Politics
31 May 2007 [08:35]
Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation led by chairman Oktay Asadov left for a working visit to St Petersburg to participate in the 28th plenary session of CIS Parliamentary Assembly.
31 May 2007 [08:28]
Although the political establishment in Azerbaijan was chagrined by the May 12 agreement among Turkmenistan, Russia, and Kazakhstan for plans to construct a new gas pipeline to export Turkmen gas to Western markets through Russia, official Baku still sees great opportunities in bilateral relations with Turkmenistan.
31 May 2007 [08:22]
Amendments may be introduced to the electoral law till the next municipality elections in Azerbaijan, said Shamistan Yusifov, Chair of the National Association of Settlement-municipalities.
31 May 2007 [08:08]
On Wednesday the monitoring on the contact line of troops, near the Gapanli village of Tartar region of Azerbaijan was held in accordance with the mandate of Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE.
31 May 2007 [08:06]
An event on May 28 – Republic Day was organized in UN Azerbaijan representation.
30 May 2007 [22:42]
"I hope the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be settled by the start of presidential elections both in Armenia and Azerbaijan," Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe told Azerbaijani journalists while replying to the question "Could presidential elections effect the settlement of the Karabakh problem".
30 May 2007 [22:13]
Head of the Armenian delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe, Emin Yeritsyan addressed the Strasbourg session of Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe and proposed to establish regional cooperation network.
30 May 2007 [21:40]
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe is holding its next plenary session which will last from 30 May to 1 June 2007 in Strasbourg (France).
30 May 2007 [14:56]
OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos will arrive in Baku on June 4.
30 May 2007 [14:08]
The USAID-organized workshop brought together representatives of Azerbaijan's relevant state agencies, foreign companies and NGOs in Baku to examine the country's accession efforts to the World Trade Organization: current situation and prospects.
30 May 2007 [14:01]
Conformation of Azerbaijani penitentiary system and legislation related to this field to European standards is debated in the Council of Europe, judge of the Supreme Court Vefaddin Ibayev told.
30 May 2007 [13:51]
US Congressman, member of House Committee on Foreign Affairs Dan Burton appreciated Azerbaijan Democratic Republic of 1918-1920 as the first secular state in the East.
30 May 2007 [12:33]
Amendments to Azerbaijan's Electoral Code are debated in the Council of Europe Venice Commission.
30 May 2007 [09:47]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy sent his top diplomatic envoy to Turkey after the Turkish prime minister called for better communications with Paris, Sarkozy's office said Tuesday.
30 May 2007 [09:46]
Russia tested new strategic and tactical missiles, flexing its muscles amid military disputes with the West and bitter opposition to a U.S. plan for a defensive shield in Europe.
30 May 2007 [08:54]
Latvia's Minister for Economics Jurijs Strods will visit Azerbaijan.
30 May 2007 [08:46]
Azerbaijan's ambassador to Switzerland Elchin Amirbeyov speaks about bilateral realtions.
30 May 2007 [08:35]
Journalist Tatyana Chaladze met with Miklos Haraszti, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and Nina Ogenyanova, representative of Freedom House Organization.
30 May 2007 [08:29]
30 May 2007 [08:22]
Leaders of Azadliq alliance - chairman of Azerbaijan Popular Front Part Ali Kerimli, chairman of National Unity Movement Lale Shovket Hajiyeva and chairman of Citizen and Development Party Ali Aliyev today met with Head of OSCE Office in Baku Jose Luis Herrero Ansola.
30 May 2007 [08:20]
"South Caucasus is in the focus of regional powers and attracts global powers. But this attention should not be exaggerated. The priorities of the US and European Union are different," Irina Zvigelskaya, Vitali Naumkin and Sergey Luzyakin, representatives of Russian Academy of Sciences Oriental Studies Institute told the press conference in Baku.
30 May 2007 [08:18]
Nagorno Karabakh will be liberated sooner or later, even through military way if needed, Azerbaijani ambassador to Uzbekistan Namig Abbasov said in the official meeting organized in Tashkent by the Embassy on May 28-Republic Day of Azerbaijan.
