Politics
01 June 2006 [12:19]
Iranian Kurd parties say they want a federal Iran, not secession.
01 June 2006 [12:15]
An article by Mark Ames, editor of the Moscow English alt weekly, The eXile.
01 June 2006 [12:08]
Azerbaijan's Constitutional Court (CC) will ratify the results of the 13 May partial re-run of the parliamentary elections on 5 June.
01 June 2006 [08:07]
Head of the Azerbaijani delegation to OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, vice-president of parliament, Bahar Muradova today received Ambassadors of European states to OSCE, who are visiting our country to familiarize with it.
01 June 2006 [07:53]
Member of the new Israeli government - National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer to visit Baku from June 6 to 8.
01 June 2006 [07:36]
"Musavat Party did not make concessions for the parties represented in Azadliq bloc. On the contrary, they tried to keep other parties in the shade all issues."
01 June 2006 [07:33]
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe is holding its plenary session from May 30 to June 1.
31 May 2006 [23:36]
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's dramatic announcement that the US was willing to hold direct talks with Iran if it stopped enriching uranium was not a complete surprise in Jerusalem, where the possibility of such a move has been discussed at various levels for some time.
31 May 2006 [23:31]
The US, in a major policy shift toward Iran, said today it would join key European powers in talks with Tehran if it suspended its nuclear enrichment program.
31 May 2006 [22:13]
Deputy Head of the Israeli Government, Minister of Foreign Affairs Tsipi Livni was going to visit Azerbaijan in the near future, but all of a sudden this week the preparations for her visit were terminated. This was announced by a well-informed diplomatic sources in Tel Aviv.
31 May 2006 [22:02]
On Monday, a meeting of the Supreme Supervisory Council to find ways in dealing with uprising in Azeris provinces titled "Examination of Ethnic Problems" was convened in the mullahs' Majlis (parliament), the state-run news agency, IRNA, reported.
31 May 2006 [21:21]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, taking part in spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Paris, May 31 has left for home.
31 May 2006 [21:17]
31 May 2006 [21:00]
The ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) issued statement protesting against co-rapporteur of Monitoring Committee from the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), Andreas Gross' harshly insulting Azerbaijan.
31 May 2006 [20:44]
"The forces wanting Iran to face interior problems are seeking their benefits not just the people’s. Who can claim that America really intends to serve for the national benefit of Iranian people? It is not so! The United States has made many mistakes due to its national interests. I can prove it from historical background. They, however, will not succeed and will not be able to create problems for Iran," Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Afshar Suleymani stated.
31 May 2006 [18:14]
Russia will uphold any decision on Nagorno-Karabakh that will meet the interests of Armenia and Azerbaijan, said Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee.
31 May 2006 [17:45]
On Wednesday the deputies of the Majilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan have approved a bill on "On ratification of the Treaty on strategic partnership and allied relations between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan".
31 May 2006 [17:41]
Defence Minister of Azerbaijan Safar Abiyev does not rule out that the peacekeeping corps of ODED-GUAM may engage a peaceful settlement mission in Nagorny Karabakh. He has revealed it Wednesday at a press conference after a session of CIS Defence Ministers' Council.
31 May 2006 [15:32]
Since a letter that Turkey's Prime Minister Rajab Tayyib Erdoghan sent to Armenia's President Robert Kocharian diplomats from both states have had three private meetings.
31 May 2006 [15:30]
"Northern Cyprus and Nagorno Karabakh conflicts should not be put into the same position, because these problems are quite different from each other," said Emma Udwin, Special Representative of The European Union (EU) New Neighborhood Policy Programme Commissioner.
31 May 2006 [15:21]
A meeting on establishment of the Committee of Support for South Azerbaijan National Movement took place on Wednesday.
31 May 2006 [15:16]
Azerbaijan's Prime Minister Arthur Rasizadeh today received the delegation of the Board of Defense Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
31 May 2006 [15:11]
Russia's offers to help solve the long-running controversy around Iran's nuclear program are still on the negotiating table, the Russian defense minister said Wednesday.
31 May 2006 [15:08]
"Russia's small amount of military equipment, mainly military property withdrawn from the military base in Georgia is taken to Russian military base in Gumru, Armenia.
31 May 2006 [15:02]
The European Union's new special representative for the South Caucasus sees an enhanced role for the EU in conflict resolution.
