Politics
24 May 2006 [15:18]
The USA should officially recognize Iran as a nuclear power and stop threatening the country, former CIA agent Robert Baer is quoted as saying by ATV TV-channel (Azerbaijani) citing Iranian sources.
24 May 2006 [15:11]
Pentagon requested the U.S. Congress for $43 million for the reconstruction of four military airfields in Azerbaijan and organization of anti-missile defense and radio-electronic intelligence, reported Express Baku-based newspaper citing sources within Pentagon.
24 May 2006 [14:13]
Iran's president accused the United States and its allies on Wednesday of "hatching plots" to provoke ethnic tensions and destabilize Iran, a day after the government closed a state-run newspaper for publishing a cartoon that sparked riots by ethnic Azeris.
24 May 2006 [10:44]
Azerbaijani National Security Minister Eldar Mahmudov was on an official visit to Austria from May 15 to 19 at the invitation of Austrian Interior Minister.
24 May 2006 [10:41]
Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) issued statement denouncing Minsk Group co-chairs' next visit to the region.
24 May 2006 [10:18]
Musavat deputy group acting in Parliament has prepared draft law "On status of ex-presidents".
24 May 2006 [09:26]
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate Richard E. Hoagland to serve in his Administration.
24 May 2006 [09:20]
PACE rapporteur on monitoring of cultural monuments, Edward O’Hara, British MP, visit to Azerbaijan and Armenia postponed, Azerbaijani delegation member to PACE, Rafael Huseynov stated.
24 May 2006 [09:10]
On May 24, Russian, French and US OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Yuri Merzlyakov, Bernard Fassier and Steven Mann, as well as Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin will visit Baku.
24 May 2006 [08:58]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that his country's relations with Russia have been developing constructive for the last time.
24 May 2006 [08:33]
The High Level Group of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) met in Moscow yesterday.
24 May 2006 [08:11]
The International Center for Prison Studies (ICPS) has announced the latest world prison population list.
23 May 2006 [22:09]
The members of the South Azerbaijan National Revival Movement (SANRM) and the United Azerbaijan Union (UAU) staged a protest action outside Iran's Embassy in Baku with regard to the killing of Azerbaijani protesters and detaining of more than 100 of them in Tabriz, Iran, on May 22.
23 May 2006 [21:48]
NATO has nothing against the Armenian wish to have a Russian military base on its territory, special representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons said on Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [21:28]
Government buildings torched, many arrested during uprisings in three northwestern Iranian provinces.
23 May 2006 [21:20]
A second train, loaded with military hardware and property withdrawn from the Russian military base Akhalkalaki in Georgia, left for Russia from the railway terminal of Palka in Georgia at 9.00 a.m. Moscow time Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [21:18]
The activities of the GUAM alliance of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova are not aimed against anybody, but expected to solve problems the four countries face, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin said after the GUAM summit on Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [21:15]
Armenian President Robert Kocharian and the NATO Secretary-General's Representative for the North Caucasus and Central Asia, Robert Simmons, have discussed Armenia-NATO cooperation, the Armenian presidential press service told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [20:53]
Victor Yushchenko has met with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, according to the Ukranian President's press-office.
23 May 2006 [19:36]
Visiting Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov conferred with the Iranian first Vice-President Parviz Dawoodi here on Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [19:31]
Azeri Embassy in Tehran does not respond.
23 May 2006 [15:26]
A Russian deputy foreign minister said Tuesday Russia saw no anti-Russian sentiment in GUAM, a regional organization uniting four of its former fellow Soviet republics.
23 May 2006 [15:23]
Energy security of GUAM, a regional organization of four former Soviet republics, is vital for the independence of its member countries, Azerbaijan's president said Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [14:53]
GUAM, a regional organization of four former Soviet republics, should focus on cooperation with the European Union and NATO, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [14:47]
Leaders of GUAM, a regional organization of four former Soviet republics, adopted Tuesday a charter changing the group's status and renaming it the GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development.
23 May 2006 [13:45]
Speaker of Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic (Azerbaijan Parliament) met with the State Secretary of Vatican for Relations with States archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, 22 May.