30 May 2007 [08:17]
30 May 2007 [08:15]
Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadayarov is to visit Latvia in November.
30 May 2007 [08:11]
"The propaganda around ADP's decision made us think that it may damage the party's image. But the congress cleaned the doubts," said chief of Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) Serdar Jalaloglu.
30 May 2007 [08:08]
Azerbaijan initiated establishing a new body composed of law-enforcement bodies of members of Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), Deputy Foreign Minister Vagif Sadikhov told journalists.
30 May 2007 [08:07]
Delegation of Azerbaijani parliament led by speaker Ogtay Asadov will be on visit to St. Petersburg on May 30-June 1, parliament’s press secretary Akif Maharramov told a briefing.
29 May 2007 [22:44]
Political authorities are not ready for election of Baku mayor, Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Secretary General Ulrich Boner told the meeting with Azerbaijani journalists in Strasburg.
29 May 2007 [22:32]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today received US Vice President's Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs Joseph R. Wood.
29 May 2007 [22:01]
Egypt Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Yusef Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Sharkawi visited the region of Tovuz at the invitation of parliamentarian Ganira Pashayeva.
29 May 2007 [21:33]
Mazahir Panahov, chairman of Central Election Commission has left for Strasbourg to participate in the debates of Venice Commission on the amendments to the Electoral Code.
29 May 2007 [17:21]
16 correspondents of suspended Gundalik Azerbaijan newspaper seek for asylum in foreign countries.
29 May 2007 [15:14]
"I do not participate in the process of new opposition alliance. False reports spread about my representative's participation in this process," leader of Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) Etibar Mammadov told.
29 May 2007 [14:06]
"If the decision on making live azans is not eliminated we will hold protest actions in the whole country," Chairman of Azerbaijan Islam Party Hajiagha Nuri told.
29 May 2007 [13:40]
Court hearing on criminal case launched on ex-economic development minister Farhad Aliyev, Rafig Aliyev, former president of Azpetrol Group of Companies and 17 more defendants accused of corruption will start at Court of Grave Crimes on May 30.
29 May 2007 [13:38]
Front line of Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in Gapanli village of Tartar will be monitored on Wednesday.
29 May 2007 [13:36]
Spring session of Azerbaijan parliament ends on May 31.
29 May 2007 [13:16]
Armenian Armed Forces violated ceasefire again, Defense Ministry's press service told.
29 May 2007 [12:30]
80 Azerbaijanis detained by Iran law enforcement bodies during meeting in Urmia on May 22 imprisoned.
29 May 2007 [12:13]
Local Armenian residents tried to impede to the opening of new administrative building of Azerbaijan Consul of America in California on May 28 – Republic day of Azerbaijan.
29 May 2007 [11:40]
Azerbaijani MP Huseyn Abdullayev left Azerbaijan, his relatives told the APA. He left Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic for Turkey. Abdullayev's relatives said that he left the country for medical treatment.
29 May 2007 [11:38]
Several US cities officially marked May 28 – Azerbaijan's Republic day.
29 May 2007 [08:41]
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has extended sincere congratulations to Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the happy occasion of the national day of the republic of Azerbaijan.
29 May 2007 [07:46]
Azeri Ambassador to Amman Elman Arasli on Monday commended Jordanian-Azeri relations which are progressively developing in various fields due to efforts by the two countries leaderships.
28 May 2007 [21:15]
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has congratulated President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on the national holiday – the Republic Day.
28 May 2007 [12:39]
The Azerbaijani Embassy in Ankara hosted a reception over the weekend on the occasion of the national day of Azerbaijan.
28 May 2007 [12:22]
The Kazakh president's son-in-law, the Central Asian nation's former ambassador to Austria, has been put on an international wanted list, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
28 May 2007 [11:58]
Iran and the United States resumed public diplomacy Monday for the first time in more than a quarter century. The meeting in Baghdad between ambassadors on security in Iraq could produce a chapter in world history for its success or a footnote for its failure.
28 May 2007 [11:53]
Japan's agricultural minister died Monday after reportedly hanging himself just hours before he was to face questioning in parliament over a political scandal, officials said.
