Politics
11 April 2007 [08:32]
The meeting of the working group on human rights, composed of members of the government and rights defenders will be held tomorrow, Chingiz Ganizade, member of the working group, chief of Committee for Democracy and Human Rights stated.
11 April 2007 [08:30]
A U.S. diplomat has denied rumors that the United States has been conducting talks on the possible placement of a U.S. missile shield in the South Caucasus.
11 April 2007 [08:28]
"That Sardar Jalaloghlu instituted a suit against Baku executive power makes no sense."
10 April 2007 [16:44]
Soon the Venice Commission and Azerbaijani government will discuss the country's Electoral Code in Baku, the Commission told.
10 April 2007 [15:46]
"Azerbaijani community of Nagorno Karabakh" Public Union sent a protest letter to the embassies of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries in Azerbaijan and OSCE Office in Baku in protest against US company SEMA preparing general plan of Shusha, Public Union chief Nizami Bahmanov told.
10 April 2007 [15:35]
After the amendments to the migration legislation of Russia, there was not any problem in Russian markets.
10 April 2007 [15:18]
Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is visiting Jordan. Azerbaijani honorary consul to Lebanon Nazih Gassub told that Foreign Minister will meet with Jordanian media representatives and talk with business circles of the state.
10 April 2007 [13:41]
"The United States has not changed position on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. We support Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and as the co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, we continue to make efforts for a peaceful settlement of the conflict," US Embassy public affairs officer Jonathan Henick told.
10 April 2007 [13:23]
After Kurdish region President Masud Barzani's statements against Turkey's territorial integrity and latest PKK terror actions when 10 Turkish soldiers died official Ankara protested Iraq government with diplomatic note, Turkish media appreciated this diplomatic note as ultimatum.
10 April 2007 [13:03]
Azerbaijani Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the United States Yashar Aliyev addressed the conference in the US Congress on the theme "Who derives benefit from international conflicts?".
10 April 2007 [12:55]
Chief of State Committee for Azerbaijanis Living Abroad Nazim Ibrahimov has met with Jews who moved from Azerbaijan in Haifa, Israel.
10 April 2007 [09:12]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) Chairman Zahid Akman and an accompanying delegation in Baku on Friday.
10 April 2007 [09:00]
Azerbaijan National Independence party (ANIP) intends to appeal to president for provision with office.
10 April 2007 [08:49]
Azerbaijan Prosecutor's Office did not allow Jamil Hasanov, the head of Rights Defense Committee for Farhad and Rafig Aliyev brothers to meet with them in the prison.
10 April 2007 [08:46]
"Several parties will sign cooperation agreement one of these days," the chairman of Classic Popular Front Party Mirmahmud Miralioghlu (CPFP) said.
10 April 2007 [08:45]
Soon the gathering of the Working Group on Human Rights composed of government representatives and rights defenders is expected to be held.
10 April 2007 [08:36]
Mayor of Amman Omar Al Ma'ani affirmed that Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) was keen to develop the capital city and to achieve further accomplishments throughout the comprehensive planning process, whose results were announced last month.
10 April 2007 [08:34]
The delegation from Vietnam's Foreign Ministry pays an official visit to Azerbaijan, press secretary of Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry Khazar Ibrahim informs.
10 April 2007 [08:33]
"Potable water resources are very important in regard to the future of the world," said Turkish Environment & Forestry Minister Osman Pepe in a meeting with Azerbaijani Ecology & Natural Resources Minister Huseyngulu Bagirov in Baku.
10 April 2007 [08:30]
Karabagh Liberation Organization (KLO) Youth Union conducted a poll on Karabakh options in different places of Baku in early April.
10 April 2007 [08:24]
In a timely decision, Azerbaijan recently granted NATO the permission to use two of its military bases and an airport to "back up its peace-keeping operation in Afghanistan" including support for NATO's "supply route to Afghanistan".
10 April 2007 [08:21]
Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Naser Hamidi on Monday held talks with Azeri Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov on issues of mutual interest.
09 April 2007 [23:47]
Jordan's Foreign Minister Abdel Elah Al-Khatib and his Azeri counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed to improve bilateral cooperation and exchanging viewpoints on issues of mutual concern.
