News for 09 January 2007
Politics
09 January 2007 [23:06]
Political reform could lead to "new relationship," State's Boucher says.
09 January 2007 [23:02]
Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Monday Tehran would never yield to international pressure to deprive it of its right to nuclear technology, state radio said.
09 January 2007 [22:59]
The Israeli government has "completely denied" reports published in the Sunday Times claiming that Israel is preparing an imminent attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
09 January 2007 [21:48]
President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, sent a message to Daniel Ortega Saavedra to congratulate him on election as President of Nicaragua.
09 January 2007 [21:36]
OSCE's report on the arsons committed by Armenians in the occupied Azerbaijani territories will be discussed in UN till April 30, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian told the journalists in the press conference held in Yerevan.
09 January 2007 [21:35]
"Farhad Aliyev feels fine. I've stated not once that this issue is deliberately brought up. Farhad Aliyev underwent laboratory examination by expert commission composed of 12 specialists in December last year. The result of the examination proved that Farhad Aliyev is practically healthy," said Arif Babayev, Ministry of National Security social relations department chief.
09 January 2007 [21:33]
NAR National Assembly chief Vasif Talibov decreed to dismiss National Bank Management Board chief Vugar Rahimov.
09 January 2007 [21:06]
Tahir Tagizadeh is expected to be appointed Azerbaijani Ambassador to Czechia. His agrement has already been presented.
09 January 2007 [21:02]
Year 2006 fell to the history as rise-fall-rise in the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict, stated the OSCE Minsk Group American co-chair Matthew Bryza.
09 January 2007 [20:57]
Azerbaijani Interior Minister Ramil Usubov is on official visit to Turkey at Turkish Interior Minister Abdulgadir Aksu's invitation.
09 January 2007 [17:37]
"Preliminary variant of the report on the missing persons in the South Caucasus is ready. This variant will be discussed in the assembly of the CE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population," said Leo Platvoet, PACE Rapporteur on the Missing Persons in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
09 January 2007 [14:47]
Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan Oskanyan will meet in Moscow January 23, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan told at the press conference.
09 January 2007 [14:42]
European Court of Human Rights will consider the case #34445-04 on the claim of the first deputy chief of the Azerbaijan Democrat Party Serdar Jalaloglu against Azerbaijani government, representative of the European Court of Human Rights Emma Helger told.
09 January 2007 [14:34]
Azerbaijani Armed Forces servicemen participated in 479 NATO events within bilateral cooperation and NATO's Partnership for Peace Program last year.
09 January 2007 [14:33]
Representatives of International Committee of Red Cross in Armenia have met four times with Azerbaijani soldier Samir Mammedov captivated on December 24 up to now.
09 January 2007 [14:16]
In the frame of visit, Ramil Usubov will meet with the Prime Minister of Turkey Rajab Tayyip Erdogan and Interior Minister Abdulgadir Aksu.
09 January 2007 [11:25]
International conference on economical and social results of opening of Armenian-Turkish borders will be held in Yerevan on January 13-14.
09 January 2007 [11:22]
Date and place of OSCE trio foreign ministers meeting has been changed.
09 January 2007 [11:19]
Azerbaijani Interior Ministry Offices will be opened in Ukraine and Kazakhstan in a few days.
09 January 2007 [11:19]
Newly-appointed Norwegian ambassador to Azerbaijan Johan Ramberg arrived in Baku.
09 January 2007 [11:18]
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti will visit Baku.
09 January 2007 [11:11]
Draft law on alleged "Armenian genocide" which considers the recognition of the genocide will be presented to the House of Representatives soon, the member of House of Representatives Adam Shiff said.
09 January 2007 [11:09]
Khosrov Jafarov, head coach of Azerbaijan national team of free wrestling, 60, died.
09 January 2007 [11:07]
Mass deportation of Azerbaijani citizens has not taken place in connection with the application of the law "On migration" in the Russian Federation.
