Politics
29 November 2006 [12:08]
Iran's 10-day war games this month were aimed at intimidating U.S. allies in the region and dissuading them from cooperating in a potential strike against the Tehran government, American military officials and analysts have concluded.
29 November 2006 [12:03]
Turkey's top Muslim leader on Tuesday told Pope Benedict there was too much "Islamophobia" in the world, as the Pontiff appeared to do an about-face from his previous opposition to Ankara's bid to enter the European Union.
29 November 2006 [11:42]
The NATO summit began on Tuesday in Riga. For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO leaders openly discussed potential threats posed by Moscow.
29 November 2006 [11:35]
The European Commission will recommend on Wednesday a partial suspension of Turkey's negotiations to join the European Union after it failed to open its ports to EU member Cyprus, an EU source said on Wednesday.
29 November 2006 [11:33]
Azerbaijan and Russia will sign several documents during Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov’s upcoming visit to Baku.
29 November 2006 [10:38]
Azerbaijani Ambassador to Iran Abbaseli Hasanov while being in Iran Foreign Ministry asked to stop protest actions held outside of Azerbaijan Embassy in Tehran and Azerbaijani Consul General in Tebriz.
29 November 2006 [10:11]
The next meeting of Council of CIS Foreign Ministers will be held in the capital of Kazakhstan Astana, next year in spring.
28 November 2006 [23:49]
The presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia were meeting in the Belarusian capital Minsk late Tuesday for crucial peace talks which international mediators hoped will produce a breakthrough in their long-running efforts to resolve the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
28 November 2006 [23:42]
The presidents of Belarus, Ukraine and Azerbaijan are discussing energy security in Minsk.
28 November 2006 [23:32]
A visiting high-ranking Iranian official thanked Armenia on Tuesday for supporting his country in the international arena just days after Yerevan refused to join Western powers in condemning Tehran’s poor human rights record.
28 November 2006 [23:19]
Leaders of the CIS signed various cooperation agreements but failed to agree on delimiting borders between member countries at a summit in Belarus Tuesday, the post-Soviet alliance's executive secretary said.
28 November 2006 [23:18]
Four journalists - Eynulla Fatullayev, Chingiz Sultansoy, Kanan Guluzade and Ibrahim Bayandurlu- claiming to meet with Teymuraz Aliyev in Tbilisi who was accused of Elmar Huseynov's assassination, were not called to the investigation.
28 November 2006 [23:14]
Azerbaijanis deported from Georgia during Zviad Gamsakhurdia's presidency appealed to Mikhail Saakashvili to return there.
28 November 2006 [23:12]
Famous Azerbaijani singer, parliamentarian Zeynab Khanlarova appealed to the Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev for opening of ANS TV and ANS CM.
28 November 2006 [23:10]
The Action Plan between Azerbaijan and the EU, signed on Nov. 14 in Brussels, reflects 10 priority areas.
28 November 2006 [23:07]
On Tuesday, the ceremony of 14th anniversary of establishment of military unit in State Border Service Shore Defense and the presentation of military flag to a new guard-ship was held.
28 November 2006 [22:52]
Armenian defense minister Serzh Sarkisian assured mothers of servicemen in the remote Noyemberian region which borders Azerbaijan that hostilities were unlikely to resume in the foreseeable future, though he added that the danger of military actions resumption was not eliminated 100 percent.
28 November 2006 [22:50]
A 6-member delegation of Milli Mejlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan headed by Mr.Eldar Ibrahimov, Chairman of the Azerbaijan-Pakistan Parliamentary Working Group and Head of the Standing Commission on Agrarian Policy is arriving here today on a five-day official visit to Pakistan.
28 November 2006 [18:03]
The Azerbaijani government expanded a clampdown on independent media outlets on 24 November by taking the country's first and biggest independent broadcaster off the air.
28 November 2006 [15:56]
There is minimal probability for the meeting of the Azeri and Armenian Presidents to end in signing of a document, Azeri political scientist Rasim Musabekov believes.
28 November 2006 [15:52]
A new sea border division for organizing the security of the Caspian Sea South shores will begin to work in December, the chief of State Border Service Elchin Guliyev told the journalists.
28 November 2006 [15:45]
Round table on the theme "Armenian vandalism against religious monuments and sacred places of the occupied Azerbaijani territories" was held on Tuesday.
