his office in Ardabil on 25 May.
27 May 2006 [12:57]
On May 31 Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Defense Ministers Council will hold the next meeting.
27 May 2006 [12:55]
On the fifth day of uprisings in the Azeri speaking provinces of Iran, the West Azerbaijan's Governor Office announced that any protest in the province was illegal and would be dealt with severely.
27 May 2006 [10:47]
Musavat Party chairman Isa Gambar has refused meeting with Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe co-rapporteurs, Andreas Gross and Andres Herkel.
27 May 2006 [10:35]
"I want to use my mandate to work on the unresolved conflicts in the South Caucasus. It's no surprise that the main priority of my work is to engage as far as possible with the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh," European Union special representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby stated.
27 May 2006 [09:50]
US Agency for International Development (USAID) aims at realization of a project related to Azerbaijani parliament institutional development.
27 May 2006 [09:38]
The World Azerbaijanis Congress presented the list of the killed injured and arrested Azerbaijani protesters during the clash with Iranian government forces in the towns of South Azerbaijan.
27 May 2006 [09:30]
Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) Monitoring Committee co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan, Andreas Gross and Andres Herkel met with Justice Ministry and Prosecutor General Officials.
27 May 2006 [09:23]
Minister for Emergencies, Colonel-General Kamaladdin Heydarov received French Ambassador to Azerbaijan Bernard Amaudric du Chaffaut.
27 May 2006 [08:57]
Action participants march in the direction of city mayor's office, South Azerbaijan National Revival Movement Baku bureau informs.
27 May 2006 [08:44]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received the delegation led by Cuban deputy Foreign Minister Emilio Caballero.
27 May 2006 [08:33]
At the meeting of Iran Parliament Azerbaijani and Persian deputies confronted, South Azerbaijan National Revival Movement Baku bureau informs.
26 May 2006 [18:28]
NATO Parliamentary Assembly's Spring Session started in Paris.
26 May 2006 [17:06]
Today the Association of Assistance to Civil Society Development in Azerbaijan (AACSDA) and the Public Union for Defense of Rights of Migrants and IDPs in Azerbaijan held a roundtable - "Armenian invasion and damages done to Azerbaijani people".
26 May 2006 [16:49]
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan has had a meeting with Carlos Sanchez de Boado, Spanish Ambassador to the OSCE. The Spanish diplomat was accompanied by German, Norwegian, and Lichtenstein in the OSCE.
26 May 2006 [16:45]
Special representative on Azerbaijan appointed by Council of Europe Secretary General is of Belgium origin.
26 May 2006 [15:27]
Vasili Istratov has been appointed ambassador to Azerbaijan after two-year of vacancy in this post.
26 May 2006 [13:28]
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs while on a visit to Baku proposed organizing a meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents in Bucharest, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists.
26 May 2006 [11:56]
Minister of Taxes Fazil Mammadov met with Charge d'Affaires of the Republic of Korea in Azerbaijan Lew Kwang-chul to discuss the issues of mutual interest, Ministry's PR office said.
26 May 2006 [10:38]
"Vladimir Zhirinovski's statement doesn't represent Russia's official stance," Russian charge d'affairs ad interim in Azerbaijan Pyotr Burdikin stated.
26 May 2006 [10:29]
European Parliament member Hannes Svaboda and deputy chair of parliament socialist group Yan Marunus met with Azerbaijani opposition representatives in Baku.
26 May 2006 [10:21]
An Issue on health condition of ex-ministers, Farhad Aliyev and Ali Insanov, who are in prison at present, will be discussed in the meeting of Elchin Behbudov, leader of Committee against Tortures of Azerbaijan, with co-rapporteur of PACE on Azerbaijan, Andreas Gross, May 27.
26 May 2006 [10:19]
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fasier (France), Steven Mann (US), as wells as Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigori Karasin, Political Affairs Director of French FM Stanislas de Laboulaye and US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried met with Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan yesterday.
26 May 2006 [10:09]
Today Ukraine Armed Forces Main Headquarter Chief general colonel Sergey Kirichenko has paid an official visit to Baku.
26 May 2006 [09:51]
Abbas Abbasov will act as President of Wrestling Federation after his resignation from the post of first deputy Prime Minister.
26 May 2006 [09:36]
Saudi Arabian delegation led by Deputy Chair of Main Office for Youth Care, Prince Navaf bin-Faysal will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan from May 30 to June 2 at the invitation of Azerbaijani Minister for Youth and Sport Azad Rahimov.
26 May 2006 [08:47]
CIS government heads Council held next meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
26 May 2006 [08:25]
The Azerbaijan's Friends Society in the Netherlands made statement denouncing the recent violent suppression of the protest actions held by Iranian Azerbaijanis.
26 May 2006 [08:18]
Musavat has not made a decision on participation of formation process of election commission, party Chairman Isa Gambar stated.
26 May 2006 [08:13]
Heads of parliaments of 40 countries will meet in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, May 30-31.
26 May 2006 [02:05]
May 22, 2006, the officers of Iranian secret service opened gunfire at the participants of the peaceful demonstration and murdered 16 civilians. The names of three of the killed were announced today: Vahid Baverniyah, Jamshid Zanjanli and Halil Ufugi.
25 May 2006 [23:15]
In the fourth day of continuing uprisings all cities of East and West Azerbaijan and Ardabil are engulfed in demonstrations.
25 May 2006 [23:01]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a letter of felicitations to his Georgian counterpart Mikhail Saakashvili on the occasion of the Georgia's Independence Day.
25 May 2006 [22:45]
May 25 President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev gave an interview at the Presidential Palace to Stefan Wagstyl, Central and East Europe editor of one of the Great Britain's most influential newspapers "Financial Times".
25 May 2006 [22:38]
May 25, President of Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev received at the Presidential Palace Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women.
25 May 2006 [18:45]
Having visited Armenia, representatives of co-chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group for settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict issued a joint statement for the press.
25 May 2006 [15:53]
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkiye, and Bulgaria advance Green Energy Corridor discussions
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