News for 24 December 2006
Politics
24 December 2006 [15:06]
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the president of Azerbaijan with his birthday, the Kremlin press office said Sunday.
24 December 2006 [14:38]
Military jets roared overhead as crowds of Turkmen mourners bid their last farewell to autocratic leader Saparmurat Niyazov who was buried on Sunday in a ceremony reminiscent of the grand funerals of the Soviet era.
24 December 2006 [14:32]
Iran condemned a U.N. sanctions resolution as "a piece of torn paper" that would not scare Tehran and vowed on Sunday to accelerate uranium enrichment work immediately.
24 December 2006 [14:23]
English courses organized by the Diplomatic Academy for Foreign Ministry's employees have been wrapped up. Deputy Minister, rector of the Academy Khafiz Pashayev congratulated employees and presented them respective certificates.
24 December 2006 [14:01]
Azerbaijan does not intend to "knock on" NATO and EU door or "force its way" into these organisations or plead for admission, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev stressed in an interview to Radio Echo of Moscow on Saturday.
Business
24 December 2006 [22:13]
Turkey has agreed to give up some of its share of a giant Caspian gas field to Georgia, allowing the small Caucasus nation to reduce its need for expensive Russian gas, the Georgian energy minister said Sunday.
Society
24 December 2006 [14:21]
Azerbaijani National Radio & Television Council delegation and member of Turkish Supreme Board of Radio & Television (RTUK) Ilhan Yerlikaya visited Anadolu Agency (AA) HQ in Ankara.
