Politics
14 March 2007 [15:24]
Mazam Village territory of Azerbaijani region of Gazakh, in the contact line of troops in accordance with the mandate of personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-office was monitored.
14 March 2007 [15:18]
Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Sergey Mironov will visit Azerbaijan on March 27-28.
14 March 2007 [15:14]
Trial on case of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants accused of embezzlement, abuse of power and bribery continued at Azerbaijan’s Court of Grave Crimes.
14 March 2007 [14:57]
Iran's president voiced defiance on Wednesday as world powers prepared to put the finishing touches to new sanctions against the Islamic Republic, saying his country would not surrender.
14 March 2007 [14:17]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has left for Geneva to attend the negotiating process for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
14 March 2007 [14:14]
The National Coordinators Council of GUAM, an alliance of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova, will discuss plans to reorganize GUAM at a planned meeting on March 15-16, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andriy Deschytsia announced on Tuesday.
14 March 2007 [14:10]
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Pentagon's chief Robert Gates have written to the House of Representatives.
14 March 2007 [14:09]
Turkey's President Ahmed Nejdat Sezer vetoed some appointments in the Foreign Ministry.
14 March 2007 [14:06]
"Presidential elections are not being discussed in the Azadliq alliance now. The reports about Ali Kerimli's nominating his candidacy to presidency are false," leader of National Unity Movement Lale Shovket Hajiyeva said while commenting on ex-speaker Rasul Guliyev's statement on regarding his support of Ali Kerimli's candidacy in 2008.
14 March 2007 [12:40]
14 March 2007 [12:38]
New head of OSCE Office in Baku Ambassador Jose Luis Herrero Ansola will tomorrow announce priorities on Azerbaijan for 2007.
14 March 2007 [12:28]
"Kestutis Kudzmanas is to be Lithuania's first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan. The first Lithuanian ambassador to Azerbaijan bears a great responsibility," Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus said.
14 March 2007 [12:16]
Robert Simmons, NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia has arrived in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.
14 March 2007 [11:55]
It was flattering to read Edward Luttwak's piece in the Wall Street Journal (February 27, 2007) titled Persian Shrug. In the opinion piece Luttwak repeated this writer's argument, expressed a year ago on the pages of the Philadelphia Bulletin that U.S. strategy with regard to Iran must involve the various ethnic minorities in Iran that account for almost 50 percent of the population.
14 March 2007 [08:20]
I don't consider the activity of Parliament satisfactory. Parliament can't react sufficiently to the ongoing processes in the country, support reforms and take measures on the restoration of the rule of law, the chief of United Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, parliamentarian Gudrat Hasanguliyev said.
14 March 2007 [08:19]
Chief of World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) Javad Derakhti met with US Ambassador Anne E. Derse.
14 March 2007 [08:17]
Georgia's position on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict was expressed clearly in the documents signed with Azerbaijan, Georgia's outgoing Ambassador to Azerbaijan Zurab Gumbaridze said to journalists.
14 March 2007 [08:05]
I have not met with Isa Gambar and have no intention to do it, leader of Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) Etibar Mammadov said while commenting on the reports about his meeting with Musavat leader Isa Gambar and discussing 2008 presidential elections.
14 March 2007 [07:49]
The presidents of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and Ilham Aliyev, had a telephone conversation and decided to restore and intensify fully-fledged bilateral contacts, the Turkmen president’s press service said on Tuesday.
14 March 2007 [07:44]
There were divergences in the opposition Musavat Party, some of them have already been solved, but there are still some. They will possibly be solved as a result of discussions, the member of Musavat Supreme Assembly Vurgun Eyyub said.
13 March 2007 [23:21]
Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza (US), Bernard Fassier (France) and Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), mediators in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, met in Geneva.
13 March 2007 [23:17]
The next meeting of the Committee for Political and Legal Affairs of the GUAM Parliamentary Assembly will be held in Kiev.
13 March 2007 [22:58]
US Ambassador to the OSCE Julie Finley will visit Azerbaijan in late March.
13 March 2007 [22:53]
Azerbaijani soldier Khayal Haziyev was wounded during the violation of the ceasefire by Armenian Armed Forces in Mazam village, Gazakh.
