News for 30 September 2009
Politics
30 September 2009 [17:47]
On Sept. 30, the Azerbaijani parliament ratified the paper on completion of the delimitation of borders with Russia.
30 September 2009 [17:34]
“Today reporter of Turkey’s NTV TV channel in Azerbaijan Ramin Abdullayev was invited to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry and was notified that accreditation of the NTV TV channel journalists to Azerbaijan has been canceled,” Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Elkhan Polukhov said.
30 September 2009 [17:27]
Armenian president’s decision to visit Armenian communities was a little bit belated,” Editor-in-Chief of “Ararat” Lebanese-Armenian newspaper and member of Social-democratic Hnchakyan party Aharon Shkhrtmyan told a news conference in Yerevan.
30 September 2009 [17:16]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev congratulated Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angela Merkel with confident victory of her party in Germany's parliamentary elections.
30 September 2009 [16:59]
“We are all pleased with Chief Delegate of Turkey to PACE Movlut Chavushoglu’s nomination for PACE Presidency on behalf of the European Democrat Group”, Member of Azerbaijani delegation to PACE Ganira Pashayeva said.
30 September 2009 [16:44]
The Azerbaijani government believes Turkey should not sign any agreement with Armenia unless the Nagorno-Karabakh problem is resolved.
30 September 2009 [16:33]
The Ankara -Yerevan protocol will be signed before Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's visit to Turkey, Turkish CNN Turk TV channel reported quoting Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as saying at a news conference.
30 September 2009 [16:18]
Vice President of Russia-based Center for Political Technologies Sergey Mikheyev spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
30 September 2009 [15:52]
A meeting of European Democrat Group (EDG) has today been held within the framework of the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
30 September 2009 [15:47]
Well-known journalist, editor and owner of the Lithuanian internet portal www.slaptai.lt Gintaras Visotskas spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
30 September 2009 [15:34]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received European Union`s Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby.
30 September 2009 [15:29]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davudoglu is looking forward to the next meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia to be held in Chisinau.
30 September 2009 [14:53]
Azerbaijani parliament begun its fall session today.
30 September 2009 [13:31]
The current processes in the region have created a brilliant opportunity for resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, one of the most influential U.S lawmakers, Republican Senator Richard Lugar, said.
30 September 2009 [13:14]
Azerbaijani member of parliament proposed to sign 'road map' with Turkey on Sept. 30.
30 September 2009 [12:53]
The United States is speeding up its military withdrawal from Iraq, sending 4,000 more troops home next month, the top American commander there says, AP reported.
30 September 2009 [12:24]
Embassy of China to Azerbaijan gave an official reception on the 60th anniversary of the National Day of the People`s Republic of China.
30 September 2009 [11:49]
Member of the parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and member of the Monitoring Committee and Political Affairs Committee of PACE Mike Hancock spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
30 September 2009 [10:29]
30 September 2009 [09:48]
"As an ethnic Turk, I am very glad about process of establishment of good-neighborly relations between Armenia and Turkey," Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said at a briefing at the UN Headquarters in New York.
30 September 2009 [09:37]
“The European Union supports the idea of opening the Turkey-Armenia borders and normalization of relations between the two countries”, EU Special Representative for South Caucasus Peter Semneby, who arrived in Azerbaijan for one-day visit, told reporters.
30 September 2009 [09:22]
President of Slovakia`s Constitutional Court Ivetta Macejkova will pay a visit to Azerbaijan on Oct. 5-8.
30 September 2009 [08:54]
The first plenary meeting of Turkic-speaking countries Parliamentary Assembly (TurkPA) took place started in Baku on Sept. 29.
30 September 2009 [08:43]
Personal Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk has promised to organize a meeting between the officials of Azerbaijani and Armenian border regions, News Armenia reported.
30 September 2009 [08:36]
The most important issue in EU relations with South Caucasus countries is to discuss to adopt a mandate on agreements on association with each of the countries in the region, said EU Special Representative for South Caucasus Peter Semneby.
30 September 2009 [08:21]
“We hope that new Secretary General of the Council of Europe will always be attentive to Azerbaijan’s fair voice”, head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE Samad Seyidov said commenting on the election of Norwegian parliamentarian Tjornborn Jagland to the post of Council of Europe Secretary General.
Business
30 September 2009 [14:40]
The recession has hit middle-income and poor families hardest, widening the economic gap between the richest and poorest Americans as rippling job layoffs ravaged household budgets, AP reported.
30 September 2009 [10:45]
The idea of establishing a regional financial center, which has been discussed since 2007 by Baku and Tbilisi Interbank Currency Exchange, has been frozen, manager of Baku Inter-Bank Currency Exchange Farhad Amirbayov said.
30 September 2009 [09:53]
Azerbaijan State Oil Company (SOCAR) produced 5 billion cubic meters of gas in Jan.-Aug. 2009.
30 September 2009 [09:10]
Society
30 September 2009 [15:12]
A diamond the size of a chicken egg has been found at the Cullinan mine northeast of Pretoria, Petra Diamonds Ltd. said, APA reports quoting the Associated Press, AP reported.
30 September 2009 [14:27]
"The Azerbaijani embassy in Turkey has not received information about swine flu cases of Azerbaijanis,” consul at Azerbaijani embassy in Turkey Elchin Rzayev said commenting on media reports which say swine flu case has been confirmed with 504 students in Turkey.
30 September 2009 [14:16]
The Turkish Health Ministry may prohibit annual Hajj pilgrimage if the number of vaccines against swine influenza A (H1N1) will be insufficient, Haber7 Web site reported.
30 September 2009 [13:55]
Chief of the Office of the State Historical-Architectural Reserve Inner City under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Mikail Jabbarov spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
30 September 2009 [13:46]
The project “Cross-culture dialogue: Kitabi-Dede Gorgud and the Nibelungen Saga” has kicked off in Baku.
30 September 2009 [12:03]
Investigation into the death of Novruzali Mammadov, former department chief of Linguistics Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, editor-in-chief of Tolishi Sedo newspaper has ended, assistant prosecutor of Nizami district Nasir Farziyev said.
30 September 2009 [11:38]
The Korean television will prepare a program about Azerbaijan.
30 September 2009 [11:25]
Azerbaijani Youth and Sport Minister Azad Rahimov will attend the 121st session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and XIII Olympic Congress to be held in Copenhagen on Oct. 1-9.
30 September 2009 [11:17]
An incident has killed 2 and injured 17 in the Azerbaijani southern region of Jalilabad (200 km outside Baku).
30 September 2009 [10:56]
Turkey has revealed 504 students infected by "swine flu", Anadolu news agency quoted director of the Influenza Study Center of the Istanbul Medical University Selim Badur as saying.
30 September 2009 [10:37]
A seminar on Azerbaijan’s role in Eurasia was held in Princeton University in New Jersey.
30 September 2009 [10:08]
