Politics
16 March 2006 [18:20]
The efficiency term of the Council of Europe's Action Plan on parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan has been prolonged.
16 March 2006 [17:20]
Asim Mollazade, the chairman of the Democratic Reforms Party (DRP), met with Emi Shultz, the Director of the U.S. National Democratic Institute (NDI) on Azerbaijan.
16 March 2006 [17:00]
"Elmar Mammadyarov, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, will start his official visit to Malaysia on Thursday evening," said the head of the Media and Information Policy Department of the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, Tahir Tagizade.
16 March 2006 [16:03]
"By the adoption of the final Communique a meeting of the OIC member-states, which took place in Jeddah on 15 March, ended," said Tahir Tagizade, the head of the Media and Information Department of the Foreign Ministry.
16 March 2006 [15:32]
On Thursday the Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan holds the vote in relation to the elections to Knesset.
16 March 2006 [15:15]
Armenia will never be able rival with Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated on March 16 to an opening ceremony of the 2nd Congress of the World Azerbaijanis.
16 March 2006 [13:44]
Armenian President Robert Kocharian on Thursday met with Ambassador Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
16 March 2006 [10:55]
Russia has come out against the construction of a trunk pipeline along the Caspian seabed, saying the project poses considerable risks to the region.
16 March 2006 [10:50]
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian has made an outrageous statement, alleging that Nagorno Karabakh has never been part of Azerbaijan, which could jeopardize the ongoing talks to settle over a decade-long dispute.
16 March 2006 [10:25]
An MP elected to the Milli Majlis at the 2005 election has declined to meet with the US ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish.
16 March 2006 [09:05]
Armenians violated the cease-fire in Gazakh frontline again.
16 March 2006 [08:57]
The new European Union Special Envoy for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby will visit Baku on Thursday.
16 March 2006 [01:55]
"The information discrediting the Armenian officers, who are taking a course organized by the European Center for Security Issues in Garmisch-Partenkirchner is false from beginning to end," said Armenian Ambassador to Germany Karine Ghazinian.
16 March 2006 [01:24]
On Thursday Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President, received Galina Koveskaite, the adviser to Lithuanian President.
16 March 2006 [01:19]
"5 documents are planned to be signed during the official visit of Victor Ushenko," the Ukrainian President, to Azerbaijan, Abbas Abbasov, the Azerbaijani First Vice-Primer, told journalists on Wednesday.
16 March 2006 [01:15]
On Thursday Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President, received Dastan Sarigulov, the Kyrgyz State Secretary.
15 March 2006 [20:17]
The representatives of ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) will pay a visit to China in April.
15 March 2006 [20:10]
MP holds a press conference.
15 March 2006 [16:53]
Special working group on defining the legal status of the Caspian sea met in Moscow.
15 March 2006 [15:51]
Pro-Armenian Congressmen appeal to the US Congress.
15 March 2006 [15:13]
"I hope European Parliament will not adopt baseless resolutions unreflecting realties any more," Jan Brezina, a member of the group of the European Popular Party and the European Democrats of the European Parliament, said to journalists on Wednesday.
15 March 2006 [12:36]
On Tuesday Isa Gambar, the chairman of Musavat Party, met with Steven Mann, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair, and Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
15 March 2006 [12:29]
"The US State Department's annual report fully confirms that Nagorno Karabakh and surrounding Azerbaijani districts are occupied by Armenia," said the deputy chairman of the Milli Majlis commission on national security and defense, Aydin Mirzazada.
15 March 2006 [12:18]
"Armenia should maximally keep the distance from the history. Only in this case normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations is possible," expert, political scientist Stepan Grigoryan stated.
14 March 2006 [22:35]
Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense regards visit of Azerbaijan Armed forces representatives to Armenia as impossible.
14 March 2006 [22:24]
"Possible war in the South Caucasus will become disaster for the all region," said Ambassador Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, at a news conference on Tuesday.
14 March 2006 [22:07]
On Tuesday Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President, received the delegation led by Teodor Atanasiu, the Romanian National Defense Minister.
14 March 2006 [22:04]
A delegation from the Austrian Supreme Court led by chairman Johann Reshutun will pay an official visit to Baku on April 10 at the invitation of Azerbaijan Supreme Court judge Ramiz Rzayev.
14 March 2006 [21:52]
Bilateral agreements on military cooperation were signed during the meeting of Safar Abiyev, the Azerbaijani Defense Minister, with his Rumanian counterpart Teodor Atanasiu on Tuesday.
14 March 2006 [18:00]
Tuesday sitting of the Milli Majlis heard a report by the Cabinet of Ministers on its activities in 2005.
14 March 2006 [17:41]
On Tuesday the "Azadlig" (Freedom) block Council of Chairs held a meeting.
14 March 2006 [17:14]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today called for a ban on any outside military presence in the Caspian Sea, which Russia shares with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran.
14 March 2006 [15:46]
Chairman of Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic (Azerbaijan Parliament) Ogtay Asadov on March 14 met with the Minister of National Defense of Romania Teodor Atanasiu.
14 March 2006 [15:18]
Victor Yushenko, the Ukrainian President, signed the Law on ratification of agreement between the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers and the Azerbaijani government on labor activities and social security of the Ukrainian citizens temporarily working in Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani citizens temporarily working in Ukraine.
14 March 2006 [10:06]
Robert Simmons, NATO Secretary General's Special Envoy for the Caucasus and Central Asia will visit the Southern Caucasus region in April this year.
14 March 2006 [09:33]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will visit Jeddah today.
14 March 2006 [09:16]
An autopsy of Slobodan Milosevich's body was conducted March 12.
