News for 01 December 2006
Politics
01 December 2006 [18:19]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan congratulated the president of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan on the national holiday of his country - day of establishment of the UAE state.
01 December 2006 [18:18]
01 December 2006 [18:16]
ANS TV and ANS ChM radio refused to participate in the tender announced by National Television and Radio Broadcasting.
01 December 2006 [18:13]
The newly appointed permanent representative of the Azerbaijan Republic to the United Nations, ambassador Agshin Mehdiyev on November 30 has presented his credentials to the Secretary General of this Organization Kofi Annan.
01 December 2006 [17:05]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Igdyr Saim Saffet Karahisarly, the Governor of Turkey's Igdyr province.
01 December 2006 [16:57]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Member of the House of Lords of the UK Parliament, Baroness O'Cathain, press service of the Ministry said.
01 December 2006 [16:46]
Ukraine's parliament voted Friday to dismiss the country's foreign and interior ministers, both key supporters of the Western-leaning president.
01 December 2006 [16:37]
Press conference was held on the annual activity of Milli Majlis.
01 December 2006 [16:34]
The people of self-proclaimed "NKR" will choose their way themselves and this does not conflict with two principles of international law -the principle of territorial integrity and the right of nations to self-determination, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told a news conference in Yerevan.
01 December 2006 [16:31]
When commenting on the hearsay of Armenia's possible joining the GUAM Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said that Yerevan has no intention to join the organization.
01 December 2006 [16:29]
The meeting of the Armenian and Azeri Presidents in Minsk was positive and proceeded in a good atmosphere, RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told a news conference in Yerevan.
01 December 2006 [15:59]
On Friday, 21 Parliamentarians appealed to President Ilham Aliyev for restoring ANS TV and ANS ChM's broadcasting.
01 December 2006 [15:21]
Turkey Ambassador to Azerbaijan Turan Morali will continue his diplomatic mission in the Republic of Ireland.
01 December 2006 [15:19]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received the head of the OSCE Office in Baku Maurizio Pavesi on occasion of expiry of his tenure.
01 December 2006 [15:16]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Maurizio Pavesi as the latter recently completed his tenure as Head of the OSCE Office in Baku, press service of the Ministry said.
01 December 2006 [14:24]
Sadval, laying claims to Azerbaijani and Russian territories, is dissatisfied with national policy of Dagestan's president Mukhu Aliyev.
01 December 2006 [14:21]
"Decisions were taken in NATO Prague and Istanbul summits to strengthen the struggle against new dangers.
01 December 2006 [13:03]
Russian news agencies have reported that a train carrying equipment from the Tbilisi-based Russian garrison has left Vaziani; it will take the way via Azerbaijan.
01 December 2006 [12:59]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Lord Russell Johnston, the Chairperson of the sub-committee on Nagorno Karabakh of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
01 December 2006 [12:09]
The meeting of GUAM Foreign Ministers will hold talks in the frame of the meeting of OSCE Foreign Ministers' Council to be held on December 4 in Brussels, Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told the journalists.
01 December 2006 [12:07]
"There is only one uncoordinated principle concerning Nagorno Karabakh. The majority of 8-9 principles have already been agreed," Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists.
01 December 2006 [12:05]
The next meeting of Azerbaijan and Armenian Foreign Ministers will be held on December 4 in Brussels, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told the journalists.
01 December 2006 [10:55]
According to a report by Iran's state-run daily Jomhouri Islami, on November 27, Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader has threatened Baku, reminding this neighboring country, situated to the north of times that it used to be a part of Iran.
01 December 2006 [10:44]
"If Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents meet, there are improvements in the talks," Nizami Bahmanov, the head of the Azerbaijani community in Nagorno Karabakh, stated.
01 December 2006 [10:40]
Ex-president Abulfaz Elchibey's family appealed to the Cabinet of Ministers and governmental bodies for reconstruction of Elchibey’s grave.
01 December 2006 [10:39]
"If Parliament makes decision on formulating the new composition of Central Election Commission, we will consider this issue. But I do not think that it is urgent problem," said the chief of Central Election Commission Mazahir Panahov.
01 December 2006 [10:28]
The delegation headed by Deputy Chief of YAP Ali Ahmadov went to Yekaterinburg to participate in Congress VII of Yedinaya Rossiya (United Russia) Party.
01 December 2006 [10:22]
Argentine's parliament recognized the so-called "Armenian genocide."
01 December 2006 [10:18]
A protocol was signed about Shamakhi and Igdir that they became twin cities.
01 December 2006 [10:17]
The next summit of CIS heads of states will be held in Dushanbe.