23 May 2006 [13:36]
Some 340 parliamentarians from North America and Europe are expected to attend the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's Spring session which will be held in Paris, France from Friday May 26 to Tuesday May 30.
23 May 2006 [12:34]
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's chairman-in-office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, is in Prague for the OSCE's 14th Economic Forum on May 22-23.
23 May 2006 [12:31]
With energy security quickly moving up on its agenda, the US administration is putting pressure on oil- and gas-rich countries to open up their economies and initiate political reforms.
23 May 2006 [11:03]
Georgian President regretted on Tuesday that Georgia may be forced out of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
23 May 2006 [10:38]
The Bush administration's new strategy on the Caspian region is known, said US Senator Sam Brownback, who authored the draft law on supporting the South Caucasus and Central Asian states in the US Senate.
23 May 2006 [09:18]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Steven Mann (US) and Bernard Fassier (France), deputy Russian Foreign Minister Grigori Karasin, US Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried as well as French Foreign Ministry director for political affairs Stanislas D’Labule will have talks on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, on May 24.
23 May 2006 [09:16]
US Congress House of Representatives committee for military aids adopted a decision to preserve parity in rendering military assistance to Azerbaijan and Armenia.
23 May 2006 [09:14]
"Azerbaijan does not expect any danger from the Summer Session of the Council of Europe Parlaimentary Assembly," head of Presidential Administration's socio-political department Ali Hasanov told journalists.
23 May 2006 [09:03]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev told journalists at the Borispol airport in Kyiv today that energy issue will be the priority in the cooperation among GUAM member states.
23 May 2006 [09:00]
On May 22 delegation led by Education Minister, Misir Mardanov, left for to Islamic Republic of Iran.
23 May 2006 [08:50]
A monitoring is due to be held near Kurapatkino village of Azerbaijan's region Khojavend, in the contact line of troops in accordance with the mandate of personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office.
23 May 2006 [08:44]
Head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Samad Seyidov stated that there was no problem between Azerbaijan and CE.
23 May 2006 [08:41]
At the proposal of the Council of Europe, OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs organized the meeting of Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan Oskanyan within the 116th session of the Council of Europe Committee of Foreign Ministers in Strasbourg on 19 May.
23 May 2006 [01:27]
Senior diplomats of the five permanent U.N. Security Council member countries plus Germany will convene in London Wednesday to discuss next steps in the confrontation over Iran's nuclear program.
23 May 2006 [00:14]
GUAM is not a competitor for the CIS, but it turned out to be more effective than the Commonwealth, according to the GUAM foreign ministers who gathered in Kiev on Monday.
22 May 2006 [20:17]
The GUAM alliance comprising Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova will be transformed into a full-fledged organization that contributes to stability and security, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk said at a meeting of the GUAM foreign ministers on Monday.
22 May 2006 [20:08]
The foreign ministers of Russia and China met in Beijing on Tuesday where how to resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear program is likely to be high on the agenda.
22 May 2006 [19:38]
Iran is willing to become a full-fledged member of Shanghai Collaboration Organization (SCO) and this aspiration is not connected with its nuclear program, Romin Mehmonparast, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Iran to Kazakhstan, has said at press conference in Almaty.
22 May 2006 [17:20]
Deputy Chairman of the parliamentary commission on economic policy Azer Amiraslanov will be on visit in Washington from May 20 to June 4.
22 May 2006 [15:59]
May 22, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev left for Ukrainian capital Kiev to participate in the meeting of heads of GUAM member states.
22 May 2006 [13:45]
On May 22, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received a delegation of the Vatican led by its Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo.
22 May 2006 [08:40]
Spring has come to Washington as well as to Turkish-American relations.
22 May 2006 [08:31]
Madeleine Bunting of The Guardian writes on the issue of Turkey's acceptance to the EU.
22 May 2006 [07:40]
European Union will organize seminar named "European New Neighborhood Policy: relations with the South Caucasus-energy policy" for media representatives in Brussels and Sofia.
21 May 2006 [22:18]
"Armenian President Robert Kocharyan will not stand for the third term, it is impossible," Presidential Adviser on National Security Garnik Isagulyan said on May 20 during a news conference.
