Politics
10 March 2007 [15:30]
Meetings of committees on politics, law and human rights of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly will be held on March 12.
10 March 2007 [15:29]
On March 9, Valeh Alasgarov, vice-speaker of the Azerbaijan Parliament met Hans Gunner, ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to Azerbaijan.
10 March 2007 [15:26]
Ms. Maria Calivis, UNICEF Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, will come to Azerbaijan on 11 March.
10 March 2007 [15:25]
Diplomatic Academy of Azerbaijan and Georgetown University facilitated "Diplomatic training program" for 30 employees of the Ministry of Foreign Ministry on 5-9 March. Professors of Georgetown University, USA, have arrived in Baku for this purpose.
10 March 2007 [15:17]
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said at a press conference on Friday that Georgia's membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) cannot be an obstacle for its entry in NATO.
10 March 2007 [15:14]
A total of 5 trillion rubles ($190 billion) will be earmarked to equip the army and Navy with modern arms until 2015, Russia's president said Friday.
10 March 2007 [14:57]
Parliamentary and local elections will be held in one of the two Russian enclaves in Khrakh oba village, Khachmaz region on March 11.
10 March 2007 [14:48]
The next sitting of Azerbaijani Parliament (Milli Majlis) will be held on March 16.
10 March 2007 [14:44]
Baku Mayor's Office condiders Musavat Party's appeal on holding rally on March 18.
10 March 2007 [10:49]
Lithuania Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ketutas Kudzamanas will come to Baku in late March, Lithuania's Foreign Ministry informs.
10 March 2007 [10:44]
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian says upcoming talks in Geneva should cause "a positive shift" toward settling the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
10 March 2007 [10:43]
EU Commissioner Andreas Piebalgs will pay visit to Azerbaijan, spokesman of commissioner Ferran Tarradellas told.
10 March 2007 [10:41]
Conference will be held in Sweden after the 1st Forum of Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora Organizations, the chief of Turkmen Federation Mehmet Hurshid Samanci in Sweden told.
10 March 2007 [10:40]
Truth cannot be built on lies, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday in Baku, as he called on the Armenian diaspora to prove their allegations of genocide by the Ottoman Empire with documents.
10 March 2007 [10:30]
Amidst rumors of U.S. interest to deploy a missile defense system in Armenia, Armenian deputy foreign minister Arman Kirakosyan has announced that he will not welcome the plan in his country.
10 March 2007 [10:28]
The possible deployment of a U.S. missile defense facility in the Caucasus will affect friendly relations between Russia and the regional states, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said on Friday in Moscow.
10 March 2007 [09:54]
Leaders of Azerbaijan and Russia Accounting Chambers and Kazakhstan Accounting Committee will have a conference in Aktau, Kazakhstan March 12, Azerbaijani Embassy in Kazakhstan informs.
10 March 2007 [09:50]
Azerbaijan Liberal Party (ALP) has begun to preparations to next congress, acting chief of the party Avaz Temirkhan told.
10 March 2007 [09:48]
The second Congress of European Azerbaijanis will be held today, leaders of Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora Organizations told at 1st Forum.
10 March 2007 [09:07]
Oil-rich in a troublesome neighborhood, Azerbaijan ranks high among Western-leaning former Soviet satellites the United States wants in its corner.
09 March 2007 [23:39]
President Ilham Aliyev signed an executive order on awarding some officers of Interior Troops for their merits in the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country.
09 March 2007 [23:36]
"Rich natural gas resources are enough for efficiency of Turkey-Italy-Greece gas pipeline," US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza stated at the sixth Energy Assembly in Istanbul.
09 March 2007 [23:32]
Forum I of Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora organizations continued its work in "Park INN" hotel.
09 March 2007 [23:26]
Today the officers of International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) Armenian office have met with captured soldier of Azerbaijani Armed Forces Samir Mammadov.
09 March 2007 [23:15]
The fifth meeting of Azerbaijan-Belarus intergovernmental commission will be held in Baku on March 27-28, Belarus Ambassador Nikolay Paskevich told.
