News for 16 October 2009
Politics
16 October 2009 [17:17]
Azerbaijan Democratic Party refused to participate in the municipal elections to be held on on Dec. 23.
16 October 2009 [16:57]
TURKSOY's members negotiate with Russia's Federal Ministry in terms of providing Russia with an observer status in the Turkic-speaking countries' organization, TURKSOY Secretary General Dyusen Kaseinov said.
16 October 2009 [16:41]
The Turkish Ministry of Culture says insulting Azerbaijani flag is inadmissible.
16 October 2009 [16:28]
Parents of the Armenia-captured Azerbaijani soldiers – Anar Hajiyev and Rafig Hasanov – are concerned that they have not received any letter from the sons for three months.
16 October 2009 [16:10]
Day.Az interview with Azerbaijani political expert Eldar Namazov.
16 October 2009 [15:26]
The Azerbaijani MPs want punishment for all those who insulted Azerbaijani flag in Turkey.
16 October 2009 [15:03]
Azerbaijani members of parliament describe their visit to Ankara as positive.
16 October 2009 [14:30]
Turkish security forces detained 32 suspected members of the militant group al Qaeda believed to have been planning attacks on NATO, U.S. and Israeli targets, state-run news agency Anatolian reported on Thursday, Reuters reported.
16 October 2009 [13:58]
"Turkey and Armenia reached a symbolic deal Oct. 10 toward normalizing relations, but several important and interwoven hurdles still remain."
16 October 2009 [12:34]
U.S. President Barack Obama has invited Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Washington.
16 October 2009 [12:11]
16 October 2009 [11:53]
Ireland completed its ratification of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, intensifying the pressure on the Czech Republic to overcome its objections and become the final member state to pass the treaty, AFP reported.
16 October 2009 [11:36]
Day.Az interview with Senior research fellow at the European Policy Center and an expert on Southern Caucasus Amanda Akcakoca.
16 October 2009 [11:13]
Bosnia and Lebanon won seats Thursday on the Security Council and will be in the rare position of being subject to scrutiny by the U.N.'s most powerful body while serving their two-year terms, AP reported.
16 October 2009 [10:09]
In the interview with the French L`Express magazine, the Turkish President Abdullah Gul said that Ankara did not face any pressure in order to normalize his country's relations with Armenia, the Turkish ANADOLU news agency reported.
16 October 2009 [09:04]
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met visiting Lithuanian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavicius on Oct. 15.
16 October 2009 [08:45]
U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and the Azerbaijani people on the Day of State Independence on behalf of the American people, AzerTaj state news agency reported.
16 October 2009 [08:33]
OSCE PA Special Representative on Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia Goran Lennmarker will visit all three countries in the South Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in November.
16 October 2009 [08:21]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received head of the Iranian Presidential Office Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie on Oct. 15.
Business
16 October 2009 [14:47]
French utility GDF Suez, which is already in talks to join the OAO Gazprom-led Nord Stream pipeline, would also be prepared to take a fresh look at the Nabucco pipeline project, the Wall Street Journal quoted Chief Executive Gerard Mestrallet as saying.
16 October 2009 [13:28]
The Azerbaijani Parliament has received forecast on public and consolidated budget, and the concept of socio-economic development for 2010 and three subsequent years.
16 October 2009 [12:46]
Delegation of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) and the German Accident Insurance Organization will visit Azerbaijan.
16 October 2009 [12:28]
Crude oil rose above $78 a barrel, capping its biggest weekly gain in two months, on an unexpected decline in U.S. gasoline stockpiles and refinery utilization, Bloomberg reported.
16 October 2009 [11:24]
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan plans to begin drilling wells from new a platform at the Oil Rocks field in early 2010, the SOCAR Web site said.
16 October 2009 [10:35]
The first gas supply contracts on the Nabucco project between shippers and the gas supply countries from the Caspian region will be signed in the first half of 2010, Jeremy Ellis, Head of Business Development at RWE Gas Midstream said.
16 October 2009 [10:23]
The Azerigas Production Union of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) will release new materials on rules of safe use of domestic gas soon, SOCAR said.
16 October 2009 [09:49]
16 October 2009 [09:26]
The National Fund for Entrepreneurship Support (NFES) under the Azerbaijani Ministry of Economic Development held a meeting on the state support of entrepreneurship in the Agjabadi region.
16 October 2009 [08:51]
Growth of the Azerbaijani economy in 2010 is expected to reach 7.1 percent, said the statement of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Society
16 October 2009 [17:45]
16 October 2009 [17:32]
Day.Az interview with Azerbaijan’s Culture and Tourism Ministry Bibliography Department Chief Latifa Mammadova.
16 October 2009 [15:52]
Iran has launched the 24th International "Tour of Azerbaijan" Bicycle Race, the second stage of the competition is underway, İRNA reported.
16 October 2009 [15:38]
"Azerbaijan is an integral part of the Turkic-speaking world."
16 October 2009 [14:18]
Austrian law company Lansky, Ganzger & Partner Rechtsanwaelte GmbH and the Baku Law Centre signed an agreement on the joint venture, under the which, the Central-European Law Centre was established in Caucasus, the Austiran company said on Oct. 16.
16 October 2009 [13:39]
The International Association of Football Federations has released rating table of national squads for October.
16 October 2009 [13:11]
Books reflecting true materials on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict were presented in Baku on Oct.16.
16 October 2009 [12:59]
16 October 2009 [10:51]
The number of the pupils infected with swine flue has reached 16 in the primary school of the Turkish Ankara city, the Turkish Health Ministry reported, Anadolu news agency reported.
16 October 2009 [09:37]
16 October 2009 [09:16]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev signed an order to hold the 6th International Scientific Olympiad amongst teenagers in Baku, AzerTAj state news agency reported.
