Politics
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.
07 May 2007 [07:27]
The Prospering Armenia party favors a package settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
07 May 2007 [07:24]
Professors from the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies spent a week discussing current geopolitical challenges with security, defense and diplomatic officials in Azerbaijan.
07 May 2007 [07:20]
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday held in Cairo a closed session of talks on regional and bilateral relations with visiting Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at Heliopolis presidential palace.
06 May 2007 [15:04]
Turkey's foreign minister said he was withdrawing from the presidential race Sunday, after Parliament failed again to reach a quorum in voting that pitted the secular establishment against his religious-oriented party, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.
05 May 2007 [19:31]
The two-day meeting of national coordinators of GUAM-Organization for Democracy and Economic Development ended on Saturday in Baku.
05 May 2007 [13:36]
On May 4, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received mayor of the German city of Ludwigshafen Eva Lohse.
05 May 2007 [13:18]
"Former Health Minister Ali Insanov were examined several times in the detention place of National Security Ministry. The examinations established that he does not need in-patient treatment," Justice Ministry Penitentiary Service chief Nazim Alekberov said.
05 May 2007 [13:17]
Justice Ministry Penitentiary Service chief Nazim Alekberov confirmed that Huseyn Abdullayev being cured in medical center in Boyuk Shor, goes on hunger strike.
05 May 2007 [13:11]
Head of Azerbaijan representation to UN, Azerbaijan Ambassador to Cuba Agshin Mehdiyev finished his 5-day visit to Cuba.
05 May 2007 [12:55]
Former Health Minister Ali Insanov, who was sentenced to 11 years in jail, has been dismissed from full membership of Azerbaijan National Academy of sciences.
05 May 2007 [12:53]
Open Society Party will present the necessary documents for registration to Justice Ministry.
05 May 2007 [12:49]
"The meeting in Baku is a preparation for GUAM summit scheduled for June 19. Moreover, we exchanged views on the protracted conflicts in GUAM countries and on the discussion of this issue at the 61st session of UN General Assembly," said GUAM's Secretary General Valeri Chechelashvili.
05 May 2007 [12:47]
The planned bilateral security talks between Azerbaijan and the US are not expected to take place this month.
05 May 2007 [12:28]
National Forum to be held on Rasul Gulyev's initiative has been fixed to May 25.
05 May 2007 [12:27]
The members of the Monitoring Group of Azerbaijan Human Rights Organizations applied to Mehriban Aliyeva, president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.
05 May 2007 [11:39]
Baku hosts the meeting of National Coordinators of GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development.
04 May 2007 [17:05]
Under the agreement concluded with one of the US military companies, a part of Azerbaijani Navy will be equipped with laser marksmanship device/system.
04 May 2007 [15:58]
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov received a congratulatory message from Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev on the upcoming holiday, WWII Victory Day.
04 May 2007 [14:15]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has stated principles of settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, the talks on which with Armenia are in progress.
04 May 2007 [13:42]
US Senate on the nomination by President George Bush appointed Turkish originated person federal judge.
04 May 2007 [12:53]
Turkey's Parliament has approved July 22 as the date for early general elections, which were called to resolve a government crisis over sharply rising tension between the pro-secular military and the Islamic-rooted government.
04 May 2007 [12:50]
Iran's foreign minister walked out of a dinner of diplomats where he was seated directly across from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on the pretext that the female violinist entertaining the gathering was dressed too revealingly.
04 May 2007 [11:57]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev is scheduled to make an official visit to the Arab Republic of Egypt on May 6-8 at the invitation of Muhammad Hosni Mubarak.
04 May 2007 [10:06]
Thousands of people turned out Thursday for a demonstration organized by opponents of the Armenia's leadership, warning against fraud in upcoming parliamentary elections and calling for the impeachment of President Robert Kocharian.
04 May 2007 [09:29]
"There is still no progress regarding the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The principles have not been yet agreed. Armenia continued to occupy Nagorno Karabakh and adjacent regions. Armenians do not accept the fact. They call Nagorno Karabakh Armenians as nation basing on the principle of self-determination," said political scientist Vafa Guluzade.
04 May 2007 [09:24]
The project directors of the International Crisis Group have met in Istanbul to discuss the activities for this year, including the next report on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
03 May 2007 [18:32]
I spent my leisure time on gathering information on Azerbaijan during my 16-year activity in UNESCO.
03 May 2007 [18:09]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has started an official visit to Morocco. Azerbaijani Embassy in Morocco told the Minister has already started meetings according to the schedule.
03 May 2007 [16:16]
Azerbaijan's Emergencies Minister Kamaladdin Heydarov received Belarus' Industry Minister Anatoliy Rusetski.
03 May 2007 [16:03]
Armenian Armed Forces have violated the ceasefire again.
03 May 2007 [15:57]
"I am most concerned about the threat to freedom of expression in Azerbaijan. In recent months, several journalists have been imprisoned on charges of criminal defamation or physically attacked in incidents which appear to be related to their work."
03 May 2007 [15:00]
Terry Davis made a statement on freedom of expression in Azerbaijan.
03 May 2007 [13:52]
Alexander Lukashenko will meet today with Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Artur Rasizade.
03 May 2007 [13:48]
Armenian armed forces violated cease-fire overnight.
03 May 2007 [13:30]
Kuwait Prime Minister Sheik Nasir Mahammad As-Sabah is due too visit Azerbaijan tomorrow.
03 May 2007 [11:57]
Regular session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) will pass late May in Spain.
