News for 18 December 2009
Voice of Diaspora
18 December 2009 [17:18]
Day.Az interview with Abdullah Amir Hashimi, head of Azerbaijani diaspora organization “Karabakh” in Stockholm, Sweden.
World news
18 December 2009 [16:59]
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18 December 2009 [14:24]
The PACE Monitoring Committee adjourned discussion over the Armenian issue on Dec. 17, Armenian MP Naira Zohrabyan said.
18 December 2009 [13:49]
18 December 2009 [13:16]
Migration agency at the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration has been formed into the Migration Service.
18 December 2009 [11:47]
Journalist and filmmaker Can Dündar faces a possible seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence over his biopic “Mustafa,” which depicts the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic.
18 December 2009 [11:34]
Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has expressed willingness to see the deputies of the now-defunct pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in a new political formation.
18 December 2009 [10:53]
Yerevan hosted the 4th session of Armenian-Russian Intergovernmental Committee on Military-technical Cooperation on Dec. 14-17.
18 December 2009 [09:45]
Turkish media representatives say lack of progress in resolution of Karabakh conflict complicates Armenian-Turkish protocols ratification.
Politics
18 December 2009 [18:42]
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18 December 2009 [12:55]
A new website prepared by the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Azerbaijan www.garabagh.ws was presented in Baku today.
18 December 2009 [12:48]
18 December 2009 [11:56]
Day.Az interview with renowned Azerbaijani political expert Vafa Guluzade.
18 December 2009 [11:29]
18 December 2009 [10:39]
Embassy of Azerbaijan to Georgia is hosting the Fourth Children`s original artwork contest among the students of Azerbaijani schools in Georgia.
18 December 2009 [10:05]
18 December 2009 [09:37]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has congratulated Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the people of Qatar on the national holiday of the country.
18 December 2009 [09:21]
A delegation of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, headed by Gaye Doganoglu (Turkey, EPP-CD), will observe the municipal elections in Azerbaijan Dec. 23, 2009.
Business
18 December 2009 [18:23]
Azerbaijan's Prime Minister Artur Rasizade met visiting chairman of government of Russia's Astrakhan oblast Konstantin Markelov on Dec. 18.
18 December 2009 [17:36]
18 December 2009 [15:38]
The government of Azerbaijan and Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed loan agreement on the first tranche worth $75 mln as a part of Water Supply and Sanitation Investment Program.
18 December 2009 [15:06]
The delegation of the Astrakhan Oblast of Russia visiting Baku currently has had meetings in the Ministry of Transport and Azerbaijan State Caspian Company (Kaspar).
18 December 2009 [12:32]
Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations Igor Tomberg says Azerbaijan and Iran may maintain long-term cooperation in gas sphere.
18 December 2009 [12:14]
Azerbaijan`s State Civil Aviation Administration says the country has placed an order to buy Boeing's two new 787 Dreamliner passenger aircrafts.
18 December 2009 [11:13]
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Transport and the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) have signed a protocol on implementation of the Baku Bay Sea Bridge Project, said the Secretariat of the Ministry.
18 December 2009 [10:22]
President of Azerbaijan`s state oil company, SOCAR, Rovnag Abdullayev has inaugurated SOCAR's another gas station in Georgia.
Society
18 December 2009 [16:23]
18 December 2009 [16:04]
First volume of a a four-volume book entitled “History of Azerbaijan International Relations and Diplomacy” has been published in Baku.
18 December 2009 [15:22]
Detention facilities are being built for foreigners detained by Azerbaijan’s State Migration Service, State Migration Service Chief Arzu Rahimov said.
18 December 2009 [14:47]
As many as 598 foreigners have been deported from Azerbaijan this year, Azerbaijani Interior Ministry’s Office for Combating Illegal Migration Chief Yashar Agayev said.
18 December 2009 [14:33]
First Congress of the World Azerbaijani Youth will be held in Baku next year, Chairman of the State Committee for Diaspora Activities Nazim Ibrahimov said at a press conference on Dec. 18.
18 December 2009 [13:31]
