News for 14 February 2006
Politics
14 February 2006 [22:40]
Manouchehr Mottaki met with the Armenian political liders.
14 February 2006 [22:35]
The EU commissioner of External Relations and the European Neighbourhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner will pay a one-day visit to Azerbaijan on 15 February.
14 February 2006 [22:20]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received today Secretary General of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSECO) Tedo Djaparidze.
14 February 2006 [21:52]
Ali Ahmadov, the deputy chairman of the Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) met with the executive secretary of the party, Dallas Frorip, the head of the U.S. International Republican Institute (IRI) Baku office.
14 February 2006 [21:50]
At the sitting of the Vahdat party held today the issue of party's participation in the dialogue with the authorities has been discussed.
14 February 2006 [21:47]
"Musavat Party will not agree to dispatch its representatives to the Central Elections Committee through casting of lots," said Arif Hajili, the deputy chairman of the party.
14 February 2006 [21:45]
"The United States disappointed by lack of progress in the negotiation process over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement," the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish said in a statement on Tuesday.
14 February 2006 [21:42]
The Central Elections Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan carries out enlightenment work in connection with the by- parliamentary elections to be held on 13 May 2006.
14 February 2006 [21:41]
"The National Democratic Movement (NDM) made a decision on holding of negotiations with parties of national character on cooperation at the meeting on Tuesday," said Tofig Seyidov, the co-constitutor of the Movement.
14 February 2006 [21:38]
Elmar Mammadyarov, the Azerbaijani Foreign Affairs Minister, received the copies of the creditials of the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassadors newly-appointed to Azerbaijan from 7 countries.
14 February 2006 [21:36]
The chairman of the Party of Democratic Reforms (PDR), MP Asim Mollazade met with the program director of the International Republican Institute (IRI), Dallas Frohrib.
14 February 2006 [21:24]
Leonid Kuchma, the President of the Ukraine Foundation, ex-President of Ukraine, arrived in Baku on Tuesday. He paid the visit at the invitation of the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
14 February 2006 [15:47]
Visiting Azerbaijan a delegation of the Conference of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations of the United States, in particular, Chairman of the Conference of Presidents Harold Tanner, Executive Vice-chairman Malcolm Hoenlein, Secretary General of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Mikhail Chlenov held a conference on February 13.
14 February 2006 [14:37]
The talks between Azerbaijan and Russia in the sphere of strategic partnership in the Caspian region are continued, Khalaf Khalafov, the Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister, said.
14 February 2006 [12:39]
"The unity of Azerbaijan is its multinationality, tolerance to the representatives of all religions, absence of confrontation between civilizations, which is often reported by the world media," Arthur Lank, the Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan, said to journalists on Monday.
14 February 2006 [12:29]
The Baku-Habar newspaper editor-in- chief, a former member of the supreme melis of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan (DPA) Aydin Guliyevannounced of his resignation from the party.
14 February 2006 [12:26]
"Ankara supports the diplomatic solution to conflict situations," Turan Moraly, the Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan, told journalists. He was commenting on the situation around nuclear programs in Iran.
14 February 2006 [10:25]
"Meeting of representatives of foreign ministries of GUAM member countries will be held in this week.
14 February 2006 [10:15]
President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will visit Baku on February 21 to attend opening ceremony of Russian Culture days in Azerbaijan in February.
14 February 2006 [10:10]
The document on Armenia's aggressive policy which has been drawn up by Azerbaijani delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) will be reviewed in the Committee of Ministers of PACE.
14 February 2006 [10:05]
Leader of Yeni Fikir Youth Movement Ruslan Bashirli was moved to medical station on 12 February.
14 February 2006 [10:00]
Chairman of Milli Majlis Ogtay Asadov will pay his next visit to Iran.
14 February 2006 [09:50]
PFPA leader Ali Karimli today met with Laurie Bristow.
14 February 2006 [09:20]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov yesterday received the delegation of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations which represents 52 the most influential Jewish organizations from the US and other countries.
14 February 2006 [08:51]
A conference on illegal proliferation of small arms and light weapons will be held in June-July with participation of UN member countries.
14 February 2006 [08:41]
Fifth conference of the TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission will be held in Sofia city on May 2-3.
14 February 2006 [08:36]
Yesterday Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) issued a statement demanding stop of negotiations to be held afterward.
14 February 2006 [08:25]
Giovanni Di Stasi, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, has started his visit to Azerbaijan.
14 February 2006 [08:11]
Yesterday President of Heydar Aliyev Foundation, MP Mehriban Aliyeva received the delegation of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
14 February 2006 [07:32]
A protocol concerning expansion of relations and development of cooperation on the TRACECA project was signed between the Transport Ministries of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan yeaterday.
Business
14 February 2006 [22:30]
As a result of the activities of UniBank in January 2006 its assets grew by 61% as compared January 2005, and comprised 69.14m AZN (345.7bn AzM).
14 February 2006 [22:25]
"PSA on Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli fields is applied only on the development of oil reserves of the field, while the vacant gas remained a topic of another agreement," said Natik Aliyev, the Azerbaijani Minister for Industry and Development.
14 February 2006 [22:10]
In the framework of the fourth sitting of the International Consulting Group of the Extracting Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) to take place on 5 April in Baku the workshop or conference on transparency are scheduled to be organized, the EITI commission head, the chief of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAR) Samir Sharifov said.