03 May 2007 [11:53]
The President of Iran has been accused of indecency after he publicly kissed an elderly woman who used to be his school teacher.
03 May 2007 [10:07]
The United States wants to thaw diplomatic relations with Iran after a nearly 30-year freeze, and hopes to start this week at a conference on promoting peace in Iraq, a top U.S. diplomat said Wednesday.
03 May 2007 [10:06]
Azerbaijan will nearly double the number of its military personnel serving in Afghanistan, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
03 May 2007 [10:05]
The United States and European Union warned Turkey, a NATO member and close ally, to prevent its military from defying civilian leaders in a conflict between the Islamic-rooted government and the secular establishment.
03 May 2007 [09:57]
Judge Famil Nasibov will consider the appeal filed by defense lawyers for former Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev to Nasimi district court.
03 May 2007 [09:47]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov visiting Brussels met with Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy.
03 May 2007 [09:40]
State Committee for Azerbaijanis Living Abroad keeps control of the incident happened between Azerbaijani and Armenian students at Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow.
03 May 2007 [09:36]
Presidents of Belarus and Azerbaijan have signed an agreement on friendship and cooperation.
03 May 2007 [09:24]
"The littoral states are close to agreeing the draft Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea. The close positions are observed mainly in shipbuilding and Caspian's ecology," Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov told journalists.
03 May 2007 [09:20]
National Coordinators of Organization for Democracy and Economic Development (GUAM) will hold meeting in Baku on May 4-5.
03 May 2007 [09:02]
Justice Minister Fikret Mammadov received Georgia's Prosecutor General Zurab Adeishvili.
02 May 2007 [22:05]
Azerbaijan and Belarus presidents gave a briefing in Baku today.
02 May 2007 [21:57]
Miklos Haraszti, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media published final variant of the report on journalists' opportunities on getting information in OSCE member states in 2006.
02 May 2007 [16:31]
Azerbaijan and Belarus Presidents are holding one-on-one meeting in Baku.
02 May 2007 [16:29]
Defense minister of Azerbaijan, colonel-general Safar Abiyev met with the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the country Nasser Hamidi-Zare.
02 May 2007 [16:26]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan sent a message of congratulation to the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, on the country's national holiday - the Constitution Day.
02 May 2007 [16:24]
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and his accompanying delegation have visited the Alley of Honors in Baku, where they laid wreaths at the graves of the national leader of Azerbaijan people Heydar Aliyev and his wife Academician Zarifa Aliyeva.
02 May 2007 [12:43]
"I do not pursue a goal to participate in the 2008 presidential elections. It depends both on the current situation in the country and other factors," Chairman of Azerbaijan Social-Democratic Party Ayaz Mutallibov exclusively told.
02 May 2007 [11:42]
Azerbaijan's National Security Minister, chairman of the State Committee for Prisoners of War, Hostages, and Missing Persons Eldar Mahmudov raised an issue at UN office in Azerbaijan on release of Azerbaijani soldier Samir Mammadov, who has been captured by Armenians.
02 May 2007 [11:40]
The Second summit of GUAM will be held in Baku on June 18-19, 2007.
02 May 2007 [11:36]
"Freedom House" states about various oppressions and court processes on journalists in Azerbaijan last year.
02 May 2007 [10:24]
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko arrived in Baku Tuesday night.
02 May 2007 [10:21]
Iran accused the United States and other world powers of being the world's true nuclear threats at a meeting hamstrung by Tehran's opposition to language calling for full compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
02 May 2007 [10:17]
Turkey's highest court on Tuesday blocked a presidential candidate with a background in Islamic politics, pitching the country into early elections and a referendum on the role of religion in its future.
02 May 2007 [10:10]
Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Marat Tazhin said his country was eager to get the OSCE Chairmanship in 2009 and was introducing a range of democratic reforms to meet this goal.
02 May 2007 [09:43]
Russia applied to Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry on the National Television and Radio Council's decision to stop the broadcasting of ORT and RTR TV channels.
02 May 2007 [09:41]
Iranian Ambassador to Baku Nasser Hamidi-Zare and Azeri Minister of Internal Affairs Ramil Usubov in a meeting on Tuesday discussed matters of bilateral interest.
02 May 2007 [09:21]
The conference of the Turkish–Asia Centre for Strategic Research is to be held in the Ataturk centre on May 3, the head of Azerbaijan Ataturk Centre Dayanat Osmanli told.
02 May 2007 [09:14]
Azerbaijan intends to open its Embassy in Vietnam.
02 May 2007 [09:05]
Being opposition party, Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) will establish relations with other political organizations representing this camp after the congress.
02 May 2007 [09:03]
Baku will host the 33rd meeting of scientific-technical commission for standardization for Intergovernmental Council on CIS Standardization, Metrology and Certification, and the 16th meeting of working group on information technologies.
01 May 2007 [21:50]
Azerbaijani student, who was injured during the clash with Armenian students in "South-West" exhibition organized at the Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow, has been identified.
01 May 2007 [21:33]
Turkish Constitutional Court passed a decision on suspension of the presidential elections.
01 May 2007 [21:11]
"We are working out tactical and strategic aspects of our election campaign for 2008. US National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute are cooperating with us, and rendering assistance in staff training. Our specialists to function in the regions and centre take courses. The election plan is already ready. Ilham Aliyev is the only candidate of us," Deputy Secretary of ruling YAP, MP Siyavush Novruzlu stated.
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