09 March 2007 [23:01]
Preparations are being made for the visit of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to Azerbaijan, Belarus Ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikolay Paskevich told.
09 March 2007 [22:49]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has received Mehmet Ali Talat, Head of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
09 March 2007 [22:40]
New building of the Turkish Embassy was opened in Azerbaijan.
09 March 2007 [17:29]
President Ilham Aliyev has met with Turkey's Prime Minister Rajab Tayyip Erdogan.
09 March 2007 [17:08]
Today Forum I of Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora organizations has started.
09 March 2007 [16:29]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will pay an official visit to the US at the invitation of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice March 20.
09 March 2007 [16:14]
Energy Summit will be held in May in Poland where the heads of five states will take part in, President of Poland Lech Kachinsky said in press conference held after meetings with Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko.
09 March 2007 [15:55]
EU Commissioner Andreas Piebalgs will pay visit to Azerbaijan, spokesman of commissioner Ferran Tarradellas told.
09 March 2007 [15:36]
"We will not allow the second Armenian state," Azerbaijani President told to the attendees of Forum I of Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora organizations.
09 March 2007 [15:06]
"The cloister in Keshikchi Mountain’s territory on Azerbaijan – Georgia border is an old Alban church. I do not know why Georgians call it in the name of David Garedji," State Land and Cartography Committee's chairman Garib Mammadov told.
09 March 2007 [14:39]
"We hope that Armenian party will finally take normal steps at the meeting of Foreign Ministers at Geneva," President's Office international relations department chief Novruz Mammadov told.
09 March 2007 [14:30]
Azerbaijani Military Air Forces (AMAF) and Air Defense Troops (ADT) are developing, commander of AMAF and ADT, Lieutenant–General Rail Rzayev said.
09 March 2007 [13:29]
Bill on Armenian Genocide will be submitted to Senate after House of Representatives.
09 March 2007 [13:25]
The meeting on choosing representatives for the united congress of Azerbaijani communities will be held in Jerusalem on March 18.
09 March 2007 [13:19]
The meeting of the commission on delimitation and demarcation of Azerbaijan-Russia border will be held in Baku March 27, Garib Mammadov, the chief of the State Committee on Land and Cartography said.
09 March 2007 [11:58]
UEFA president Michel Platini’s two-day business visit to Georgia is over.
09 March 2007 [11:52]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev is expected to visit Tajikistan.
09 March 2007 [11:15]
French co-chair of OSCE Minsk group Bernard Fassier arrived in Baku.
09 March 2007 [11:12]
Turkish Prime Minister Recap Tayyip Erdogan interviewed by APA.
09 March 2007 [11:02]
Azerbaijan will host the first-ever forum of Azerbaijan and Turkey's Diaspora organizations on Friday.
08 March 2007 [12:20]
Soon the issue on increasing the number of Azerbaijani peacekeepers in Afghanistan is expected to be discussed in the meetings of Parliament.
08 March 2007 [12:19]
Heads of diplomatic missions in Azerbaijan were informed about the international conference to be held in the framework of Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in Baku.
08 March 2007 [12:09]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will participate and make speech in the 4th session of the UN Human Rights Council to be held in Geneva on 12 March.
08 March 2007 [12:00]
Azerbaijan's Security Minister, Lieut Gen Eldar Mahmudov received Turkey's ambassador to Azerbaijan Huseyn Avni Garsioglu at his request.
08 March 2007 [11:36]
08 March 2007 [11:24]
Nakhchivan AR Milli Majlis chairman Vasif Talibov paid a visit to Igdir province of Turkey.
08 March 2007 [11:16]
Police in Azerbaijan prevented activists from gathering in front of the Iranian Embassy on Wednesday to protest the alleged persecution of ethnic Azeris in neighboring Iran.
07 March 2007 [23:44]
Azerbaijani Interior Troops' membership to Association of the European and Mediterranean Police Forces and Gendarmeries with Military Status (FIEP) will be considered in the meeting of the organization to be held in October, this year, Commander of Interior Troops Zakir Hasanov said.
