Politics
19 May 2006 [13:11]
Not a third country can derail the Tehran-Baku "friendly and cordial" ties, said Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Thursday.
19 May 2006 [13:08]
US refuses to give security guarantees to Iran in return for quitting nuclear program.
19 May 2006 [10:32]
Azerbaijani Parliament - Milli Majlis will hold its next sessions May 23-26.
19 May 2006 [10:02]
The British government reacted ordinarily to the protest lodged by Azerbaijan government and National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) with regard to the British company Halo Trust mineclearance in Nagorno Karabakh.
19 May 2006 [10:00]
Baku uncomfortable as its major ally confronts its southern neighbour.
19 May 2006 [09:36]
Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is in Strasbourg, France, to attend the 116th session of the Council of Europe Committee of Foreign Ministers scheduled for 18 and 19 May.
19 May 2006 [08:44]
Today World Azerbaijani Congress has applied to Azerbaijani media to give support to campaign "Turks existence".
19 May 2006 [08:25]
Council of Europe delegation led by Domenico Ronkoni, Head of culture division of Directorate General IV on Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport will visit the South Caucasus countries in June.
18 May 2006 [20:30]
The Committee of Foreign Ministers from the 46 member states of the Council of Europe will hold its 116th session on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 May in Strasbourg.
18 May 2006 [20:28]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a message of congratulations to Romano Prodi on his appointment as President of the Italian Council of Ministers.
18 May 2006 [20:19]
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has spoken about a number of problems in Ukrainian foreign and domestic policies in an exclusive interview with Interfax, including the upcoming GUAM Summit.
18 May 2006 [19:59]
"The liberation of Azerbaijan's Lachin region from Armenian occupation cannot be discussed separately during the negotiating process for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," Lachin governor Elbrus Tahmazov told journalists.
18 May 2006 [19:52]
Allied Air Component Commander HQ Ramstein William T. Hobbins will pay a visit to Azerbaijan on May 18-19 to Azerbaijan.
18 May 2006 [19:19]
Article by Frederick W. Stakelbeck Jr. on U.S.-Azerbaijan relations, published in Front Page Magazine online edition.
18 May 2006 [18:58]
The Russian Armed Forces will get a large procurement of new weaponry by the end of this year, a deputy defense minister said Thursday.
18 May 2006 [18:45]
"On May 22-23 President Ilham Aliyev will attend the GUAM summit in the Ukrainian capital," said Novruz Mamedov, chief of the presidential administration's international affairs department.
18 May 2006 [18:36]
On May 18, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received at the Presidential palace Iranian Special Envoy for the Caspian Sea Issues Mehdi Safari.
18 May 2006 [18:32]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs together with their states high ranking Foreign Ministry officials are expected to visit the South Caucasus.
18 May 2006 [18:25]
"Azerbaijan government thinks that the CIS and regional organizations have not yet achieved their aims and they need to be reformed."
18 May 2006 [18:23]
"While comparing the votes with 6 November parliamentary elections, Arif Hajili has mentioned my name and Ali Karimli's. He would better include Isa Gambar's name into that list and compare himself with him."
18 May 2006 [18:18]
Next meeting of Paris Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) on science, education, culture committee held on May 17-18 in Paris.
18 May 2006 [16:11]
"The USA is main initiator of various ways of Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, as well as most active mediator of the negotiation process," said Azerbaijani analyst Arif Yunusov.
18 May 2006 [15:20]
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly President Pierre Lelouche's visit to Azerbaijan earlier planned for this month has been postponed till September, First Vice-Speaker Ziyafat Asgarov told journalists.
18 May 2006 [10:26]
GUAM alliance (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) might be renamed as Organization for Democracy and Economic Development.
18 May 2006 [10:05]
Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) rapporteur Edward O'Hara will visit Azerbaijan May 28 aimed at conducting monitoring of cultural places.
18 May 2006 [09:41]
Photo-stands reflecting Azerbaijani lands occupation by Armenians have been displayed in tourism exhibition held in Moscow.
