News for 07 February 2007
Politics
07 February 2007 [22:49]
Turkey's foreign minister said Tuesday a proposed resolution in Congress to condemn as genocide the early 20th century killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians would harm Turkish-American relations if it passes.
07 February 2007 [22:33]
Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov met with the delegation headed by Harada Chikahito, Director-General, European Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
07 February 2007 [22:27]
The visit of President of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) Goran Lenmarker and Secretary General of OSCE PA Spenser Oliver has started.
07 February 2007 [22:24]
Armenia and Azerbaijan are "very close" to hammering out an agreement on Nagorno Karabakh before their presidential elections due next year, Washington's chief Karabakh negotiator said on Wednesday.
07 February 2007 [22:18]
Azerbaijan's Defence Minister, General Colonel Safar Abiyev ended his two-day visit to Turkey.
07 February 2007 [22:16]
"The inauguration of the Economic Partnership Commission between the United States and Azerbaijan in Baku will deepen the relations between the two countries," Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Matthew J. Bryza told journalists.
07 February 2007 [22:09]
The Organizing Committee held an extraordinary meeting on the preparation forthe 9th Congress of Azerbaijani Democrat Party (ADP).
07 February 2007 [21:28]
Azerbaijani, Georgian and Turkish leaders had a trilateral meeting at Georgian Parliament.
07 February 2007 [21:25]
Strengthening of civil control over the army is one of the fundamental stages of the armed forces' reformation, Dr Horst Schmalfeld, the deputy director of the George C. Marshall Fund, said in Yerevan.
07 February 2007 [21:15]
"Russian President Vladimir Putin's news conference clearly hinted on cooling in Azeri-Russian relations," said Arif Yunusov, the director of the department of conflictology at the institute of peace and democracy.
07 February 2007 [21:05]
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said his country fully supports Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and favours an early resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh issue.
07 February 2007 [17:07]
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Tuesday dismissed the idea of holding secret talks between Tehran and Washington to settle their differences over Iran's peaceful nuclear activities.
07 February 2007 [16:55]
"I am deeply impressed by the level of tolerance between ethnic and religious groups in Azerbaijan. It is a splendid example of tolerance", Colleen Graffy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs U.S. Department of State said at the meeting in State Management Academy at Azerbaijani President's Office.
07 February 2007 [16:04]
Senior European Union officials are to visit Serbia Wednesday to urge the formation of a pro-democracy government that would reconsider its outright rejection of an U.N. plan for Kosovo.
07 February 2007 [16:03]
The Russian military will sharply increase the number of new intercontinental ballistic missiles to be deployed this year as part of an ambitious weapons modernization plan, Russia's defense minister said Wednesday.
07 February 2007 [15:51]
Russia will not get problems with draft production sharing agreements in the Caspian region like it had on Sakhalin, Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko said.
07 February 2007 [15:45]
Chief of Azerbaijan Democrat Party Supreme Assembly Akif Shahbazov issued an order to annul the Assembly's January 27 decision on constructive dialogue with the government.
07 February 2007 [15:43]
Armenian President Robert Kocharian declined on Tuesday to meet with a visiting high-level official from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe who planned to discuss his government's conduct of the upcoming parliamentary elections.
07 February 2007 [15:41]
OSCE long-term mission on observing the parliamentary elections in Armenia, which will be held May 12, will arrive half a month prior to voting.
07 February 2007 [15:40]
President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Georgia starts.
07 February 2007 [14:17]
Turkey's Foreign Minister Abdulla Gul met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in US.
07 February 2007 [13:49]
Co-chairs of the OSCE Minks Group Matthew Bryza (US) and Bernard Fassier (France), mediators in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, will meet in the framework of International Energy conference in Paris next week.
07 February 2007 [10:30]
As the drumbeat for war with Iran grows more insistent, the search for a "casus belli" compelling enough to calm a newly assertive Congress and convince an increasingly questioning American public intensifies.
07 February 2007 [10:25]
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul is expected to discuss cross-border operations, Iran, Iraq, Cyprus and alleged Armenian resolution.
07 February 2007 [10:00]
On Wednesday Azerbaijani delegation participating in the 4th meeting of Azerbaijani-Pakistan intergovernmental commission will meet with Prime Minister of Pakistan Shovket Aziz.
