Politics
31 October 2005 [16:03]
A presentation ceremony of the Karabakh Declaration signed by candidates to the deputy on the initiative of the Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) and Karabakh Coordination Council was held on Friday, October 29.
31 October 2005 [15:11]
Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) and a group of former fighters visited Martyrs’ Alley on the 12th anniversary of occupation of Zangilan region by Armenia on Friday.
31 October 2005 [14:55]
Former prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan, Justice General Huseyn Huseynov was set free after two hours of giving testimonies as a witness in the Office for Fighting Organized Crime of MIA yesterday.
31 October 2005 [14:34]
Central Election Commission informs that so far 1060 international observers have been registered by the CEC.
31 October 2005 [14:25]
"Azerbaijan should avoid starting military operations, because it will be harmful both for Armenia and Azerbaijan," announced Armenian Defense Minister Serj Sarkisyan.
31 October 2005 [13:59]
The vice-chairman of the Masalli district branch of the Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) Amina Seyidzade was expelled from the party.
31 October 2005 [13:53]
Armenian troops again violated the ceasefire regime, this time breaking it in the direction of Ayag Gervend village of Aghdam district.
31 October 2005 [12:55]
The Central Election Commission (CEC) held its regular sitting on Friday. The main issue discussed at the sitting was adoption of the guidelines on finger-inking process during the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.
29 October 2005 [18:02]
APA news agency informs that today at 6 a.m. Armenian forces at occupied territories opened fired at Azeri positions situated near Margushevan village.
29 October 2005 [17:37]
More medical workers are arrested in connection with the coup attempt.
29 October 2005 [16:07]
"Negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will continue just after the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan on 6 November and referendum on changes to the constitution in Armenia on 28 November," Elmar Mammadyarov, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, said journalists on Friday.
29 October 2005 [15:25]
European Union Troika which is on a visit to Baku held a press conference on Friday.
29 October 2005 [14:26]
The Political Council of the Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) discussed social-political situation existing on the eve of the elections and party’s preparatory work for the elections at the meeting on October 28.
29 October 2005 [14:15]
"I have never supported Ali Insanov as a leader of Western Azerbaijanis, and do not see him as the leader now," proclaimed the Minister of Education Misir Mardanov.
29 October 2005 [13:57]
"The increase of the defence expenditures by Azerbaijan is tied in the first line to the Armenian continuation of arms race," said the Defence Minister of Azerbaijan Safar Abiyev.
29 October 2005 [13:41]
The Azerbaijani Central Election Committee (CEC) will hold trainings for representatives of constituency committees, taking into consideration that the inking of fingers is used for the first time in Azerbaijan,” the CEC told Trend.
29 October 2005 [13:08]
The Azerbaijan’s Interior Ministry (IM) forces will be operating in an intensified regime till 10 November 2005, the Interior Minister of Azerbaijan, Ramil Usubov told journalists.
29 October 2005 [12:54]
A 47-member delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, headed by Leo Platvoet (Netherlands, UEL), will observe the 6 November parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan alongside observers from the OSCE and European Parliament.
29 October 2005 [12:29]
The OSCE Election Observation Mission (EOM) published its third report.
29 October 2005 [12:21]
The appeal of the former minister of health Ali Insanov was reviewed today. APA was informed about it from the Court of Appeals.
29 October 2005 [12:17]
One more member of the National Committee for return of the chairman of Azerbaijan Democratic Party Rasul Guliyev, lawyer of the candidate to deputy R.Guliyev,Huseyn Huseynov was detained at about 21.00 yesterday.
29 October 2005 [11:52]
The British Presidency on behalf of the EU Troika welcomes the decree of President Ilham Aliyev signed on 25 October 2005.
29 October 2005 [11:31]
Today Milli Majlis made an amendment to the law "On non-governmental organizations [public unions and foundations]", in accordance with the recommendation stated in President Ilham Aliyev’s decree on urgent measures in connection with preparation and conducting of elections to Milli Majlis.
28 October 2005 [23:30]
General Consulate of Azerbaijan in St. Petersburg will move to a new permanent building by the end of this year.
28 October 2005 [19:47]
Hard times are having Azeri travelers departing from Azerbaijan to Austria. The reason is simple – they cannot acquire Schengen visa for Austria in Azerbaijan.
