Politics
08 January 2007 [23:22]
0.005% of the UN budget will be provided by Azerbaijan.
08 January 2007 [17:44]
A report on Armenia's fulfilling commitments will be heard during the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe January 22-26, said head of the Armenian delegation to PACE Tigran Torosian.
08 January 2007 [17:14]
Azerbaijan has launched a project to elevate its military to NATO standards and is planning to take important steps in 2007 to accomplish this goal.
08 January 2007 [17:09]
Political parties functioning in Azerbaijan have defined the main priorities of their activity in 2007.
08 January 2007 [17:02]
Newspaper Chernovik published in Dagestan continues critical articles against Azerbaijan.
08 January 2007 [15:34]
OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Foreign Minister of Spain Miguel Angel Moratinos is expected to visit Azerbaijan late February, OSCE Spokesperson Martin Nesirky told.
08 January 2007 [15:29]
Personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-office Andrzey Kasprzyk has changed one of the field assistants in Azerbaijani Office.
08 January 2007 [14:22]
OSCE mission has already worked out a report on large scale arson in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
08 January 2007 [13:19]
Israel plans strike on Natanz uranium enrichment center, heavy water reactor at Arak and uranium conversion facility near Isfahan.
07 January 2007 [21:29]
In recent months, relations between Georgia and Russia have deteriorated. The clash between these two states is only a symptom of the broader strategic positioning of the West and Russia in and around the South Caucasus. In this scenario, at regional and global levels, countries and organizations are involved in a struggle for power and energy security. Considering these two issues, what is the current situation in the South Caucasus and what can be expected in the future?
07 January 2007 [02:13]
Iranian reformist parliamentarians on Saturday blamed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government for failing to prevent United Nations sanctions.
06 January 2007 [13:40]
In the frame of consultations between the foreign ministries of two countries, Khalaf Khalafov, Deputy Foreign Minister, has visited Morocco.
06 January 2007 [00:18]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that his country will soon celebrate final victory in the nuclear issue, stressing that the Iranian nation will not withdraw even an inch from its righteous stances.
05 January 2007 [15:31]
China says it has urged Iran to return to negotiations to resolve international concerns over its nuclear program.
05 January 2007 [15:20]
The Turkish prime minister accused the United States on Wednesday of not living up to a pledge to help counter autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels, despite the appointment of a special envoy to address the threat guerrillas pose to Turkey, a news report said.
05 January 2007 [15:09]
Pakistan government has decided to stop issuance of visas to citizens of Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan without clearance from its intelligence agencies.
05 January 2007 [01:48]
Investigators have identified two guards who illicitly filmed Saddam Hussein's execution, an official said today, as the Iraqi Government sought to dampen growing outrage from Sunni Arabs over the unruly hanging.
05 January 2007 [00:02]
Armenia is due to hold parliamentary elections this spring and political parties have already begun a series of public relations activities that they describe as "charity" but their opponents say amounts to buying votes.
04 January 2007 [22:09]
Iran's top nuclear official said on Thursday that U.N. sanctions would not restrict its atomic programme, and that it was continuing to amass the raw material for uranium enrichment.
04 January 2007 [22:00]
On Wednesday the representatives of the International Committee Red Cross (ICRC) visited the Azerbaijani war prisoner Eldaniz Nuriyev.
04 January 2007 [21:50]
Reporters Without Borders on Thursday condemned a brutal attack on Nijat Huseynov of the leading opposition daily Azadlig, who was beaten and stabbed by four assailants as he was leaving his home to go to work in Baku on 25 December. He had recently received anonymous telephone threats about his reporting.
04 January 2007 [14:15]
Turkey's prime minister warned that growing sectarian tensions in Lebanon will affect the entire Middle East if left unchecked and offered to mediate in the political crisis if asked by rival factions.
03 January 2007 [12:28]
The delegation of the Red Crescent Society of Azerbaijan led by its President, Milli Majlis deputy Novruz Aslan visited Poland at the invitation of this country's Red Cross.
02 January 2007 [23:08]
On December 26 Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedov, Turkmenistan's acting president, was shown on national television conducting meetings of the State Security Council and Cabinet of Ministers.
02 January 2007 [20:56]
A senior Iraqi court official nearly halted Saddam Hussein's execution when supporters of a radical Shi'ite cleric and militia leader taunted the former president as he stood on the gallows.