28 May 2007 [10:32]
Azerbaijan marks on Monday the main state holiday – Republic Day.
28 May 2007 [09:32]
Two U.S. war planes violated Turkey's airspace over the border with Iraq for four minutes this week, Turkey's military said Sunday.
28 May 2007 [08:12]
Azerbaijan on Sunday paid tribute to close ties of cooperation with Jordan which have been further strengthened by the two countries' leaderships.
27 May 2007 [18:21]
Azerbaijani Ambassador to Seoul Rovshan Jamshidov said that National Day of Azerbaijan is a day to remember the first democratic state in the East and that's why it is called the Day of the Republic.
27 May 2007 [18:15]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is scheduled to pay a visit to Iran, the country's ambassador to Tehran said on Sunday.
27 May 2007 [12:00]
Iran's Foreign Ministry on Sunday said a meeting between its leading nuclear negotiator and the European Union's foreign policy chief has been postponed.
26 May 2007 [14:50]
Economic Development Minister Heydar Babayev will visit Milan in October.
26 May 2007 [14:47]
Georgia's Parliament Speaker Nino Burjanadze addressed the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's Spring Session in Portugal, saying her country takes vital part in delivery of the Caspian energy resources to Europe.
26 May 2007 [14:43]
It's premature to speak of full success in the Nagorno Karabakh peaceful process unless agreements on all provisions of the negotiation agenda are achieved, Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told a news conference in Baku after a meeting with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs.
26 May 2007 [14:37]
Turkey will assume the command of Multinational Task Force South (MNTF-S), one of the five regional commands of the Kosovo Force (KFOR), a NATO-led international force responsible for establishing and maintaining security in Kosovo, for a period of one year as of Tuesday.
26 May 2007 [14:34]
OSCE Office in Baku intends to implement several new projects, head of the OSCE office in Baku Jose Luis Herrero Ansola told.
26 May 2007 [14:31]
Iran's Vice President and head of the Department of Environment Ms. Fatemeh Vaez-Javadi on Friday stressed on expansion of cooperation with Azerbaijan.
26 May 2007 [14:29]
Azerbaijan's Independence Day will be marked in the capital of the United States.
26 May 2007 [14:25]
Azerbaijan's Embassy in South Korea has started to issue visa for those intending to visit Azerbaijan.
26 May 2007 [14:22]
"We will continue to support the freedom of speech and improvement of media in Azerbaijan. We want suitable conditions to be created for the improvement of independent media," Head of the OSCE office in Baku Jose Luis Herrero Ansola told.
26 May 2007 [14:03]
National Forum of political and public organizations was held on the initiative of Open Society Party.
26 May 2007 [13:56]
Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharian will meet on June 9 in St. Petersburg, Russia, OSCE Minsk Group French Co-chair Bernard Fassier and Russian Co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov stated.
26 May 2007 [13:52]
Official reception was organized on 28 May by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
26 May 2007 [13:51]
"Nagorno Karabakh is an inalienable part of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan's territorial integrity is its indefeasible right and this can not be subject to any talks. We will not change our position."
26 May 2007 [13:38]
The conference for the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea – the first legally binding agreement on any subject ever adopted by the five Caspian neighbors – started in Baku on May 23 ended yesterday.
26 May 2007 [13:30]
Speaker Oktay Adaov spoke on the education bill in today's meeting of the parliament. He said the parliament is responsible for postponing debating on Education Law.
26 May 2007 [13:29]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev today received OSCE Minsk Group Russian Co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov and French Co-chair Bernard Fassier.
26 May 2007 [11:59]
"We recognize Nagorno Karabakh as a part of Azerbaijan," OSCE Minsk Group Russian co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov told a press conference in Baku.
26 May 2007 [11:54]
US President George Bush congratulated Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on 28 May - the 89th anniversary of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.
26 May 2007 [09:32]
The United States and Russia are making joint efforts for a peaceful solution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, said Daniel Fried, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs addressing to the Helsinki commission members.
25 May 2007 [15:19]
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