Politics
10 May 2007 [16:18]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev today received the delegation led by chairwoman of Turkish Constitutional Court Tulay Tugcu.
10 May 2007 [16:10]
Central Election Commission (CEC) will move to a new administrative building.
10 May 2007 [16:01]
I am planning to visit all the three South Caucasus countries and meet with government officials soon, said European Union's Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby.
10 May 2007 [15:57]
German Bundesdtag's left-wing faction has made a statement on the Nagorno Karabakh problem.
10 May 2007 [15:40]
With increasing streams of revenue due to energy production and the opening of the BTC oil pipeline, the Caucasus nation of Azerbaijan is boosting its military spending as a means to recover its occupied territory of Nagorno Karabakh.
10 May 2007 [14:44]
The co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group, Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Matthew Bryza (US), Bernard Fassier (France), and personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk today met with OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Spain Miguel Angel Moratinos in Spanish capital, Madrid, French co-chair Bernard Fassier told.
10 May 2007 [13:47]
"We hope the meeting of the Presidents [Armenian and Azerbaijani] in St Petersburg on June 10 will reach decisions which will be a turning point in the settlement of the conflict. It will be clear soon whether the meeting will achieve concrete results," Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan said.
10 May 2007 [13:07]
"Observers from OSCE member states will also observe the parliamentary elections in Armenia. But Armenia refused to grant visa to Turkish delegation to visit Yerevan," Aladdin Boyukkaya, Turkish parliamentarian from AKP, OSCE PA member told.
10 May 2007 [12:36]
The meeting on the legal status of the Caspian Sea in Ashgabat was one of the debates according to the schedule, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov said.
10 May 2007 [11:53]
Regional meeting of specialists from Central Asia countries, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan on countering corruption will take place on May 14-15 at the UN resource center in Almaty city.
10 May 2007 [09:47]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is scheduled to visit Azerbaijan, said Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
10 May 2007 [09:29]
The Heydar Aliyev Academy of the National Security Ministry marked the 84th birthday of the late President.
09 May 2007 [13:06]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is leaving for Strasbourg on Thursday.
09 May 2007 [13:03]
Azerbaijani community in the US organized a series of demonstrations on the 15th anniversary of the occupation of Azerbaijani town of Shusha by Armenian forces.
09 May 2007 [12:53]
A series of events are held in the capital and different parts of the country to mark the 62nd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.
09 May 2007 [12:51]
Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire again.
09 May 2007 [12:42]
"The United States regards freedom of press as the guarantee of democracy and human rights. Democratic countries use all methods to support freedom of press," US ambassador Anne Derse told journalists.
09 May 2007 [12:40]
Mountain and Ashkenazi Jewish communities of Azerbaijan will inform the Jewish organizations in different conferences of the mass graves in Guba region of Azerbaijan which is assumed to be the result of Armenians' genocide against Azerbaijanis in this region.
09 May 2007 [12:36]
I am very pleased that Azerbaijan and the United Sates agreed on the reschedule of the bilateral security talks, said US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Anne Derse.
09 May 2007 [12:31]
The 34th session of Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers will be held in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan on May 15-17.
09 May 2007 [12:30]
The opening of the bust of the late President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev will be held in park situated near Abanotubani district of Tbilisi on May 12.
09 May 2007 [12:28]
Spain's Foreign Minister, OSCE Chairman-in-Office Miguel Anhel Moratinos will visit Baku on June 4-5.
09 May 2007 [12:24]
Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers are expected to meet in Strasbourg on May 11.
09 May 2007 [12:22]
Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian says Armenia's integration into NATO is not on the agenda and will not be in the near future.
09 May 2007 [12:15]
Belarus and Azerbaijan intend to expand mutual cooperation in health sphere.
09 May 2007 [12:11]
Azerbaijani and Russian experts hold periodic meetings and talks on the delimitation of borders.
09 May 2007 [12:08]
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallim will visit Azerbaijan this year.