14 March 2006 [09:07]
"Armenia has made its part of concessions in the settlement of the conflict. We are anticipating Azerbaijan to make concessions now," Armenian FM Vardan Oskanian stated.
14 March 2006 [08:28]
Investigation on Khojali Genocide initiated by the Republic Military Prosecutor's Office in 1992 is underway.
13 March 2006 [23:30]
"NATO Rescuer 2006 exercises will be held in late June in Yerevan," Armenian Deputy MOD Head, lieutenant general Artur Aghabekyan said.
13 March 2006 [23:24]
On March 13 Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Ambassador Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
13 March 2006 [19:37]
Registration of candidates for the re-run parliamentary elections is over on March 13.
13 March 2006 [18:41]
New documents for legal agreements between Azerbaijan and Romania are being prepared.
13 March 2006 [18:37]
"Priorities in Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement belong to the OSCE and Minsk Group," stated during a seminar in Yerevan NATO officer on relation with South Caucasian Countries Romualdas Rajuks.
13 March 2006 [18:26]
On March 13 Ogtay Asadov, the chair of the Millli Majlis, met with Detlef Lengemann, the German Ambassador to Azerbaijan.
13 March 2006 [18:23]
13 March 2006 [18:20]
The Azerbaijani Minister of Foreign Affairs, Elmar Mammadyarov, met with US Ambassador Steven Mann, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair, on March 13 in Baku
13 March 2006 [18:10]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Steven Mann, on March 13.
13 March 2006 [18:06]
The Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) led by Etibar Mammadov set to selection of delegates of the session.
13 March 2006 [17:54]
"Cooperation between Azerbaijani and Russian special services is at the highest level," said Azerbaijan National Security minister Eldar Mahmudov after his visit to Moscow on March 9-10.
13 March 2006 [17:45]
"Spring of 2006 is an important milestone in the resolution of Nagorno Karabakh conflict," Steven Mann, the US Department of State Senior Advisor for Eurasia Steven Mann, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair.
13 March 2006 [14:41]
Khalaf Khalafov, the Azerbaijan Deputy Foreign Ministers, will participate the 20th meeting of a special working group on definition of Caspian legal status. The meeting is scheduled for March 14-15.
13 March 2006 [09:29]
"Cooperation among GUAM states has become fruitful". This statement was made by the Moldavian president Vladimir Voronin.
13 March 2006 [09:05]
The conflicts in the South Caucasus are topic of discussion in the North Caucasus too.
13 March 2006 [08:54]
Presidential elections to be held on March 19 in Belarus will be monitored by Azerbaijan's Central Election Commission associates.
12 March 2006 [14:52]
The Minister of Emergencies Kamaladdin Heydarov ended his business visit to Turkey.
12 March 2006 [14:12]
Iran no longer considers Russia's initiative to enrich uranium on Russian territory and intends to carry out large-scale uranium enrichment at home, Iranian Foreign Ministry official spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Sunday.
11 March 2006 [17:31]
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has died in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal.
11 March 2006 [17:18]
Armenia's Foreign Minister ruled out Saturday a military solution for Nagorno Karabakh.
11 March 2006 [15:52]
"Some perspective appeared today within the Prague Process, however there are still unsettled matters and it is had to say whether parties are close to settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," said former OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair, former EU Special Representative to the South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie.
11 March 2006 [15:33]
"I regret that the report was drawn up on the base of the incomplete information, presented to the U.S. State Department," Ramil Usubov, the Azerbaijani Internal Affairs Minister, said on Saturday.
11 March 2006 [13:50]
The meeting of PACE Political Affairs Committee will discuss the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in Paris on March 14
11 March 2006 [10:51]
20th meeting of the 5 littoral states' "Working Group on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea" will be held in Moscow, capital of Russia, March 14-15.
11 March 2006 [10:46]
The Central Election Commission (CEC) held its next sitting today.
11 March 2006 [10:15]
The next round of talks between EU and Azerbaijan on the Action Plan in the frames of European Policy of Neighborhood (EPN) will take place approximately in May.
11 March 2006 [09:50]
In the opinion of analysts, Washington's hastle is conditioned by its future venture with Iran. Political scientists think that the unsettlement of conflicts in the South Caucasus neighboring with Iran can upset the U.S.'s plans.
11 March 2006 [09:45]
"The U.S. State Department's report on human rights in Azerbaijan includes many moments unreflecting realities," MP Ali Ahmadov, the Executive Secretary of ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party, told to the journalists.
11 March 2006 [09:35]
Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Araz Azimov will pay a visit to Canada and the USA in late March.
11 March 2006 [09:10]
Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov signed a final legislative act on the country's officially quitting GUUAM alliance.
11 March 2006 [09:00]
Abbas Abbasov, the Azerbaijani First Vice-Premier, continues the bilateral meetings with Ukrainian officials in Kiev.
10 March 2006 [19:00]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev finished his 3-days official visit to Japan.
10 March 2006 [18:45]
The results of the negotiations of Azerbaijan and Armenia in France, forced the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to reconsider the positions of the conflicting sides. It is clear that the situation is in very difficult stage and the co-chairs must refrain from any statements, Araz Azimov, the Azerbaijani Deputy FM, stated.
10 March 2006 [17:03]
"The US takes an active part in resolution process of Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the recent two years," the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish told the journalists.
10 March 2006 [17:00]
Musavat Party chief Isa Gambar answered the allegations of PFPA, ADP and National Unity Movement at the press conference on Friday.
10 March 2006 [16:51]
The recurrent meeting of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement will be held in Istanbul March 20.
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