News for 13 January 2007
Politics
13 January 2007 [17:27]
American forces raided the Iranian consulate in the mainly Kurdish city of Erbil in northern Iraq before dawn today, detaining at least five Iranian employees in the building and seizing some property, according to Iraqi and Iranian officials and witnesses.
13 January 2007 [17:16]
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan delivered yet another stinging rebuke to the US regarding their actions in Iraq.
13 January 2007 [17:08]
Mr. Jose Luis Herrero Ansola, recently appointed head of the OSCE Office in Baku, said today that the Organization will continue helping Azerbaijan as it works to fulfill its commitments as an OSCE participating State.
13 January 2007 [17:05]
As Spain begins its work as the 2007 chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), RFE/RL correspondent Dan Alexe speaks to the outgoing chairman in office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, about his tenure in 2006 and likely steps in the year ahead.
13 January 2007 [16:20]
Winter session of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will commence in Strasbourg, January 22.
13 January 2007 [14:41]
Baku Main Police Board (BMPB) waits for the decision of Baku Major's Office on rallies, said BMPB public security department chief Shamil Seyidli.
13 January 2007 [14:35]
"Intelligent and wise persons of Azerbaijan society were involved to New Azerbaijan Party (YAP).
13 January 2007 [01:57]
Umid (Hope) Party postponed the rally appointed on January 13 as a protest to price rises by Tariff Council.
13 January 2007 [01:48]
Deputy of the Head of Samukh Executive Power Gazanfar Aliyev was dismissed.
13 January 2007 [01:47]
Musavat Party appealed to Baku Mayor's Office on holding mass rally in Khatai district on January 28.
13 January 2007 [01:45]
Azerbaijan disagrees on some points of the report concerning the role of women in the South Caucasus, prepared by Russian member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Vera Oskina.
13 January 2007 [01:42]
Senator Robert Menendez took advantage of his veto power blocking Richard Hoagland's nomination as US ambassador to Armenia.
13 January 2007 [01:29]
Armenians have intensified church construction in occupied Azerbaijani lands.
Business
13 January 2007 [16:21]
Azerbaijan's largest mobile company Azercell Telecom has signed GPRS/MMS roaming agreement with Hungary's Vodafone and Sri Lanka's Dialog mobile operators, press service of the company said.
13 January 2007 [16:05]
Azerbaijan gas reached Georgian borders on January 12 for further distribution domestically, Georgia's Ministry of Energy reported.
13 January 2007 [15:54]
On Saturday, at about 13.20 the 25th, 26th and 27th cars of Baku-Georgia oil tank cars train ran off the rails near Govlar station of Tovuz region.
13 January 2007 [14:40]
"Carrying capacity of Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku railway will be 15m tonnes a year," saif Director General of Georgian Railway Ltd. Irakli Ezugbaya.
13 January 2007 [02:12]
The weighted average exchange prices made up 0.8714 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on January 12.
13 January 2007 [02:06]
A mission of the Asian Development Bank will visit Azerbaijan in late January.
13 January 2007 [02:06]
All the telephone network of Baku will be made electronic by this year's end.
13 January 2007 [02:05]
The mission of the International Monetary Fund will pay a visit to Baku.
13 January 2007 [02:04]
"Azerbaijan will cover needs for natural gas at its own resources, the level will not be lower than that of 2006," Azerigaz CJSC chief Alikhan Melikov said in his speech in the conference of YAP Khetai district organization.
13 January 2007 [02:03]
Press Council and editors-in-chief discussed today the proposals concerning the rise of newspaper prices.
13 January 2007 [02:02]
Baku Telephone Communications Unit intends to launch a new electronic telephone info system in a month.
13 January 2007 [01:55]
The Azerbaijani government is ready to finance the construction of the Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku railroad, said Azeri Minister of Transport Ziya Mammadov upon completion of the meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli.
13 January 2007 [01:54]
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has stopped gasoline exports, the Company told the APA.
13 January 2007 [01:53]
The authorized banks of the Azerbaijani Mortgage Fund (AMF) have to date issued 243 mortgages since March this year while 350 applications were received.
13 January 2007 [01:52]
Baku Metro is not going to request the Tariff Council to increase the fares.
