News for 29 November 2006
Politics
29 November 2006 [23:59]
29 November 2006 [23:17]
Communique consisting of 46 paragraphs was adopted in the summit of the heads of NATO member states in Riga.
29 November 2006 [22:48]
Baku hosted the fourth meeting of Azerbaijan-Austrian Intergovernmental commission for economic, industrial, technical and technological cooperation.
29 November 2006 [22:40]
"Closure of ANS is connected with the violation of some provisions of the legislation. The ANS and relevant agencies should continue negotiations, and we urge that this decision be reconsidered", US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse told reporters today.
29 November 2006 [18:15]
"We realize both economic and political reforms. The political reforms should supplement the economic reforms. If strong public control and free society not formulated, there will be no future of economic successes," said President Ilham Aliyev said, while showing his attitude to the situations on media.
29 November 2006 [18:12]
NATO membership countries declared that they worry about unsettled conflicts in South Caucasus.
29 November 2006 [17:30]
Georgia is determining its position on the referendum to be held on December 10 in the so-called "Nagorno Karabakh Republic," said Georgian Foreign minister Valeri Chechelashvili.
29 November 2006 [16:57]
Azerbaijan and Georgia stand against the "Pact of Stability in Caucasus," Milli Mejlis member Ganira Pashayeva said adding that Baku and Tbilisi have numerous remarks and amendments to the document being organized by Romanian parliamentarian Severenen.
29 November 2006 [16:55]
Normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey and establishment of diplomatic relations do not depend on the terms of Turkey’s accession to the EU.
29 November 2006 [16:53]
29 November 2006 [16:52]
President of ANS Group of Companies Vahid Mustafayev was interrogated in Yasamal Prosecutor's office.
29 November 2006 [16:47]
The decision of National Television and Radio Council may be discussed and commented on, but it must be obeyed. One can only appeal against the decision, Ali Hasanov the Head of the Social-Political Department of the Presidential Administration said.
29 November 2006 [16:42]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that the country was close to breaking the impasse with Armenia over the disputed enclave of Nagorno Karabakh.
29 November 2006 [14:41]
Chairman of Department of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University Walter Stark appealed to the President for Ali Insanov's release from custody.
29 November 2006 [14:36]
"YAP did not receive any appeal on representation in For Azerbaijan Initiative Group and no talks have been held concerning it," said party's press service chief Huseyn Pashayev.
29 November 2006 [12:48]
Problems appeared concerning the publication of 8 magazines belonging to ANS Press Publishing House.
29 November 2006 [12:44]
NATO supports OSCE policy in the settlement of conflicts in South Caucasus, as well as Nagorno Karabakh conflict. We hope for the peaceful solution to Nagorno Karabakh conflict, said NATO Spokesman James Appathurai.
29 November 2006 [12:08]
Iran's 10-day war games this month were aimed at intimidating U.S. allies in the region and dissuading them from cooperating in a potential strike against the Tehran government, American military officials and analysts have concluded.
29 November 2006 [12:03]
Turkey's top Muslim leader on Tuesday told Pope Benedict there was too much "Islamophobia" in the world, as the Pontiff appeared to do an about-face from his previous opposition to Ankara's bid to enter the European Union.
29 November 2006 [11:42]
The NATO summit began on Tuesday in Riga. For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO leaders openly discussed potential threats posed by Moscow.
29 November 2006 [11:35]
The European Commission will recommend on Wednesday a partial suspension of Turkey's negotiations to join the European Union after it failed to open its ports to EU member Cyprus, an EU source said on Wednesday.
29 November 2006 [11:33]
Azerbaijan and Russia will sign several documents during Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov’s upcoming visit to Baku.
29 November 2006 [10:38]
Azerbaijani Ambassador to Iran Abbaseli Hasanov while being in Iran Foreign Ministry asked to stop protest actions held outside of Azerbaijan Embassy in Tehran and Azerbaijani Consul General in Tebriz.
29 November 2006 [10:11]
The next meeting of Council of CIS Foreign Ministers will be held in the capital of Kazakhstan Astana, next year in spring.
