News for 08 January 2007
Politics
08 January 2007 [23:22]
0.005% of the UN budget will be provided by Azerbaijan.
08 January 2007 [17:44]
A report on Armenia's fulfilling commitments will be heard during the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe January 22-26, said head of the Armenian delegation to PACE Tigran Torosian.
08 January 2007 [17:14]
Azerbaijan has launched a project to elevate its military to NATO standards and is planning to take important steps in 2007 to accomplish this goal.
08 January 2007 [17:09]
Political parties functioning in Azerbaijan have defined the main priorities of their activity in 2007.
08 January 2007 [17:02]
Newspaper Chernovik published in Dagestan continues critical articles against Azerbaijan.
08 January 2007 [15:34]
OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Spain Miguel Angel Moratinos is expected to visit Azerbaijan late February, OSCE Spokesperson Martin Nesirky told.
08 January 2007 [15:29]
Personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-office Andrzey Kasprzyk has changed one of the field assistants in Azerbaijani Office.
08 January 2007 [14:22]
OSCE mission has already worked out a report on large scale arson in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
08 January 2007 [13:19]
Israel plans strike on Natanz uranium enrichment center, heavy water reactor at Arak and uranium conversion facility near Isfahan.
Business
08 January 2007 [23:07]
The Azerbaijan State Oil Company (SOCAR) and the International bank of Azerbaijan have acquired buildings in Tbilisi to open their offices.
08 January 2007 [18:39]
Since early January Baku Steel Company has shut down because of metal shortage.
08 January 2007 [18:13]
Azerbaijan's Transportation Ministry has started to monitor the influence of the increase of fuel prices on transport sector, said Minister Musa Panahov.
08 January 2007 [15:59]
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has stopped oil pumping through the northern route - Baku-Novorossiisk pipeline.
08 January 2007 [13:56]
Embattled oil giant BP was plunged into another environmental crisis today amid claims that a crucial 1100-mile pipeline linking the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean had a flaw that could trigger disastrous oil spills and devastating pollution.
08 January 2007 [00:40]
On Sunday Azerbaijan's Tariff Council approved new prices.
Society
08 January 2007 [18:03]
"Rise in prices of energy deliveries will influence the activity of the press. The publication of the newspapers and the price for imported rolls of paper may rise. Our colleagues also consider that newspaper prices should raise," said chairman of the Press Council Aflatun Amashov.
08 January 2007 [17:55]
Acting director and engineer general of Synthesis Caoutchouc Plant Ikhtiyar Balakishiyev, department chief Ikhtiyar Shahverdiyev and Metleb Shamuradov were arrested because of the explosion happened in Synthesis Caoutchouc Plant of "Azerkimya" State Company located in Sumgayit on December 29, Republic Prosecutor's Office and Emergencies Ministry released joint information about the case.
08 January 2007 [17:52]
Mass death of poultries is observed in the village Boyuk Bahmanli of Fuzuli region.
08 January 2007 [17:19]
The captain, co-captain and five other crew members of a giant Antonov-124 "Ruslan" cargo plane were detained at a Norwegian airport Monday on suspicion of intending to fly while drunk, police said.
08 January 2007 [15:55]
Advocates Collegium of Azerbaijan chief Azer Tagiyev will pay an official visit to Hungary on January 15.
08 January 2007 [15:27]
The weather is forecasted to be stable in 2-3 days, Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry National Hydrometeorology Department Forecasting bureau chief Umayra Tagiyeva told.
08 January 2007 [15:11]
The period of the tender for ANS television and ANS CM radio frequency has been expired, National Television and radio Council chairman Nushirevan Meherremli stated.
08 January 2007 [01:22]
At a quaterfinal match of the First ACP World Rapid Chess Cup Azeri grandmaster defeated Russia's Alexander Morozevich.
