News for 03 February 2007
Politics
03 February 2007 [18:06]
Foreign Affairs Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammedyarov received Director General of Political Affairs of the Council of Europe Jean-Louis Laurens.
03 February 2007 [18:02]
Speaker of Azerbaijan's Parliament, Oqtay Asadov, met with Ezzatollah Zarghami, President of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).
03 February 2007 [17:42]
Non-visa regime between Nakhchivan and Iran will be applied soon.
03 February 2007 [15:17]
"A decision was made at the establishment meeting of 16 October Movement to take care of the movement victims and sufferers while the work toward this problem is absolutely null. One of activists, Mehdi Mehdiyev, member of Musavat Party Assembly, will be tried on February 6.
03 February 2007 [13:09]
Member of Swedish Parliament's foreign relations commission, and Christian- Democrat Party deputy Holger Gustafsson addressed to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asking to release Abbas Lisani, activist for Iranian Azerbaijani rights.
03 February 2007 [13:02]
Turkish authorities made sudden raids on suspected Al Qaeda groups in six cities, detaining 36.
03 February 2007 [13:00]
Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, facing pressure on security issues ahead of elections, will send his foreign minister to Washington next week to lobby for a crackdown on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
03 February 2007 [10:55]
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg plans to visit Azerbaijan.
03 February 2007 [10:50]
The 2007 Budget of OSCE Baku Office has been passed.
03 February 2007 [10:45]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received the former UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representatives Marco Borsotti and new appointed representative Bruno Pouezat.
03 February 2007 [10:00]
15 officers of Military Prosecutor's Office were punished by the order of Prosecutor General last year, Military Prosecutor Khanlar Veliyev said at the board meeting on the results of last year.
03 February 2007 [09:55]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas visited National Communities House in Vilnius to meet with the members of National Communities Council and to participate in the conference.
03 February 2007 [09:50]
Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) Monitoring Group co-rapporteurs Andres Herkel and Tony Lloyd presented preliminary report on fulfillment of Azerbaijan's PACE commitments.
03 February 2007 [09:45]
President Ilham Aliyev approved 2007-2010 State Program for customs development.
03 February 2007 [09:05]
Bruno Pouezat appointed UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident representative to Azerbaijan, former UN Resident Coordinators Marco Borsotti said in the press conference.
03 February 2007 [09:00]
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza in the frame of Turkey Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul's visit the U.S held a briefing for Turkey press.
03 February 2007 [01:14]
Baku is discontent with the activity of the OSCE mediators brokering talks on settling the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict, a senior official said.
03 February 2007 [00:46]
President George W. Bush will ask Congress for $99.7 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for rest of fiscal year 2007 and more than $145 billion for fiscal year 2008, a Bush administration official said on Friday.
03 February 2007 [00:33]
The United States is not planning for a war with Iran but is determined to stop Iranians supplying bombs for deadly attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.
Business
03 February 2007 [17:56]
IP telephony service has been provided in Azerbaijan by President Ilham Aliyev's order effective January 1, Communications and Information Technologies Minister Ali Abbasov said.
03 February 2007 [17:50]
A protocol was signed with Communications and Information technologies Ministry of Azerbaijan within the visit of a delegation led by Ezzatollah Zarghami, President of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).
03 February 2007 [12:45]
In total the deals closed on all instruments on the Baku Stock Exchange during January, 2007 stood at approx. AZN 179.304mln, up 4.5 times the same period last year.
03 February 2007 [12:42]
Azercell Telecom has put into use roaming agreements with Karnataka, Haryana and Himchal, the networks of India's Bharti Airtel. This is Azercell's fifteenth agreement with Bharti Airtel.
03 February 2007 [12:40]
Germany's Select Energy GmbH has won the tender announced by the SOCAR Department for Marketing and Economic Operations.
03 February 2007 [12:39]
In January, according to the calculations by the Analytical Department of the BSE, in the government securities market (excluding repo operations market) Koc Bank-Azerbaijan headed the ranking of dealers with dealer operations in the total amount of AZN 16,356,515.14.
03 February 2007 [11:25]
The talks between Azerbaijan and RusAL have been suspended for short time.
03 February 2007 [11:20]
The meeting of the Azerbaijan-Moscow Intergovernmental Commission will be held this year.