13 March 2007 [22:51]
"Georgia does not intend to take any measures against Akhalkalaki Armenians that does not want the implementation of the Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway project. Georgia will implement in its territory the project that the country wishes," Georgia's Ambassador to Azerbaijan Zurab Gumbaridze told journalists.
13 March 2007 [22:47]
Trial on case of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants accused of embezzlement, abuse of power and bribery continued in the second part of the day at Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes.
13 March 2007 [22:44]
The visit program of Poland's President Lech Kaczynski to Azerbaijan is ready, Polish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Kshishtof Krayevski said.
13 March 2007 [22:24]
Sardar Jalaloglu's appeal to Sabail court related to editor-in-chief of "Baku Khabar" newspaper Aydin Guliyev has been dismissed.
13 March 2007 [17:09]
Rasul Guliyev-led Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) plans to hold the next congress April 14, Deputy Chief of the Organizing Committee for the Preparation for the Congress Akif Shahbazov told.
13 March 2007 [17:00]
President Ilham Aliyev decreed on the application of law on making amendment to the law on state forensic examination.
13 March 2007 [16:44]
Robert Simmons, Special Representative of NATO Secretary General for South Caucasus and Central Asia will tomorrow start his three-day visit to Azerbaijan, NATO headquarters in Brussels informs.
13 March 2007 [16:38]
The Georgian Parliament passed a declaration on the country's urgent integration into NATO with 160 votes to 0 on March 13.
13 March 2007 [16:03]
On March 12 Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov met Mrs. Maria Calivis, UNICEF Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
13 March 2007 [15:50]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev received Belarus Emergencies Minister Anvar Bariyev.
13 March 2007 [15:46]
President Ilham Aliyev will be on an official visit to Tajikistan on March 15-16.
13 March 2007 [14:50]
It is not exactly known whether UNESCO will send mission to Azerbaijan and Armenia to monitor the situation of historical monuments, UNESCO central headquarters in Paris told.
13 March 2007 [14:24]
The delegation led by Emergencies Minister of Belarus Anvar Bariyev is visiting Azerbaijan.
13 March 2007 [13:24]
The report on Azerbaijan's commitments was not debated at the latest meetings of the PACE Committees.
13 March 2007 [13:21]
The contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops is expected to be monitored tomorrow near the village Mazamli of Gazakh region in accordance with the mandate of the personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office.
13 March 2007 [12:53]
In the frame of Partnership for Peace Program signed between Azerbaijan and NATO, a working meeting will be held on "Euroatlantic partnership working plan and Mediterranean sea dialogue working plan" in Montreux, Switzerland from March 12 to 15.
13 March 2007 [12:46]
Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) Committee for Legal Affairs and Human Rights met on Monday.
13 March 2007 [12:05]
Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov is already in Geneva, the Minister told.
13 March 2007 [11:45]
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan Andar Shukputov has held a working meeting with Economic Development Minister of Azerbaijan Heydar Babayev in Baku on Monday.
13 March 2007 [11:11]
I got acquainted with the letter of Azerbaijani delegation and especially, with the items that they are dissatisfied with, PACE co-rapporteur for Azerbaijan Andres Herkel said.
13 March 2007 [10:28]
Three-day visit of Ms. Maria Calivis, UNICEF Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) started to hold meetings today.
13 March 2007 [09:56]
Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found drunk and naked apart from bondage gear.
13 March 2007 [09:41]
Iran's new Ambassador to Baku Nasser Hamidi Zare conferred on Monday with Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and submitted a copy of his credentials letter to him.
13 March 2007 [09:35]
Armenia's foreign minister said on Monday his country does not plan to join NATO but will cooperate with the alliance.
13 March 2007 [09:31]
March 9, Turkish Prime Minister Recap Tayyip Erdogan met with Telman Aliyev, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Caspian Integration Business Club (CIBC).
13 March 2007 [09:13]
A ceremony was held on the occasion of 15th anniversary of Azerbaijan's Interior Troops.
13 March 2007 [09:04]
The soldier of Azerbaijani Armed Forces Samir Mammadov, who was captured on December 24 last year, sent his next letter to his family.
13 March 2007 [09:00]
All conditions have been created for successful meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers in Geneva, OSCE Minsk Group French co-chair Bernard Fassier told journalists in Yerevan.