09 April 2007 [23:28]
"I am leaving Azerbaijan with a mixed picture," said Walter K?lin, the UN Secretary-General's Representative for the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons at the end of his mission to Azerbaijan.
09 April 2007 [23:14]
President of National NGO Forum (NNGOF), parliamentarian Azay Guliyev has appealed to OSCE Chairman-in-Office Miguel Anhel Moratinos for release of the captured Azerbaijani soldier Samir Mammadov, the forum told.
09 April 2007 [22:25]
"The aim of my government is to reach peace agreement with Azerbaijan on the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict," the new Prime Minister of Armenia Serge Sarkisian told "The Financial Times".
09 April 2007 [16:15]
Jordan's Senate President Zeid Rifai received on Monday the Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
09 April 2007 [16:10]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, visiting Jordan met with Prime Minister Maaruf al-Bakht.
09 April 2007 [14:40]
"I am leaving Azerbaijan with a mixed picture," said Walter Kallin, the UN Secretary-General’s Representative for the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons at the end of his mission to Azerbaijan.
09 April 2007 [13:42]
An International Conference on the Role of Media in the Development of Tolerance and Mutual Understanding will be held in Baku on April 26-28 the framework of Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
09 April 2007 [13:19]
The Terror Free Tomorrow held public opinion survey in Turkey.
09 April 2007 [11:52]
09 April 2007 [11:36]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is visiting Middle East.
09 April 2007 [11:20]
The delegation led by Nazim Ibrahimov, chief of the State Committee for Azerbaijanis Living Abroad left for Israel to participate in the constituent conference of Israel-Azerbaijan International Association scheduled for April 12 in Tel Aviv.
08 April 2007 [11:30]
The chairman of Azerbaijan Committee against Tortures Elchin Behbudov met the prisoner of detention isolator ? 1 in Bayil of Penitentiary Service of Justice Ministry, former chief of Interior Ministry's Main Criminal Investigation Department.
08 April 2007 [11:28]
Defense ministry is making investigations concerning it.
08 April 2007 [11:27]
Divisions of Armenian Armed Forces from their positions in the occupied village of Talish of Terter region fired on the opposite positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces by machine and sub-machine guns beginning from Friday evening till morning.
08 April 2007 [11:26]
The negotiations on the amendments to the election legislation between Venice Commission of Council of Europe and Azerbaijani government continue.
08 April 2007 [11:16]
The agenda of the spring session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly has been publicized, member of Azerbaijani delegation to NATO PA Siyavush Novruzov told journalists.
08 April 2007 [11:15]
Efforts of several opposition parties and newspapers in defending former ministers Ali Insanov and Farhad Aliyev can seem successfully from the tactical aspect, but it is wrong step from strategic aspect.
08 April 2007 [11:14]
"The reports about placing military equipment and forces on Azerbaijani border with Iran are not true, and the reports about problems in the activity of border check-points are exaggerated," Elchin Guliyev, chief State Border Service said.
07 April 2007 [11:29]
The newly appointed Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian indicated on Friday that he will make no changes in Armenia's interim government and will let it operate until next month's parliamentary elections.
07 April 2007 [11:22]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received Walter Kalin, UN Secretary General's Representative on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, the Ministry's press and information policy department informs.
07 April 2007 [11:05]
The petition submitted to the investigation for creating conditions for detained parliamentarian Huseyn Abdullayev's medical examination has been satisfied, Kamandar Nasibov.
07 April 2007 [11:00]
The delegation from the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) will visit Armenia before the parliamentary elections in the country.
07 April 2007 [10:58]
Baku Mayors' Office allowed a proper place for Azerbaijan Democratic Party's wing (ADP) led by Rasul Guliyev to hold a congress.
07 April 2007 [10:55]
Meeting discussed issues on amendments to the law "On territorial structure and administrative-territorial division."
07 April 2007 [10:53]
Azerbaijan parliament is to pass a law "On Geographical names", said MP Fazail Ibrahimli, the head of the Working Group on draft resolution.
07 April 2007 [10:50]
Peter Semneby, European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus is visiting the U.S.