18 May 2006 [09:37]
Azerbaijani National Independent Party (ANIP) IX congress will be held May 21, ANIP propaganda and press service secretary Ali Orujov informs.
18 May 2006 [08:51]
Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan Arthur Lenk will visit Ismayilli region May 23.
18 May 2006 [08:44]
The anniversary of the occupation of Azerbaijan's Lachin region by Armenian military groups May 17, 1992, was commemorated at the Martyr's Alley yesterday. The commemorative event was organized by the Azerbaijani Way Political Movement (AWPM).
18 May 2006 [08:39]
Members of the Limited Election Observation Mission from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) are leaving Baku.
18 May 2006 [08:13]
Armenian armed forces today violated the cease-fire again and killed Azeri Army soldier.
17 May 2006 [22:02]
June 8-9, VI conference of ministers of the countries of the Council of Europe takes place in Stockholm to discuss issues of equality between women and men.
17 May 2006 [21:53]
May 16 presentation of the project "Reform of the system of social protection in Azerbaijan", the program of the European Union (TACIS), took place in the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of Population of Azerbaijan.
17 May 2006 [21:43]
The State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons regards widespread recently in mass media by the coordinator of the "International working group on release of POWs, hostages and missing citizens" in Azerbaijan messages on arrest of the persons released from captivity and, ostensibly, prosecution of relatives of the persons sent to the third countries, as the action directed on public opinion.
17 May 2006 [14:46]
Iran's president said Wednesday that the Islamic Republic would not suspend its uranium enrichment program.
17 May 2006 [14:42]
The three South Caucasian states move in different directions, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby stated.
17 May 2006 [13:24]
Prosecutor-General's Office has received four appeals from the Central Election Commission (CEC) and Precinct Election Commissions (PEC) related to the 13 May repeat parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.
17 May 2006 [13:10]
The Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis has appointed his new special representative on Azerbaijan.
17 May 2006 [13:02]
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has named his country's ambassador to Azerbaijan.
17 May 2006 [12:58]
US secret jails have been set up in Nagorno Karabahh, an Azeri region under Armenian occupation, a political analyst has said.
17 May 2006 [12:55]
Armenian President Robert Kocharian has refused to attend the session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly due in Paris May 26-30, the Assembly told Armenian media.
17 May 2006 [12:28]
A U.S. State Department official has expressed optimism about the possibility of a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno Karabakh territory.
17 May 2006 [09:23]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernar Fassier (France), and Steven Mann (the USA) make consultations in Paris.
17 May 2006 [09:21]
Dozens of reaction to the French draft law on the so-called Armenian genocide came up in and out of Turkey on Monday.
17 May 2006 [09:16]
Azerbaijani delegation will not participate in NATO PA session in full composition, which will be held in Paris May 30, Milly Majlis representative to NATO PA, Gudrat Hasanguliyev stated.
17 May 2006 [09:10]
"I don't see any link between the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and the ongoing political processes in Armenia," said Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian.
17 May 2006 [09:03]
Commonwealth of Independent States government Heads Council will hold next meeting in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan May 25.
17 May 2006 [08:58]
"Entrepreneurs must own transport routes through tender," stated Akif Mustafayev, TRACECA Azerbaijan Local Secretary, reporting that the first Logistics Centre providing transport services other than shipment would be established in Azerbaijan.
17 May 2006 [08:50]
The process of establishing parliamentary television has started in Azerbaijan.
17 May 2006 [08:37]
Official Tbilisi has not yet provided Azerbaijan's Embassy in Georgia, which has been functioning since 1996, with premises.
17 May 2006 [08:33]
VIII regional forum of Southern Caucasus and Central Asian countries has started in Tbilisi, Georgia.
17 May 2006 [08:15]
Former parliamentarian Asya Manafova will be appointed Councilor of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Belarus.
16 May 2006 [21:38]
Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian did not rule out the possibility of a Kocharian-Aliyev meeting, noting that much depend on the outcomes of the meeting of Armenian and Azeri FMs and mediator's coming visit to the region.