09 January 2007 [11:05]
Initiative Group "For Azerbaijan" will hold forum on the theme of "National choice" without YAP's participation, the member of the Initiative Group.
09 January 2007 [11:03]
Issue on Azerbaijan will be extraordinarily discussed in the session of the PACE Monitoring Committee to be held in January.
09 January 2007 [10:21]
Karabakh Liberation Organization made statement on Armenia's violence to the international law and rise of its arsenal.
09 January 2007 [00:11]
As the deadline draws closer for putting on trial two former ministers suspected of plotting a coup against Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, human rights activists and international observers are calling for state investigators to release evidence to support the allegations.
09 January 2007 [00:07]
After their inclusion in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was initially rejected in a footnote in the European Commission document "Communication on the Wider Europe" of 2003, the three South Caucasus countries are finally part of a group of the EU's neighbours, which are set to benefit from privileged relationships with the European Union (EU). While the three ENP Action Plans were released on the 14th of November 2006, what can Tbilisi, Baku and Yerevan now expect from the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)?
Business
09 January 2007 [23:12]
Armenia's external trade deficit reached a new record-high level last year, surpassing the $1 billion mark due to flat exports and a stagnant manufacturing sector, according to government statistics reported on Monday.
09 January 2007 [22:02]
Turkey and Israel have provisionally agreed to build a pipeline system connecting the Black Sea to Red Sea, Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler said.
09 January 2007 [21:50]
The weighted average exchange prices made up 0.8714 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on January 9.
09 January 2007 [21:46]
Azerbaijan and Russia have agreed on amounts and prices of mutual electric energy deliveries in 2007.
09 January 2007 [21:37]
Amid the sharp increase of energy prices as well as utilities fees in Azerbaijan, the Government said it would continue to provide the set amount of kerosene for internally displaced people (IDP) who have no gas.
09 January 2007 [21:14]
Armenia is looking to benefit from an ambitious project to build a natural gas pipeline that would stretch from Central Asia to Turkey and Europe via the Caspian Sea, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said on Tuesday.
09 January 2007 [21:00]
"Sharp treble rise in the price electricity is a mistake. The price should be gradually increased on the basis of economic estimation," said Ogtay Hagverdiyev, Cabinet's Financial Policy official.
09 January 2007 [20:55]
According to AT report, IT giants Microsoft and Cisco introduced proposals for creating e-gov in Azerbaijan.
09 January 2007 [17:46]
The Economic Development Ministry of Azerbaijan and Garadagh Cement have released the standard selling price imposed on the cement for domestic market.
09 January 2007 [17:45]
Meeting of the workgroup on Azerbaijan's admission to the World Trade Organization will be held in March-April.
09 January 2007 [17:37]
"We should wait at least for the index of the first quarter in order to decide how the price of cars will be affected by the price hike in gasoline on the domestic market," said Natig Zarbaliyev, chair of Azerbaijan Association of Automobile Dealers.
09 January 2007 [11:28]
09 January 2007 [11:27]
Thames Insurance Company, operating in Azerbaijan, intends to increase its authorized capital to AZN 3m in 2007.
09 January 2007 [11:16]
Electricity production rose 1.5bn kilowatts/h, year-over-year, to 23.008 billion in 2006.
09 January 2007 [11:15]
In total the deals closed on all instruments at the Baku Stock Exchange during 2006 stood at approx. AZN 1 388 497 000.
09 January 2007 [11:14]
KamAZ-5511 truck controlled by Gahraman Guliyev was detained by officers of Azerbaijan State Customs Committee in Guba-Baku road.
09 January 2007 [11:14]
Azerbaijan Airlines State Company doesn't intend to increase the price of air tickets despite the Tariff Council's decision to increase the selling price of oil products is effective since Jan. 8.
09 January 2007 [11:12]
Georgia will buy 3 cubic meters of Azeri gas per day from January 10 through 20.