Business
29 November 2006 [23:55]
The weighted average exchange prices made up 0.8716 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on November 29.
29 November 2006 [23:52]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan on November 29 received Sultan Ahmad Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman of Dubai Ports, Customs and Free Trade Zone Corporation.
29 November 2006 [14:39]
Azerbaijan intends to produce 5bn cubic meters of natural gas next year.
29 November 2006 [14:38]
President Saakashvili said his meeting with Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev on the sidelines of the CIS summit in Minsk on November 28 will have "very important" results, as Tbilisi tries to obtain alternative sources of gas supplies to ease dependency on Russia's Gazprom.
29 November 2006 [12:41]
As Today.Az reported earlier, presidents of Belarus, Ukraine and Azerbaijan were discussing energy security in Minsk.
29 November 2006 [11:47]
The volume of transportation through the international Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA) for January-October 2006 has grown 7.2% and reached 35.9 million tonnes, the State Statistic Committee of Azerbaijan said.
29 November 2006 [11:35]
The incomes and expenditures of the State Budget of Azerbaijan equaled AZN 2 683.6m and AZN 2 420.9m respectively.
29 November 2006 [11:32]
Favorable balance reached $999 941 900 in exports and imports of Azerbaijan during the period of January-October.
29 November 2006 [11:27]
Azerbaijan's parliament passed a 2007 budget Tuesday that increases projected income and spending by some 40 percent over last year, relying largely on oil for revenues.
29 November 2006 [10:49]
Bank Respublika has used the second tranche allowed by the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) and lent $4m to oocal beneficiaries.
29 November 2006 [10:44]
Azerbaijani transport companies carried 117.5m tonnes of goods within January-October this year which represents an increase of 13.1% the same period last year.
29 November 2006 [10:43]
As of November 1, economically active population of Azerbaijan reached 3 960 800 in number, of which 33.4% are hirelings.
29 November 2006 [10:41]
Azeristiliktechizat OJSC plans to implement a heating project in order to improve heating supply of the regions.
Society
29 November 2006 [23:48]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
29 November 2006 [17:26]
"Do you know where you are going? Are you sure where you are going? Have you thought it over well enough?" - these were the questions the confused Georgian frontier guard asked the Azeri journalists who were coming to Armenia. The journalists themselves told about it today in Armenia who explained half-jokingly what results the mutual visits can have.
29 November 2006 [17:26]
ANS Group of Companies did not appeal to take part in the tender of the frequency announced by National Television and Radio Council.
29 November 2006 [17:22]
Construction of a new secondary school will commence in Lankaran province in 2007.
29 November 2006 [17:20]
29 November 2006 [17:18]
29 November 2006 [17:17]
29 November 2006 [17:05]
Azerbaijani journalists are in the Russian capital, Moscow, for the "Russia today" seminar of the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, ITAR-TASS.
29 November 2006 [16:51]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
29 November 2006 [16:17]
Today, two-day seminar on Media freedom and ethics: European dimension in the professional education and training of journalists began in Baku.
29 November 2006 [14:42]
Challenges facing women lawyers in Azerbaijan and ways of enhancing their role in society were the main topics of an OSCE-organized international conference which ended in Baku on Tuesday.
29 November 2006 [11:55]
PFK Turan Tovuz abandoned their title hopes in Azerbaijan by focusing on local talent, but their bold move may pay dividends for football in the future.
29 November 2006 [11:54]
The court received the appeal in connection with the judgment on ex-chief of Administrative Department Akif Muradverdiyev today.
29 November 2006 [11:36]
Migration authorities detained 60 illegal aliens from CIS countries at the Luzhniki trade center on Tuesday, said spokeswoman for the Moscow department of the Federal Migration Service /FMS/ Zalina Filimonova.
29 November 2006 [11:31]
A second outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu at another poultry farm has been confirmed by South Korean authorities; the farm is just 3 km from the first case in North Cholla province in the country's southwest.
29 November 2006 [00:40]
Outside this improbable spa in a remote part of the former Soviet Union, oil rigs bob on a hardscrabble plain of rocks, shrubs and rusting industrial equipment that could easily pass for a stretch of West Texas.