16 May 2006 [21:37]
On May 16, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received at the Presidential Palace the delegation of Ukraine led by the country’s Minister of Fuel and Energy Ivan Plachkov.
16 May 2006 [20:52]
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice exchanged ideas on Iran late last week, diplomatic sources said on Monday.
16 May 2006 [20:51]
Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) Monitoring Committee co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan Andreas Gross and Andres Herkel will pay two –day visit to Azerbaijan on May 25.
16 May 2006 [20:48]
Nobody in Ukraine raises the question of its leaving the Commonwealth of Independent States, but this organisation has no future in the form as it is, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk has said.
16 May 2006 [20:31]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will fly to Strasbourg tomorrow to attend the 116th session of the Council of Europe Committee of Foreign Ministers on 18 and 19 May.
16 May 2006 [20:13]
A group of Israeli parliamentarians visiting Azerbaijan held a press conference today.
16 May 2006 [15:54]
Speaker of Azerbaijan Parliament (Milli Majlis) Ogtay Asadov May 16 met with the head of the Israel-Azerbaijan inter-parliamentary friendship group Joseph Shagal.
16 May 2006 [15:38]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan sent a message of congratulations to the Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg on national holiday of the Kingdom of Norway - Constitution Day.
16 May 2006 [14:57]
The US embassy has issued statement on re-run elections in Azerbaijan, Public Affairs Office in the US Embassy has informed:
16 May 2006 [14:20]
There is no exact agenda of the meeting planned between Azerbaijani and Armenian FA ministers in Strasbourg yet, said Agshin Mehdiyev, permanent representative of Azerbaijan to the Council of Europe.
16 May 2006 [13:02]
The Vatican Foreign Minister Giovanni Lajolo is due to visit Baku on Friday, chairman of the Caucasus Clerical Office, Sheikh Allahshukur Pashazada, has told journalists.
16 May 2006 [12:36]
May 15, Chairman of the State Committee on Work with the Azerbaijanis Living in Foreign Countries, Nazim Ibrahimov has met the Head of the Israeli-Azerbaijani inter-parliamentary group of friendship Joseph Shagal.
16 May 2006 [12:30]
An international conference on the topic "Human Rights in Azerbaijan" is expected May 23-24 in Baku.
16 May 2006 [12:21]
Ali Hasanov, Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan and Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees met May 15 with his Georgian counterpart Georgy Kheviashvili.
16 May 2006 [10:39]
Jewish communities will support liquidation of the Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act against Azerbaijan adopted by the US Congress in 1993 and Jackson-Venick Amendment against the USSR and countries gained independence later on adopted in 1974.
16 May 2006 [10:28]
The next week third round of negotiations between Azerbaijani–European Union within New Neighborhood Policy on Individual Partnership Plan, will be held in Baku.
16 May 2006 [09:46]
"Head of Susha executive power Nizami Bahmanov causes problems to the solution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict by talking on behalf of Azerbaijanis from Nagorno Karabakh. He was not elected to the post of executive power Head," Head of the newly established Karabakh Assembly Organizational Committee Mehman Ismayilov stated.
16 May 2006 [09:36]
Israeli MP, Israeli-Azerbaijan friendship parliament group leader, Joseph Shagal who is from Baku in origin, visited Azerbaijan.
16 May 2006 [09:14]
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Greece to Azerbaijan, Temistokles Dimidis will pay a visit to Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (AR) from May 21-22.
16 May 2006 [08:21]
Milly Majlis Working Group for Azerbaijan-Bulgaria interparliamentary relations member, Law policy and State Structure Issues Committee Chairman Ali Huseynov, MPs Agajan Abiyev, Rauf Aliyev, and Elman Mammadov have left for Sofia on the invitation of their counterparts of Bulgaria.
15 May 2006 [19:36]
Israel views the Muslim countries of the former USSR as partners for dialogue and cooperation, Josef Shagal, a deputy of the Israeli Ksennet and head of Parliamentary Friendship Association "Israel-Azerbaijan" said at a press conference today in Baku.
15 May 2006 [19:25]
The Azerbaijani government deprived the Georgian Embassy of premises in Baku.
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