28 October 2005 [17:40]
"Final results from polling stations will be declared on the next day of the elections – November 7, at 7 p.m.," announced the head of "Elections" Information Center of the Central Election Commission Igbal Babayev.
28 October 2005 [17:13]
Georgia will provide technical assistance to Azerbaijan during the parliamentary elections scheduled for November 6, 2005.
28 October 2005 [15:59]
Deputy Chairman of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) Committee on Legal Issues and Human Rights Eduard Lintner and German deputy Verner Munchin will visit Azerbaijan on October 30.
28 October 2005 [15:28]
However the meeting and exchange of ideas did not bring any progress in the dialogue between two sides since no compromise was made.
28 October 2005 [14:18]
An event dedicated to Azerbaijan will be held in the building of the executive power of Husie region of Malmo, Sweden in the first week of December this year. Chairman of "Khazar" club functioning in Sweden, Leyli Kiani will deliver a lecture called "History, culture and present truths of Azerbaijan".
28 October 2005 [13:56]
The Central Elections Commission informed today that the term for recall of candidacies for participation in the November 6 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan is over.
28 October 2005 [12:37]
The meeting of GUAM [Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova]security councils secretaries will be held in Chisinau, Moldova on November 3.
27 October 2005 [22:31]
“Withdrawal of the occupation forces from Azerbaijan must be the main condition at the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," said Steph Goris, the chairman of the West-European Council Interparliamentary Assembly at a meeting with the chairman of Milli Majlis [Parliament]Murtuz Alasgarov.
27 October 2005 [20:00]
Co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Monitoring Committee Andres Herkel comments on the recent decree of the President Ilham Aliyev.
27 October 2005 [18:36]
"I will start deeming the issue of sending an invitation to the official Baku on involvement of Azerbaijan in a work of the Inter-parliamentary Assembly of the West-European Union (IAWU) as the organization’s permanent member," stated the IAWU chairman Stef Goris on October 26.
27 October 2005 [18:07]
Steinar Gil: Decree of Azerbaijan’s President is positive response on OSCE, CE and Venice Commission recommendations
27 October 2005 [17:43]
Over 4500 polling stations in Azerbaijan will be accessible by phone on the elections day.
27 October 2005 [15:45]
Special session of the parliament held on October 28 will discuss a possibility of lifting the prohibition.
27 October 2005 [15:12]
Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) plans to rally on the same day as Azadliq block.
27 October 2005 [14:51]
"Azadliq" political bloc has applied to Baku City Executive Power for permission to hold a rally and a concert on November 4 at the Republican Stadium named after Tofiq Bahramov.
27 October 2005 [14:24]
More candidates have left the campaign.
27 October 2005 [14:21]
Committee for the Defense of Rights of ex-minister of Finances Fikret Yusifov, who was arrested on October 16 informs that his father Huseyn Yusifov appealed to the President Ilham Aliyev.
27 October 2005 [13:33]
According to the Central Election Commission number of foreign observers has reached 401.
27 October 2005 [12:33]
The trio includes representatives of the present and future chairing countries of the EU – the UK (from July to January 2005) and Austria (from January to June 2006), as well as representatives from the EU.
26 October 2005 [22:29]
OSCE intends to provide technical and financial assistance for modernization of two outdated "melange" rocket fuel storage sites situated in Azerbaijan.
26 October 2005 [20:57]
The Court of Appeals under the chairmanship of judge Mirpasha Husseynova after reviewing the case decided to leave the sentence imposed by the Sabail district court.
26 October 2005 [20:08]
Azeri politiicians were commenting on the statement of Armenian President on a necessity of providing an oportunity for Nagorno-Karabakh to join the international community and the danger presented by Azerbaijan with its increasing military budget.
26 October 2005 [19:33]
"United States find the latest decisions of the President Ilham Aliyev on preparations to the parliamentary elections to be a new step on the way of democratic development ", the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish said in a statement on October 26, 2005 at a meeting with journalists.
26 October 2005 [17:28]
Director of the Caucasus project of the International Crisis Group (ICG) Sabina Freizer is expected to arrive in Baku this evening.
26 October 2005 [16:52]
The Central Election Committee informs about new withdrawals.
26 October 2005 [16:06]
The monitoring held on October 25, 2005 in the area of Bursunlu village of Terter district, at the front line showed no ceasefire violations during the monitoring, held in the first half of the day.
26 October 2005 [15:17]
President has been appealed with a request of releasing Ali Insanov on bail.
