News for 07 November 2006
Politics
07 November 2006 [23:19]
After Azerbaijan's Prime Minister Artur Rasizade and visiting Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Jordan Marouf al-Bakhit met behind closed doors, the meeting continued in the presence of the two countries' delegations.
07 November 2006 [22:24]
On November 7, Chairman of the Polish Senate Bogdan Borusewicz arrived in Baku.
07 November 2006 [22:20]
Several opposition members have criticized the Armenian authorities for continuing to yield the country's economic potential to Russia in a bid to secure its favors during the upcoming elections.
07 November 2006 [22:06]
Being on official visit to Brussels Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev met with EU Secretary General for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana.
07 November 2006 [22:02]
Armenian destructions damage Azerbaijan by AZN 23 249 823 960.
07 November 2006 [22:01]
"The editor-in-chief of the journal Monitor Elmar Huseynov's murder is a great shock for Azerbaijan," the Azerbaijan President said at the press conference held together with the President of European Commission Jose Manuel Barozzo.
07 November 2006 [21:59]
A visit to EU headquarters by a confident Azerbaijani president on November 7 marked a new stage in the relationship between the two sides.
07 November 2006 [21:57]
"We have no agreement on Nagorno Karabakh referendum, we will have discussions on the eve of the Azerbaijani and Armenian ministers' meeting on November 14 in Brussels and determine our position on the referendum," said OSCE Minsk Group co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov.
07 November 2006 [14:53]
Constitutional court together with CE Venice Commission will hold an international conference on the theme "Relations between Constitutional Court and courts of common jurisdiction".
07 November 2006 [13:54]
"The tense of the processes make more probably the war between Iran and USA. But it is not obvious when the operations will begin," South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement leader Mahmudali Chohraganli stated.
07 November 2006 [12:44]
Azerbaijani, Russian and Iranian railway senior officials will meet in Tehran to discuss the Project on North-South transport corridor, Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Transportation Musa Panahov told that the trilateral meeting will take place in late November.
Business
07 November 2006 [22:26]
Azerbaijan's Minister of Economic Development Heydar Babayev met at the Excelsior Hotel Baku with members of the Azerbaijan-Turkey Businessmen Union.
07 November 2006 [22:18]
The weighted average exchange prices made up 0.8725 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on November 7.
07 November 2006 [22:11]
Since Azerbaijan refines and sells petroleum products, the country has an interest in the realization of the Odesa-Brody-Plock oil pipeline project, Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliyev said in Brussels on Tuesday.
07 November 2006 [21:36]
Azerbaijan's president will arrive in Moscow Wednesday for a three-day visit ahead of negotiations on Russian natural gas deliveries for 2007, the presidential press service said.
07 November 2006 [21:34]
The European Commission says it has signed an agreement on energy partnership with Azerbaijan.
07 November 2006 [16:51]
Azerbaijani-Jordanian business forum took place in Baku today.
07 November 2006 [16:42]
The process for the construction of the Russian-supported Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline, an alternative to Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, has been intensified.
07 November 2006 [15:33]
"Barmek-Azerbaijan and Bakielectricshebeke OJSC signed a hand-over agreement on Monday. Hand-over test of all substations will be concluded and an agreement on accounting will be signed shortly," Barmek President Huseyn Arabul stated.
07 November 2006 [14:21]
Finance Ministry and Foreign Ministry have developed a bill on financial provision of diplomatic servants, Finance Ministry officer Shakir Guliyev said.
07 November 2006 [13:56]
"In Azerbaijan Science spending makes up 0.7% of the GDP. As a result, the science has no influence on economy," Azerbaijan national Academy of Sceice President Mahmud Kerimov said.
07 November 2006 [13:14]
Azerigas CJSC has sued 391 individuals for interfering in the gas meters.
07 November 2006 [13:12]
Communications and Information Technologies Minister Ali Abbasov has visited Turkey to attend the Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), which will take place from Monday, November 6 to Friday, November 24 in Antalya, Turkey.
07 November 2006 [12:27]
Workshop was held in Baku at initiative of the Finance Ministry and Turkish International Cooperation Agency (TICA) Program Coordinator in Baku.
07 November 2006 [12:24]
Taxes Ministry implemented the taxes prediction by 108.8 percent during the period of January-October.
07 November 2006 [12:23]
Fuel consumption for electricity generation was 354.93 gram/1kilowatt/h against 358.84 in the thermal power plants in Azerbaijan during October.
07 November 2006 [12:08]
Collection of electric bills reached 60.3% in October, Azerenergy Energy Supply Officer Hidayat Yariyev stated.
07 November 2006 [11:56]
SOCAR Marketing and Economic Operations Department announced a tender for export of 1 200 barrels of Azeri Light Crude Oil from Ceyhan Port at two stages-half on December 1 and half on Dec. 15.
07 November 2006 [11:40]
Chief of Ali Bayramli Gas Supply Department has been dismissed.
07 November 2006 [11:35]
Taxes Ministry Operational Control Department have to date examined 138 909 various kinds of trade facilities and found serious irregularities in 32 492 of them.
07 November 2006 [11:32]
Some 200 Korean-made big buses are intended to be imported to Azerbaijan for provision of Baku bus demand, Deputy Minister of Transportation Musa Panahov told.
Society
07 November 2006 [22:16]
An incident happened among the prisoners of Gobustan jail on October 28.
07 November 2006 [22:13]
Editor's Union tried to hold action outside the building of State Committee for Management of Public Properties.
07 November 2006 [21:52]
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.
07 November 2006 [21:35]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
07 November 2006 [16:38]
Azerbaijan women's handball team has progressed to the final of the 2nd international tournament for Moscow Oblast Handball Federation Cup held in Zvenigorod, Russia.
07 November 2006 [16:25]
European Court of Human Rights registered the appeals of the prisoners whose death penalty was substituted with life sentence, the relatives of prisoners told.
07 November 2006 [15:06]
Azerbaijan National Television and Radio Council has submitted draft on the license tariff to the Cabinet.
07 November 2006 [13:33]
Georgian citizen Teymuraz Aliyev suspected in the murder of editor-in-chief of the "Monitor" journal Elmar Huseynov is searched by Interpol in a great number of countries, Interior Ministry Press Service Department employee Ehzan Zahidov told.
07 November 2006 [11:27]
Earthquake happened in the western regions of Azerbaijan today, Arif Hasanov general director of Seismological Service Center informed.
07 November 2006 [08:55]
Chile and Uruguay were the best ranked countries in the latest edition of the "Corruption Perceptions Index" (CPI) released Monday by the nongovernmental corruption watchdog Transparency International.
07 November 2006 [08:45]
An Azeri man was fatally shot Sunday in Moscow in a killing police suggested was planned.