28 November 2006 [15:44]
"Inaction is observed in settlement of Nagorno Karabagh conflict. It causes anxiety, constraint and Nagorno Karabakh conflict waits for its settlement for many years," said former Turkey ambassador to Baku and Washington, Faruk Logoglu.
28 November 2006 [15:41]
"If the person having information about the law reads the law about Radio and Television Broadcasting, he will understand the reasons of the closure of ANS TV and ANS CM radio.
28 November 2006 [15:36]
International Crisis Group does not intend to publish new reports, because no improvement has been made concerning the situation.
28 November 2006 [15:29]
The president of ANS group of companies Vahid Mustafayev was called to the Yasamal Prosecutor's Office.
28 November 2006 [13:23]
Only 2 percent named withdrawal of Armenia from Nagorno Karabakh as a condition for relations.
28 November 2006 [13:13]
At a press conference in Yerevan, opposition Armenian MP Amaiak Ovanesian said that Armenia will have to leave the Russia-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) established under the aegis of Russia, and enter NATO.
28 November 2006 [11:29]
For the time being, Azadliq will operate in Yeni Musavat's premises.
28 November 2006 [11:28]
Building in Khaqani 33 was officially given to Azerbaijan Teachers Qualification Institute.
28 November 2006 [11:25]
1,578 children were born in occupied territories of Azerbaijan in January and February, 2006.
28 November 2006 [11:22]
"The US wants the peaceful solution of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
28 November 2006 [11:20]
The issue of South Caucasus stability pact will not be discussed in the winter session of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe.
27 November 2006 [20:21]
The recent shutdown of an Azerbaijani broadcast channel and a print press editorial building is a clear sign of the deterioration of the media situation in the country, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said on Monday.
27 November 2006 [20:05]
Nothing extraordinary will happen at the CIS Summit in Minsk, Azeri political scientist Fikret Sadykhov stated.
27 November 2006 [19:40]
"We have no plan to station military forces in South Caucasus. We highly appreciate military and security partnership with Azerbaijan. We form our relations within the Individual Partnership Action Plan signed between NATO and Azerbaijan," said US Public Affairs Officer to Azerbaijan Jonathan Henick.
27 November 2006 [19:35]
Azerbaijani President left for Minsk to participate in CIS summit.
27 November 2006 [19:33]
The US will support the modernization of one of the Azerbaijani military air base and this question is now discussed between the military organizations of the two countries.
27 November 2006 [19:28]
The Azerbaijani government's aggressive moves to silence independent media and the leading opposition party last week not only raise obvious human rights problems but will have a detrimental effect on efforts to resolve the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
27 November 2006 [16:09]
"Nagorno Karabakh poses serious obstacle for the normalization of Turkey-Russia relations," Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian told France-Press agency in his interview.
27 November 2006 [15:07]
The next meeting of CIS Council of Foreign Ministers is being held in Minsk, Foreign Ministry Press and Information Policy Department chief Tahir Taghizadeh said.
27 November 2006 [14:32]
The meeting of GUAM member states for the formation of peacekeepers group is expected to be held in February, Ukraine Defense Ministry International Relations Department chief Ivan Androsenko told.
27 November 2006 [14:29]
The officers of Azerbaijani Embassy in Turkey will meet with Elif Pelit who was extradited to Turkey recently, Justice Ministry International Cooperation Department chief Zaver Gafarov told.
27 November 2006 [14:04]
Next discussions between Council of Europe Venice Committee, Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan and OSCE Baku office representatives will be held in Strasbourg, on December 6-7.
27 November 2006 [13:57]
Azerbaijan's Popular Front opposition political party and the Azaliq newspaper, which were evicted from their Baku offices, say the government is trying to harass them.
27 November 2006 [13:47]
The Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents are set to meet on Tuesday on the sidelines of the summit of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) leaders, reviving diplomacy on the long-running territorial dispute of Nagorno Karabakh after top-level talks collapsed in February.
27 November 2006 [13:29]
Armenian Armed Forces units in occupied Talish village of Tartar region fired on opposite positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces by sub-machine guns from 00.15 till morning.
26 November 2006 [16:41]
ANS staff decided at its Saturday's meeting to address to Ilham Aliyev, president of the Republic of Azerbaijan after ANS TV and ANS ChM Radio Station were shut down on November 24 under the decree of National TV and Radio Council.
26 November 2006 [13:59]
Iran insists on enriching uranium on its own territory, but is ready to examine the Russian proposal on setting up a joint venture, spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Mohammad Ali Hosseini told a news conference on Sunday.