01 December 2006 [10:16]
The next meeting of Council of Chairmen of Azadliq bloc was held on Thursday.
01 December 2006 [10:14]
Azerbaijan Press Council chairman Aflatun Amashov met with the U.S. ambassador Anne Derse.
01 December 2006 [10:13]
Chief of the Committee Fighting against Torture, Elchin Behbudov met with ex-ministers Farhad Aliyev and Ali Insanov in the National Security Ministry ward.
01 December 2006 [00:52]
The Russian and the French Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, Ambassadors Yuri Merzlyakov and B Bernard Fassier, acting also on behalf of the U.S. Co-Chair Matthew Bryza, visited Yerevan and Baku on 20 and 21 November.
01 December 2006 [00:37]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received November 30 Prime Minister of Georgia Zurab Nogaideli.
01 December 2006 [00:31]
"We have already seen Robert Kocharyan after his return from Minsk. He wasn't a bit upset. That is all rumour, unverified information. He was very active and full of enthusiasm," said Armen Rustamyan, member of Dashnaktsutyun Party and chairman of the RA NA Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs.
01 December 2006 [00:26]
Azerbaijani-Russian relations, increasingly warm in the past five years, are about to enter a difficult phase that could turn both countries into regional rivals.
01 December 2006 [00:19]
"Without legal basis and intergovernmental contracts, foreign broadcasters will be cut off in Azerbaijan," said National Television and Radio Council chairman channels Nushiravan Maharramli.
01 December 2006 [00:14]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received November 30 Peer Stanchina, Ambassador of Germany to Azerbaijan.
01 December 2006 [00:10]
"We normally accept the position of both the US embassy in Azerbaijan and State Department Spokesman and regard it as the attention of the US to the processes going on in Azerbaijan.
01 December 2006 [00:07]
"In the communique adopted in the NATO summit the nations support the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and the Republic of Moldova.
01 December 2006 [00:04]
01 December 2006 [00:03]
National Television and Radio Council held a meeting about the terms of tender announced for the frequency of ANS TV and ANS ChM, and decision was made on ANS's participation in the tender.
Business
01 December 2006 [18:20]
Heydar Babayev, Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, has met with member of the House of Lords of the UK Parliament, Baroness O'Cathain.
01 December 2006 [17:06]
Ganja automobile plant signed a protocol of cooperation with Minsk tractor plant to start production of Belarussian tractors, Director of the Ganja plant Khanlar Fatiyev said.
01 December 2006 [16:48]
Mortgage lending is expected to more than double in Azerbaijan next year.
01 December 2006 [14:54]
The widely anticipated handover to a Russian company of a pipeline that will supply Armenia with Iranian natural gas is not a forgone conclusion, Prime Minister Andranik Markarian claimed in a Russian newspaper interview published on Friday. He also reiterated Yerevan’s hopes that Russia will defuse its festering confrontation with Georgia.
01 December 2006 [14:50]
Armenia's parliament on Wednesday passed a 2007 budget with a deficit equivalent to US$155 million (euro118 million).
01 December 2006 [14:23]
"The energy security of the world depends directly on Caspian oil and production perspectives.” UN European Commission Economic (UNECE) report 'A Global Overview and Global Energy Security and the Caspian Sea Region' says.
01 December 2006 [13:44]
Azerbaijan's Agriculture Ministry has asked Japan for a new grant of $8 million to buy agricultural equipment.
01 December 2006 [13:39]
Anglo Asian Mining PLC said its Gedabek project in Azerbaijan has a resource estimate of 1.08 mln ounces of gold equivalent with a possibility of expansion in a number of directions.
01 December 2006 [12:55]
General Director of KazTransGaz, Serik Sultangaliev, says that Kazakhstan is interested in joining the South Caucasus natural gas pipeline (also known as the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum or Shah Deniz pipeline).
01 December 2006 [11:00]
A plan that paves the way for an integrated common energy market between the European Union and governments of the oil and gas rich Caspian and Black Sea regions was agreed at a ministerial conference held in the Kazakh capital, Astana.
01 December 2006 [10:52]
Taxes Ministry Operational Control Department have to date examined 153 097 various kinds of trade facilities and found serious irregularities in 35 958 of them.
01 December 2006 [10:51]
The total assets of Atabank grew by 65% in the period of January-October to AZN 51.4m.
01 December 2006 [10:50]
Azerigas sent a letter to 13 regions of Azerbaijan to warn them against unsatisfactory collection of gas bills.
