Politics
04 August 2006 [00:27]
Revelations about the latest peace deal leave the conflicting parties still far apart.
03 August 2006 [22:54]
Swedish Foreign Minister Yan Eliasson responded to the appeal made by Abbas Lisani, who was arrested in demonstrations in Iran.
03 August 2006 [22:26]
"Why should we change our position while Armenia have not pulled out its troops from the Azerbaijani territories and give up it claims against Turkey?" Rifat Hisarchigoglu, president of Chambers and Exchanges Union of Turkey told.
03 August 2006 [21:59]
"Arkadi Gukasyan told me that he recognizes Azerbaijan's rights regarding the status of Nagorno Karabakh and they are ready to discuss it," the Helsinki civil Assembly Azerbaijan National Committee chair Arzu Abdullayeva told.
03 August 2006 [21:39]
New Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov today visited the Honor Alley in the capital Baku today.
03 August 2006 [21:24]
August 2, 2006, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Yuriy Merzlyakov (Russia), Ambassador Bernard Fassier (France) and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza (USA) met at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris to assess the current stage in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
03 August 2006 [16:24]
"Grave, where 21 Azerbaijanis were buried collectively, has been found near Marzili village of Aghdam," the Helsinki Civil Assembly Azerbaijan National Committee head Arzu Abdullayeva told quoting the representative on Nagorno Karabakh Karen Ohajanyan.
03 August 2006 [14:57]
Dagestan Interior Ministry, Federal Security Service and Russian Defense Ministry squads conducted special operation in Andi and Gunkha villages of Botlikhsk region August 1.
03 August 2006 [13:39]
Saint Petersburg governor Valentina Matviynko will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan late September this year.
03 August 2006 [13:19]
Armenians are still breaking the ceasefire.
03 August 2006 [10:30]
The commission for delimitation and demarcation of Azerbaijan-Georgia borders will meet in Tbilisi on 3-4 August in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
03 August 2006 [09:12]
The European Union did not include Hezbollah into the list of terrorist organizations.
02 August 2006 [21:55]
Newly appointed Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov has arrived in Baku.
02 August 2006 [21:46]
"Opening of Turkey-Armenia border is not work of Gars municipality head, government, even state," this statement was given by AKP Kars parliamentarian Zeki Karabayir.
02 August 2006 [16:15]
Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko considers GUAM (alliance of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as destructive forces.
02 August 2006 [14:33]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France), Matthew Bryza (US) and personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzei Kasprzyk are meeting in Paris today.
02 August 2006 [14:21]
Hizbollah guerrillas battled up to 6,000 Israeli troops on five fronts in south Lebanon on Wednesday, escalating a conflict which Israel's prime minister vowed to pursue until a strong international force arrived.
02 August 2006 [14:21]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday rejected a UN Security Council resolution that would give his nation until August 31 to suspend uranium enrichment.
02 August 2006 [13:58]
Prime Minister Arthur Rasizadeh is paying an official visit to Malaysia today.
02 August 2006 [13:46]
The trial of Azerbaijani former Finance Minister Fikret Yusifov was over in Nasimi district court today.
02 August 2006 [12:28]
02 August 2006 [12:06]
Armenia's Armed Forces violated the cease-fire on the front line for eight times last month.
02 August 2006 [09:51]
President Ilham Aliyev received the delegation led by Tatarstan's Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov yesterday.
02 August 2006 [08:46]
Nagorno Karabakh Azerbaijanis Majlis congress will be held in Baku September 30.
02 August 2006 [08:41]
"Azerbaijan is ready to give the highest status to Karabakh Armenians. But Armenia does not give chance to solution of the conflict."
02 August 2006 [01:27]
In 2006 Azerbaijan's military budget will total $700 million, President Ilham Aliyev said at a session of the Cabinet of Ministers on Monday.
02 August 2006 [01:25]
Israeli forces thrust into Lebanon on Tuesday in an escalation of the war and landed troops by helicopter in the Hizbollah heartland near Baalbek, but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said a ceasefire may be on the horizon.
