Politics
20 February 2007 [08:10]
Union of Return to Western Azerbaijan (URWA) and former health minister Ali Insanov's Right Defense Committee chief Rizvan Talibov held a press conference on legal procedure of former minister.
20 February 2007 [07:50]
The delegation led by Azerbaijani Consul General to St. Petersburg Gudsi Osmanov left for Komi Republic.
20 February 2007 [07:25]
"We have just started the implementation of the European Neighborhood Policy action plan for Azerbaijan. We pay much attention to basic aspects of the plan. Azerbaijan is in transition period and faces a number of problems," Peter Semneby, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus told journalists.
20 February 2007 [07:10]
On Monday ambassador of Azerbaijan Latif Gandilov paid respect to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Marat Tazhin.
19 February 2007 [23:14]
"The discussions held in Paris were very productive," saif Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov while commenting on the latest meeting of the Minsk Group co-chairs in Paris on February 15-16.
19 February 2007 [23:12]
Azerbaijani MPs Elton Mammadov, Fattah Heydarov, Ekrem Abdullayev, Aydin Abbasov and Fuad Muradov left for Berlin at the invitation of Azerbaijani House in Germany.
19 February 2007 [23:11]
Serdar Jalaloglu-led Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) made a decision on Rasul Guliyev's dismissal from the ADP.
19 February 2007 [23:10]
Azerbaijan's Defense Minister, Colonel-General Safar Abiyev left for United Arab Emirates on February 17 to attend International Defense Exhibition (IDEX).
19 February 2007 [23:04]
The mission on cultural monuments of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will visit the South Caucasus in May this year.
19 February 2007 [22:42]
EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby today has met with Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
19 February 2007 [22:37]
Clashes have emerged between Cossacks and Armenians and Georgians in Stavropol.
19 February 2007 [22:31]
Azadliq alliance does not intend to change its position concerning the Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP), said Citizen and Development Party leader Ali Aliyev.
19 February 2007 [22:26]
The Supreme Assembly of Rasul Guliyev-led ADP (Azerbaijan Democrat Party) part held the next meeting in the office of Classic Azerbaijan Popular Front Party.
19 February 2007 [15:51]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on Monday called for a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear program, emphasizing the central role of the United Nation's atomic regulator.
19 February 2007 [15:07]
Leo Platvoet, Rapporteur on the Missing Persons of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will visit Armenia in April.
19 February 2007 [14:58]
"I have not made any changes to my report on missing persons. I received no complaints from Azerbaijan," said Leo Platvoet, PACE Rapporteur on the Missing Persons in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
19 February 2007 [14:36]
On Sunday European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby visited internally displaced-persons camps in Galagayin settlement of Sabirabad region in Azerbaijan.
19 February 2007 [14:25]
Foreign Minister Frank-Valter Schtainmayer is visiting Azerbaijan. German Minister today met with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov.
19 February 2007 [12:08]
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammerberg will concern himself with the living conditions of internally displaced persons within his visit to Azerbaijan.
19 February 2007 [11:51]
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev focused their talks Sunday on energy issues and ways the two countries could increase cooperation.
19 February 2007 [11:45]
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan Andar Shukputov held a working meeting with Samed Seidov, tha chairman of the Milli Majlis comission on international relations and interparliamentary ties.
19 February 2007 [01:47]
Hundreds of opposition activists rallied in the Azerbaijani capital Sunday in the latest of a series of authorized protests against steep rises in municipal gas, electric and water rates.
18 February 2007 [20:46]
Germany's foreign minister departed Sunday for a tour of three ex-Soviet states in the oil-rich south Caucasus region, in an effort to explore possibilities of reducing German dependence on Russian oil and gas.
18 February 2007 [01:43]
Iranian police and insurgents clashed briefly after a bomb — described as "sound bomb" — went off in southeastern Iran but injured no one, the country's state-run news agency said on Saturday.
18 February 2007 [01:37]
The chief of Turkey's powerful military General Staff accused Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq of actively backing Turkish Kurd rebels there and said Ankara must take action, a state news agency said on Saturday.
