News for 07 October 2009
Politics
07 October 2009 [17:53]
The world Armenian lobby hampers normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations with all its might, the director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Svante Cornell, said.
07 October 2009 [17:41]
07 October 2009 [17:30]
"I think that the note which the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry handed to the Iranian ambassador fully reflects Azerbaijan’s position and the country had to express its dissatisfaction in this regard,” Co-Chair of the World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) and member of Milli Majlis (parliament) Sabir Rustamkhanli said commenting on media reports that the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry handed a note to the Iranian ambassador.
07 October 2009 [17:19]
Hajj pilgrimage for Azerbaijani people will be implemented via the Caucasian Muslims Office, deputy chairman of the office Haji Sabir Hasanli said.
07 October 2009 [17:07]
Webcams will be used in the municipal elections in Azerbaijan, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Mazahir Panahov said.
07 October 2009 [16:49]
Director of Kiev-based Civil Society Studies Center Vitali Kulik spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
07 October 2009 [15:50]
07 October 2009 [15:45]
07 October 2009 [15:32]
Turkey may refuse EU membership in future, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said at a news conference held during his visit to France, the Turkish IHLAS news agency reported.
07 October 2009 [15:27]
The municipal election campaign has been officially launched in Azerbaijan.
07 October 2009 [15:15]
07 October 2009 [14:55]
Turkish ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic commented on reports about a ban on Azerbaijani flag during the Turkey-Armenia football match to take place in Bursa, Turkey on Oct. 14.
07 October 2009 [14:34]
People from Azerbaijan mainly emigrate to Europe which accounts for 74.3 percent of migrants, UN Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan Bruno Pouezat said commenting on a a report on human development of UN Development Programme.
07 October 2009 [14:28]
Officers of Azerbaijan’s Consulate General in Los Angeles made a presentation of Azerbaijan in Orange County, California.
07 October 2009 [14:19]
Azerbaijani parliamentarians led by Deputy Chairperson of Milli Majlis Bahar Muradova will attend the OSCE PA fall meeting, which is to take place in Athens, from 9 to 12 October.
07 October 2009 [13:52]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold trilateral meeting with Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents during a visit to Moldova, Spokesperson for the Russian president Natalya Timakova told media.
07 October 2009 [13:46]
The Senator from Arizona, Jon Kyl, considers Obama's decision to scrap plans for a long-range missile defense system based in Poland and the Czech Republic to be undercutting of "natural allies" in Poland and the Czech Republic in exchange for improved relations with Russia.
07 October 2009 [13:38]
The Azerbaijani Television and Radio Council will solve problems related to country's television indicated by the Presidential Administration senior official Ramiz Mehdiyev in his article posted to the state media recently.
07 October 2009 [13:25]
Armenian propaganda has made another mistake.
07 October 2009 [13:11]
Pan-Armenian tour of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was failure.
07 October 2009 [11:57]
To prevent spread of terrorism in the Nagorno-Karabakh, there is a need for international assistance, Mathieu Deflem, a famous American anti-terrorism analyst, said.
07 October 2009 [11:49]
As part of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's visit to Iran's Mazandaran province the Iranian Armed Forces held military exercises on the Caspian Sea with the participation of students of the Imam Khomeini Military Lyceum in the Noshehr city on Oct. 7, ILNA reported.
07 October 2009 [11:09]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has sent a letter of congratulation to President of Croatia Stjepan Mesic on his country`s Independence Day.
07 October 2009 [10:54]
"Washington hopes for tangible results at the upcoming meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia to be held in Chisinau on October 8," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Phillip Gordon said.
07 October 2009 [10:48]
Azerbaijani ambassador to Mexico Ilgar Mukhtarov has met with the Speaker of the House of Deputies of the Congress of Mexico Francisco Javier Ramirez.
07 October 2009 [10:35]
07 October 2009 [10:20]
On Oct.8-10, Ashgabat will host the International Exhibition "Turkmen Fish Industry - 2009" and the international scientific conference "Protection and rational use of water bio-resources of the Caspian Sea."
07 October 2009 [10:07]
Azerbaijan’s opposition Great Establishment opposition party plans to hold its next all-party meeting soon, the party chief and member of Milli Majlis (parliament) Fazil Mustafa said.
07 October 2009 [09:56]
Presidents of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan will not take part at the meeting of the heads of the CIS member states to take place In Chisinau on Oct. 9, Moldovian Foreign Ministry official Alexei Krakan said.
07 October 2009 [09:44]
US President Barack Obama promised lawmakers Tuesday to move with a sense of urgency on deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, but warned his new war strategy would not please everyone, France24 reported.
07 October 2009 [09:13]
07 October 2009 [08:47]
Azerbaijan’s Defense Minister, Colonel-General Safar Abiyev received American co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Robert Bradtke on Oct. 6, the defense ministry said.
07 October 2009 [08:31]
Business
07 October 2009 [11:18]
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) assigned taxes worth 711 million manat to the state budget in Jan.-Sept. 2009, according to the company’s Web site.
07 October 2009 [09:22]
The price of gold has hit a new all-time high of $1,036.60 an ounce after a decline in the dollar boosted the attractiveness of metals to investors, BBC reported.
Society
07 October 2009 [16:34]
The National Television and Radio Council of Azerbaijan will discuss the situation in local radios in its next meeting, said Chairman of the Council Nushiravan Maharramli at the meeting dedicated on the article “Azerbaijani air space: problems and duties” by Ramiz Mehdiyev, Chief of the Presidential Administration.
07 October 2009 [16:29]
Sevastopol law-enforcement bodies arrested two persons suspected of destroying the monument erected to the Azerbaijanis who were killed while liberating Crimea from fascists, chairman of Crimea regional organization of Ukrainian Azerbaijanis Congress Rahim Humbatov said.
07 October 2009 [16:12]
Azerbaijani Press Council will expand cooperation with the OSCE and Council of Europe.
07 October 2009 [14:42]
American scientists Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath of Israel won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome."
07 October 2009 [14:07]
Number of people who immigrated to Azerbaijan is under constant control of the State Migration Service.
07 October 2009 [12:53]
Vitrages for the palace of the Georgian King Irakli II in Telavi were damaged due to frequent rains and needs be replaced immediately.
07 October 2009 [12:41]
The Azerbaijani embassy to Ukraine sent a diplomatic note to Ukrainian authorities about destruction of the monument to Azerbaijanis fell victims while liberating Sevastopol from fascists, Azerbaijani ambassador to Ukraine Talat Aliyev said on Oct. 7.
07 October 2009 [12:29]
The first world media summit will be held in Beijing on Oct. 8-10.
07 October 2009 [12:15]
Thanks to its user-driven translation program, Facebook, the largest global social networking website, is now available in Azerbaijani.
07 October 2009 [11:33]
The Azerbaijani Education Ministry plans to establish a Council on the evaluation of electronic educational resources.
07 October 2009 [09:33]
07 October 2009 [08:55]
Tunisians will not be allowed to travel to Saudi Arabia for the Muslim pilgrimage or Haj because of fears of the H1N1 virus, known also as swine flu, the government announced Tuesday, DPA reported.