07 April 2007 [09:00]
Central Election Commission (CEC) appealed to the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe for amendments to the "Procedures of considering complaints received by CEC", the commission officer Rovzat Gasimov told.
06 April 2007 [23:53]
Azerbaijan Popular Front Party's (APFP) chairman Ali Karimli applied General Prosecutor and Interior Minister for a passport.
06 April 2007 [23:30]
"The reports about removing some ministries and state bodies in Baku to Ganja are false," Head of Ganja Executive Power Eldar Azizov told.
06 April 2007 [22:48]
A meeting on the 15th anniversary of Azerbaijan-Russian diplomatic relations was held in the classic gymnasium #160 in Baku.
06 April 2007 [22:29]
President Ilham Aliyev received Russia's Regional Development Minister Vladimir Yakovlev.
06 April 2007 [15:03]
Russia's Regional Development Minister Vladimir Yakovlev is on an unofficial visit in Baku.
06 April 2007 [14:31]
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan next month.
06 April 2007 [14:29]
"We do not think there is any problem with delimitation of Azerbaijani-Russian border. I am sure the border delimitation and demarcation process will not fail," Azerbaijan-Russia Borders Delimitation and Demarcation Committee's Chairman Alexander Yakovenko exclusively told.
06 April 2007 [14:14]
The three-year exile on Abbas Lisani, one of the most prominent right activists in Azeri provinces of Iran has been lifted.
06 April 2007 [13:17]
Defense Ministry's press service chief, Colonel Ramiz Malikov confirmed the information on his resigning from the Armed Forces due to his age and health.
06 April 2007 [13:04]
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China Li Zhaoxing made a statement on the 15th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
06 April 2007 [12:55]
The US European Command and Azerbaijani Defense Ministry will approve an action plan in late April, 2007.
06 April 2007 [12:53]
"The report on fires in the occupied Azerbaijani territories is ready. It will be officially raised to discussion in the UN General Assembly and therefore it is impossible to make any amendments to the report," head of Azerbaijani permanent representation to the UN Agshin Mehdiyev stated.
06 April 2007 [08:47]
Azerbaijani midshipman participated in the training in Latvia Defense Ministry's Diving Center last month.
06 April 2007 [08:44]
"We have started to talk with parties to support Etibar Mammadov's candidateship," the chairman of Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) Ayaz Rustamov said.
06 April 2007 [08:43]
The official inauguration of Latvia's Embassy in Baku will be held on April 16 during Latvian Foreign Minister Artis Pabrick's visit to Azerbaijan.
06 April 2007 [08:40]
The deputy chairman and executive secretary of the ruling YAP party Ali Ahmadov met with US Embassy's political-economical department’s head John Polashiki.
06 April 2007 [08:39]
Deputy Chief of New Azerbaijan Party (YAP), Executive Secretary Ali Ahmadov met with Lew Kwang-chul, South Korean ambassador to Azerbaijan.
06 April 2007 [08:36]
The head of the World Azerbaijanis' Congress (WAC) Javad Derakhti held news conference.
06 April 2007 [08:34]
"Japanese government is ready to cooperate with Azerbaijan in the development of democracy and human rights," Japanese Ambassador to Azerbaijan Tadahiro Abe said at the meeting in Communication ad Information Technologies Ministry.
06 April 2007 [08:34]
The next session of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Foreign Ministers will be held in Pakistan on May 15-17.
06 April 2007 [08:20]
Members of Monitoring Group on Human Rights Seide Gojamanli, Chingiz Ganizade, Novella Jafaroglu and Seadet Benenyarli will visit Strasbourg to attend Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) spring session.
06 April 2007 [08:19]
"I discussed the Nagorno Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders during my visit to South Caucasus. There is a process directed to the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. I hope the problem will be solved, before it reaches deadlock," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said while meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul.
06 April 2007 [08:17]
NATO Parliamentary Assembly will hold "Rose Route" seminar in Georgia on April 19-20.
06 April 2007 [08:03]
Parliamentarian Huseyn Abdullayev's parents appealed to Ombudsperson.
05 April 2007 [20:02]
A group of high-level Interior Ministry officials completed today a six-day study tour to Germany to learn about best practices in public event management and crowd control.
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