03 February 2007 [11:10]
In January, 2007 according to the calculations by the Analytical Department of the BSE, in the government securities market (excluding repo operations market) Standard Capital headed ranking of brokers with brokerage services of AZN 42,221,457.02 provided to five clients.
03 February 2007 [10:35]
Azerbaijan's Taxes Ministry paid AZN 2,716,621,200 to the State Budget, meting the forecast with a surplus (103.3%) in 2006.
03 February 2007 [10:30]
The weighted average exchange price made up 0.8701 AZN/USD at trading sessions on the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on Friday.
03 February 2007 [10:25]
Authorized banks of Azerbaijan Mortgage Fund reached 23 in number after Industry Bank of Azerbaijan joined.
03 February 2007 [10:20]
The first preferential mortgage loan has been allowed after the presidential decree on improvement of mortgage lending mechanism in the country.
03 February 2007 [10:15]
The construction of Baku Module Power Station has continued to progress, and lighting and renovation of the territory is ongoing.
03 February 2007 [09:35]
Gunay Bank will be moving to a new location.
03 February 2007 [09:30]
Oil prices rose to more than $59 a barrel Friday on expectations of bitter cold weather in the U.S. Northeast this weekend and on growing concerns over geopolitical factors.
03 February 2007 [09:25]
Two road bridges and a tunnel will be commissioned in Baku on the eve of Novruz Holiday.
03 February 2007 [09:20]
At January 1, 2007, total amount of the current loan portfolio of 22 AMFA member bank and nonbank crediting organizations reached US $139,767,756, up 91.1% from the previous year.
Society
03 February 2007 [17:45]
Paramilitary hostility between Azerbaijan and Armenia hinder complete settlement of this country's broadcasts interference into our airspace," Azerbaijan's Communications and Information Technologies Minister Ali Abbasov said.
03 February 2007 [17:45]
Azerbaijan's Emergencies Ministry assessed serious damage caused by windstorm in some regions of the country.
03 February 2007 [17:39]
New buildings for police departments are planned to be constructed in 10 regions this year, stated Oruj Zalov, deputy minister of Interior Affairs.
03 February 2007 [17:37]
A blood sample taken from a boy who died in Azerbaijan last month confirmed bird flu was not the cause of his death, Azeri health officials said on Saturday.
03 February 2007 [13:18]
Youth and Sport Ministry held an event on occasion of Youth Day – February 2 in Gulustan Palace.
03 February 2007 [12:56]
"An Inconvenient Truth" is a documentary on the former US vice-president's global campaign against global warming. We witness a humane, modest and funny Gore and we also get to see the frighteningly imminent threat of climate change.
03 February 2007 [12:38]
The contracts with some Azerbaijani teachers working in Istanbul University of Turkey will be prolonged.
03 February 2007 [12:36]
Officers Office of Commissioner on Human Rights met with the recently released Azerbaijani soldier Vusal Garajayev who is being kept in detention ward # 3 of Justice Ministry Penitentiary Service.
03 February 2007 [12:23]
One of the famous singers of Azeri opera Sona Aslanova, 83, has been operated in the U.S.
03 February 2007 [11:15]
"Our stance on pulling foreign television off the air is determined. This decision is unanimous, we notified Russian and Turkish embassies through the foreign ministry," said Chairman of National Television and Radio Council Nushiravan Maharramli.
03 February 2007 [11:05]
World Health Organization expert for reproductive health Gunta Lazdane will visit Azerbaijan on February 26.
03 February 2007 [11:00]
Azerbaijan Languages University (ALU) signed documents with Perugia and Siena Universities of Italy considering exchange of students and teachers, hold joint seminar and trainings, book compiling.
03 February 2007 [10:40]
Azeri saber team will participate in the World Cup to start on February 23 in Budapest, Hungary.
03 February 2007 [10:10]
On February 12-15, World Bank's Education mission will visit Azerbaijan.
03 February 2007 [10:05]
Azerbaijani citizen illegally living in Istanbul was arrested.
03 February 2007 [09:40]
The preliminary decision on place of Azerbaijan-Armenia match to take place in September in European Championship selection will be made on February 7.
03 February 2007 [09:15]
Education Minister Misir Mardanov together with the leadership of UNICEF Azerbaijani Office has visited north regions of Azerbaijan.
03 February 2007 [09:10]
The project prepared abroad for the reconstruction of Heydar Aliyev Palace has been brought to Azerbaijan, Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfas Garayev said.