02 August 2006 [01:22]
Stunned Cubans nervously contemplated a future without Fidel Castro on Tuesday after the communist U.S. foe who has dominated political life for nearly 50 years stepped aside for the first time with a serious illness.
02 August 2006 [00:53]
U.S. MG Co-Chair is on the visit to Azerbaijan.
02 August 2006 [00:38]
"Borders between Turkey and Armenia might be opened within three terms. Turkish President, prime minister and parliament leader have announced these terms for several times.
02 August 2006 [00:26]
Azerbaijani Parliament Speaker Ogtay Asadov met with the newly-appointed US Ambassador to the country Anne Derse.
01 August 2006 [14:15]
U.S co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza has arrived in Azerbaijani today following the visit in Georgia.
01 August 2006 [10:01]
Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran to Azerbaijan issued statement on the events happened in Qana village of Lebanon.
01 August 2006 [09:38]
"Of course, one of the items discussed was Nagorno Karabakh participation in the talks and I think Mr Bryza, like the other mediators, understands that it's impossible to resolve the conflict without Karabakh," head of separatist regime acting in occupied Azerbaijani lands Arkady Ghukasian said after the meeting with OSCE Minsk Group U.S. Co-chair Matthew Bryza.
01 August 2006 [09:04]
German-Azerbaijani intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation will come together in Bonn, German August 14-17.
01 August 2006 [08:33]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov plans to visit Sweden.
01 August 2006 [00:11]
As the crisis over Iran's nuclear research program intensifies, US officials appear to be paying greater attention to the demands and concerns of the country's ethnic Azeris, its largest minority group.
31 July 2006 [23:39]
The U.N. Security Council on Monday demanded that Iran suspend its nuclear activities in a month or face the threat of sanctions, but Tehran denounced the move as illegal and vowed to press on.
31 July 2006 [23:34]
The United Nations on Monday indefinitely postponed a meeting called by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to begin planning a new peacekeeping force for Lebanon, setting back hopes for a quick end to the bloodshed.
31 July 2006 [22:58]
Israel rejected mounting international pressure on Monday to end its war against Hizbollah and launched a new incursion into Lebanon, as world powers squabbled over the urgency of a ceasefire.
31 July 2006 [19:50]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received the delegation led by Mr. Peter Thomson, manager of the World Bank Infrastructure and Energy Sector for Europe and Central Asia, 31 July.
31 July 2006 [19:40]
Chechnya-born Russian citizen Gadji Chankayev, who was sentenced for seven years in jail by Azerbaijani Court of Appeal, has been extradited to Russia on July 29.
31 July 2006 [19:27]
Azerbaijan's territorial integrity cannot be a subject for negotiations, and Azerbaijan will never agree to Nagorno Karabakh's separation, President Ilham Aliyev has said.
31 July 2006 [18:14]
Yerevan attaches importance to the creation of atmosphere of trust in the region and is ready to cooperate on ecology issues with the Azeri side, said Armenian Foreign Ministry's Acting Spokesman Vladimir Karapetian.
31 July 2006 [16:57]
The first part of an OSCE Office programme to help improve Azerbaijani Public Television (PTV), concluded today with the completion of a study to assess the broadcaster's needs.
31 July 2006 [14:50]
Israeli army agreed stopping of avia attacks to south territories of Lebanon within 48 hours.
31 July 2006 [14:23]
Following the talks with Armenian President Robert Kocharian and Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan in Yerevan July 29, the US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Mathew Bryza arrived in Khankendi and had talks with head of the separatist regime Arkadi Gukasyan.
31 July 2006 [13:00]
Armenian Armed Forces violated the cease-fire in the contact front line again.
31 July 2006 [12:35]
Extraordinary summit of the OIC Executive Committee at the level of head of state/government will take place in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur on August 3, 2006, with the participation of the concerned and interested member states.
30 July 2006 [23:20]
The people of Iran are entitled to produce their own nuclear fuel, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday, rejecting the terms of a draft U.N. resolution that demands it give up its nuclear work.
30 July 2006 [22:52]
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council on Sunday to condemn a deadly Israeli attack on the Lebanese village of Qana and to call for an immediate ceasefire.
