News for 24 January 2007
Politics
24 January 2007 [21:59]
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned that the potential for a new outbreak of fighting in the strategic South Caucasus remained high and pledged that Moscow would work to resolve the region's most dangerous, outstanding conflicts - including the dispute over Nagorno Karabakh.
24 January 2007 [21:54]
Armenia's deputy foreign minister on Wednesday again expressed his country's readiness to establish diplomatic ties with Turkey without conditions.
24 January 2007 [21:46]
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan arrived Wednesday in the Russian resort town of Sochi on the Black Sea for talks with President Vladimir Putin.
24 January 2007 [21:42]
Russia will veto a United Nations resolution on Kosovo if Europe's human rights watchdog supports a draft proposal granting independence to the historically Serbian province, a senior Russian lawmaker said Wednesday.
24 January 2007 [21:22]
Member of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), parliamentarian Ganira Pashayeva presented written questionnaire to the Committee of Ministers on "Armenia's violating principles of European Convention on Firearms."
24 January 2007 [21:20]
Baku Mayor's Office rejected the appeal of the Azadliq bloc on holding rally in one of the nine squares of the city on January 26.
24 January 2007 [21:18]
Leo Platvoet's report on "Missing people in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia" has been discussed in the meeting of PACE Committee on Population, Refugees and Migration.
24 January 2007 [21:17]
Fiorenzo Stolfi, San Marino Foreign Minster, chairing the CE Committee of Ministers made a speech on the third day of the PACE winter session.
24 January 2007 [21:11]
U.S., Turkey seek nuclear-free Iran, end to Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
24 January 2007 [21:06]
Presidential administration's social-political department Chief Ali Hasanov rejects Amnesty International's report.
24 January 2007 [17:15]
"I am grateful to the Azerbaijani government for participating in Iraq’s liberation. Azerbaijani soldiers are serving in Iraq. Azerbaijan is the only Muslim country that has soldiers in Iraq," Iraqi Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ershad Omar Ismayil said during the meeting with the officers of Institute of Oriental Studies of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
24 January 2007 [16:13]
Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be one of main objects of discussion during the visit of the President of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Goran Lennmarker to South Caucasus.
24 January 2007 [16:11]
The co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fasie (France), Matthew Bryza (USA) and personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzey Kasprzyk will visit Yerevan on Wednesday.
24 January 2007 [15:02]
The discussion of 11117th report on honoring of obligations and commitments was discussed in the plenary meeting of PACE on Tuesday.
24 January 2007 [14:59]
"The priorities of Azerbaijani foreign policy does not change, the goal of this policy to turn Azerbaijan not only to the regional leader but also one of the prosperous, rich, safe, stable counties," stated President's Office international relations department chief Novruz Mammadov.
24 January 2007 [14:18]
Ismail Cem, a former Turkish foreign minister, who together with his Greek counterpart was the driving force behind the thawing relations between the two archrivals, died of lung cancer Wednesday, an Istanbul hospital and his family said. He was 67.
24 January 2007 [12:21]
Today, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has received OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.
24 January 2007 [01:09]
The group of persons, arrested last week by the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan, belonged to human intelligence of the Russian secret services, online paper Novy region reports, referring to the Baku-based daily Yeni Musavat.
24 January 2007 [00:23]
The construction of border checkpoints will be completely over by the end of 2007.
24 January 2007 [00:19]
The meeting of Consul Generals of Turkic-speaking countries was held in Istanbul.
24 January 2007 [00:17]
Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu will visit Nijegorodsk.
Business
24 January 2007 [22:38]
The weighted average exchange prices made up 0,8711 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on January 24.
24 January 2007 [21:23]
Kazakhstan's national oil company said Wednesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding with several international companies outlining a new export route for Kazakh oil, using tankers to transport the oil across the Caspian Sea.
24 January 2007 [15:05]
IFC will continue to actively seek direct investment opportunities in areas such as food retail to support growth and employment in the non-oil sectors.
24 January 2007 [14:16]
President Ilham Aliyev has issued a decree on improvement of mortgage lending mechanism in the country.
24 January 2007 [13:06]
President Ilham Aliyev will leave for Switzerland to participate in World Economic Forum in Davos as a special guest.
24 January 2007 [12:16]
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan will become on April 15, 2007 party to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, adopted in Madrid on June 27, 1989 (Madrid Protocol 1989).
24 January 2007 [00:57]
As of January 1, the assets of Amrahbank grew 54% during 2006 to AZN 29.8m.
24 January 2007 [00:56]
As of January 1, the assets of Kapital Bank rose 50.78% to AZN 148,879,000 last year.
24 January 2007 [00:43]
Bank Standard held a press conference to deliver presentation of its annual report.
24 January 2007 [00:43]
Azerbaijan's trade surplus in 2006 amounted to $1.107 billion, up 650% from previous year, State Customs Committee Chairman Aydin Aliyev told a government annual meeting on Monday.
24 January 2007 [00:40]
Azerbaijan allocated AZN 694 million to finance infrastructure projects in 2006.
24 January 2007 [00:28]
Last year AZN 297.6m were considered as taxable during the examination of 5,302 taxpayers by Azerbaijan Taxes Ministry and were paid to the State Budget.
24 January 2007 [00:15]
President Ilham Aliyev issues an executive order on increasing the salaries of the employees of social security organizations by 25% from February 1.
24 January 2007 [00:12]
Bank Standard is going to implement Temenos T24 banking system in order to bring business process in line with world standards.
24 January 2007 [00:11]
Government of Azerbaijan is considering the project on establishment of a special oil shipping company.
24 January 2007 [00:09]
Government of Azerbaijan intends to acquire some part of Swiss Hollsim's interest in Garadagh Cement.
24 January 2007 [00:06]
Bank Standard, as an authorized bank of the Azerbaijan Mortgage Fund, lent 34 mortgage loans worth AZN 668,476 during 2006.
24 January 2007 [00:05]
The assets of the UniBank CB rose 115% to AZN 138.9m in 2006.
Society
24 January 2007 [21:52]
Turkish prosecutors on Wednesday charged five people, including a teenaged gunman, in the killing of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, prosecutor Aykut Cengiz Engin said.
24 January 2007 [21:13]
Partnership for a better life.
24 January 2007 [18:37]
The criminal case launched on the death of the former chief of Development of Entrepreneurship Department of Economic Development Ministry Alihuseyn Shaliyev on article 125 of the Criminal Code (drive to suicide) is over.
24 January 2007 [14:57]
"As only one organization participated in the tender announced on ANS TV and ANS ChM radio, it is supposed that the results of the tender will be abolished and the tender will be announced again," said National Radio and Television Council chief Nushiravan Maharramli.
24 January 2007 [12:22]
Journalists striving to expose the misuse of government power are increasingly living under the threat of politically motivated arrests, physical assault and even death, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
24 January 2007 [01:12]
A statement presented as an announcement of the secret services of Armenia was placed on the online site of the Azerbaijan Public TV last weekend.
24 January 2007 [00:46]
"Azerbaijan-Scandinavian Cooperation" Public Union operating in Azerbaijan was registered in the Ministry of Justice.
24 January 2007 [00:26]
Azerbaijani national football team under 19 will meet with Georgian team in the second stage of European Championship.
24 January 2007 [00:04]
Azerbaijani Football Federations Association President Ramiz Mirzeyev met with Joseph Blatter, president of International Football Federations Association in Moscow.
24 January 2007 [00:02]
Baku Education Department and Media Council held a roundtable on Ways to improve cooperation between educational institutions and media.