13 March 2007 [08:51]
The members of the working group of Azerbaijani-Ukrainian Interparliamentary relations will leave for Kiev.
13 March 2007 [08:47]
The 28th session of the committee on economic, trade, technological and ecological issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Cooperation Organization (PABSEC) will be held in Athens, the capital of Greece on March 14.
12 March 2007 [23:07]
OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Spain Miguel Angel Moratinos will possibly visit South Caucasus by June, Foreign Ministry of Spain told.
12 March 2007 [22:44]
"The settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict is in OSCE Minks Group's competence. NATO does not deal with this problem directly," Jean Fournier, Deputy General Secretary of NATO said.
12 March 2007 [22:13]
The delegation led by the Emergencies Minister of Belarus Anvar Bariyev will today arrive in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Emergencies Ministry public relations department told.
12 March 2007 [18:17]
"We do not exchange democracy for oil. These two ideas should be united," Anne E. Derse, the US Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan said at the meeting with the students of Khazar University.
12 March 2007 [18:13]
The mediators of Nagorno Karabakh conflict, OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Matthew Bryza (USA), Bernard Fasier (France) and Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) began to come to Geneva beginning from today, OSCE Minsk Group co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov told.
12 March 2007 [15:08]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has received the ambassador of Georgia to Azerbaijan Zurab Gumbaridze whose tenure is about to end.
12 March 2007 [14:53]
Today trial on case of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants accused of embezzlement, abuse of power and bribery continued at Azerbaijan’s Court of Grave Crimes. The sitting is presided over by Judge Faig Gasimov.
12 March 2007 [14:49]
The Council of Europe is ready to give all kind of support on the way of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis stated.
12 March 2007 [14:36]
The US defends democracy and human rights. We do not believe that some part of the world deserves democracy less than other regions, the US ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse said at the meeting with the students of Khazar University.
12 March 2007 [14:27]
A deputy NATO chief said the alliance was not conducting talks with Azerbaijan on its possible membership.
12 March 2007 [13:52]
Azerbaijani Armed Forces is one of the powerful armies of the CIS states for combat readiness. I can prove it by facts, chief of the Armed Forces Inspection Department, major-general Mammad Beydullayev says.
12 March 2007 [13:41]
US supports Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and peaceful resolution of Nagorno Karabakh conflict, the US ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse said at the meeting with the students of Khazar University.
12 March 2007 [11:37]
NATO Secretary Generals Special Representative for South Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simons will visit Azerbaijan March 15, Foreign Ministry told.
10 March 2007 [18:50]
Three days of talks aimed at resolving a funding dispute over the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear plant in Iran ended in failure Friday, signaling yet another delay in the start-up of Iran's first atomic power plant and potentially new tension between Tehran and Moscow.
10 March 2007 [15:30]
Meetings of committees on politics, law and human rights of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly will be held on March 12.
10 March 2007 [15:29]
On March 9, Valeh Alasgarov, vice-speaker of the Azerbaijan Parliament met Hans Gunner, ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to Azerbaijan.
10 March 2007 [15:26]
Ms. Maria Calivis, UNICEF Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, will come to Azerbaijan on 11 March.
10 March 2007 [15:25]
Diplomatic Academy of Azerbaijan and Georgetown University facilitated "Diplomatic training program" for 30 employees of the Ministry of Foreign Ministry on 5-9 March. Professors of Georgetown University, USA, have arrived in Baku for this purpose.
10 March 2007 [15:17]
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said at a press conference on Friday that Georgia's membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) cannot be an obstacle for its entry in NATO.
10 March 2007 [15:14]
A total of 5 trillion rubles ($190 billion) will be earmarked to equip the army and Navy with modern arms until 2015, Russia's president said Friday.
10 March 2007 [14:57]
Parliamentary and local elections will be held in one of the two Russian enclaves in Khrakh oba village, Khachmaz region on March 11.
Dance of death at Azerbaijani border
US Assistant Secretary of State Kritenbrink to visit China April 14-16
Switzerland reduces its investment in Azerbaijani economy by 3-fold
China's top legislator meets North Korea's Kim Jong Un on goodwill visit
Shusha hosts Scientific meeting called "Shusha Summit of Cardiovascular Surgeons"
UK wants to transfer its illegal immigrants to Armenia
UK climate change minister Graham Stuart resigns