Politics
06 November 2006 [20:53]
Kyrgyzstan president Kurmanbek Bakiyev considered the opposition's demand and submitted the new variant of Constitution to the parliament's discussion.
06 November 2006 [18:38]
PACE rapporteur Leo Platvoet's report on Missing people in South Caucasus can be discussed in the spring session of the organization.
06 November 2006 [18:02]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on November 6 at President Palace received delegation of the Kingdom of Jordan headed by the Prime Minister of country, the defense minister Maruf al-Bakhit.
06 November 2006 [18:01]
President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Belgium began today.
06 November 2006 [16:55]
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Jordan, the defense minister Maruf al-Bakhit on November 6 at the "Hyatt Park" Hotel has met with the defense minister of Azerbaijan, colonel-general Safar Abiyev.
06 November 2006 [16:33]
Jordan's Prime Minister Maruf al-Bakhit is on visit to Azerbaijan.
06 November 2006 [14:10]
"Death penalty on Saddam Hussain aims to bring additional dividends to President Bush in the US Congress elections," Husnu Mahalli, BBC radio Arabian service chief, political correspondent of the "Evening" newspaper, stated.
06 November 2006 [14:05]
Iran is ready to share its missile systems with friends and neighbours, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards said, after he showed off missiles including some he said had cluster warheads.
06 November 2006 [14:00]
Bulent Ecevit, a five-time Turkish premier and socialist leader who ordered the invasion of Cyprus and in his later years pushed his country towards the West, has died. He was 81.
06 November 2006 [13:01]
Azerbaijanian President Ilham Aliyev is leaving for Brussels on Monday on a two- day visit and afterwards, he will pay a working visit to Moscow.
06 November 2006 [11:55]
Armenian Armed Forces' units in occupied Yusifjanli village of Aghdam region fired on opposite positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces with machine and submachine guns since 01.10 to 01.30 this night.
05 November 2006 [14:53]
Moscow may endorse a UN Security Council resolution on Iran provided a number of conditions are met, the Russian foreign minister said Saturday.
05 November 2006 [14:47]
About 12,000 Turkish secularists marched in the capital on Saturday to protest against what they see as a rising Islamist influence under Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government, Anatolian news agency said.
05 November 2006 [14:34]
Thousands of Iranians, including elementary school students, chanted anti-U.S. and anti-Israel slogans Saturday and burned flags of the two countries to celebrate the 27th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover by militant students.
05 November 2006 [14:32]
Kemal Dervis, the head of the U.N. Development Program, warned the European Union that the bloc should repair its relations with Turkey or else it will face the collapse of strategic ties with unpredictable consequences.
05 November 2006 [14:22]
With the support of the UNDP, the seventh roundtable meeting of ombudspersons of CIS and Central European counries will be held November 19-21 in Czech city of Karlovy Vary, Azerbaijan ombudsman's office said.
05 November 2006 [14:14]
A group of employees of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population will visit France within short time.
04 November 2006 [22:17]
Speaker of the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan Ogtay Asadov met on Saturday with Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of Iraq to Azerbaijan Arshad Omar Ismail.
04 November 2006 [15:33]
Some Azadlig block members continue hunger strike for removing Azadlig paper from the building where it operated. Two members stopped the strike due to health problem.
04 November 2006 [14:57]
The list prepared by the Right Defense Organization Monitoring Group and published in the press caused inconvenience.
04 November 2006 [13:13]
"I do not accept the thought that PACE co-rapporteurs paid great attention to the problem of political prisoners during their visit to Azerbaijan," Ramiz Mehdiyev the head of President Administration told journalists.
04 November 2006 [13:03]
On November 3, President Ilham Aliyev received credentials from newly appointed Ambassador of Latvia to Azerbaijan Mihails Popkovs.
04 November 2006 [12:54]
Amendments to the Azerbaijan's Criminal Code and the Criminal Punishment Code earlier passed by the parliament and aimed at intensifying the fight against corruption have come into force under Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's Friday decree.
04 November 2006 [12:48]
"Azerbaijan and Armenia haven't replied our suggestion about presidents' next meeting yet," Yuri Merzlyakov, OSCE Minsk Group Russian co-chair, stated.