09 January 2007 [10:33]
January 15 RAO EES (Unified Energy Systems) will tell Azerbaijan how much it is going to charge for electricity import in 2007, Azerenergy Vice-President Marlen Asgarov stated.
09 January 2007 [00:10]
The weighted average exchange prices made up 0,8714 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on January 8.
09 January 2007 [00:08]
09 January 2007 [00:05]
The European Union will call for "a new industrial revolution" on Wednesday as it tries to cut its addiction to imported oil and slash the carbon emissions blamed for global warming.
Society
09 January 2007 [22:55]
"The plane which was carrying Turkish workers crashed probably due to bad weather conditions," Ali Ariduru, Deputy DG of Civil Aviation of Turkish Transportation Ministry, told reporters on Tuesday.
09 January 2007 [21:38]
European National Olympic Committee president Patrick Hickey will pay a visit to Azerbaijan in late March.
09 January 2007 [17:43]
"The execution of the procedure of defining of status of migrants living in Russia will begin from January 15," said Denis Soldatikov, Russian Federal Migration Service Public Relations Department chief.
09 January 2007 [17:41]
Trial on the case of Azerbaijani Army reserve officer Pyotr Mocalov accused of espionage for Russian special service in Military Court for Grievous Crimes has finished.
09 January 2007 [17:21]
The association of Azerbaijani Jew repatriates will be set up in Irael.
09 January 2007 [16:24]
"Simultaneously with the opening of the International "Kings" cartoon exhibition on the 1st of March and the introduction of the participating cartoonists, this museum which is one of the greatest cartoon museums in Asia and the Middle East will be opened," informed Tabriz Cartoon Association director, Rahim Baghal Asghari.
09 January 2007 [14:15]
"The certificate marks of the entrants are sometimes biased. There are some regions that the marks are objective, but in other regions biased. We have always declared the existence of this problem," the chief of State Students Admission Commission (SSAC) Maleyka Abbaszade told the journalists.
09 January 2007 [14:13]
The month of Muharram will begin on January 20.
09 January 2007 [14:10]
Early Tuesday morning fire occurred in Bina hypermarket located in the territory of Azizbayov district.
09 January 2007 [11:26]
State Veterinary Service under Agriculture Ministry continues monitoring after the temporary suspension because of bad weather.
09 January 2007 [11:24]
376 religious communities have been registered in Azerbaijan up to date.
09 January 2007 [11:24]
Baku Educational Organization will finish monitoring kindergartens in late January-early February.
09 January 2007 [11:23]
Media Council will discuss the preparation of State Programme project to develop media in Azerbaijan.
09 January 2007 [11:21]
Azerbaijani movies are displayed on Moldavian NIT TV Channel.
09 January 2007 [11:21]
Milli Majlis Permanent Commission for Science and Education presented Draft law on Education to Education Ministry.
09 January 2007 [11:13]
The number of car accidents (3197) has increased compared with last year.
09 January 2007 [11:08]
Roszarubejsentr Office will be established in Azerbaijan this year, stated the organization chairman Eleonora Mitrofanova.
09 January 2007 [11:08]
Baku Educational Organization will organize a Roundtable with the Media Council to improve the cooperation between educational institutions and media.
09 January 2007 [11:06]
A group of Azerbaijani pilgrims returned from Hajj pilgrimage.
09 January 2007 [00:09]
The semifinal match of the First ACP World Rapid Chess Cup between Azeri grandmaster Teymur Rajabov and Ukraine's Vassily Ivanchuk became a real gem of the tournament.
09 January 2007 [00:06]
Education Ministry and Higher Education Institutions start hotlines to prevent bribery in exam period.
09 January 2007 [00:04]
State Commission for Students Admission held a conference on the results of entrance exams in 2006/2007 academic year in Ganja Executive Power residence.
09 January 2007 [00:02]
A newspaper article that landed two journalists in jail and provoked Muslim protests underscores rifts over crucial issues - religion, freedom of speech and foreign influence - troubling Azerbaijan.
