News for 01 October 2009
Politics
01 October 2009 [17:57]
Slovenian President Danilo Turk sees Azerbaijan as an important partner of Europe in energy security.
01 October 2009 [17:42]
On Oct. 1, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received a delegation headed by Vice-Prime Minister, Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic Martin Bartak AzerTAj state news agency reported.
01 October 2009 [17:30]
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Robert Bradtke of the United States, Bernard Fassier of France, Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia and Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk on Oct. 1.
01 October 2009 [17:07]
A meeting was held with outgoing Korean ambassador to Azerbaijan Lyu Kwang Chul in Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense Industry, the ministry said.
01 October 2009 [16:37]
Romania's Social Democrats quit the coalition government on Thursday in protest at the sacking of a minister ahead of a November presidential election, jolting markets and raising the risk of failure to meet IMF aid terms, Reuters reported.
01 October 2009 [16:28]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a congratulatory letter to his Nigerian counterpart Umaru Yar`adua on country`s Independence Day.
01 October 2009 [15:42]
Chairman of Pakistan’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Tarig Majid will visit Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Defense Ministry’s press service said.
01 October 2009 [15:37]
Turkmenistan considers possibilities to hold further bilateral talks on the Caspian sea oil fields with Azerbaijan, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow said at a meeting with representatives of the Turkmen media outlets.
01 October 2009 [15:23]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has not supported Georgia's initiative to deprive the Russian delegation to the Assembly of the vote right.
01 October 2009 [15:17]
Russia-based Institute of Globalization Problems Director Mikhail Delyagin spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
01 October 2009 [14:17]
“Accreditation of journalists of the Turkish NTV television channel in Azerbaijan has been canceled without terms,” Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Elkhan Polukhov said.
01 October 2009 [13:54]
Amendments to Law on Prosecutor's Office are not linked with certain persons, Azerbaijani Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov said.
01 October 2009 [13:43]
"Azerbaijani government considers that the Lachin corridor should be opened for both Azerbaijan and Armenia."
01 October 2009 [13:38]
The OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France and Robert Bradke of the U.S. today have made an official statement in which they again described the conditions under which the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be settled.
01 October 2009 [13:16]
Baku is hosting conference “NATO/ PfP defence policy and strategy” organized by Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
01 October 2009 [12:42]
Co-chairs of the OSCE Minks Group on resolution of the Karabakh conflict have arrived in Yerevan.
01 October 2009 [12:34]
The delegation led by NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning Jiri Sedivy has arrived in Azerbaijan.
01 October 2009 [12:27]
The Armenian occupying forces retreat towards west and direction of their dislocation from the occupied territory is being determined, Azerbaijani President's special envoy for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told reporters.
01 October 2009 [11:22]
Baku does not believe signing of the Turkish-Armenian protocol on the resumption of diplomatic ties may lead to positive changes in Armenia's position.
01 October 2009 [11:16]
Parliamentary hearings on Armenia-Turkey Protocols started in Yerevan today.
01 October 2009 [11:09]
Azerbaijani delegation fully supports my nomination for PACE President, said Turkish parliamentarian Mevlut Cavusoglu, nominee for president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
01 October 2009 [10:44]
Normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia will make Turkey a responsible regional player for European Union that will help it strengthen ties with Europe, and possibly help in the process of joining the Union, Deputy Director of Centre for European Reform (CER) in London Katinka Barysch said.
01 October 2009 [10:25]
01 October 2009 [10:17]
Prospects of cooperation between Azerbaijan and Slovenia will be discussed at the highest level in Baku in November.
01 October 2009 [10:07]
Turkey will not take steps that could hurt Azerbaijan, Head of the Turkish Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)Movlud Chavushoglu said in an exclusive interview with Trend News commenting on issue of ratification of the "Protocol on Establishing Diplomatic Relations" and "Protocol for Development of Bilateral Relations" by the Turkish and Armenian parliaments.
01 October 2009 [09:52]
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki made a rare visit to Washington to inspect Iran's unofficial diplomatic office but there were no plans for him to meet U.S. officials, the State Department said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
01 October 2009 [09:24]
"Opposition's calls of boycott at every elections and raising the question of changes to the Electoral Code have become unsuccessful tendency."
01 October 2009 [09:12]
EU Special Representative for South Caucasus Peter Semneby hopes that by the end of the year certain results will be achieved in the process of peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
01 October 2009 [08:47]
Azerbaijan is ready to respect the rights of ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh on the basis of international law.
01 October 2009 [08:21]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that Turkey was refreshing and changing its relations with the world, adding that Turkey would continue talks with Armenia to settle problems.
Business
01 October 2009 [16:55]
India has offered Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) to open direct flights between Azerbaijan and India, Indian ambassador to Azerbaijan Debnat Show said.
01 October 2009 [12:58]
The protocol was approved at the sixth meeting of Azerbaijani-Kazakh inter-governmental commission on economic cooperation in Baku.
01 October 2009 [09:33]
Crude prices jumped nearly 6 percent on Wednesday after government data showed an unexpected drop in gasoline inventories, Xinhua reported.
01 October 2009 [09:04]
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has completed the dredging work on its own Black Sea terminal in Kulevi, which will allow receiving tankers with dead weight of 104,000 ton, a source at the port said.
01 October 2009 [08:56]
Upon decision by Tariff (Price) Council of Azerbaijan, from Oct. 1 the tariffs on passenger service in the Baku Metro will be tripled, the Ministry of Economic Development of Azerbaijan said on Sept. 30.
Society
01 October 2009 [17:22]
The first education fair of German universities in the South Caucasus has started in Baku today.
01 October 2009 [16:14]
Goods produced in Armenia was recently revealed in Azerbaijan.
01 October 2009 [15:54]
There are no Azerbaijani citizens among victims of the earthquake that took place in Malaysia.
01 October 2009 [14:51]
A student threw a shoe to Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn during his speech at a university, Turkish CNN Turk TV channel reported.
01 October 2009 [14:38]
Elderly people comprise 28 percent of the Azerbaijani pensioners, Azerbaijan State Social Protection Fund (SSPF) senior official Elman Babayev said.
01 October 2009 [14:26]
Insanitation was the reason behind mass food poisoning in the Garaheybat Troop Training Center in Garadagh District of Baku, Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov told reporters.
01 October 2009 [13:29]
Culture Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Conference OIC, as well as several European countries will meet in Baku to continue discussions on intercultural dialogue launched in Dec. 2-3, 2008.
01 October 2009 [12:11]
Recent floods have damaged several schools in Masalli and Lankaran regions of Azerbaijan, Minister of Education Misir Mardanov told reporters.
01 October 2009 [11:55]
International experts have been involved to investigate murder of the Azerbaijani general, Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov told reporters.
01 October 2009 [11:46]
Reports about inspection in the Ministry of Education by the Prosecutor General's Office are untrue, Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov said in response to a question about arrest of heads of education departments in several regions of the country following arrest of the head of the Goranboy education department.
01 October 2009 [11:35]
More than 1,600 witnesses have been interrogated on mass killing at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy that took place on April 30, 2009, Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov said.
01 October 2009 [10:57]
01 October 2009 [10:38]
On Sept. 30, the cultural center of the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan hosted a regular meeting of State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons.
01 October 2009 [09:45]
01 October 2009 [09:22]
The term of financing of Azerbaijan's Public Television and Radio Company from the state budget has been prolonged till 2014.
01 October 2009 [08:34]
The State Veterinary Service under the Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry noted the absence of the African swine fever in Azerbaijan.