01 December 2006 [10:49]
Azercell Telecom JV has concluded a roaming agreement with Pakistan's Telenor.
01 December 2006 [10:49]
Azerenergy has sent a letter of warning to executive power heads of 46 regions on unsatisfactory level of collection of the electric bills.
01 December 2006 [10:47]
A meting of Permanent Secretariat of TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission and national secretaries of the member states will take place in Chisinau, Dec. 14-15.
01 December 2006 [10:36]
Bank Standard concluded a trilateral agreement with Azauto and ITOCHU Corporation.
01 December 2006 [10:35]
The weighted average exchange price made up 0.8716 AZN/USD at trading sessions held at the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange.
01 December 2006 [10:34]
The assets of Azerbaijan Credit Bank Joint Stock Commercial Bank grew by 53% in January-September to AZN 7.8m.
01 December 2006 [10:33]
2 200 customers were found illegally using electricity in Ganja.
01 December 2006 [10:32]
Azerdemiryolbank JSB will issue chip cards from January 1, 2007.
01 December 2006 [10:31]
Two intersection bridges and one pedestrian tunnel will be in operation by this year's end.
01 December 2006 [10:30]
A subregional conference examining various fields of transportation will take place in Tehran on Dec. 18-19.
01 December 2006 [10:23]
Azerbaijan International Operating Company increased oil output by 82%, year-over-year, to 18 498 000 metric tons in Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli during the period of January-October.
01 December 2006 [10:20]
As of November 20, Azersu JSC has to date installed 151 794 water meters.
01 December 2006 [10:12]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev approved the agreement on air connections between Azerbaijan and Korea.
01 December 2006 [00:46]
Visiting Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli met with members of the Caspian Integration Business Club at the Baku Business Center.
01 December 2006 [00:45]
Azerbaijan's Minister of Agriculture Ismat Abbasov met with Attache of the United States Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, Ralph Gifford.
01 December 2006 [00:43]
Azercell Telecom joint company started to render new roaming services through three more networks of Indian Bharti Airtel company - Kerala, Gujarat, Punjab, increasing the number of its roaming agreement with Bharti Airtel company's networks to ten.
01 December 2006 [00:17]
Russia's RAO UES (Unified Energy Systems) has agreed to provide electrical energy to Azerbaijan on previous terms from December 1.
01 December 2006 [00:01]
Georgia intends to buy 1.4 billion cubic meters of gas from Azerbaijan next year, Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said at a news conference following talks with the Azerbaijani leadership here on Thursday.
Society
01 December 2006 [17:13]
Health Ministry banned the use of one more medicine.
01 December 2006 [17:08]
The draw has been held for the group stage of the 15th Commonwealth Cup football tournament due to be held in the Russian capital Moscow.
01 December 2006 [14:52]
Armenia faces its worst environmental crisis in its history. At current rates of deforestation, World Bank estimates it will be a desert in about 20 years.
01 December 2006 [14:39]
"I do not intend to open a TV channel," said Ekinchi Production chief, ex-ANS associate Shakir Eminbeyli.
01 December 2006 [10:46]
Azerbaijani grand master Shahriyar Mammadyarov will take part at the contest held in Astana, Kazakhstan.
01 December 2006 [10:45]
FIFA will organize presentation ceremony on the occasion of rewarding the best football player of the world in Zurich, Switzerland, on December 18.
01 December 2006 [10:43]
16 year-old Azeri was killed in the south-east of Russian capital of Moscow on Wednesday.
01 December 2006 [10:40]
US Department of State Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey made a statement about media freedom in Azerbaijan.
01 December 2006 [10:38]
The change of entrance rules to the higher schools will not influence state entrance plan.
01 December 2006 [10:30]
Interior Ministry (IM) Office to Fight against Human Traffic officers found brothels in Delfin restaurant in Shuvalan settlement.
01 December 2006 [10:19]
Yashar Aliyev, 27, settled in refugee settlement Stone Houses in Guzanli village of Aghdam region committed suicide by burning himself.
01 December 2006 [00:42]
The ABA/CEELI (American Bar Association/ Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative) director for Research and Program Development Wendy Patten during her visit to Azerbaijan hosted roundtable discussion on trafficking in humans, which gathered the Azerbaijani journalists.
01 December 2006 [00:20]
916 prisoners are being cured in T.B prophylactic center 3, Nizami Guliyev the chief of the center told journalists.
01 December 2006 [00:15]
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.
01 December 2006 [00:05]
200 associates of "Azerbaijani television and radio programs" Closed Joint Stock Company were dismissed.
01 December 2006 [00:02]
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.