02 January 2007 [15:47]
The Leader of the Revolution Muammar al-Kadafi has received a letter from President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev in which he extended an invitation to the Leader of the Revolution to visit Azerbaijan.
02 January 2007 [12:01]
02 January 2007 [01:20]
In a stark statement published on Saturday Brigadier General Oded Tira observed, "President Bush lacks the political power to attack Iran. As an American strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help him pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and US newspaper editors. We need to do this in order to turn the Iranian issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq failure."
01 January 2007 [17:52]
01 January 2007 [17:38]
Iran will never give up its nuclear program and unfair treatment of the country over its atomic work will have consequences for the West and the Middle East, powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Sunday.
01 January 2007 [17:31]
When Atilla Yayla, a professor of political science, questioned the legacy of the revered founder of modern Turkey, nationalists called him a traitor and his university suspended him. He could not eat or sleep for days.
01 January 2007 [17:26]
Spain will take over the OSCE Chairmanship from Belgium on 1 January, with the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, Miguel Angel Moratinos, succeeding his Belgian counterpart, Karel De Gucht, as Chairman-in-Office.
01 January 2007 [17:09]
Security officers in Armenia have detained a man in connection with an alleged coup plot by opposition activists, officials said Friday.
01 January 2007 [17:04]
Serbia has secured Russia's consent to proceed with a planned arms deal with Armenia, defusing earlier objections from Moscow that caused upheaval at a Serbian weapons manufacturer, the president said Friday.
30 December 2006 [17:00]
Constantly consolidating its international reputation and position in the region in 2006, Azerbaijan has activated its foreign policy notably.
30 December 2006 [12:49]
Turkish ambassador Turan Morali held a farewell meeting with media on finishing his diplomatic mission in Azerbaijan.
30 December 2006 [12:07]
30 December 2006 [11:47]
"Azerbaijanis rule Iran. The information about the violation of rights is the result of the propaganda of external forces," Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Efshar Suleimani told the journalists.
30 December 2006 [11:45]
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is expected to pay official visit to Azerbaijan.
30 December 2006 [11:43]
Political and military officers of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly are expected to pay continuous visits to Azerbaijan during 2007, the member of the delegation of the parliament to NATO Parliamentary Assembly Zahid Oruj said.
30 December 2006 [11:42]
34 meetings of Milli Majlis were held in 2006, Parliament's Speaker Ogtay Asadov announced this statistics in the last sitting of autumn session of Parliament.
30 December 2006 [11:41]
Milli Majlis Disciplinary Commission did not hold its meeting during 2006, said the chief of the commission Agajan Abiyev.
30 December 2006 [11:28]
Saddam Hussein was hanged for crimes against humanity at dawn on Saturday, a dramatic, violent end for a leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before he was toppled by a U.S. invasion four years ago.
29 December 2006 [17:59]
The representatives of International Committee of Red Cross Armenia Office visited the Azerbaijani Soldier Samir Mammadov Nazim who was captured by Armenians on December 24.
29 December 2006 [14:50]
"OSCE is ready to mediate among political forces, especially to organize government-opposition dialogue," Robin Seaword, Head of the OSCE Office in Baku, told journalists.
29 December 2006 [13:25]
New chief of OSCE Baku Office was appointed, acting-chief of OSCE Baku Office Robin Siword told the journalists.
29 December 2006 [13:02]
Armenian Armed Forces broke the cease-fire at the occupied territory of Seysilan village, the region of Terter at 17:45 Dec 28.
29 December 2006 [12:43]
President Ilham Aliyev decreed on preparing the third recurring reports on Azerbaijan's fulfilling commitments corresponding to UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and presenting it to UN Committee against Torture on behalf of Azerbaijan.
29 December 2006 [12:26]
The report on implementation of Armenia's PACE commitments will be announced in PACE winter session.
29 December 2006 [01:08]
"Azerbaijanis living in Russia have no problems concerning migration," said counsellor of the Azerbaijani embassy in Russia Bakhish Zeynalov.
29 December 2006 [01:01]
OSCE Office in Baku has commissioned Azerbaijani lawyers to prepare a new comment on sale section of the Civil Code, OSCE Representative Andreas Bush said.