09 May 2007 [12:01]
Armenia's leading opposition groups condemned on Tuesday the overnight arrest of one of the two prominent government critics accused of being illegally financed by a Russian businessman allegedly plotting regime change in the country.
09 May 2007 [11:56]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has addressed President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan with congratulations upon the 62nd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.
09 May 2007 [11:50]
Armenia and Azerbaijan are as close to resolving the Nagorno Karabakh conflicting as never before, a senior Azerbaijani official said on Tuesday.
08 May 2007 [16:35]
The ship, that was detained in Kazakhstan section of the Caspian Sea and the crew of which is said to be Azerbaijanis, sailed under Kazakhstan's flag, chief of State Border Service Elchin Guliyev said.
08 May 2007 [15:43]
Armenia's former foreign minister Alexander Arzumanyan has been detained in Yerevan.
08 May 2007 [15:10]
Within the visit to northern regions of Azerbaijan, chief of the State Committee for Religious Communities Hidayat Orujov met the officials, public representatives and religious men of Gusar region.
08 May 2007 [14:43]
The next sitting of the parliament was held today.
08 May 2007 [14:03]
Today the 15th anniversary of the occupation of Azerbaijani town of Shushua-center of Karabakh by Armenian military forces was commemorated in the Alley of Martyrs by the Garabagh Liberation Organization, Azerbaijan Islamic Party, Shusha region executive power, Azerbaijani community of Nagorno Karabakh and several public organizations.
08 May 2007 [13:55]
The Ombudsman Office's representatives visited Azerbaijani MP Huseyn Abdullayev at Boyuk Shor hospital of Justice Ministry to clarify the information on health deterioration of Huseyn Abdullayev, Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) Elmira Suleymanova stated.
08 May 2007 [13:44]
The general plan of Shusha was worked out in 1750 on the initiative on Panahali khan of Karabakh khanate.
08 May 2007 [11:32]
Today marks the 15th anniversary of occupation of Azerbaijan's cultural and art center of Shusha by Armenian armed forces.
08 May 2007 [10:57]
Turkey's Islamic-rooted government is pushing for a constitutional amendment to let the people ??” rather than legislators ??” elect a president, calling it the only way to resolve a widening parliamentary rift over religion.
08 May 2007 [09:44]
Judges of the European Court, Egbert Meyer and Khanlar Hajiyev ends visit on Azerbaijan.
08 May 2007 [09:40]
Azerbaijan Monday said it would no longer cooperate with the Paris-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders, which had slammed the Central Asian nation for gagging the media.
08 May 2007 [09:13]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visiting Egypt garlanded on Unknown Soldier Memorial in Cairo in Cairo yesterday.
08 May 2007 [08:59]
We always publicized the facts reflecting the reality. If the fact coincides with reality, international organizations should discuss it. Real facts on the occupation of Shusha region of Azerbaijan should be publicized in the world, head of Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation to PACE Samad Seyidov told journalists.
08 May 2007 [08:39]
Presentation ceremony of the project "Civil society" supported by USAID was held in Azerbaijan.
08 May 2007 [07:48]
07 May 2007 [23:00]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan met with the ambassadors of LAS (the League of the Arab States) member-countries in Cairo.
07 May 2007 [22:58]
Turkish delegation led by chairwoman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Turkey Tulay Tugcu will be visiting to Azerbaijan on May 10-13.
07 May 2007 [22:56]
The intergovernmental documents between Azerbaijan and Egypt were signed May 7 at the building of the Council of Ministers of Egypt in Cairo with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister of Egypt Ahmed Nazif in attendance.
07 May 2007 [22:53]
"OSCE MG continues its activity and that is the main thing. Minsk group forms platform for continuing the process of settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," Russian ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov told journalists.
07 May 2007 [22:47]
Azerbaijani parliament is to hold its next meeting on Tuesday.
07 May 2007 [22:45]
"Russia last week replied to Azerbaijan's first note. We will present Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Russia's reply to the second note as soon as we receive it. I think the second note will be replied soon," said Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov.
07 May 2007 [22:40]
On Monday, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan met with the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States (LAS) Amr Moussa.