26 November 2006 [13:55]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he did not schedule a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, who will visit Turkey in late November, because of the NATO summit, adding that he might meet with the pope at the airport.
26 November 2006 [13:37]
The seventh meeting of the European Union-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committee will be held in Strasbourg, France, December 13-14.
26 November 2006 [13:34]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message of congratulations to President of Bosnia and Herzegovina Nebojsa Radmanovic and the people of his country on the occasion of the national holiday, the National Day (declaration of sovereignty).
26 November 2006 [13:32]
Azerbaijan's foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Speaker of Bulgaria's National Assembly Georgi Pirinski and his accompanying delegation, press service of the Ministry said.
25 November 2006 [17:24]
"The hostilities can start in any unexpected time.
25 November 2006 [17:22]
Reporters Without Borders has today issued a statement concerning media condition in Azerbaijan.
25 November 2006 [14:19]
Former chief of administrative department of President's Office Akif Muradverdiyev's health has deteriorated again.
25 November 2006 [13:29]
The 12th International conference on combat against corruption passed in Guatemala, November 15-18.
25 November 2006 [13:22]
The ceremony on the 15th anniversary of the ANS will not be held in Heydar Aliyev Palace, Sunday, Palace Director Farhad Babayev said in a letter to ANS Group of Companies Director Fuad Jabbarov.
25 November 2006 [13:22]
Russia highly appreciates the OSCE Minsk Group's role in the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh Conflict, Speaker of the Federation Council of Russia Sergey Mironov said in the meeting with Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Tigram Torossyan.
25 November 2006 [13:19]
Authorities threw a leading opposition party and newspaper out of their offices Saturday, removing furniture and equipment a day after a court ordered the evictions. A journalists' union leader called them part of a government campaign to silence dissent.
25 November 2006 [11:10]
On November 24, Washington, D.C.-based the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) expressed its dismay and concern at the sudden and forcible closure of Azerbaijan's first private radio and television company, ANS, which has carried shows produced by the Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
25 November 2006 [11:01]
The newly-appointed ambassador of Norwegian kingdom to Azerbaijan Ramberg will come to Baku on December 28.
25 November 2006 [10:48]
The private Azeri broadcasting company ANS, which was stripped of its broadcasting license on November 24, plans to appeal to the Azeri leadership.
25 November 2006 [10:27]
"We are deeply disappointed by the decision not to renew the broadcast license of ANS Television and Radio," U.S. Embassy in Baku stated.
25 November 2006 [10:20]
25 November 2006 [10:17]
Baku Major's Office officials rejected Musavat's appeal to hold a rally fixed for Nov 26.
24 November 2006 [23:20]
Chair of Azerbaijani Reporters Union, Editor-in-Chief of Zerkalo newspaper Elcin Shikhlinsky was "shocked by the report on closing of ANS TV."
24 November 2006 [23:17]
Iranian First Vice President Parviz Dawoodi conferred with Azeri deputy Prime Minister Yaqub Eyyubov in Turkey on Thursday.
24 November 2006 [23:14]
Azerbaijan may reject the proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group included in the framework agreement, said Mubariz Ahmedoglu, the head of the Center of Political Innovations and Technologies.
24 November 2006 [23:10]
Reporters Without Borders on Friday reiterated its support for a two-week-old hunger strike by a group of journalists and press freedom activists after imprisoned journalist Sakit Zahidov, who received a three-year sentence last month, announced on Thursday he was joining the protest against government threats to the independent media.
24 November 2006 [22:52]
The first international congress of youth organizations of GUAM "Youth Forum of GUAM member states" will be held in Baku November 29-30, Azerbaijan's Ministry of Sports and Tourism said.
24 November 2006 [22:50]
Chairman of Azerbaijan's Parliament Oqtay Asadov met with Speaker of Bulgaria's National Assembly Georgi Pirinski and his accompanying delegation, press service of the Milli Majlis (Parliament of Azerbaijan) said.
24 November 2006 [22:48]
On November 24, at the Azerbaijan State Frontier Service Office a meeting took place with delegation of the RF Federal Security Service South Region Frontier Department.
24 November 2006 [22:46]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on November 24 met with the newly appointed ambassador of Kuwait to Azerbaijan Fahd Saad Al-Mey.
24 November 2006 [22:39]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO).
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