13 January 2007 [01:37]
No amendments are planed to make to the 2007 State Budget after the hike in energy prices in the country.
13 January 2007 [01:36]
Agriculture Ministry has notified the Government of the undesirable affects of the recent energy price hike and sent proposals for solution.
13 January 2007 [01:35]
"Consumers' concern over the variable selling prices for liquefied gas on the domestic market is baseless as the Cabinet passed a decision making the prices up to sellers," a governmet source told the APA.
13 January 2007 [01:34]
AzerTurkBank's aggregate capital has reached AZN 8.35m, including the authorized capital amounted to AZN 7m.
13 January 2007 [01:31]
The First project of the Action Plan signed between EU and Azerbaijan on November 14 within European neighborhood policy will start to be implemented at the end of the year.
Society
13 January 2007 [17:48]
Iranian students would enter university without passing the difficult barrier of entry exams as of 2010, it was reported on Saturday.
13 January 2007 [15:52]
People's poet Nabi Khazri's health health has become worse this night and he was taken to Central Clinic Hospital.
13 January 2007 [15:47]
Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population has prepared "Measures plan on legalizing the activity of the Azerbaijanis living in Russia," said the chief of the Employment Policy and Demography Department of the Ministry Vahab Mammadov.
13 January 2007 [14:49]
Health Ministry announced the list of banned preparations in 2006.
13 January 2007 [14:43]
The State Commission held the next meeting on studying and solving the problems of the Azerbaijanis engaged in trade in Russia.
13 January 2007 [14:38]
A VAZ-2107 driven by Astara resident Ikhtiyar Azimov ran over Piarallahi resident Zulfugar Mirzaliyev in Gala settlement of Azizbayov district.
13 January 2007 [14:37]
The resident of Germeturk settlement of Lenkeran, 53 year-old Nadir Seyfullayev was attacked by skinheads in Moscow.
13 January 2007 [14:30]
The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores a Baku court's decision to extend by two months the pretrial detention of two journalists accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
13 January 2007 [02:23]
Teymur Rajabov will be back in action at the Corus chess tournament.
13 January 2007 [02:18]
The measures are being taken to improve medical services in outlying mountainous villages of the northern regions of Azerbaijan.
13 January 2007 [02:16]
Azerbaijan national football championship's first round champions Khazar-Lankaran will play Saturday Iraqi national team in a friendly match in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
13 January 2007 [02:14]
"The Nomad", directed by well-known Azerbaijan people's artist Rustam Ibrahimbayov will be nominated for Oscar American Film Academy Award.
13 January 2007 [02:10]
An explosion caused by gas leakage has occurred at a two-room apartment in the apartment building located on Azadlig street in the city of Gazakh, according to the press service of the Ministry of Interior.
13 January 2007 [02:09]
Azerbaijan Ministry of Health said a new medical center was constructed in Ali Bayramli province.
13 January 2007 [02:02]
Mass death of poultries was observed in the village Garakhanli of Agjabadi.
13 January 2007 [02:00]
The meeting was held on the claims of 125 students of Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU) in Binagadi court.
13 January 2007 [01:59]
Programme for Development of Vocational Education will be approved in a few days.
13 January 2007 [01:56]
Officials of the Azerbaijani embassy in Russia will visit Balakhna town of Nijegorodsk province due to the attack on Azerbaijanis, Province Muslims Office said.
13 January 2007 [01:51]
The officers of the Interior Ministry Department Fighting against Human Traffic found brothels in Khatai and Binagadi districts.
13 January 2007 [01:50]
15 Azerbaijani students learning Arabic will do course in Cairo.
13 January 2007 [01:46]
Court of Appeals presided by Judge Mirpasha Huseynov held the trial on the appeals of former seven officers of Justice Ministry.
13 January 2007 [01:43]
Tamas Maghescu, International Union for the Nature Protection Regional Director for Europe, will visit Azerbaijan on January 26.
13 January 2007 [01:39]
Turkey-Azerbaijan Friendship Park was laid in Bursa, Turkey.
13 January 2007 [01:33]
The meeting of European Chess Federation (ECF) Executive Committee (EC) has commenced in Baku.
13 January 2007 [01:32]
Over 500 appeals received by headquarters set up to help Russian Azerbaijanis in connection with the application of law on Migration in Russia on January 15.