04 November 2006 [11:34]
"The opposition wants to organize rally in the center of the city in Azadliq square. But there is a law about it and it does not allow organizing rally in the center of the city," Ramiz Mehdiyev, the head of President Administration told journalists.
03 November 2006 [17:02]
In accordance with mandate of the special envoy of the OSCE Chairman-In-Office, on November 3, a monitoring was conducted near the Fizuli-Horadiz highway in the Fizuli region of Azerbaijan, on the contact line of troops.
03 November 2006 [16:58]
The Polish Senate speaker Bogdan Borusewicz will be on official visit to Azerbaijan on November 7, Polish ambassador to Azerbaijan Krzysztof Krajewski told journalists.
03 November 2006 [16:30]
Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov met November 2 with newly appointed ambassador of Latvia Mihails Popkovs.
03 November 2006 [16:26]
On November 3, President Ilham Aliyev received credentials from Javid Gureysh, the newly appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of Pakistan to Azerbaijan.
03 November 2006 [16:23]
"The solution of the Nagorno Karabakh issue does not depend on other countries but is the own business of Azerbaijan, which has to solve it on its own," Azeri Deputy FM, former Ambassador to the US Hafiz Pashayev stated November 2.
03 November 2006 [16:21]
Experts of Jane's Research Center consider settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict before 2009 utterly unlikely.
03 November 2006 [15:57]
Iran is ready to share expertise with Azerbaijan in campaign against narcotic drugs, said Secretary general of Iran's Drugs Campaign Headquarters (IDCH) Fada Hossein Maleki here on Friday.
03 November 2006 [15:31]
There is no consensus on the next meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijan Military Ministers, National Security Council chief and Military Minister Serge Sarkisian stated.
03 November 2006 [15:28]
Scandal happened at the meeting of Staff Generals chiefs of Collective Security Treaty Organisation member countries in Moscow.
03 November 2006 [15:04]
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovich said that Kosovo may be an example for Nagorno Karabakh.
03 November 2006 [14:13]
"We wish to improve fraternal relations between Azerbaijan and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The main target in our relations with Azerbaijan is to establish cultural and social relations," Mehmed Ali Talat, the President of TRNC, stated at the briefing held for foreign media in Istanbul.
03 November 2006 [13:05]
"Iran's support for such actions is not innovation," Israel Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan Arthur Lenk told while showing his attitude to Iranian Hemshehri newspaper's caricature competition on Holocaust.
03 November 2006 [10:25]
In accordance with the mandate of personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-office, a monitoring will be held in Fizuli, near Fizuli-Horadiz road, in the contact line of troops.
03 November 2006 [10:24]
Court of Appeal headed by Judge Rasim Isgenderov considered the appeal against the decision of Nasimi District Court on prolonging former Health Minister Ali Insanov's detention for six months.
03 November 2006 [10:00]
Beginning from 16.59 divisions of Armenian Armed Forces violated ceasefire in the direction of Aghdam region, at the same time explosions were heard from the occupied territories of the region.
02 November 2006 [22:56]
President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree on appointment of Rovshan Jamshidov as Azerbaijan's Ambassador to Korea.
02 November 2006 [22:44]
Andres Herkel and Tony Lloyd, PACE Monitoring Committee co-rapporteurs for Azerbaijan held press conference on the results of their visit to the country.
02 November 2006 [21:58]
British Petroleum's gleaming, ultramodern Sangachal oil terminal is the face of Azerbaijan that President Ilham Aliyev wants the world to see.
02 November 2006 [21:39]
Tony Llyod and Anders Herkel, PACE co-rapporteurs met with members of working group on the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
02 November 2006 [20:38]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a congratulatory message to President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus on his 80th birthday.
02 November 2006 [20:24]
Police in Azerbaijan Wednesday dispersed some 500 unsanctioned opposition demonstrators campaigning for a free press, who were protesting the eviction of their newspaper from its current offices.
02 November 2006 [20:10]
The corruption of Armenian politicians is the most serious problem of the country.
02 November 2006 [20:08]
"Turkey and Azerbaijan prepared a program considering the isolation of Armenia," Amayak Ovannisyan, Armenian parliamentarian and the chief of Armenian Political Scientists Union said.