14 February 2006 [22:05]
"Europe looks for additional sources of gas delivery and the Azerbaijan's role in the process considerably grows. Azerbaijan will produce around 20bn cu m of gas by 2015," Natig Aliyev, the Industry and Energy Minister, said.
14 February 2006 [21:55]
Sitting of the working group on the energy cooperation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization (BSECO) member states started in Baku on Tuesday.
14 February 2006 [16:15]
"The Azerbaijani government spent around $800,000 on the work in the framework of the struggle with Bird flu," Ismayil Hassanov, the Head of the State Veterinary Service under the Agriculture Ministry, said on Tuesday.
14 February 2006 [15:10]
The first tanker with the Azerbaijani oil produced from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli fields will be delivered from the Turkish port Ceyhan in May 2006, Natik Aliyev, the Azerbaijani Minister of Industry and Energy, stated.
14 February 2006 [12:37]
The chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) statistics department Mig Silver will visit Azerbaijan on 28 February.
14 February 2006 [10:20]
Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies plans to raise a question in International GSM Association on illegal activity of "Karabakh Telecom" registered in Armenia on the occupied Azerbaijani territories.
14 February 2006 [09:25]
Next competition for selection of commercial banks for servicing the treasury will not be held earlier than the beginning of 2007.
14 February 2006 [09:15]
Taxes transferred to the budget in foreign currency will be used by the government for implementation of payments in currency.
14 February 2006 [09:10]
The Ministry of Taxes forecasts that tax revenue will increase by 46% in 2007.
14 February 2006 [08:45]
Several agreements in various economic realms are planned to be signed between Azerbaijan and Russia within the framework of the Russia-Azerbaijan economic forum to be held in Baku on February 22-25.
14 February 2006 [08:39]
The State Customs Committee (SCC) announced a tender on plumbing installation in the administrative building of the SCC Medical Service Office.
14 February 2006 [08:30]
The AZAL National Aviation Company has cancelled Baku-Delhi and Baku-Haleb flights since February 17 due to increase of price of TS-1 aviation fuel.
14 February 2006 [08:07]
Next meeting of the Working Groups on the Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Gars railway-construction project will be held in Turkey late in February.
14 February 2006 [07:50]
The government of Azerbaijan refused receiving two credit transfers in amount of $40 million from the World Bank (WB) under the Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC) project.
14 February 2006 [07:48]
The government of Azerbaijan intends to introduce the mechanism for reduction of taxes by stages in the nearest future.
14 February 2006 [07:42]
Consumer goods amounting to AZN 426.5 million were sold to population of the country in January of the current year and it exceeds the same figure of the relevant month of 2005 by 12.3%.
Society
14 February 2006 [22:15]
Samples collected during monitoring in Azerbaijan in regard to the bird flue after researches in Azerbaijan will be additionally analysed in Germany and the United Kingdom, the head of the State Veterinary Service Ismail Hasanov said.
14 February 2006 [22:00]
The State Veterinary Service under the Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry advices to require quality certificate at purchase of poultry. The same time this products must be registered by the Veterinary Service.
14 February 2006 [18:36]
The Community of "Juma" Mosque intends to bring an action against the "Yeni haber" newspaper, if they don't offer an official apology to the believers for this insulting caricatures.
14 February 2006 [16:49]
Fire broke out in Iran's ship which had stopped for repair in the Caspian Sea early Tuesday morning.
14 February 2006 [15:01]
The State Veterinary Service under the Azerbaijan Agriculture Ministry strengthened control on the fight against the Bird flu virus, the head of the Veterinary Service Ismail Hasanov told today.
14 February 2006 [12:35]
On Monday a Hebrew language class was opened at the Baku State University.
14 February 2006 [09:55]
Yesterday President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree to confer "Glory" order on art director of Azerbaijan State Academic National Drama Theater Alabbas Gadirov for his activities in development of theater work.
14 February 2006 [09:45]
Azerbaijani, Georgian and Turkish women will realize common international peaceful rally on occasion of inauguration of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan main export pipeline.
14 February 2006 [09:45]
43,000 of 275,000 birds kept in broiler factory in North settlement of Makhachgala died out.
14 February 2006 [09:40]
Yesterday League for Defense of Child Rights has held a conference named "Situation in prison is better than in boarding schools."
14 February 2006 [09:35]
Some measures are taken in Khanlar under worked out measures plan for minimizing spread probability of Bird Flu.
14 February 2006 [09:30]
Crows and pigeons die out in Tovuz region and the villages around it.
14 February 2006 [09:05]
Crows, wild geese and other waterfowls die out in liberated territories of Fuzuli.
14 February 2006 [08:22]
New deputies of Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfaz Garayev have been appointed.
14 February 2006 [08:20]
The anniversary of the Khojali genocide will be commemorated in several world countries, the State Committee for Azerbaijanis Living Abroad tells.
14 February 2006 [08:00]
A lot of dead birds have been found in the seashore in Khachmaz region.
14 February 2006 [07:40]
As a result of the operation jointly conducted by Main Office for Fighting Organized Crimes and Sabunchu district Police Office, members of the criminal gang of Georgian citizens have been detained.
14 February 2006 [07:30]
The term of imprisonment of Rafig Aliyev, ex-president of Azpetrol Group of Companies has been prolonged, his lawyer Rafig Guliyev told.