07 May 2007 [22:37]
It is not known whether the report on Nagorno Karabakh will be debated at the summer session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, said vice-speaker and head of Azerbaijani delegation to OSCE PA Bahar Muradova.
07 May 2007 [22:36]
No amendments are expected to be made to the draft law on amnesty, first vice-speaker Ziyafat Asgarov said.
07 May 2007 [22:23]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on Monday met Ahmed Fathi Surur, Speaker of the People's Assembly of Egypt in Cairo.
07 May 2007 [22:19]
OSCE Chairman-in-office, Foreign Minister of Spain Miguel Angel Moratinos will visit Azerbaijan and Armenia early in June, 2007.
07 May 2007 [22:17]
MP Asaf Hajiyev left for Berlin May 7 to partake in an international conference organized jointly by the South-Eastern European Association and Germany's Federal Foreign Office.
07 May 2007 [22:15]
Azerbaijan's Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov met Monday with his Russian counterparts Grigory Karasin and Sergey Kislyak in Moscow.
07 May 2007 [22:12]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan on Monday met with the Prime Minister of Egypt Ahmed Nazif in Cairo.
07 May 2007 [22:09]
Actions on building a professional army in Azerbaijan continue, chief of parliament's standing commission for security and defense Ziyafat Asgerov said.
07 May 2007 [22:06]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan sent a message to the newly elected President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, whereby the Head of the Azerbaijan State congratulated him on election President of France.
07 May 2007 [22:00]
The Armenian government has refused to grant entry visas to eight Turkish nationals who planned to monitor Armenia's parliamentary elections under the aegis of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, it emerged on Monday.
07 May 2007 [21:56]
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said on Monday he was deeply concerned about the harsh prison sentences handed down to two Azerbaijani journalists from the monthly newspaper Senet.
07 May 2007 [21:53]
Armenia's Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian predicted that his Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) will win this week's parliamentary elections and hit out at two other pro-establishment parties as he continued his campaign swing through Yerevan at the weekend.
07 May 2007 [15:11]
The ruling YAP (New Azerbaijan Party) organized a conference "Heydar Aliyev's course: Azerbaijan at a new stage of development" on the 84th birthday of the then President Heydar Aliyev in Gulustan palace.
07 May 2007 [14:04]
The second round of the negotiations between Azerbaijani government and Venice Commission of Council of Europe regarding amendments to election legislation will be held in September this year, President's Office socio-political department chief Ali Hasanov told.
07 May 2007 [13:19]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Matthew Bryza, Yuri Merzlyakov and Bernard Fassier-mediators in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, will meet in Madrid May 10, OSCE Minsk Group Russian co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov told.
07 May 2007 [12:54]
"If the people and electorate demand the unification of the True Path and Motherland Party, then everyone will do heroism to prevent dramatic consequences of the policy," former speaker of Turkish Parliament Husameddin Cindoruk exclusively told.
07 May 2007 [11:36]
A series of actions are held in Strasbourg on the 15th anniversary of occupation of Azerbaijani town of Shusha (Karabakh) by Armenian military forces.
07 May 2007 [11:19]
The majority of the Frenchmen living in Baku have voted for Sarkozy
07 May 2007 [10:50]
Azerbaijani parliamentarian Huseyn Abdullayev, who is kept in treatment center of Justice Ministry, has stopped hunger strike.
07 May 2007 [09:40]
Armenia's National Security Service has held many-hours-long searches in the offices and apartments of two major oppositionists ??“ former deputy prime minister Vagan Shirkhanian and former foreign minister Alexander Arzumanian.
07 May 2007 [08:25]
President Ilham Aliyev attended the opening ceremony of a building for Azerbaijani Embassy in Cairo.
07 May 2007 [08:00]
The future generations will no doubt observe what takes place in the world in which they will live.
07 May 2007 [07:44]
Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy triumphed in France's presidential election on Sunday, sweeping aside his Socialist rival Segolene Royal and winning a powerful mandate for reform.
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