02 November 2006 [20:00]
The Our Azerbaijan opposition bloc has urged the Azeri authorities to stop the OSCE Minsk Group's mediation in the solution of the Karabakh conflict.
02 November 2006 [19:43]
The 17th issue of the 'Accord' journal of Great Britain Armistice Resources Organization devoted to Azerbaijan and Armenia was translated into the Azerbaijani and Armenian languages.
02 November 2006 [17:03]
Mass actions demanding President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and the government's resignation began in the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
02 November 2006 [16:48]
"GUAM frozen conflicts on UN General Assembly 61st session agenda is a great victory," Zurab Gumberidze told.
02 November 2006 [16:13]
Co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to Azerbaijan Tony Lloyd and Andres Herkel on November 1 have met with the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan Republic Masher Panahov, the CEC press service told.
02 November 2006 [16:11]
Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Japan Azer Huseyn has met the newly appointed minister of economy, trade and industry of this country Akira Amari, who is also co-chair of the Azerbaijan-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Friendship League on Japanese side, press service of FM said.
02 November 2006 [16:10]
Ukraine's minister of labor and social policy Mikhail Papiyev will arrive in Azerbaijan on November 8.
02 November 2006 [16:09]
Member of Azerbaijan Parliament Asaf Hajiyev has left for Tirana, Albania, to take part at the sitting of Central European Initiative (SEI) Parliament Assembly.
02 November 2006 [16:08]
On the second day of the southern region tour, US ambassador Anne Derse visited the lyceum with the humanitarian bias in Lankaran.
02 November 2006 [16:06]
President Ilham Aliyev received the education minister of Turkey Huseyn Chelik.
02 November 2006 [16:03]
Visiting co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to Azerbaijan Tony Lloyd and Andres Herkel met November 1 with Justice Minister Fikret Mammadov.
02 November 2006 [16:01]
The first Deputy Chairman of Milli Majlis (Parliament of Azerbaijan), head of Azerbaijan delegation to NATO PA Ziyafat Asgarov met November 1 with the representatives of European Center for Security Studies (ECSS).
02 November 2006 [15:49]
Amnesty International (AI) working to protect human rights worldwide will present a special report on South Azerbaijan National Movement in Iran, Nergiz Nedai, the Head of Azerbaijani Youth Federation Sweden told.
02 November 2006 [15:47]
Working group for the solution to the problems of political prisoners met with Andres Herkel and Tony Lloyd, PACE Monitoring Committee co-rapporteurs.
02 November 2006 [14:31]
Armenian Armed Forces continues to violate the ceasefire.
02 November 2006 [14:24]
Wanted for high treason former representative of Georgian President Emzar Kvitsiani took on himself the responsibility of firing on Interior Ministry Vano Merabshvili's cortege in Codor gorge on October 25, Kvitsani said it on videotape displayed first on Abkhazia television, then Georgia TV channels.
02 November 2006 [11:30]
Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired missiles with the capability of carrying cluster warheads at the start of 10-days of military manoeuvres on Thursday, state television reported.
02 November 2006 [11:18]
The "parliament" of the self-proclaimed "Nagorno Karabakh Republic" approved in the second reading a draft "Constitution."
02 November 2006 [11:06]
Conference on "Legislative acts and youth interests: realities and perspective views" was held within the project "Azerbaijan Youth Parliament – The Second Part".
02 November 2006 [10:56]
The meeting of Foreign Ministers Council of BSECO was held in Moscow.
02 November 2006 [10:55]
"Israel is keen on joining Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey pipeline corridor as a consumer, as well as a transit area," Israeli Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer stated.
02 November 2006 [10:51]
Former Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev needs to be treated and examined in hospital.
02 November 2006 [10:44]
CE states Interior and Justice Ministers conference will be held on 9-10 November in Moscow.
02 November 2006 [10:42]
National Security Ministry, lieutenant-general Eldar Mahmudov and all department chiefs of the Ministry were on visit to Nakhchivan on October 31.
02 November 2006 [10:41]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received OSCE standing representative from Italy.
02 November 2006 [10:25]
PACE co-rapporteurs for Azerbaijan Andres Herkel and Tony Lloyd met with Central Election Commission (CEC) chief Mezahir Panahov informed.
01 November 2006 [19:41]
"US government supports free media," US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne E. Derse told the journalists.
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