News for 20 February 2006
Politics
20 February 2006 [19:07]
Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, Mrs. Micheline Calmy-Rey will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan from 22 to 25 February 2006.
20 February 2006 [18:51]
The chairman of the Party of Democratic Reforms (PDR), MP Asim Mollazade met on Monaday with the chief consultant on the rule of law of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Natalia Dyurichkovitch.
20 February 2006 [18:43]
Discussions on region's energy security to be held in Baku.
20 February 2006 [18:35]
The head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Azerbaijan President's Office Novruz Mammadov seconds Russia's readiness to be a guarantor of settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
20 February 2006 [18:29]
Ali Abbasov, the Azerbaijan Minister for Communications and Information Technologies, left for Pakistan with an official visit the Ministry announced on Monday.
20 February 2006 [16:28]
From 25 to 28 February the Azerbaijani Diaspora organization in the Western and Eastern Europe, the CIS countries, as well as Egypt and the USA, will hold actions, scientific-practical conferences and other events due to the 14th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide.
20 February 2006 [16:18]
Statement of the Defense Minister and Security Secretary of Armenia, Serzh Sarkisian, that Azerbaijan did not back a document approved by the OSCE Minsk Group, is not true.
20 February 2006 [14:07]
"Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are the representatives of a unified economic system," Saakashvili said.
20 February 2006 [09:16]
EU Special Envoy for Southern Caucasus Heiki Talvitie, whose office-term is ending, will pay his final visit to Yerevan today.
20 February 2006 [08:38]
The Armenian side violated the ceasefire again.
20 February 2006 [08:31]
Iranian National Supreme Security Council secretary Dr. Ali Larijani made statement: "Iran intends to achieve only peaceful nuclear energy within the rules of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran has been and will be responsible for international commitments, which were reflected in Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."
Business
20 February 2006 [18:49]
"The number of the subscribers of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) of Baku Telephone Communication Production Association (BTCPA) exceeds 700," said Beytulla Husseynov, the head of BTCPA.
20 February 2006 [16:46]
The First Azerbaijani-Israeli agro-business forum began today in Baku. The Azerbaijan Ministry of Economic Development (MED), the Investment and Export Facilitation Foundation (IEFF) and the Embassy of Israel to Azerbaijan initiated the event.
20 February 2006 [15:52]
Oil production in Azerbaijan is expected to hit a record-high 30 mln tons in 2006, State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) informed.
20 February 2006 [15:00]
The government plans to hold monitoring of incomes and outcomes of big state enterprises from July 2006.
20 February 2006 [09:19]
Yesterday a staff meeting on the results of 2005 was held in the Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies.
Society
20 February 2006 [18:22]
"16 from 24 judges, violated the laws in 2005, were punished in appropriate order," Ramiz Rzayev, the chairman of the Azerbaijani Supreme Court, said to journalists.
20 February 2006 [18:19]
Music festival opens on Monday in Baku.
20 February 2006 [18:10]
The solemn party will be held at the Heydar Aliyev palace on Tuesday on opening of the Russia's Year in Azerbaijan.
20 February 2006 [18:04]
"The bilateral relationship between Azerbaijan and Russia develops comprehensively," stated Novruz Mammadov, the Head of the Department for Foreign Affairs of the Azerbaijani President's Office.
20 February 2006 [15:25]
The Gender Research Center of the Western University in partnership with The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has conducted gender seminar.
20 February 2006 [09:38]
One of the biggest radio channels of Russia "Russkoe radio" (Russian Radio) will be broadcasted in Baku in late February - early in March.
20 February 2006 [09:33]
German plane "Sesna-C501", that previously disappeared in Iraq air, made a technical landing in Azerbaijan.
20 February 2006 [09:12]
The State Traffic Police Department (STPD) of the Baku City Main Board of Police (BCMBP) appealed to drivers and owners of vehicles.
20 February 2006 [09:00]
The IREX Office in Baku informs of 31 Azerbaijani students to study at Colleges and Universities in US this summer.
20 February 2006 [08:49]
On February 18 at 08.00 a.m Shahlar Intigam Madatov, freshman student of Economy Faculty of Lenkeran State University, born in Changamiran village of Lerik region in 1988, died while having breakfast meal.