21 May 2006 [21:24]
Iran is just a few months away from acquiring the technological know-how that will allow it to build an atomic bomb, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
21 May 2006 [20:18]
Q&A with Peter Semneby, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus.
21 May 2006 [18:25]
European powers have not asked the United States to provide security guarantees to Iran as part of a package the West is preparing to offer the Islamic republic to curb its nuclear programs, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday.
21 May 2006 [18:18]
The Egyptian president has opened the World Economic Forum in a Red Sea resort with a surprisingly tough speech that signals deepening strains in relations between Cairo and Washington.
21 May 2006 [17:20]
Iran will not end uranium enrichment, even despite the latest proposal by European states, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Sunday.
21 May 2006 [13:59]
Iran has drastically increased its leverage in the Middle East and across the wider Muslim world thanks to the U.S.-led war in Iraq and now is the most influential actor in the region where Turkey stood out as a key political and military power, said Abdulkadir Ates, Turkish an opposition MP who heads the Political Affairs Committee at the Council of Europe.
20 May 2006 [22:07]
World powers are considering dropping U.N. Security Council discussion of Iran's nuclear program if Tehran agrees to suspend uranium enrichment, but could push for sanctions backed by the threat of force if the Islamic state refuses, diplomats said Saturday.
20 May 2006 [21:59]
20 May 2006 [21:41]
Only direct talks can settle a long-running dispute around Iran's controversial nuclear program, Russia's foreign minister said Friday, adding that talks were currently fraught with problems.
20 May 2006 [20:17]
Starting from evening hours of May 19, explosion sounds heard in occupied villages of Aghdam.
20 May 2006 [20:03]
Chief of the presidential administration's international affairs department, Novruz Mammadov held a press conference related to the recent statements on Azerbaijan made by former Russian co-chair (until 1996) of OSCE Minsk Group Vladimir Kazimirov.
20 May 2006 [19:49]
"Though Georgia and Ukraine are reported to quit the Commonwealth of Independent States soon, officials of these states have not yet made any statements with this regard.
20 May 2006 [19:46]
A large movement involving local and international organizations will be established in Azerbaijan.
20 May 2006 [12:25]
State's Finley welcomes improvements, but cites concerns about irregularities.
20 May 2006 [12:17]
The term on presenting a report to Constituency Election Commission on financial aid in Election constituencies in re-run parliamentary elections on May 13 re-run lections, completes today.
20 May 2006 [12:07]
"The Arab Republic of Egypt has broad knowledge of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and Cairo fully supports Azerbaijan's efforts to publicize the occupation fact to the international community," said Usae Ilbaz, political aide to Egypt's President Hosnu Mubarak at a meeting with Azerbaijani delegation at Egyptian Foreign Ministry.
20 May 2006 [11:53]
The Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) held a hearing May 13 partial re-run of the Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.
20 May 2006 [11:44]
Delegation of Milly Majlis in the organization will participate in the next session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA), which will be held May 30 in Paris.
20 May 2006 [11:31]
The author of several projects with regard to Palestenian-Israel conflict settlement, Muhammad Dajani will visit Baku May 22, the visit organized by the Embassy of the USA in Azerbaijan.
20 May 2006 [11:10]
Parliamentarian Ganira Pashayeva who is on her visit in Hungary, met with Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov detained in Budapest prison for killing Armenian officer.
20 May 2006 [10:50]
GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) countries foreign affairs ministries held meeting in Strasbourg.
20 May 2006 [10:46]
Azerbaijani parliament plans to affirm several laws with the aim of improving business and investment environments in the country in the near future.
19 May 2006 [19:14]
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister and special envoy to Caspian Sea affairs Mehdi Safari said here on Friday that the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is determined to fully expand cooperation with Azerbaijan.
19 May 2006 [17:05]
First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Abbas Abbasov yesterday sent in his resignation to President Ilham Aliyev.
Exxon Mobil evacuates foreign staff from Iraqi oilfield
Chinese FM: Beijing, Tehran strategic partners
Food Safety Agency: Azerbaijani products are easily exported to EU
Third day of 35th European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships starts in Baku
Armenia violates ceasefire with Azerbaijan 23 times in 24 hours
Weekly review of Azerbaijani currency market
Italy central bank to spurn firms that don't go green