17 February 2007 [22:48]
UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization) has accepted the map of Southern Azerbaijan in Iran.
17 February 2007 [17:40]
Head of President's Press Service, Azer Gasimov, held a press conference on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Germany.
17 February 2007 [17:34]
Following last month's assassination of Hrant Dink, some U.S. State Department officials and Armenia's foreign minister urged Turkey to use this opportunity to normalize relations with Armenia by opening the border and "face our history" by abolishing Article 301.
17 February 2007 [17:33]
Animation of the Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway project became possible due to Russia's shortsighted policy aimed to restrain CIS 'obstinate' member states, head of the department of international relations at the institute of political and military studies Sergey Markedonov said.
17 February 2007 [17:29]
Deterioration of bilateral relations between Russia and Azerbaijan in 2006 has got a logical continuation in 2007, head of the department of international relations at the institute of political and military studies Sergey Markedonov said.
17 February 2007 [17:03]
17 February 2007 [17:02]
Special representative of the European Union for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby has arrived in Baku.
17 February 2007 [17:01]
OSCE ODIHR has released preliminary report on parliamentary elections to be held in Armenia on May 12.
17 February 2007 [17:00]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has today received Peter Semneby, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus.
17 February 2007 [16:55]
Moscow and Yerevan's vision of the Armenian-Russian partnership and the Nagorno Karabakh problem weren't traditionally a topic of bilateral consensus, head of the department of international relations at the institute of political and military studies Sergey Markedonov said.
17 February 2007 [16:51]
The Crimea AR Supreme Rada Speaker Anatoliy Grizenko received Azerbaijan's ambassador to Ukraine Talat Aliyev and Ukraine Azerbaijanis Congress official Ali Orujov.
17 February 2007 [14:32]
The meeting of Azerbaijan Democrat Party's Supreme Assembly will be held at the headquarters of Classic Front Party.
17 February 2007 [13:47]
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will hold winter session in Vienna on February 22-23.
17 February 2007 [13:35]
Putting Putin's 'US-bashing' speech on the Web site of the Turkish Office of the Chief of General Staff amounts to a warning to Washington, says retired Maj. Gen. Kuloglu. Meanwhile, the Russian leader promoted defense minister Ivanov to first vice premiership in another move seen as a sign of Putin.s consolidating his power.
17 February 2007 [13:23]
"Georgia is going to join NATO and this accession will occur in a few years," said "foreign minister" of separatist Abkhazian regime Sergey Shamba.
17 February 2007 [09:35]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan met with the Prime Minister of Baden-Wurtenberg, a Federal Land of Germany, Gunther Ettinger, February 16.
17 February 2007 [09:30]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that granting independence for Kosovo would have "the most negative consequences" for the Balkans and Europe, Russian media reported — some of the strongest language yet on an issue that has deepened Moscow's disagreements with the West.
17 February 2007 [09:25]
A Georgian court held closed hearings Friday on appeals from three men convicted of being accomplices of a Russian who smuggled weapons-grade uranium to an agent posing as a rich foreign buyer, a court spokeswoman said.
17 February 2007 [09:10]
Azerbaijani soldier Vusal Garajayev who was released form Armenian capture was transferred to Bayil isolation ward #1.
17 February 2007 [08:25]
Turkish Armed Forces General Staff Chief, General Yasar Buyukanit visiting the US met with his American counterpart Peter Pace and Deputy Secretary of Defence, Eric Edelman.
17 February 2007 [08:10]
The Board of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is expected to discuss 25 issues at the meeting.
17 February 2007 [08:00]
Moldovan Prime Minister Vasile Tarliyev will meet with the members of Caspian Integration Business Club within his visit to Azerbaijan.
17 February 2007 [07:55]
The ruling New Azerbaijani Party (YAP) press service made statement on tried former Health Minister Ali Insanov's statement at the Court of Grave Crimes concerning the party.
17 February 2007 [07:50]
European Union president Germany said Friday that the bloc is willing to help the new leadership of Turkmenistan implement democratic reforms and urged the nation's new president to free political prisoners.
