News for 03 October 2009
Politics
03 October 2009 [12:51]
"Resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan will create fertile ground for the full normalization of relations in the South Caucasus region,” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at joint news conference with EU Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn, CNN Turk reported.
03 October 2009 [12:38]
An al Qaeda-linked Uzbek militant leader was killed in Pakistan in a US drone missile strike in August, Pakistani intelligence agency officials said Friday, Reuters reported.
03 October 2009 [12:25]
Azerbaijan's health ministry has conducted checks in private health care institutions.
03 October 2009 [11:53]
Vote counting is due to begin shortly in the Republic of Ireland's crucial second referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, BBC reported.
03 October 2009 [11:35]
03 October 2009 [11:14]
A delegation from Bosnia-Herzegovina handed in on Friday an official application for a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP).
03 October 2009 [10:25]
The Republic of Korea has appointed new ambassador to Azerbaijan.
03 October 2009 [10:10]
Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan was met riots and whistles in Paris.
03 October 2009 [09:37]
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev arrived in Azerbaijan for an official visit on Oct. 2.
03 October 2009 [08:56]
Minister of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan, Lieutenant-General Eldar Mahmudov received Chairman of the National Security Committee (NSC) of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant-General Amangeldi Shabdarbayev, who is on an official visit to Azerbaijan, the MNS said in a statement.
03 October 2009 [08:36]
Azerbaijan's Press Council plans to hold a series of events in October related to the level of training of journalists and the society to defamation, which will promote the liberalization of the information environment, the Head of the Press Council Aflatun Amashov said.
Business
03 October 2009 [10:39]
The first gas, most likely from Iraq, will flow through the Nabucco gas pipeline in the fourth quarter of 2014, the consortium confirmed on Thursday and said it hopes for further supply from Azerbaijan in 2015 or 2016, Reuters reported.
03 October 2009 [08:21]
Society
03 October 2009 [10:44]
The first international television of Azerbaijan ATV International (ATV Int) will be on air on Oct. 5, editor-in-chief of news department of ATV Vagif Aydinoglu said.
03 October 2009 [09:56]
03 October 2009 [09:22]
US President Barack Obama congratulated Brazil for winning the bid Friday to hold the 2016 Summer Games shortly after returning from his failed effort in Copenhagen to convince Olympic officials that Chicago would have been the best host, dpa reported.
03 October 2009 [08:48]
Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach erupted in Samba dancing and joy on Friday after the Brazilian city won the vote to host the 2016 Olympic Games, bringing the world's biggest sporting event to South America for the first time, Reuters reported.