26 October 2005 [15:09]
The Court of Appeals will consider the appeal of the arrested Ex-Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev on Wednesday.
26 October 2005 [14:44]
The National Democratic Institute (NDI) was not granted a mandate to observe the November 6 elections to Milli Majlis (parliament) in Azerbaijan.
26 October 2005 [14:23]
Up to date 130 foreign journalists have been registered in the Central Election Commission (CEC)
26 October 2005 [14:14]
The USA extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish will leave Baku for Ganja tomorrow. According to the information given to APA from the press service of the USA Embassy, the ambassador will attend in Ganja on October 27 the opening ceremony of hostel attached to the boarding school #1 named after Pasha Huseynov.
26 October 2005 [14:11]
"Azadliq block decided to replace its demonstration scheduled on October 30 by a rally -concert on 4 November 2005 at the Tofik Bahramov Republican Stadium", said the chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA)[reformists wing] Ali Kerimli at a news conference on October 24.
25 October 2005 [22:44]
The Ministry of National Security, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and General Prosecutor Office made statement, however more or less expected in Azeri society: "Former administrator of the President's Executive Akif Muradverdiev and the Head of the state owned company Azerkimya Fikret Sadychov were also involved in the coup attempt".
25 October 2005 [19:30]
The lawyer of the former Minister of Health Ali Insanov, Toghrul Babayev appealed against the decision of the Nasimi district court. The lawyer presented the appeal to the Court of Appeals today.
25 October 2005 [19:22]
The co-rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee, Andres Herkel is not satisfied with the pre-election situation in Azerbaijan.
25 October 2005 [17:11]
Special representative of OSCE chairman-in-office plans to monitor an area near the village Borsunlu of Terter district where the Azeri and Armenian military lines are.
25 October 2005 [16:22]
«My return to Baku will happen in the period between 31 of October and 3 of November», informed Rasul Guliev our correspondent who has contacted Guliev over his phone today.
25 October 2005 [15:46]
Our source informs that this decision was initiated by the head of the state.
25 October 2005 [15:34]
According to the special program signed between NATO and Azerbaijan, “Officers of Main Medical Service headquarters” course will be conducted in the frame of the “Partnership for Peace” program in Oberammergau city, Germany from October 24 to 28.
25 October 2005 [13:53]
A report prepared by experts of the Venice Commission (VC) of the Council of Europe on additions and changes to be made to the Election Code of Azerbaijan was adopted in the plenary sitting of VC held in Venice on October 21-22.
25 October 2005 [12:46]
Musavat party leader Isa Gambar held a press conference on October 24 where he reported about his visit to Ukraine. Musavat leader stated that, though he received many invitations from Ukrainian colleagues he could not visit all of them due to a shortage of time.
24 October 2005 [23:12]
Brother of ex-chief of Ganja Police Office Natig Afandiyev, Firdovsi Afandiyev was detained yesterday.
24 October 2005 [15:17]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree dismissing Fikret Sadychov from the post of the President of the Azerkimya state company.
24 October 2005 [14:15]
The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan announced that armed forces of Armenia violated the ceasefire regime on Sunday, October 23.
24 October 2005 [13:32]
For the last two days 31 candidates withdrew their candidacy. APA was informed about it from the “Elections” Information Center of the Central Election Commission (CEC).
24 October 2005 [12:54]
One brother looses his job as a head of the Construction and Park Economy Department of the mayor’s office. Another brother once of a sudden gets ill and withdraws his candidacy with less than two weeks remaining to the elections.
24 October 2005 [12:23]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree adopting the State Program on development of communications and information technologies of Azerbaijan for 2005-2008 (E - Azerbaijan).
24 October 2005 [12:08]
Ex-ministers Aliyev and Insanov are sentenced to spend three months in jail. Ex-minister of Finances is choosing himself lawyers.
24 October 2005 [12:02]
October 21, 2005 -- With less than three weeks until parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, the authorities’ restrictions on a range of rights cast serious doubt on the ability of average Azeri citizens to enjoy a free and fair vote on November 6, Freedom House said today.
24 October 2005 [12:00]
Elmira Suleymanova, the Ombudsman of Azerbaijani, visited Ganja city and held a meeting with the local population on Saturday, October 22.
This was already the 13th in line, as she organized similar events in other districts.
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