News for 08 June 2010
World news
08 June 2010 [16:44]
The Iranian president said on Tuesday that nuclear swap agreement was an opportunity that would not be repeated.
08 June 2010 [13:44]
Turkey and Russia signed a nuclear cooperation deal in Istanbul on Tuesday.
08 June 2010 [12:38]
A meeting of a Coordinating Council of Heads of CIS tax bodies was held in Dushanbe.
08 June 2010 [12:04]
08 June 2010 [11:51]
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived Monday in Turkey to attend the summit meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Istanbul.
Analytics
08 June 2010 [15:35]
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Weird / Interesting
08 June 2010 [12:56]
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad and caused outrage in the Muslim world, said Monday he is quitting because he is getting old.
Politics
08 June 2010 [17:55]
Turkey should be included in the Azerbaijani military doctrine, as a country with which we cooperate in the military sphere and in the fields of politics and security, Azerbaijani MP Zahid Oruj said during the discussion of draft military doctrine at the parliament's extraordinary session.
08 June 2010 [17:46]
Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) wishes to be represented in the Milli Mejlis (Parliament) of Azerbaijan, the KLO chairman Akif Nagi said today.
08 June 2010 [17:24]
Azerbaijan’s Military Doctrine has been discussed at the extraordinary meeting of the parliament today.
08 June 2010 [16:15]
Interview with expert at Azerbaijan’s Lider TV, political expert Tofiq Abbasov.
08 June 2010 [15:45]
A delegation including members of the House of Lords, Azerbaijan-Europe Society Council of Advisors and British businessmen has visited Azerbaijan's Guba region.
08 June 2010 [14:53]
08 June 2010 [14:45]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will hold its summer session on June 21-25 in Strasbourg.
08 June 2010 [14:16]
Day.Az interview with a professor at the Saint Petersburg State University, Russian political expert Dmitry Gavra.
08 June 2010 [14:08]
The Centre for Strategic Research (CSR) under the Azerbaijani President proposes to create "Think Tanks" Council of Experts. CSR senior fellow Tahira Allahyarova voiced this proposal at the roundtable "Brainstorm in the 21st century. Problems and ideas".
08 June 2010 [14:00]
Italian senator, European Parliament`s vice-chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Fiorello Provera and delegation accompanying him is visiting Azerbaijan.
08 June 2010 [12:30]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met Macedonian counterpart Gjorge Ivanov in Istanbul on June 7.
08 June 2010 [12:21]
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08 June 2010 [11:43]
08 June 2010 [11:33]
NGOs, research institutes, consulting companies and other interested organizations are invited to apply for a pilot project to examine the issue of illegal logging in Azerbaijan under the EU-funded Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (FLEG) programme.
08 June 2010 [11:24]
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08 June 2010 [10:48]
08 June 2010 [10:31]
The visit to Baku will give a positive charge for the further development of the Azerbaijani-American relations, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in a stateemnt posted on the Pentagon website following his visit to Baku.
08 June 2010 [09:50]
08 June 2010 [09:43]
Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu told journalists that relationship between Turkey and Azerbaijan was at a high level.
He also described bilateral relations as “permanent”.
08 June 2010 [09:27]
Belarus is ready to share its technologies and know-how with Azerbaijan, Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov, BelTA reports.
08 June 2010 [09:20]
Azerbaijani MPs met with visiting members the board of the European Azerbaijan Society on June 7.
08 June 2010 [09:00]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan praised Azerbaijan's stance towards Israeli attack on a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
Business
08 June 2010 [17:35]
08 June 2010 [17:07]
Day.Az interview with Azerbaijan’s Deputy Transport Minister Musa Panahov.
08 June 2010 [16:07]
The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) instructed the commercial banks operating in the country to stop business relations with the MIGOM money transfer system, the Azerbaijani banks said.
08 June 2010 [15:14]
Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz and Azerbaijan Minister of Industry and Energy Natig Aliyev gave a press conference after the energy agreement was signed between Turkey and Azerbaijan in Ciragan Palace of Istanbul.
08 June 2010 [14:35]
The signing of gas agreement between Azerbaijan and Turkey is considered as a positive step towards the implementation of projects within the Southern Corridor, aimed at diversifying gas supplies sources and routes to Europe.
08 June 2010 [13:22]
Azerbaijani Accounting Chamber Chairman Heydar Asadov and Senior Country Economist at World Bank (WB) Christos Kostopulos discussed the results of the second project on technical assistance for institutional development (IBTA-II), the chamber reported.
08 June 2010 [13:06]
08 June 2010 [10:56]
Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH welcomes the agreement that was signed in Ankara today between Azerbaijan and Turkey defining terms for the transit of gas to Turkey and Europe, Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH said.
08 June 2010 [10:08]
Chairman of Azerbaijan Business Investment Association Rafat Aliyev attended the Astana-2010 investment forum in Kazakhstan.
08 June 2010 [09:35]
A business delegation from Austria will arrive here on June 21.
Society
08 June 2010 [18:25]
Last month, employees of the Azerbaijani State Border Service detained 71 people.
08 June 2010 [18:06]
08 June 2010 [16:55]
An international training on the role of youth in maintaining peace and conflict management started in Baku.
08 June 2010 [16:32]
A special site will be built in Azerbaijan for amateurs of fast and extreme driving. In this regard, a draft has been already prepared and approved, Voluntary Military-Patriotic, Sport-Technical Society said.
08 June 2010 [16:23]
Graduates, who were freed from the final examinations, of the disaster zones that will be provided with attests until June 24-25, Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov said.
08 June 2010 [15:25]
A seminar on "Migration policy in Azerbaijan" started in Academy of Justice, in Baku to implement a project "Capacity Building in International Relations" (CABIR).
08 June 2010 [13:50]
Azerbaijani Police Academy studies the experience of Jordan.
08 June 2010 [12:45]
The Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry held regular monitoring of pollution in the transboundary Kur and Araz Rivers during the third decade of May, the ministry said.
08 June 2010 [11:07]
Azerbaijan is considering the issue of granting concessional loans to journalists, Press Council chairman Aflatun Amashov said.
08 June 2010 [10:15]
Dr. Jafar Jafarov, rector of the Azerbaijan Institute of Tourism was invited to make a presentation at a meeting of Eurasia Silk Road Universities in Erzurum.
08 June 2010 [09:57]
As of now, about 7,034 foreigners deal with legal activity in Azerbaijan, head of the Migration Department under the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare Rauf Tagiyev said in his interview with New Azerbaijan party.
08 June 2010 [09:11]
A meeting of the governmental commission took place at the Cabinet of Ministers on June 7.
Sports
08 June 2010 [17:15]
08 June 2010 [14:24]
The Azerbaijan U-17 football team will face Belarus today in an international tournament in Moldova.
08 June 2010 [13:30]
08 June 2010 [10:40]
The Azerbaijan U-17 football team will compete in an international tournament in Moldova, according to the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan (AFFA).
08 June 2010 [10:23]
Arts & Entertainment
08 June 2010 [23:01]
"I'm not just somebody shuffling around in a monster suit. I'm a kind of puppeteer from the inside who is attempting through arm and body movements to give the creatures I play a sense of personality."
08 June 2010 [18:35]
Azerbaijan's "Ritm" film company has announced contest of five-minute screenplays on occasion of company’s five-year anniversary.
08 June 2010 [18:13]
08 June 2010 [15:06]
A theater forum opened in Kazan, Tatarstan under the aegis of the International Theater Festival of Turkic Peoples "Nauruz".
08 June 2010 [13:13]
A "Silk Road" International Music Festival will be organized in Sheki, Azerbaijan in late June.
