News for 29 September 2009
Politics
29 September 2009 [17:46]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has ended an official visit to Romania on Sept. 29, AzerTaj state news agency reported.
29 September 2009 [17:21]
Norwegian Social Democrat Thorbjørn Jagland was elected the 13th Secretary General of the Council of Europe on Sept. 29.
29 September 2009 [17:15]
Member of the Azerbaijani delegation to the PACE Rafael Huseynov is likely to complete work on the report under the Committee on Environment, Agriculture and Regional Affairs.
29 September 2009 [17:02]
The Argentinean diplomat accused of smuggling of antiquities has been arrested in Iran, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.
29 September 2009 [16:22]
Council of Europe must use its leverage of pressure against Armenia, member of the Azerbaijani delegation to Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Ganira Pashayeva said in a response to the Chairman of CE Committee of Ministers and Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Samuel Zbogar at the plenary meeting of the organization on Sept. 29.
29 September 2009 [15:45]
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs on settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will visit Yerevan on Oct.1, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk said at Tavush district of Armenia, Novosti-Armenia reported.
29 September 2009 [15:31]
The Council of Europe has double standards, Member of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE Gultakin Hajibayli said in her address to the address to the chairman of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, Slovenian foreign minister Samuel Zbogar.
29 September 2009 [15:17]
Updated version of the Madrid principles on the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict is ready and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs will submit it to the sides during the next visit to the region.
29 September 2009 [14:57]
Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan was presented as “Mountains of Karabakh” in the Armenian stand at the International Tourism Exhibition in Paris, said Minister of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan Abulfas Garayev at a press conference.
29 September 2009 [14:32]
Director General of Russia-based Efficient Policy Fund Kiryll Tanayev spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
29 September 2009 [13:54]
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs will discuss renewed Madrid principles on settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict during their visit to Baku, said Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Elkhan Polukhov.
29 September 2009 [13:47]
Monitoring was held on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces on Sept. 29 under a mandate by the special envoy of the OSCE chairman.
29 September 2009 [13:28]
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) holds election of the Council of Europe Secretary General on Tuesday.
29 September 2009 [12:23]
Iran could be an accepted partner in international politics if there might be a common way to tackle current and urgent issues - the nuclear issue is just one of it, says Konstantin Kosten, the European Research Fellow on Iran.
29 September 2009 [11:58]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov spoke with Trend News in an exclusive interview.
29 September 2009 [11:27]
Armenian Ex-Education Minister and Associate to Armenian Ex-President Levon ter-Petrosyan Ashot Bleyan spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
29 September 2009 [11:14]
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has pleaded guilty to authorizing wiretaps and bribes to journalists, politicians and businessmen, AP reported.
29 September 2009 [10:56]
Five Azerbaijan-Romania agreements were signed during Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Romania on Sept. 28.
29 September 2009 [10:30]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is on an official visit to Romania.
29 September 2009 [10:13]
29 September 2009 [09:45]
European Expert on Caucasus, Licinia Simao, believes the possibility of both Parliaments ratifying the protocols is a big question.
29 September 2009 [09:31]
29 September 2009 [08:49]
Without the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, there will be no progress in the Turkish-Armenian relations, said the director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University said.
29 September 2009 [08:36]
The Turkish parliament will not approve the Ankara-Yerevan protocol, Turkish MP said.
29 September 2009 [08:21]
"Interparliamentary relations between Azerbaijan and Poland are very positive."
Business
29 September 2009 [17:34]
Azerbaijan in terms of energy is of great importance for Europe, believes Robert Cutler, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Carleton University of Canada.
29 September 2009 [16:35]
Azerbaijan and France will launch cooperation in the field of tourism, Minister of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan Abulfas Garayev said.
29 September 2009 [16:10]
A total of 20 hotels have been into operation in Azerbaijan since the beginning of the year, Azerbaijani Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfas Garayev said at a news conference.
29 September 2009 [14:14]
The number of tourists travelling to Azerbaijan increased by 0.3 percent in Sept. compared to the same month of last year.
29 September 2009 [12:32]
The Baku Stock Exchange and the International Finance Corporation have today held a conference entitled "Listing: an Alternative Way of Funding" on the introduction of the new listing rules on the BSE.
Society
29 September 2009 [16:51]
Kazakhstan has introduced a piece of legislation allowing transgender operations, Interfax reported.
29 September 2009 [14:44]
Buses advertising tourism potential of Azerbaijan run in Seoul, the capital of Korea.
29 September 2009 [13:39]
29 September 2009 [13:12]
Azerbaijani national Polad Sirajov is among 75 prisons to be released from Guantanamo soon, APA reports quoting the Associated Press.
29 September 2009 [12:11]
The tender commission of the Azerbaijani Committee on Architecture and Town Building is about to complete summing up results of the tender on development of the Regional Development Program of Greater Baku, committee's senior official Jahangir Gojayev said.
29 September 2009 [10:43]
The Health Ministry has issued more than 162,000 health-e-cards, Deputy Director of the Health Ministry Information Department Jabrayil Asadzade said.
29 September 2009 [09:52]
We present our readers a photo session of animals in the Baku Zoo.
29 September 2009 [09:18]