30 July 2006 [17:05]
An Israeli air strike killed 54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children, on Sunday, prompting Lebanon to tell U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice she was unwelcome in Beirut before a ceasefire.
30 July 2006 [13:56]
Strategic country on the East-West fault line sets its sights on better ties with the West as it prepares for new oil wealth and fresh conflicts with neighbours.
30 July 2006 [04:38]
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will press on Sunday for Israel and Lebanon to strike a deal on an international force to end a 19-day-old war, after Hizbollah threatened to strike deeper into Israel.
30 July 2006 [04:33]
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday delivered their sharpest warning yet to Iran over its alleged involvement in Lebanon and its suspected nuclear weapons programme.
30 July 2006 [03:58]
Armenians violated the cease-fire once again.
30 July 2006 [03:33]
Failure by Armenia and Azerbaijan to hammer out a framework peace accord this year would not necessarily keep the Nagorno Karabakh conflict unresolved in the immediate future, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza said on Saturday.
29 July 2006 [00:44]
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council reached a deal Friday on a resolution that would give Iran until the end of August to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions.
29 July 2006 [00:37]
European integration is the most preferable way of development for Armenia, said head of the permanent committee for foreign relations at the RA parliament Armen Rustamian.
28 July 2006 [23:45]
Scores of representatives from almost two dozen nations left the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmish, Germany, with what could be new directions in the fight against terror after a weeklong seminar.
28 July 2006 [20:12]
Huseyngulu Bagirov, Azerbaijani Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources and Osman Pepe, Minister of Environment and Forestry of Turkey signed July 26 in Ankara the agreement on cooperation in the field of ecology.
28 July 2006 [19:39]
"I wanted the reports on my being detained by German police to be made public," stated former prosecutor of Khatai district of Baku Mahir Javadov.
28 July 2006 [19:23]
The initiative of KASFOR, establishment of a joint security system in the Caspian Sea is brought to the agenda again.
28 July 2006 [19:10]
The military operation in the Kodori valley is just a political PR campaign launched by Mikhail Saakashvili, head of the International Relations Department at the Institute of the Political and Military Analysis Sergey Markedonov stated.
28 July 2006 [16:46]
"In the first half of 2006, Azerbaijani military Prosecutor's office continued the investigation into Armenian armed units committing massacre, terrorist acts, genocide and other grave crimes against innocent Azerbaijani civilians since early 1990s," Military Prosecutor Khanlar Valiyev today said in a large staff meeting on the results of the first half of 2006.
28 July 2006 [15:51]
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza will arrive in the Armenian capital Yerevan tomorrow.
28 July 2006 [15:22]
Minister of Defense Colonel-General Safar Abiyev met July 27 with U.S. delegation let by Major General Harry Wyatt, the Head of Oklahoma National Guard.
28 July 2006 [15:14]
Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Indonesia Ibrahim Hajiyev met here with Ministers Purnomo Yusgiantoro of Energy and Natural Resources and Fahmi Idris of Industry to discuss the prospects of bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
28 July 2006 [13:48]
Armenian occupying forces continue to commit arsons in the occupied Azerbaijani lands.
28 July 2006 [01:29]
Azerbaijan's Defense Minister Safar Abiyev received the delegation led by the US Oklahoma National Guard Commander, Major General Harry Wyatt.
28 July 2006 [01:22]
Azerbaijan's Central Election Commission announced the candidates of the pro-opposition APFP and ADP parties nominated for the repeat local elections scheduled for October 6 this year.
28 July 2006 [01:21]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Turkey's State Minister Mehmet Aydin.
28 July 2006 [00:39]
First vice-president of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, head of Turkish delegation to NATO, ruling AKP party parliamentarian from Krikkale Vahit Erdem has submitted second application of complaint to the Assembly in connection with Armenian parliament president Tigran Torosyan's insulting him.
27 July 2006 [22:16]
President Ilham Aliyev received UN World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director James Morris.
27 July 2006 [22:15]
The Center to Defend Freedom of Religious Belief and Conscience today attempted to post pickets outside the US Embassy in Azerbaijan in protest against Israeli attacks on Palestine and Lebanon.
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