Politics
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.
19 May 2006 [16:18]
Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev and Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe Tom Hobbins met here on Friday to discuss military cooperation, the press service of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported.
19 May 2006 [14:01]
Azerbaijan-Iran talks on legal status of the Caspian Sea were held in Baku yesterday.
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.
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