07 March 2007 [23:25]
Joint meeting of the state commissions on delimitation and demarcation of Azerbaijan-Georgia borders ended in Baku today.
07 March 2007 [22:22]
"It is high time to discuss Turkey's admission to GUAM. Taking into account several principles, our party proposed Turkey's admission to GUAM. Turkey has normal relations with all GUAM member states. Turkey is experienced for the level of democracy," leader of Joint Azerbaijan Popular Front Party Gudret Hasanguliyev told.
07 March 2007 [16:54]
President Ilham Aliyev signed an executive order on approving the new composition of Azerbaijan-Greece joint commission on economic, industrial and technological cooperation.
07 March 2007 [16:34]
Islamic Commission for Cultural and Social Affairs of Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) adopted a resolution on the Khojaly tragedy in the session in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, The resolution was submitted by the Islamic Conference Youth Forum and adopted unanimously.
07 March 2007 [16:05]
President Ilham Aliyev signed an executive order on approving the new composition of Azerbaijan-Turkey joint intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation.
07 March 2007 [14:40]
The draft prepared by Azerbaijani government basing on the recommendations on Electoral Code of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe was studied by the commission and again sent to Azerbaijan for amendments, Sergey Kuznetsov, the officer of Venice Commission Elections and Referendums Division told.
07 March 2007 [14:18]
"To defend the person like Ali Insanov does not favor anyone. That is why I do not join Musavat's statement on Ali Insanov," the member of Musavat's Divan, the chief of medical commission of the party Adil Geybulla said.
07 March 2007 [13:25]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will leave for Azerbaijan on March 8 to attend the First Forum of World Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora Organizations.
07 March 2007 [13:03]
2074785sq.m areas of Azerbaijani territory were cleared from mines and unexploded ordinances (UXO) and 33565 UXO have been rendered harmless in February, Azerbaijani National Agency for Mine Actions (ANAMA) told.
07 March 2007 [09:18]
The appeal of the chief of Azerbaijan People's Front Party Ali Karimli on getting national passport will be considered today.
07 March 2007 [09:13]
Some of the visitors invited to the first forum of Azerbaijan and Turkish Diaspora Organizations to be held March 9 have already arrived in Baku.
07 March 2007 [09:11]
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of U.S. Department of State released annual report on human rights practice in Azerbaijan.
07 March 2007 [09:09]
"Recent visits of high ranking officials of Turkey, one of the active members of NATO has no connection with Iran and the US relations," Turkish Land Forces Commander, General Ilker Basbug visiting Azerbaijan said.
07 March 2007 [08:38]
Azerbaijan Popular Front Party held discussions on Azadliq alliance's activity in the conference of executive board of the Party.
07 March 2007 [08:32]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev received credentials of newly-appointed ambassadors.
07 March 2007 [08:24]
Independent and opposition newspapers in Azerbaijan have filed a lawsuit, demanding that officials allow journalists from non-state-run media to cover the high-profile trial of a former health minister accused of abuse of office and other crimes, activists said Wednesday.
07 March 2007 [08:09]
Armenia's Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian met with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington on Monday to discuss Armenia's upcoming parliamentary elections, efforts to resolve the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, and other issues of mutual interest.
07 March 2007 [07:57]
Baku executive power rejected the appeal of the Azerbaijan National Independence Party to place a picket outside the Iranian embassy.
07 March 2007 [07:56]
The press services of Azerbaijani and Russian interior troops will meet in Moscow from March 12 to 17.
06 March 2007 [23:30]
Ombudsman's annual report was debated in today’s sitting of Azerbaijani parliament.
06 March 2007 [23:25]
President Ilham Aliyev today received the delegation led by the Turkish Land Forces commander, Army General Ilker Basbug.
06 March 2007 [23:19]
"We do not have any information that the US is negotiating with Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia to deploy its missile defense system," Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov told.
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