News for 22 January 2007
Politics
22 January 2007 [23:57]
Azerbaijani Consul General to Istanbul Seyyad Aran will meet with the members of the parties represented in the parliament for recognition of Khojali tragedy as genocide by Turkish parliament.
22 January 2007 [23:56]
Baku Mayor's Office considers the appeals of Azadlig bloc and Musavat on mass protests.
22 January 2007 [23:53]
The State Committee on Work with Azerbaijani Living Abroad held an assembly of the working group established for the solution of the problems of Azerbaijanis engaged in trade in Russia.
22 January 2007 [23:51]
"No party member will run for the post of party chairman, if Ramiz Ahmedov doesn't resign from the chairmanship. It would be unethical action against a person having health problems," said ACP Presidium member Revayet Jabbarli.
22 January 2007 [23:49]
Central Election Commission (CEC) began monitoring in 35 election constituencies.
22 January 2007 [23:21]
January 22 Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian departed for Moscow to participate in the talks of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement.
22 January 2007 [23:09]
On January 22, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received credentials from newly appointed ambassadors Huseyn Avni Garslioghlu of Turkey, John Ramberg of Norway and Lew Kwang-chul of Korea at the Presidential Palace.
22 January 2007 [22:15]
Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Artur Rasizade received the delegation led by the first deputy foreign minister of Poland Pavel Koval, January 22.
22 January 2007 [22:05]
The Armenian Defense Ministry said one of its soldiers was shot and killed Monday by an Azerbaijan sniper at the countries' border, but Azerbaijan denied it.
22 January 2007 [21:58]
The International Herald Tribune in its report on murder of Armenian-language Agos newspaper editor Hrant Dink says that instigator of the murder Yasin Hayal was trained at camps for Chechen militants in Azerbaijan.
22 January 2007 [20:20]
Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe addressed a PACE winter session.
22 January 2007 [19:24]
President Ilham Aliyev will visit Georgia on February 7.
22 January 2007 [19:23]
The member of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Ganira Pashayeva presented a written question to the Committee of Ministers of the organization.
22 January 2007 [16:19]
On Monday PACE President Rene van der Linden has held press conference on the commencing of PACE winter session.
22 January 2007 [16:12]
Winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe begins today in Strasbourg, France.
22 January 2007 [15:40]
Free and fair elections have not been held in Armenia since it became the member of the Council of Europe, 2001, it is reflected in the report made by Armenian Rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee Mikko Elo, Georges Colombier.
22 January 2007 [14:22]
"Armenia should use all possible means for the peaceful settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Yerevan should use its influence on Nagorno Karabakh Armenians for the peaceful settlement of the conflict," the report worked out by Mikko Elo and George Colombier, PACE Monitoring Committee co-reporters to Armenia, reads.
22 January 2007 [13:10]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will consult with OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs mediating in settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Foreign Ministry Press and Information Policy Department chief Tahir Tagizadeh informed.
22 January 2007 [10:58]
His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah of Kuwait received on Sunday Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and an accompanying delegation.
Business
22 January 2007 [23:47]
The AIG Caspian International Company has released its annual report.
22 January 2007 [23:46]
State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) intends to construct a new oil refinery near Kulevi Terminal (Georgia).
22 January 2007 [23:43]
National Confederation of the Entrepreneurs (Employers') Organizations of Azerbaijan Republic (AEC) has been chosen as local partner on the "Managers' Training Programme IV" (MTP 4) funded by the EU.
22 January 2007 [23:41]
The Azerbaijan State Agency for Standardization, Metrology and Patents has converted former Azeryetintisenaye Institute (Azerbaijan Foodstuffs Industry) to the Institute of Standardization.
22 January 2007 [23:40]
Azeristiliktejhizat (Azerbaijan Heating Supply) Company has started to use mobile module heating boilers ad tested to supply heating to School 234 in Buzovna.
22 January 2007 [23:39]
Experts of the World Intellectual Property Organization will pay a visit to Azerbaijan.
22 January 2007 [23:39]
Chairman of the Management Board of the National Bank of Azerbaijan, Elman Rustamov, has received Aygen Yayikoglu, Head of the EBRD Baku office.
22 January 2007 [23:38]
Bakielectricshebeke Company (Baku Electricity Network) has started night raids so as to prevent waste of electricity.
22 January 2007 [22:02]
A second well is likely to be commissioned at Azerbaijan's largest natural gas and condensate field in late January, a spokesman for country's energy ministry said Monday.
22 January 2007 [19:29]
The Switzerland's State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) is going to take part in World Bank Corporative & Public Sector Accountability Project (CAPSAP), Baku-based SECO office said.
22 January 2007 [19:27]
In 2006, Great Britain remained the leading foreign investor in the economy of Azerbaijan.
22 January 2007 [19:20]
President Ilham Aliyev convenes meeting of government on Monday.
22 January 2007 [13:12]
Azerbaijan will probe foreign medicine-producing companies of which it will import products.
Society
22 January 2007 [23:59]
Ganja Fire Fighting Service got new equipment recently.
22 January 2007 [23:59]
State Commission for Students' Admission (SCSA) will hold test examinations on new entrance models on January 28 in Jalilabad, Ismailli and Tovuz.
22 January 2007 [23:36]
Health Minister Innovation and Supply Center gave license to over 100 drugstores.
22 January 2007 [23:35]
8 cameras have been installed in Baku to prevent traffic accidents and violence of traffic rules.
22 January 2007 [23:31]
Gadjar Huseynov, reporter of Yeni Dushunje newspaper published in Tblilisi till 2004, is going to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
22 January 2007 [22:12]
Polish soccer officials fear the national side will be axed from Euro 2008 after FIFA and UEFA warned on Monday they would take action over a row with the government.
22 January 2007 [19:22]
Law enforcement bodies searched the house of a religious man in Khachmaz.
22 January 2007 [17:13]
The meeting on the results of tender of ANS TV and ANS CM radio frequency will be held in late January, National Television and Radio Council Chairman Nushirvan Meherremli told.
22 January 2007 [16:17]
Deputy Shamkir Prosecutor's mother was killed, law enforcement bodies told the APA. According to the information, in the evening at about 19.00 Deputy Prosecutor of Shamkir region Fuad Mammadov's mother Ferida Mammadova's body was found in her house situated in 8, R. Aliyev St, Ganja.
22 January 2007 [16:14]
The temperature in Azerbaijan will be above the climate norm in three days.
22 January 2007 [16:06]
The Azerbaijani advocates of Ramil Safarov, officer of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, life sentenced by April 13 2006 order of the Budapest Court, are officially permitted to participate in the trial from February 22, advocate of the officer returned from Hungary Ikram Shirinov told.
22 January 2007 [15:41]
Natig Oujov, a resident of Kohne Emenkend village, the region of Bilesuvar, born in 1989, hanged himself.
22 January 2007 [15:37]
"I am satisfied with the court's decision on the case of Haji Mammadov," Irada Aliyeva, wife of Rovshen Aliyev, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry, killed in March 2002.
22 January 2007 [15:35]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes presided over by Nushabe Agayeva held the preliminary hearing of Criminal case launched against Nurse Ofeliya Safarova and head doctor of Zibakhanim Clinic.
22 January 2007 [01:39]
A school pupil of Armenian origin was killed in Moscow, a source in the law-enforcement bodies of the Russian capital said Sunday.