07 February 2007 [09:55]
Professor of the University of Maryland, academic Roald Sagdeev delivered a lecture "Development of relations between the US and post-Soviet countries: Viewing from Washington" for the officials of Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry, Diplomatic Academy and other state bodies.
07 February 2007 [09:50]
Milli Majlis Speaker Ogtay Asadov received the delegation headed by Thomas C. Adams, Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia.
07 February 2007 [09:45]
Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev, visiting Turkey met with Turkish counterpart Vecdi Konul.
07 February 2007 [09:35]
"Sudden occurrence of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict put the country leadership in bad conditions, and the taken measures were not effective," said the member of the former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev's team, Professor of University of Maryland, academic Roald Sagdeev.
07 February 2007 [09:10]
Chinese People's Armed Police delegation will pay a visit Azerbaijan in late March or early April.
07 February 2007 [09:00]
Sabail district Court finished the trial of Musavat Party member Mehdi Mehdiyev.
07 February 2007 [08:30]
Russia warned the European Union on Tuesday not to tread on its toes in ex-Soviet areas that Moscow regards as being within its sphere of influence.
07 February 2007 [03:11]
U.S. and British officials denied trying to bury details of a "friendly fire" incident on Tuesday when a cockpit video was leaked in which U.S. pilots are heard weeping after mistakenly killing a British soldier in Iraq.
07 February 2007 [03:01]
Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair told lawmakers Tuesday that no military action is planned against Iran, but that international opinion is hardening against Teheran's nuclear ambitions and what he described as its interference in conflicts across the Middle East.
Business
07 February 2007 [22:37]
Azerbaijan's Minister of Economic Development, Heydar Babayev, met with the U.S. delegation led by Daniel Sullivan, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs, and co-Chair of the U.S.-Azerbaijan Economic Partnership Commission.
07 February 2007 [22:35]
The weighted average exchange prices made up 0,8701 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on February 7.
07 February 2007 [22:14]
The United States and Azerbaijan launched an Economic Partnership Commission in Baku, Wednesday.
07 February 2007 [22:12]
Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry's State Veterinary Service has imposed a ban to import of fowls, poultry products and feed from the UK and Krasnodar province of Russia.
07 February 2007 [22:04]
Shah Deniz Field, the giant one in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian, will return on stream on Feb. 26, SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev said.
07 February 2007 [21:24]
The inauguration of the Economic Partnership Commission between the United States and Azerbaijan in Baku today highlighted macroeconomic policy, trade and investment, economic development, energy security, and some other issues, American co-chair of the Commission, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs Daniel Sullivan said.
07 February 2007 [21:22]
Ceremony of signing a Tbilisi Declaration on the construction of Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway line was held on Wednesday at Georgian parliament.
07 February 2007 [21:09]
Turkey is now working on allocation of part of its gas share from the Azerbaijani's Shah Deniz field to Georgia, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after talks with the Georgian and Azerbaijani leaders in Tbilisi on February 7.
07 February 2007 [21:07]
Partially state-owned International Bank of Azerbaijan's (IBAR) affiliated bank in Georgia has officially launched operations after it was granted with a license by the National Bank of Georgia (NBG) on February 7.
07 February 2007 [16:59]
"It is difficult to say the exact number of buildings the constructions of which have been suspended due to failing in expert appraisal. The shortcomings are being removed according to the construction standards," Azerbaijani Emergencies Minister Kamaladdin Heydarov stated.
07 February 2007 [16:36]
Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Nouraiz Shakoor on Wednesday stressed the need to start exchange of delegations of experts, researchers and scientists between Pakistan and Azerbaijan to further enhance mutual cooperation.
07 February 2007 [16:06]
Bulgaria, Greece and Russia will sign an agreement Wednesday for the construction of a long-awaited oil pipeline that will funnel Russian oil directly to southeastern Europe — bypassing Turkey's busy Bosporus Straits, officials said.
07 February 2007 [14:03]
Papers explaining the meanings of the words "Coca-Cola" and "Pepsi" are spread in northern regions of Azerbaijan.
07 February 2007 [13:59]
Implementation of the Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway project will strengthen Turkey's geostrategic and geopolitical position, Turkey's Prime Minister Rajab Tayyib Erdogan said a briefing before leaving for Georgia.
07 February 2007 [13:05]
The United States and Azerbaijan inaugurate an Economic Partnership Commission in Baku, Wednesday.
07 February 2007 [10:20]
The highway to be built from Zeynalabdin settlement to Lokbatan can be the first toll road in the country.
