Politics
01 June 2007 [08:22]
Vice-speaker of Azerbaijani Parliament and head of Azerbaijani Delegation to the NATO PA Ziyafat Asgarov held a press conference on the results of spring session of NATO PA held in Portugal.
01 June 2007 [08:21]
Law on political parties should be reconsidered, first vice-speaker of parliament Ziyafet Asgerov said.
01 June 2007 [08:20]
Poland's Interior Minister Yanush Kachmarek is scheduled to make a visit to Azerbaijan on June 1-2 at the invitation of Azerbaijani Interior Minister Ramil Usubov.
01 June 2007 [08:19]
No serious amendments are expected to the Electoral Code, President's Administration Chief of Staff Ramiz Mehdiyev said.
01 June 2007 [08:17]
The bill on ethical behavior of public servants passed the third reading on the Thursday's sitting of parliament.
01 June 2007 [08:14]
CIS Parliamentary Assembly's 28th plenary session started on Thursday in the Tavrichesky Palace in St Petersburg.
01 June 2007 [08:02]
Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis expressed his concern about the state of media in Azerbaijan.
01 June 2007 [07:59]
Council of Europe Committee of Ministers follows the state of media in Azerbaijan, said Franziska Klopfer, representative of Council of Europe Directorate General of human rights at a meeting with Azerbaijani journalists in Strasbourg.
01 June 2007 [07:43]
There is no problem regarding journalists' security in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Interior Minister Ramil Usubov said while commenting on some journalists' seeking asylum abroad.
01 June 2007 [07:39]
The next stage of negotiations between the Council of Europe Venice Commission and Azerbaijani government regarding introducing amendments to Electoral Code in Strasburg has ended.
31 May 2007 [22:29]
Azerbaijani government is taking steps in combating corruption, U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse said.
31 May 2007 [22:22]
The next meeting of Azerbaijani Parliament started today.
31 May 2007 [22:17]
Azerbaijani Strategic Research Center operating in Germany has prepared a project on "Recognize us at home".
31 May 2007 [22:06]
Council of Europe building in Strasburg, France will be modernized next year, Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis addressed the plenary session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.
31 May 2007 [21:46]
The status of capital cities were discussed in the meeting of Chamber of Local Authorities within the 14th plenary session of Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.
31 May 2007 [21:42]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received head of Federation of Jewish Communities in CIS Lev Levayev.
31 May 2007 [18:36]
The visit of the members of Council of Europe Subcommittee on Nagorno Karabakh to the region scheduled for early June has been postponed, member of the committee.
31 May 2007 [18:34]
First vice-speaker of Azerbaijani Parliament Ziyafet Asgerov confirmed that the spring session of parliament will be prolonged.
31 May 2007 [18:31]
Four states of the Caucasian region - Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia will resume traditional meetings after a few months pause, chairman of the Russian Federation Council Sergey Mironov told CIS parliamentary assembly held in St. Petersburg on Thursday.
31 May 2007 [16:59]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev received German delegation headed by Jens Beutel, Mayor of Mainz, the capital city of the state of Rheinland-Pfaltz.
31 May 2007 [16:48]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today at the Presidential Palace received Dr. Huguette Labelle, Chair of the Board of Directors of the organization Transparency International.
31 May 2007 [16:42]
The visit schedule of OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Anhel Moratinos and President of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Goran Lennmarker to Azerbaijan has been announced.
31 May 2007 [14:32]
"There are countries which are directly or indirectly supporting PKK terror among our allies. We are concerned about that," chief of Turkish Armed Forces General Staff Yashar Boyukanit said at the international symposium "New frameworks of security and international organizations" in Ankara.
31 May 2007 [14:23]
"Seeking for political asylum abroad is groundless. I do not understand this political game," Head of President's Office, Ramiz Mehdiyev stated.
31 May 2007 [14:11]
Azeri Prime Minister Artur Rasizade Thursday voiced his country's willingness to expand ties with Iran in all fields.
31 May 2007 [13:23]
Azerbaijan and Pakistan are planning to sign an agreement for joint cooperation on military industry and projects.
