Politics
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.
10 March 2006 [15:38]
On Friday Muhammad Hafiz, the Pakistani Ambassador to Azerbaijan, held a meeting with the Head of the interparliamentary friendship group Azerbaijan-Pakistan, Eldar Ibrahimov.
10 March 2006 [15:26]
No breach has been fixed during the OSCE monitoring held in Azeri-Armenian frontline on Friday in accordance with a mandate of the OSCE chairman-in-office, the Defense Ministry announced.
10 March 2006 [14:55]
Abbas Abbasov, the Azerbaijani First Vice-Premier, continues bilateral meetings with Ukrainian officials in Kiev.
10 March 2006 [13:36]
A military cooperation agreement was signed between the ministries of defense of Germany and Azerbaijan in Baku.
10 March 2006 [11:32]
Next session of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Monitoring Committee has taken place in Paris.
10 March 2006 [11:17]
"Washington urges Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders not to miss the chance for settlement of the conflict," Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried said in the House of Representatives.
10 March 2006 [10:42]
Yesterday Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) issued a statement concerning to Azerbaijani Army officer Ramil Safarov's trial in Budapest.
10 March 2006 [09:52]
The European Union and Azerbaijani officials have failed to agree upon approval of a joint Action Plan developed as part of the EU New Neighborhood Policy.
10 March 2006 [09:24]
"Land distribution to Azerbaijanis living in Georgia has already begun. Of course, it is impossible to solve over 10-year problems of our compatriots in such a short time. Georgian government's starting to distribute lands among our compatriots is the signs of a good tendency," Chairman of the State Committee for Azerbaijanis Living Abroad, Nazim Ibrahimov told.
10 March 2006 [09:09]
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Steven Mann (US), Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernar Fasie (France) and Andrzej Kasprzyk, personal representative of OSCE-chairman-in-office, ended their meeting in Washington.
10 March 2006 [01:06]
The US thinks that the conflicts in Nagorno Karabakh and South Ossetia have unique characteristics.
10 March 2006 [00:43]
The US Department of State today made public its 2005 report on human rights practices in Azerbaijan.
10 March 2006 [00:32]
The PACE co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan, Andres Herkel and Andreas Gross will arrive in Baku as observers.
10 March 2006 [00:30]
He said that despite of compromises offered by Armenia, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev refused to recognize the independence of Nagorno Karabakh.
10 March 2006 [00:28]
Abbas Abbasov visited Kiev.
09 March 2006 [15:40]
Azerbaijan and Armenia Thursday continued to fling allegations at each other of numerous ceasefire violations on the border near the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone.
09 March 2006 [15:29]
Emir of Qatar Khamad bin Khalifa al Sani will visit Azerbaijan this year.
09 March 2006 [14:40]
Peter Semneby, the newly-appointed EU special representative for South Caucasus, will pay a visit to Baku from 15 to 17 March, Arif Mammadov, the Azerbaijani Ambassador to Belgium, informed.
09 March 2006 [14:02]
Experts of the Council of Europe will start visiting Azerbaijan from March 15 to get familiar with the level of preparations for the re-run elections due on May 13, 2006.
09 March 2006 [13:08]
The OSCE monitoring will be held in the frontline of the Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces in the west of Borsunlu village of Terter district on Thursday, the Defense Ministry announced.
09 March 2006 [12:36]
On 8 and 9 March the cease-fire regime in the Azerbaijani-Armenian frontline was violated, the Azerbaijan Defense Ministry informs.
09 March 2006 [12:29]
US Deputy Secretary of State on Europe and Eurasia, Daniel Fried, will visit Azerbaijan next week.
09 March 2006 [11:46]
The Ministries of Emergencies of Azerbaijan and Turkey will sign a protocol on cooperation.
08 March 2006 [20:56]
Monitoring committee of Parliament Assembly meeting was held on Wednesday.
08 March 2006 [17:50]
"Armenia does not even theoretically consider possible offering of its territory for NATO military contingent's deployment, if tension, concerning Iran nuclear program, heightens," stated Secretary of Presidential National Security Council, Defence Minister of Armenia Serge Sarkisyan.
08 March 2006 [17:17]
Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held a news conference in Washington.
08 March 2006 [16:13]
On March 27, Armenia's Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian will address Armenian-American activists gathering in the nation's capital for a major three-day advocacy conference designed to promote key community issues to Washington's most influential decision makers, reported the Armenian Assembly of America.
08 March 2006 [16:07]
As is informed from the press center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to London Rafael Ibrahimov has met the member of the House of Commons Robert Walter.
08 March 2006 [11:20]
Thesecond round of the talks between Azerbaijan and the European Union is being held on Individual Cooperation Plan within European Neighborhood Policy.
08 March 2006 [10:35]
He thinks that Russia should not allow using the Caucasus region, Azerbaijan's and Georgia's territories for operations against Iran.