31 May 2006 [14:57]
Russian Foreign Minister voiced support for Turkey's bid to join the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member in 2009-2010.
31 May 2006 [14:49]
"Ukraine recognizes sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan," Ukraine's Defense Minister Anatoly Hrytsenko told following the meeting of the CIS Board of Defense Ministers in Baku today.
31 May 2006 [14:48]
Russia's President Vladimir Putin issued decree on appointing Vasili Istratov Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan.
31 May 2006 [14:45]
Defense ministers from former Soviet republics set priorities for the next four years at a meeting of the CIS Defense Council in the capital of Azerbaijan, Russia's defense minister said Wednesday.
31 May 2006 [13:58]
Today Baku is hosting the 50th meeting of Board of Defense Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
31 May 2006 [13:53]
A long-running dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno Karabakh region should be resolved by the two countries themselves and not by third parties, Russia's defense minister said Wednesday.
31 May 2006 [12:56]
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Norway to Azerbaijan, Steinar Gil's diplomatic mission ends, Norway Embassy in Azerbaijan informs.
31 May 2006 [11:01]
Defense ministers from the Commonwealth of Independent States will discuss the scope of future military cooperation at a meeting Wednesday in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku.
31 May 2006 [10:42]
French President Jacques Chirac urged Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev to push for a peaceful settlement of its conflict with Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh.
31 May 2006 [10:37]
Iran, apparently anticipating an American invasion, has quietly been restructuring its military and testing a new military doctrine that calls for a decentralized, Iraqi-style guerrilla campaign against an invading force.
31 May 2006 [10:28]
US Vice President Dick Cheney's May visit to Kazakhstan and his subsequent criticism of Russia spotlight the rebirth of a centuries-old "Great Game" of geopolitical maneuvering by outside powers for control of Central Asia.
31 May 2006 [10:19]
One of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election promises was that he and his ministerial team would visit all of Iran's 30 provinces within their first year in office.
31 May 2006 [10:15]
GUAM deputy chiefs of staff will discuss the establishment of a joint peacekeeping unit in the middle of June, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry press service said on Tuesday.
31 May 2006 [08:25]
Armenian defense officials refused to attend a meeting of military chiefs from ex-Soviet republics in neighboring Azerbaijan, saying officials there could not guarantee their safety, an Armenian official said Tuesday.
31 May 2006 [08:21]
Azerbaijan's Constitutional Court will make public its final decision on the results of the 13 May partial re-run of the parliamentary elections this week.
31 May 2006 [08:13]
"Azerbaijan will not send either special representative or delegation to the first gathering of the UN Human Rights Council."
30 May 2006 [20:33]
Azerbaijanis living in different parts of Europe staged a protest action outside the Council of Europe building in Brussels related to the recent violent suppression of Azerbaijani demonstrators in Tabriz, South Azerbaijan.
30 May 2006 [20:28]
Defense Minister of Ukraine Anatoliy Hrytsenko and Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev talked over the opportunity of setting up a joint peacemaking subdivision within the framework of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM.
30 May 2006 [20:24]
The arrangement of effective elements in the debate over Iran's nuclear case has now entered a new phase.
30 May 2006 [20:20]
In the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO session operating in London for Conflicts and new state organization center director Denis Summut has dealt with Nagorno Karabakh problem and conflicts in Georgia, in his report dedicated to conflicts in South Caucasus.
30 May 2006 [20:14]
Black Sea countries will convene in Romania next month within the framework of "Black Sea Partnership and Dialogue Forum," sources said on Monday.
30 May 2006 [20:12]
In a meeting with his top lieutenants on Monday, Judiciary Chief Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi denounced Iranian Azeris as being 'discredited' and 'defeated counter-revolutionary elements that infiltrate through specific channels'.
30 May 2006 [20:01]
The International Cooperation Council (ICC) of NGOs of GUAM states (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova) will be established at the initiative of the National Non-Governmental Organizations' Forum (NNGOF).
30 May 2006 [16:38]
Black Sea Forum for Dialog and Partnership will be held in Bucharest (Romania) June 4-5.
30 May 2006 [16:22]
President Ilham Aliyev today met with France's President Jacques Chirac in France.
30 May 2006 [15:47]
The Azeri-Kazakh interstate relations are high level: Azerbaijan is of great importance for Kazakhstan, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Russia Jhanseid Tuymebaev stated.
30 May 2006 [14:21]
The Tallinn summit of parliament speakers of the European Union member states commences May 30.
