News for 05 February 2007
Politics
05 February 2007 [23:45]
The United States has provided the Armenian army with a mobile field hospital which it hopes will help to widen Yerevan's participation in Western-led military operations.
05 February 2007 [21:52]
Program of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) President Goran Lennmarker's visit to Azerbaijan has been announced.
05 February 2007 [21:50]
Azerbaijan's Defence Minister, General Colonel Safar Abiyev held a meeting with Turkish Armed Forces General Staff Chief, Army General Yashar Buyukanit. Official welcome ceremony was organized at the General Staff.
05 February 2007 [21:48]
Magdalena Fricheva has been appointed director of the Caucasus Project of the International Crisis Group.
05 February 2007 [21:40]
Ceremony of signing Framework Agreement on implementation of the Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway project will be held in Georgia on February 7.
05 February 2007 [16:17]
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul is paying an official visit to the US.
05 February 2007 [16:12]
"UN Secretariat values its relationships with all UN Member States, including Azerbaijan," said Brendan Varma, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
05 February 2007 [16:10]
Armenians killed 523,955 Turks in Turkey in 1910-1922.
05 February 2007 [16:08]
"Agreement on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict can be reached after the parliamentary elections in Armenia," President of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Goran Lennmarker said in Yerevan.
05 February 2007 [16:05]
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Colleen Graffy, is visiting Azerbaijan.
05 February 2007 [16:02]
Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan will arrive on a one-day visit in Tbilisi on February 7.
05 February 2007 [15:38]
Defense Minster, General Colonel Safar Abiyev today started his official visit to Turkey at the invitation of Turkey's Armed Forces General Staff Chief, Army General Yashar Boyukanit.
05 February 2007 [14:47]
The brother of Georgia's late Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania on Monday demanded a new investigation into his death two years ago, dismissing the authorities' assertion that he died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
05 February 2007 [13:48]
New head of the OSCE Office in Baku Jose Luis Herrero Ansola takes up his position today, the OSCE Office told.
05 February 2007 [13:14]
"The solution to the Nagorno Karabakh problem is deliberately protracted," prominent Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aytmatov told.
Business
05 February 2007 [22:03]
The weighted average exchange prices made up 0,8699 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on February 5.
05 February 2007 [21:38]
The first Armenian section of a key gas pipeline running from neighboring Iran will be officially inaugurated next month or in April at the latest, Energy Minister Armen Movsisian said on Monday.
05 February 2007 [21:34]
A U.S. delegation headed by Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Daniel Sullivan has arrived in Astana to discuss diversifying Kazakhstan's oil and gas export routes.
05 February 2007 [21:30]
Minsk Automobile Plant /MAZ/ has sent two airfield passenger buses MAZ-171075 to Azerbaijan. The buses were purchased by the state concern Azerbaijani Airlines – AZAL for the work in the Heydar Aliev Airport in Baku.
05 February 2007 [21:28]
The United Nations on Monday lifted a ban on exports of beluga caviar, the most expensive type of the delicacy, after Caspian Sea states agreed to limit catches in view of concerns over declining fish stocks.
05 February 2007 [21:23]
President Aliyev has received the delegation headed by executive vice president of The Boeing Company and president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Scott Carson.
05 February 2007 [17:44]
Oil prices fell in profit-taking Monday after rising nearly US$2 a barrel last week as forecasts of a cold snap in the United States raised expectations of higher demand.
05 February 2007 [17:34]
The fourth meeting of Pakistan-Azerbaijan intergovernmental joint commission will be held in Islamabad on Tuesday.
05 February 2007 [17:21]
Conference examining priorities of new quality phrase in economic growth and problems with use of financial resources, supported by UK Links, was held by Parliament commission or economic policy.
05 February 2007 [16:00]
Azerbaijan's foreign trade surplus totaled $1.1 billion in 2006.
05 February 2007 [12:33]
Georgian Minister of Economics and Infrastructure Giorgi Arveladze said that they hoped to sign a free trade agreement with Turkey in the near future.
05 February 2007 [12:20]
"Bilateral economic relations between Azerbaijan and the United States rose to partnership from cooperation in 2006.
Society
05 February 2007 [22:05]
05 February 2007 [22:01]
The Canada-Azerbaijan Cooperation Association-initiated project on cooperation, friendship and mutual understanding between Azerbaijan and Canada was welcomed by the Canada government. Canada Fund set aside funds to implement the project in line with economic and political interests of both countries.
05 February 2007 [21:59]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev welcomed prominent physicist and academician Roald Sagdeev to the Presidential Palace on Monday.
05 February 2007 [21:44]
Former Commander of military unit #N of Defense Ministry Elkhan Huseynov was again arrested.
05 February 2007 [16:07]
A criminal case has been launched against Mayor Esger Huseynov, chief of Ganja department of Defense Ministry Central Storehouse, and Captain Terane Abdullayeva, chief of the depot of military unit #N.
05 February 2007 [14:55]
Weather will be warm in three days, Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry National Hydrometeorology Department Forecasting bureau chief Umayra Tagiyeva informs.
05 February 2007 [12:35]
"We want to apply Barcelona football program in a number of countries, as well as Azerbaijan," Jago Aguilera, manager of Spanish club Barcelona, stated.