31 May 2007 [12:26]
There are no improvements regarding the investigation of the criminal case launched on Elmar Husenov's murder, Azerbaijani Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov said.
31 May 2007 [12:25]
Council of Europe (CE) wants to send special experts to Azerbaijan and Armenia for investigating historical and cultural monuments, CE Secretary General Terry Davis told journalists.
31 May 2007 [12:24]
There is a fact on threatening with terrorism on the website Realny Azerbaijan founded by Eynulla Fatullayev, Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov said.
31 May 2007 [12:06]
The Foreign Ministers of G8 stated after informal meeting in Potsdam.
31 May 2007 [12:03]
Spring session of Azerbaijani parliament will be prolonged, as the parliament received several important bills.
31 May 2007 [09:06]
Foreign ministers from the Group of 8 countries clashed Wednesday over the future of Kosovo after Russia warned that a United Nations plan paving the way for independence from Serbia could encourage separatist movements in the Russian-backed regions of Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.
31 May 2007 [09:03]
Tehran recently suggested it was ready to discuss a partial suspension of uranium enrichment but the West rejected the overture and Iran has withdrawn its offer to break the nuclear impasse, diplomats said.
31 May 2007 [09:02]
The head of Turkey's Constitutional Court said it would ask prosecutors to file charges against the prime minister for allegedly questioning the court's neutrality and exceeding the "boundaries of respect."
31 May 2007 [08:53]
Members of the Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations Arzu Abdullayeva, Saida Gojamanli and Novella Jafaroglu met with coordinator of Europa House Wolfgang Shporrer, Saida Gojamanli told.
31 May 2007 [08:49]
Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah is to pay official to Azerbaijan in early June, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Kuwait Shahin Abdullayev told.
31 May 2007 [08:47]
A number of state, economical and international organizations were awarded nomination "Free Information Space".
31 May 2007 [08:44]
The Cooperation Council of NGOs will be established in the meeting to be held in GUAM+3 format in October.
31 May 2007 [08:43]
"Special representative on political prisoners in Azerbaijan can be appointed, but this issue is not certain," Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis told.
31 May 2007 [08:42]
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia are commonly grouped together under a common label -- the "South Caucasus." But evidence of such unity is hard to find on the streets of the nations' capitals.
31 May 2007 [08:41]
Azerbaijani and Russian Foreign Ministries will have talks early in June in Moscow.
31 May 2007 [08:40]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov today received US Vice-President's deputy assistant for national security affairs Joseph R. Wood.
31 May 2007 [08:38]
Spring session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) has ended in Portugal.
31 May 2007 [08:35]
Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation led by chairman Oktay Asadov left for a working visit to St Petersburg to participate in the 28th plenary session of CIS Parliamentary Assembly.
31 May 2007 [08:28]
Although the political establishment in Azerbaijan was chagrined by the May 12 agreement among Turkmenistan, Russia, and Kazakhstan for plans to construct a new gas pipeline to export Turkmen gas to Western markets through Russia, official Baku still sees great opportunities in bilateral relations with Turkmenistan.
31 May 2007 [08:22]
Amendments may be introduced to the electoral law till the next municipality elections in Azerbaijan, said Shamistan Yusifov, Chair of the National Association of Settlement-municipalities.
31 May 2007 [08:08]
On Wednesday the monitoring on the contact line of troops, near the Gapanli village of Tartar region of Azerbaijan was held in accordance with the mandate of Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE.
31 May 2007 [08:06]
An event on May 28 – Republic Day was organized in UN Azerbaijan representation.
30 May 2007 [22:42]
"I hope the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be settled by the start of presidential elections both in Armenia and Azerbaijan," Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe told Azerbaijani journalists while replying to the question "Could presidential elections effect the settlement of the Karabakh problem".
30 May 2007 [22:13]
Head of the Armenian delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe, Emin Yeritsyan addressed the Strasbourg session of Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe and proposed to establish regional cooperation network.
30 May 2007 [21:40]
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe is holding its next plenary session which will last from 30 May to 1 June 2007 in Strasbourg (France).