30 May 2006 [13:25]
Does the new GUAM have sticking power, or is its new reincarnation just an addition to the region's alphabet soup?
30 May 2006 [13:17]
Next sitting of the Commonwealth of Independent States Council of Defense Ministers will commence in Baku on 31 May, press service of the Defense Ministry said.
30 May 2006 [12:42]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message of condolence to President of the Republic of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to share grief on heavy human loss and destructions in this country as a result of quakes.
30 May 2006 [11:58]
President of Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev attended May 29 the opening ceremony of the new building for the Azerbaijan Embassy in Paris.
30 May 2006 [09:00]
Iran will not allow anybody to create chaos in the country, Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Purmohammadi said.
30 May 2006 [08:57]
The exiled son of Iran's late shah on Monday called on the Bush administration to put action before rhetoric in ousting Tehran's Islamic regime, which he said has long been the source of global instability.
29 May 2006 [21:17]
The European Union is poised to open actual accession talks with Turkey on June 12, a Turkish Internet website reports on Monday.
29 May 2006 [19:56]
Turkey reassured its ally Israel on Monday that it opposed Iran, arch-foe of the Jewish state, acquiring nuclear weapons and said it wanted to see the whole Middle East region freed of the atomic threat.
29 May 2006 [19:24]
Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is to pay an official three-day visit to Iran on Wednesday, Iranian Ambassador to the OIC Mohammad-Kazem Khansari said on Monday.
29 May 2006 [19:23]
Armenia and Azerbaijan both claimed fatalities after a shootout between soldiers in the region of Nagorno Karabakh, and accused each other of breaching a ceasefire agreement Monday.
29 May 2006 [19:14]
Azerbaijani parliamentarian Akram Abdullayev said that the Nagorno Karabakh problem is a legacy of the Soviet Union to Azerbaijan and Armenia and therefore the key to a solution rests in Russia's hands.
29 May 2006 [19:09]
May 25-26, the Foreign Ministries of Azerbaijan and Ukraine held consultations on consular matters.
29 May 2006 [19:04]
A group of Azeris held a demonstration outside the Iranian Consulate General in Istanbul on Sunday, protesting an offensive caricature published in a state-run Iranian daily.
28 May 2006 [23:10]
Quite probably, this week Moscow will achieve a large geopolitical success in the Middle East. This will happen if Tel Aviv would manage to reach an agreement with Ankara on the deliveries of Russian oil to Israel by the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline...
28 May 2006 [23:07]
Four people were killed and 43 others injured in northwest Iran during protests over a cartoon in a government newspaper deemed insulting to ethnic Azeris, the ISNA news agency quoted a police official as saying Sunday.
28 May 2006 [23:06]
Iran's supreme leader said Sunday the United States would fail to provoke ethnic strife in the Islamic republic after several days of protests over a cartoon that insulted the country's largest minority.
28 May 2006 [17:34]
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani and his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov in a meeting here Sunday held their first round of talks.
28 May 2006 [17:33]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message to Elham Aliev extended congratulations to his Azeri counterpart, government and nation on the country's national day.
27 May 2006 [21:17]
The U.S. administration has fired ambassador to Armenia John Evans, after the diplomat deviated from U.S. policy and called Armenian killings during World War I "genocide", sparking uproar among pro-Armenian lawmakers at the House of Representatives.
27 May 2006 [21:11]
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted on Saturday as saying European nations should stand by his country in the dispute over its nuclear programme or suffer damages.
27 May 2006 [18:38]
Azerbaijani Ambassador to Tehran Saturday stressed that his country has not intervened in Iran's domestic affairs.
27 May 2006 [17:16]
The Bush administration is beginning to debate whether to set aside a longstanding policy taboo and open direct talks with Iran, to help avert a crisis over Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons program, European officials and Americans close to the administration said Friday.
27 May 2006 [15:54]
Iranian Azerbaijanis are going to visit Tehran in order to hold a protest action there on the Republic Day.
Exxon Mobil evacuates foreign staff from Iraqi oilfield
Chinese FM: Beijing, Tehran strategic partners
Food Safety Agency: Azerbaijani products are easily exported to EU
Armenia violates ceasefire with Azerbaijan 23 times in 24 hours
Third day of 35th European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships starts in Baku
Weekly review of Azerbaijani currency market
Italy central bank to spurn firms that don't go green