08 March 2006 [10:27]
The leaders of parties to the conflict should set the Karabakh settlement time, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza for European and Eurasian Affairs said in Yerevan on Tuesday.
08 March 2006 [10:10]
A two-day meeting of co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group for settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict finished in Washington on Tuesday.
08 March 2006 [10:05]
Ensuring security and stability in the South Caucasus has always been a priority to Turkey's foreign policy, Turkish FM Abdullah Gul said.
08 March 2006 [09:50]
"The Armenian people have to understand that if the negotiations to resolve the Nagorno Karabakh conflict are deadlocked, this will not be the end for Armenia. If Baku understands this, why shouldn't Yerevan," said the vice-speaker of the Armenian parliament, Vahan Ovanesian.
07 March 2006 [20:59]
The Azerbaijani government achieved preliminary agreement with Turkey on allocation of quarters for the Consulate General in Kars.
07 March 2006 [20:44]
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs involved in the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will set up consultations in Washington on Tuesday.
07 March 2006 [20:40]
Pro-Armeninan "The California Courier" newspaper writes that the cause is that American ambassador mentioned that genocide policy was pursued against Armenians in the period of the Ottoman Empire.
07 March 2006 [20:33]
"The parliament will take next week a report the activities of the Cabinet of Ministers in 2005," said MP Siyavush Novruzov, the deputy executive secretary of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party.
07 March 2006 [20:27]
The next meeting of the Azerbaijani-Pakistani intergovernmental commission, planned for February-March 2006, was postponed till autumn.
07 March 2006 [18:05]
Servicemen of Azerbaijan will attend the actions.
07 March 2006 [17:21]
The next meeting of the Azerbaijan Islamic Party (AIP) will be held March 15.
07 March 2006 [16:26]
An Azerbaijani soldier was killed and another was seriously wounded as a result of shooting from the Armenian side in the long-disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh, the country's defense ministry said Tuesday.
07 March 2006 [16:08]
Artur Rasizade, the Azerbaijani Primer, invited his Egyptian counterpart Ahmad Nazif to pay an official visit to Azerbaijan.
07 March 2006 [14:57]
Next round of consultations between Azerbaijan and the European Union (EU) started in Brussels March 7.
07 March 2006 [13:47]
On 6 March the cease-fire regime on the Azerbaijani-Armenian frontline was violated, the Azerbaijan Defense Ministry informs.
07 March 2006 [10:50]
"I would like not to believe that was what he said," said Hamlet Gasparian, Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesman.
07 March 2006 [10:20]
The chair of the State Customs Committee (SCC) Aydin Aliyev received the delegation led by the Ambassador of Iran Afshar Suleymani.
07 March 2006 [10:13]
"The Armenian-Russian military cooperation, especially the presence of the Russian military in Armenia, neutralizes the military threat coming from Turkey," says the report titled "Directions of National Security Strategy of the Republic of Armenia".
07 March 2006 [09:40]
"We favor endeavors for peaceful settlement of Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict."
07 March 2006 [08:55]
The Armenian-Georgian relations proceed from the strategic interests of both states, says the report titled "Directions of National Security Strategy of the Republic of Armenia" issued by Secretary at the National Security Council at the RA President, Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan.
06 March 2006 [19:57]
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry denied Monday that its troops had again violated the ceasefire in the conflict zone with Armenia.
06 March 2006 [19:34]
Azerbaijan's attempts to extend the settlement in the conflict surrounding the breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh beyond the current framework pose a potential threat to Armenia, the Armenian defense minister said Monday.
06 March 2006 [18:52]
"If there is an agreement on creation of military alliance between Azerbaijan and Turkey, it can render military assistance to Azerbaijan in case Karabakh war breaks out," said Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Turan Morali.
06 March 2006 [17:10]
Ambassador of Great Britain to Azerbaijan Laurie Bristow expressed his attitude to the incident in McDermott Company and said: "I consider all foreigners in Azerbaijan should treat sensitive to Khojaly tragedy."
06 March 2006 [17:03]
The issues of further cooperation between Azerbaijan and Oman have been discussed during the meeting of the Azerbaijani Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Elman Arasli with the Oman FM Yusef Alyavi and the Minister of Trade and Industry Mugbil bin Ali.
06 March 2006 [15:54]
"The last statement by the Armenian president cannot be regarded as something significant," said Novruz Mammadov, the Head of the Foreign Relationships Department of the President Office.
06 March 2006 [14:44]
The Chairman of the World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) Djavad Derehti will arrive in Azerbaijan March 15, the WAC press service head Ali Nidjat informs.
06 March 2006 [14:23]
Preparations for Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's forthcoming official visit to Japan from 7 to 10 March are complete, as it's known from Azer Huseyn, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Japan.
06 March 2006 [14:00]
Elman Arasly, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Saudi Arabia, has been awarded a highest order of the Kingdom for great contribution in the establishment and development of Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia.
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