30 May 2007 [14:56]
OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos will arrive in Baku on June 4.
30 May 2007 [14:08]
The USAID-organized workshop brought together representatives of Azerbaijan's relevant state agencies, foreign companies and NGOs in Baku to examine the country's accession efforts to the World Trade Organization: current situation and prospects.
30 May 2007 [14:01]
Conformation of Azerbaijani penitentiary system and legislation related to this field to European standards is debated in the Council of Europe, judge of the Supreme Court Vefaddin Ibayev told.
30 May 2007 [13:51]
US Congressman, member of House Committee on Foreign Affairs Dan Burton appreciated Azerbaijan Democratic Republic of 1918-1920 as the first secular state in the East.
30 May 2007 [12:33]
Amendments to Azerbaijan's Electoral Code are debated in the Council of Europe Venice Commission.
30 May 2007 [09:47]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy sent his top diplomatic envoy to Turkey after the Turkish prime minister called for better communications with Paris, Sarkozy's office said Tuesday.
30 May 2007 [09:46]
Russia tested new strategic and tactical missiles, flexing its muscles amid military disputes with the West and bitter opposition to a U.S. plan for a defensive shield in Europe.
30 May 2007 [08:54]
Latvia's Minister for Economics Jurijs Strods will visit Azerbaijan.
30 May 2007 [08:46]
Azerbaijan's ambassador to Switzerland Elchin Amirbeyov speaks about bilateral realtions.
30 May 2007 [08:35]
Journalist Tatyana Chaladze met with Miklos Haraszti, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and Nina Ogenyanova, representative of Freedom House Organization.
30 May 2007 [08:29]
30 May 2007 [08:22]
Leaders of Azadliq alliance - chairman of Azerbaijan Popular Front Part Ali Kerimli, chairman of National Unity Movement Lale Shovket Hajiyeva and chairman of Citizen and Development Party Ali Aliyev today met with Head of OSCE Office in Baku Jose Luis Herrero Ansola.
30 May 2007 [08:20]
"South Caucasus is in the focus of regional powers and attracts global powers. But this attention should not be exaggerated. The priorities of the US and European Union are different," Irina Zvigelskaya, Vitali Naumkin and Sergey Luzyakin, representatives of Russian Academy of Sciences Oriental Studies Institute told the press conference in Baku.
30 May 2007 [08:18]
Nagorno Karabakh will be liberated sooner or later, even through military way if needed, Azerbaijani ambassador to Uzbekistan Namig Abbasov said in the official meeting organized in Tashkent by the Embassy on May 28-Republic Day of Azerbaijan.
30 May 2007 [08:17]
30 May 2007 [08:15]
Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadayarov is to visit Latvia in November.
30 May 2007 [08:11]
"The propaganda around ADP's decision made us think that it may damage the party's image. But the congress cleaned the doubts," said chief of Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) Serdar Jalaloglu.
30 May 2007 [08:08]
Azerbaijan initiated establishing a new body composed of law-enforcement bodies of members of Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), Deputy Foreign Minister Vagif Sadikhov told journalists.
30 May 2007 [08:07]
Delegation of Azerbaijani parliament led by speaker Ogtay Asadov will be on visit to St. Petersburg on May 30-June 1, parliament’s press secretary Akif Maharramov told a briefing.
29 May 2007 [22:44]
Political authorities are not ready for election of Baku mayor, Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Secretary General Ulrich Boner told the meeting with Azerbaijani journalists in Strasburg.
29 May 2007 [22:32]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today received US Vice President's Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs Joseph R. Wood.
29 May 2007 [22:01]
Egypt Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Yusef Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Sharkawi visited the region of Tovuz at the invitation of parliamentarian Ganira Pashayeva.
29 May 2007 [21:33]
Mazahir Panahov, chairman of Central Election Commission has left for Strasbourg to participate in the debates of Venice Commission on the amendments to the Electoral Code.
29 May 2007 [17:21]
16 correspondents of suspended Gundalik Azerbaijan newspaper seek for asylum in foreign countries.
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