17 February 2007 [07:35]
Ankara Businessmen Circle held a conference on the theme "Turkish-Armenian relations - past, present and genocide claims" in the capital of Turkey Ankara.
17 February 2007 [07:05]
A Turkish court on Friday sentenced seven suspected al-Qaida militants to life in prison for the deadly 2003 bombings in Istanbul.
17 February 2007 [07:00]
Police in Azerbaijan prevented activists from holding a demonstration Friday in front of the Iranian Embassy, where they had planned to protest alleged persecution of ethnic Azeris in the neighboring country.
16 February 2007 [20:36]
An expert group headed by chief of the international legal cooperation department of the Justice Ministry of Azerbaijan Zaver Gafarov from 12 to 15 February has visited Morocco, embassy of Azerbaijan to Morocco said.
16 February 2007 [20:34]
President Ilham Aliyev met on February 16 with German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Michael Glos.
16 February 2007 [20:31]
On April 16 Latvia's Foreign Minister Artis Pabriks will pay official visit to Baku.
16 February 2007 [20:29]
A range of events will be organized on the 15th anniversary of Khojali genocide in the US.
16 February 2007 [20:28]
"If Penah Huseyn continues to quarrel in Parliament, we'll invite him to the Disciplinary Committee meeting and interrogate him. Parliamentarian shouldn't exchange words with speaker," Milli Majlis Disciplinary Committee chief Agajan Abiyev said.
16 February 2007 [20:18]
"GUAM countries had no intention to impede any constructive measures and the negotiating process for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," said Foreign Ministry Press and Information Policy Department chief Tahir Tagizadeh.
16 February 2007 [17:16]
Secretary of the Council of Europe Venice Commission Giovanni Buquicchio has been interviewed by the APA.
16 February 2007 [14:37]
"Any action anywhere, including in the UN General Assembly could undermine the positive developments of recent months," the statement reads.
16 February 2007 [14:31]
Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will visit Azerbaijan on February 18 within his visit to the South Caucasus.
16 February 2007 [14:00]
February 15, in Paris, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian met with OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs and Personal Representative of OSCE CiO, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk.
16 February 2007 [13:54]
Azerbaijan's parliament will meet on February 26 to debate on the 15th anniversary of Khojaly tragedy, Speaker Ogtay Asadov said.
16 February 2007 [12:56]
The Iranian capital's vast market is the centre of the nation's economy. But President Ahmadinejad's foreign policy, and the sanctions it has provoked, are proving bad for business.
16 February 2007 [12:51]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said he would like to resolve the conflict with Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh peacefully, but did not rule out a war for the enclave.
16 February 2007 [12:49]
The European Commission is drafting a new EU policy for trade and security cooperation among Black Sea states, but Russia - a major regional player with a naval force in the Crimean peninsula - has already begun sniping at the scheme.
16 February 2007 [09:40]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met with Michael Zukkow, a president of the Germany's Michael Zukkow Foundation, February 15.
16 February 2007 [09:30]
On February 15, the second day of his official visit to the Federative Republic of Germany, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met with Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit.
16 February 2007 [08:25]
The amount of NATO's aids to Azerbaijan will be determined due to the results of the present stage, NATO coordinator to Azerbaijan Lorenz Meyer Minnemann, who is on a visit in Baku said.
16 February 2007 [08:20]
Azerbaijan's Defence Industry Minister Yaver Jamalov will visit Romania at the invitation of Romanian Defence Industry Minister on February 19-25.
16 February 2007 [08:05]
Chairman of Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) Supreme Assembly Akif Shahbazov appealed to Justice Minister Fikret Mammadov.
16 February 2007 [08:00]
The meeting of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov, Matthew Bryza, Bernard Fasier and personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk in Paris is over.
16 February 2007 [08:00]
Azerbaijani Diaspora Organizations will hold protest actions on the 15th anniversary of Khojali genocide on February 26.
16 February 2007 [07:55]
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, welcomed today the work of the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities, Rolf Ekeus, which he described as "crucial for stability across the 56-country OSCE region."
16 February 2007 [07:45]
Milli Majlis will hold next meeting on Friday.
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