Politics
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.
27 December 2006 [15:48]
Yerevan representatives of International Red Cross Committee visited Samir Mammedov Nazim, Azerbaijani soldier taken captive Dec 24 by Armenian, IRCC Baku office told.
27 December 2006 [14:55]
Armenian Armed Forces' units in occupied Bash Gervend village of Aghdam region fired on opposite positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces with submachine from 01.00 to 07.00.
27 December 2006 [14:53]
The issue concerning Azerbaijan has not been put in the PACE winter session agenda.
27 December 2006 [10:30]
27 December 2006 [10:11]
Rafig Aliyev, assistant of the Head of Lenkeran Executive Power on health, education and cultural issues was dismissed.
27 December 2006 [10:05]
Parliamentarian Ganira Pashayeva has proposed to establish a working group for investigating the problems in the Armed Forces.
27 December 2006 [10:02]
President Ilham Aliyev received Turkish Ambassador Turan Morali on completing his diplomatic mission in the country.
27 December 2006 [09:50]
Georgia will finish talks with Azerbaijan and Armenia on borders' delimitation next year, Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bejuashvili said.
27 December 2006 [09:48]
"I got acquainted with Rasul Guliyev's theoretical plans when I was a coordinator of his organization and mentioned him about its difficulty. But Guliyev noted insistently that it would not be a radical and any intelligentsia, non-party member and even New Azerbaijan Party members will join it. I have no detailed information about the organization established by him," said Azerbaijan Democrat Party Majlis chairman Akif Shabazov.
27 December 2006 [09:46]
An exhibition on Armenians savagery in Turkey and Azerbaijan called "Lifeless witnesses of genocide lie" opened in Tuzla Cultural Palace in Istanbul.
27 December 2006 [09:44]
President Ilham Aliyev received Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich.
26 December 2006 [23:58]
Turkmenistan's defense minister Agageldy Mamedgeldyev joined the meeting of the People's Council, or Khalk Maslakhaty - the country's supreme representative body - which is expected to set a date for presidential elections and announce nominations for president.
26 December 2006 [23:38]
The government of Turkmenistan announced Tuesday that the election to replace the late President Saparmurat Niyazov would be Feb. 11.
26 December 2006 [23:35]
Ukraine offered Azerbaijan a project of modernization of Ukrainian tanks T-64, adopted by Armed Forces of Azerbaijan.
26 December 2006 [23:25]
"It is not right to keep Iran aloof from Nagorno Karabakh negotiations. Present mediators have dual approach to the case. This is the issue to be discussed in international conferences with broad composition.
26 December 2006 [23:20]
Turkey has asked its close ally Azerbaijan for information on the alleged mistreatment and expelling of a Turkish musician who is of Armenian descent, a Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday.
26 December 2006 [23:16]
International mediators will continue to press for a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh next year despite parliamentary elections in Armenia, a senior U.S. administration official was reported to say late Monday.
26 December 2006 [23:08]
Khalaf Khalafov, Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan arrived on December 25 on a three-day visit to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, according to the Azerbaijan's embassy in Egypt.
26 December 2006 [15:50]
Land Forces Command is expected to be formed by May next year.
26 December 2006 [14:41]
Turkmenistan Defense Minister Agageldy Mamadgaldiyev was arrested yesterday, Turkmen Republic Party Chairman Nurmahammad Khanamov said.
26 December 2006 [12:24]
Iranian and Azerbaijani officials are expected to pay mutual visits in 2007.
26 December 2006 [10:09]
"The only way of the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict is to hold referendum," Armenian Foreign minister Vartan Oskanian said.
26 December 2006 [10:06]
European-Azerbaijani Strategic Research Center to protest against Khojali genocide with Turkish and Azerbaijanis living in France on Feb 25, the center chief Bashar Komur told reporters.
26 December 2006 [10:00]
"Some events concerning to 2008 presidential election will be realized together with OSCE”s Democratic Institution and Human Rights," the chief of Central Election Committee (CEC) Mazahir Panahov told the journalists.
26 December 2006 [09:54]
Central Election Commission (CEC) has begun monitoring in 28 more constituencies, CEC chairman Mazahir Panahov told journalists.
26 December 2006 [09:50]
Azerbaijani Air Defense Forces base in Salyan will be modernized by the assistance of the NATO.
26 December 2006 [01:08]
UN Secretary General-designate Ban Ki-moon, in a television interview broadcast on Dec. 24, 2006 urged Tehran to resume stalled talks with three European powers.
26 December 2006 [01:03]
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Sunday that further efforts that aimed at making the country a member of the European Union, are in the interest of the Union.
26 December 2006 [01:01]
Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian stated over the weekend that Yerevan stands for an unconditional normalization of ties with Turkey, which includes not tying the establishment of diplomatic relations to recognition of the Armenian genocide claims.
26 December 2006 [00:41]
Azerbaijan Republic President Ilham Aliyev in an interview with radio "Eco-Moscow" expressed his country's opposition to imposing sanctions against Iran.
26 December 2006 [00:39]
An Azerbaijani opposition journalist was hospitalized Monday after being attacked in the capital Baku, a colleague said, in the latest incident reinforcing concerns about media freedom in the Caspian Sea state.
25 December 2006 [19:54]
New UK ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Mrs. Carolyn Browne will take up her position from July, 2007.
Belavia airlines from Belarus to increase flight frequency to Turkmenistan
DM emphasizes importance of COP29 for agricultural, environmental policy adaptation in Azerbaijan
Members of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Germany warmly welcome President Ilham Aliyev
Ministers of economy, finance allowed to represent Azerbaijan in Turkic Investment Fund - decree
Ambassador highlights Kazakhstan's geographical advantage for Middle Corridor development
Shaping Europe's energy landscape with Azerbaijan's strategic partnership
Russia may abolish gold export duty from June 1