07 February 2007 [10:15]
Communications and Information technologies Ministry's Aztelecom announced a tender.
07 February 2007 [10:10]
"Azerbaijan can carry out Trans-Europe-Asia (TEA) line project. It is to benefit of this country," said Dr. Roald Sagdeev.
07 February 2007 [09:25]
Azerbaijan has resumed exporting gasoline to Georgia.
07 February 2007 [09:20]
AtaHolding has become a member of United States-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce (USACC).
07 February 2007 [08:40]
Azeri-German business forum will be held in Berlin on Feb. 16.
07 February 2007 [08:35]
Azerbaijan's Star Alliance Insurance collected insurance premiums of AZN 322,500 during 2006, down 245 from the previous year.
07 February 2007 [08:25]
Chairman of the Management Board of the National Bank of Azerbaijan, Elman Rustamov, has received Simeon Djankov, the creator of the Doing Business series ranking economies on their ease of doing business, from 1 – 175, with first place being the best.
07 February 2007 [08:20]
A delegation led by Azerbaijan Transport Minister, Ziya Mammadov, has today left Baku for Tbilisi.
07 February 2007 [08:15]
Oil prices rose Tuesday, lifted by chilly weather across the Midwest and Northeast United States that is boosting heating fuel demand.
07 February 2007 [08:10]
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 8.25, or 0.07 percent, to 12,661.74.
Society
07 February 2007 [22:44]
Public health experts warned Wednesday that an exclusive H5N1 vaccine deal Indonesia has struck with a pharmaceutical company may jeopardize the world's access to a pandemic vaccine, if the country becomes the epicentre of a global outbreak.
07 February 2007 [22:11]
Azerbaijan's Health Ministry suspended the license of Diamed private medical institution due to the institution's failing to comply with the terms of the license.
07 February 2007 [21:51]
If Azerbaijan will be excluded from UEFA and FIFA, it will never be affiliated again, stated Fuad Musayev, former chief of Azerbaijan Football Federations Association (AFFA).
07 February 2007 [21:31]
Armenian wrestlers refuse to participate in world championship to be held in Baku.
07 February 2007 [17:00]
The samples from resident of Azerbaijani region of Neftchala Zamina Zeynalova, who was suspected of contracting bird flu, have been sent to the World Health Organization reference laboratory.
07 February 2007 [16:40]
The Kazakh president's son-in-law denied allegations of kidnapping two former senior managers of a bank under his control, a report said Wednesday.
07 February 2007 [13:18]
Emergencies Ministry has already begun to bring fire engines to the country, Emergencies Minister Kamaleddin Heydarov said.
07 February 2007 [13:11]
The opening of the new office of Azerbaijan Football Federations Association (AFFA) in Nobel Avenue will be held March 27 or March 28.
07 February 2007 [10:05]
Former assistant commander of Defense Ministry lieutenant colonel Rasim Muradov is going to start continuous hunger strike soon.
07 February 2007 [09:40]
Anatoliy Banishevskiy played for the USSR national football team, winning 51 caps and scoring 19 goals for the USSR. He played in the 1966 FIFA World Cup.
07 February 2007 [09:30]
The best Azeri chess player by FIDE's ranking Shahriyar Mammadyarov leaves for France tomorrow. 22-year-old grandmaster is going to join French championship in Paris.
07 February 2007 [09:15]
American Biographical Institute has selected former chief of Azerbaijani Health Ministry's international relations department Prof. Aleksandr Umnyashkin with Gold Medal for Azerbaijan.
07 February 2007 [09:05]
US Center for Defense Journalism has released a report on freedom of media in the world countries in 2006.
07 February 2007 [08:55]
Conference of countries that have signed up to an international convention against doping has started in Paris.
07 February 2007 [08:50]
Azerbaijan intends to host World Military Boxing Championship to be held in 2008, head of Central Army Sporting Club Natig Aliyev stated.
07 February 2007 [08:05]
The book stock of Centralized Library System in the region of Samukh was enriched by means of new books last year.
07 February 2007 [08:00]
Azerbaijan's parliament will make some amendments to culture bill.
07 February 2007 [03:13]
A NASA astronaut accused of trying to kidnap a romantic rival for a space shuttle pilot's affections after a 900-mile (1,500-kilometer) non-stop drive was charged with attempted first-degree murder Tuesday and released from jail after posting $25,000 (?19,300) bail.