29 December 2006 [00:56]
Over 300 books have been presented to Supreme Court by the finance and support of OSCE Baku Office.
29 December 2006 [00:53]
The last sitting of autumn session of Milli Majlis will be held on Friday.
29 December 2006 [00:52]
President Ilham Aliyev issued decree on approval of partnership agreement signed between Azerbaijani and Cuba governments.
29 December 2006 [00:21]
Pope Benedict XVI granted a private audience on Wednesday to an Iranian delegation, including Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, who presented him with a letter from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Italian news reports said.
28 December 2006 [22:14]
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov met with newly appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Korea Lew Kwang-chul on Thursday.
28 December 2006 [22:05]
"Nagorno Karabakh conflict is one of the principal issues on the agenda. At present, I don't see way out of the conflict," said Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe co-reporter for Azerbaijan Andreas Herkel.
28 December 2006 [21:59]
Russia's Foreign Ministry is aware of Azerbaijan's decision to take two Russian TV channels off the air on its territory from July 1, 2007, the ministry's official spokesman said.
28 December 2006 [18:10]
Armenian Armed Forces have violated the ceasefire 220 times in 2006.
28 December 2006 [18:04]
Faced with the possibility that the U.S. Congress will consider a proposal with regard to the alleged Armenian genocide, Spokesperson for the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Namik Tan asked the U.S. Administration to continue its long-lasting balanced and constructive policy.
28 December 2006 [14:36]
Bedikyan, a successful pianist sharing the same stage with Turkey's leading jazz musicians and who also plays in Sertab Erener's band, says he is not planning to return to Baku for any concerts unless Azerbaijani authorities offer an official apology.
28 December 2006 [13:49]
Azerbaijani delegation in PACE plans to take active part in the discussions of Armenian commitments in the frame of PACE winter session, the chief of Azerbaijani delegation in PACE Samed Seyidov stated.
28 December 2006 [12:49]
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Acting Head of the OSCE Office in Baku, Robin Seaword, said that his office was deeply concerned at reports of two further instances of violence against members of the opposition press.
28 December 2006 [12:47]
Frozen conflicts in South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transdniestrian and Nagorno Karabakh represent a serious menace to the EU stability.
28 December 2006 [12:32]
The General Assembly approved a resolution on dues that each of the 192 member states must pay to finance the U.N.'s US$2 billion annual budget in 2007-2009, leaving U.S. payments unchanged at 22 percent, reducing Japan's contribution while raising that of Britain, China, Russia, India and many others.
28 December 2006 [11:24]
"I consider the activity of the parliament normal. The laws are discussed democratically, every-one says his word," the chief of Adalat party (Justice), parliamentarian Ilyas Ismayilov told.
28 December 2006 [00:18]
Armenian Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan considers he is entitled to run for President.
28 December 2006 [00:02]
Azerbaijan President, Ilham Aliyev, sent a message of condolences to President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, on the death of scores of people in an oil pipeline blast in Lagos.
27 December 2006 [23:55]
Azerbaijan President, Ilham Aliyev, sent a message of condolences to President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, on the death of former US President, Gerald Ford.
27 December 2006 [23:48]
"The opening of GUAM Secretariat in Kyiv is one of the main projects. When the process is finished, the activities within GUAM will be submitted to the agenda of the secretariat," said Azerbaijani ambassador to Ukraine Telet Aliyev.
27 December 2006 [23:42]
"I have no intentions to comment on Russian Ambassador's accusations about the closure of Russia TV channels in Azerbaijan. We will answer them with to be passed decision tomorrow at the meeting of council," said National Television and Radio Council chief Nushirevan Meherremli.
27 December 2006 [23:40]
"Turkey sent no note to Azerbaijan concerning the nonadmission of the pianist Burak Bedikyan, Turkish citizen of Armenian origin," said MFA information policy department Chief Tahir Tagizadeh.
27 December 2006 [23:34]
Armenian Defense Minister welcomes the idea of modernization the Russian military base in Armenia.
27 December 2006 [23:30]
Turkish citizen of Armenian origin, pianist Burak Bedikyan, deported from Azerbaijani airport Bine on Dec 19, made allegation against Azerbaijan in his release to the press.
27 December 2006 [23:06]
European Union and Azerbaijani Interparliamentary Cooperation Committee issued a joint statement at the 7th meeting in Strasbourg.
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