News for 16 January 2007
Politics
16 January 2007 [18:53]
Sabine Freizer who served for two and a half years as International Crisis Group Caucasus Project Director, based in Tbilisi, has been promoted to the position of Europe Program Director with ICG. She will take up her assignment on February 1.
16 January 2007 [18:33]
New Turkish ambassador to Azerbaijan Huseyn Avni Karslioglu came to Baku on Tuesday.
16 January 2007 [16:00]
Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov on Tuesday confirmed that Russia has sold Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran.
16 January 2007 [15:55]
"Germany supports OSCE line in the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Being a member of the OSCE Minsk Group will continue to support the peaceful solution to the conflict," said Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Azerbaijan Per Stankina.
16 January 2007 [15:53]
Captured Azerbaijani soldier on December 31 Eldeniz Nuriyev was released on Tuesday.
16 January 2007 [15:50]
President Ilham Aliyev will pay an official visit to Germany in February.
16 January 2007 [00:58]
Baku Major's Office (BMO) did not allow Azerbaijani Path Political Movement (APPM) to hold picket outside of Economic Development Ministry set on January 16.
16 January 2007 [00:52]
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly president, rapporteur on Nagorno Karabakh, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Parliament of Sweden Goran Lennmarker will visit Azerbaijan early February.
16 January 2007 [00:32]
6 Azerbaijani servicemen serving in Afghanistan and 7 in Kosovo will return this week.
Business
16 January 2007 [17:07]
On Tuesday, Azerbaijan's Azerenergy and Russia's RAO UES signed an electricity deal in Baku after coming agreement on the amount and price of electricity imports for 2007.
16 January 2007 [16:25]
Oil prices rose on Tuesday amid continued uncertainty about possible Opec moves to bolster crude prices out of a 13% slump this year alone.
16 January 2007 [16:16]
New law on migration may cause increase of prices in Russia, consider the officers of Federal Migration Service.
16 January 2007 [16:15]
"Germany and the neighboring countries expect improvements from Germany's chairmanship of the European Union," German ambassador to Azerbaijan, chairing the EU since January 1, Per Stankina said at the press conference.
16 January 2007 [15:54]
According to the amendments to the Taxes Code of Azerbaijan, construction companies has to pay at least AZN 10 in tax per square meter of apartments in the buildings being constructed as of January 1.
16 January 2007 [15:53]
300 sq m area has been polluted with oil as a result of the incident happened near Govlar station in Tovuz region.
16 January 2007 [11:51]
European Union considers Azerbaijan alternative energy source and plans to improve cooperation in this field, said spokesperson for the European Commission Ferran Tarradellas.
16 January 2007 [01:05]
The 45th meeting of the Railway Council of the CIS and Baltic States will be held in Moscow on February 14-15.
16 January 2007 [01:04]
Turkish Airways delayed opening the planned Ganja-Istanbul flight this year due to lack of aircrafts.
16 January 2007 [01:03]
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has launched its representative office in Georgia.
16 January 2007 [01:02]
AzerTurkBank intends to join XPress Money Transfer System in the nearest future.
16 January 2007 [00:43]
During 2006 the Finance Ministry's Department for State Control over Insurance carried out examination in six insurance companies and revoked the license of Londongate Insurance Company 2006 because of irregularities.
16 January 2007 [00:40]
A number of representatives from France's Lafarge, the largest cement manufacturer of the world, will visit Azerbaijan.
16 January 2007 [00:39]
NIKoil Investment bank intends to raise its credit portfolio to at least $100m, more than double deposit portfolio to $70m this year.
16 January 2007 [00:37]
The World Bank has released its forecasts for macroeconomic growth of Azerbaijan in before-2010 period within the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Azerbaijan, a central document defining the World Bank Group's support to Azerbaijan to meet the country's key development challenges, including reducing poverty, modernizing infrastructure, and improving governance and social services.
16 January 2007 [00:36]
Culture and Tourism Ministry has begun licensing process from Monday.
16 January 2007 [00:22]
London Brent oil fell by 4.8% last week and Light Sweet oil dropped by 5.9% on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
16 January 2007 [00:20]
Azerbaijan's Standard Insurance Company intends to open five branches in Baku and regions this year.
Society
16 January 2007 [18:32]
Mother and her two children were poisoned of tinned aubergine in Ziyadli village, Samukh region.
16 January 2007 [18:29]
Azerbaijani Football Federations Association (AFFA) leadership will meet with their Armenian counterpart in the UEFA Congress to be held on January 25-26 in the city of D?sseldorf in Germany.
16 January 2007 [18:23]
The chief of Azerbaijan Colleague of Lawyers Azer Tagiyev and the representative of Ramil Safarov's family, lawyer Ikram Shirinov met with Ramil Safarov.
16 January 2007 [16:20]
132 man-caused accidents were registered in the country from January 1 to 16.
16 January 2007 [15:59]
An appeals court in Azerbaijan has released the editor of an opposition website who was jailed for campaigning against a sharp rise in energy prices.
16 January 2007 [15:51]
"The foreign citizens who live illegally in Moscow and appealed to federal migration service do not face any problems," said Russian Federal Migration Service Public relations department chief Denis Soldatikov.
16 January 2007 [13:30]
Deputy Director General of Vietnam Airlines Nguyen Thanh Trung has confirmed that a Boeing 777 of the air carrier had to make a landing in Baku airport in Azerbaijan.
16 January 2007 [11:44]
Earthquake of Magnitude 4 occurred in 18km to the west of Yardimli on the night of January 15-16 at 01.07.
16 January 2007 [01:00]
"The memorandum will allow establishing mutual ties in all spheres of higher education system and student exchange between our high schools. The working group to be established will be engaged in solving the problems," said Azeri Education Minister Misir Mardanov after signing the memorandum with Saudi Arabia on cooperation in science and education.
16 January 2007 [00:54]
The 37th session of The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women begins today in UN headquarters in New-York.
16 January 2007 [00:34]
Head coach of the Azerbaijan national football team Shahin Diniyev is in Turkey.
16 January 2007 [00:31]
The chief of Azerbaijan colleague of lawyers Azer Tagiyev and the representative of Ramil Safarov's family, lawyer Ikram Shirinov went to Hungary.
16 January 2007 [00:28]
"The hot line created by Education Ministry has received over 20 complaints since winter session examinations began," said chief of the Higher and Secondary Specialised Education department of the Education Ministry Ilham Mustafayev.
16 January 2007 [00:19]
On January 22, Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes presided over by Nushabe Agayeva will hold the preliminary hearing of Criminal case launched against Nurse Ofeliya Safarova (on the Article 144-1. 2. 3 of the Criminal Code).
16 January 2007 [00:16]
Former police chief of Ganja Natig Efendiyev appealed to the Supreme Court of the judgment of the Appeals Court.
16 January 2007 [00:15]
Former AzTV official Akif Jabbarli was appointed as a new chief of Justice Ministry Human Rights and Public Relations Department press service.
16 January 2007 [00:11]
PACE Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men held a meeting in the capital of France.
16 January 2007 [00:10]
The next meeting of Central Election Commission (CEC) was held on Monday.
16 January 2007 [00:02]
Azeri grandmaster leads at the Corus Chess Tournament 2007 in Wijk aan Zee after defeating Spain's Alexey Shirov.
