Politics
19 October 2009 [08:33]
17 October 2009 [23:05]
On Oct.18, Azerbaijan is celebrating the State Independence Day.
17 October 2009 [12:15]
Day.Az interview with senior research fellow at the Center for Caucasusian Studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations Nikolai Silayev.
17 October 2009 [11:52]
The UN has paid special thanks to Azerbaijan and 18 other member countries for totally fulfilling their peacekeeping assessments, financed by UN.
17 October 2009 [11:35]
17 October 2009 [11:02]
Azerbaijan Liberal Democratic Party (ALDP) has held its next meeting, ALDP chairman Fuad Aliyev said.
17 October 2009 [10:48]
17 October 2009 [10:11]
A total of 45 countries have already applied to participate in the 4th International Junior Science Olympiad that will be held in Baku in Dec., the Azerbaijani Youth and Sport Ministry said.
17 October 2009 [09:44]
"I do not think that the CSTO could accomplish the mission that NATO does today,” Deputy Chairman of Azerbaijani parliament’s Security and Defense Committee Aydin Mirzazade said commenting on reports that the CSTO has asked the UN status similar to NATO.
17 October 2009 [09:35]
17 October 2009 [09:09]
Azerbaijan's opposition's Musavat Party issued a statement on the coming municipal elections that will be held on Dec. 23.
17 October 2009 [08:56]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on Friday presided over a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on the outcomes of socio-economic development for nine months of 2009.
17 October 2009 [08:42]
The district election commissions have approved 915 candidates for municipal elections so far in Azerbaijan.
17 October 2009 [08:33]
17 October 2009 [08:21]
We can not say that the last meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents' in Chisinau was constructive,Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said.
16 October 2009 [17:17]
Azerbaijan Democratic Party refused to participate in the municipal elections to be held on on Dec. 23.
16 October 2009 [16:57]
TURKSOY's members negotiate with Russia's Federal Ministry in terms of providing Russia with an observer status in the Turkic-speaking countries' organization, TURKSOY Secretary General Dyusen Kaseinov said.
16 October 2009 [16:41]
The Turkish Ministry of Culture says insulting Azerbaijani flag is inadmissible.
16 October 2009 [16:28]
Parents of the Armenia-captured Azerbaijani soldiers – Anar Hajiyev and Rafig Hasanov – are concerned that they have not received any letter from the sons for three months.
16 October 2009 [16:10]
Day.Az interview with Azerbaijani political expert Eldar Namazov.
16 October 2009 [15:26]
The Azerbaijani MPs want punishment for all those who insulted Azerbaijani flag in Turkey.
16 October 2009 [15:03]
Azerbaijani members of parliament describe their visit to Ankara as positive.
16 October 2009 [14:30]
Turkish security forces detained 32 suspected members of the militant group al Qaeda believed to have been planning attacks on NATO, U.S. and Israeli targets, state-run news agency Anatolian reported on Thursday, Reuters reported.
16 October 2009 [13:58]
"Turkey and Armenia reached a symbolic deal Oct. 10 toward normalizing relations, but several important and interwoven hurdles still remain."
16 October 2009 [12:34]
U.S. President Barack Obama has invited Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Washington.
16 October 2009 [12:11]
16 October 2009 [11:53]
Ireland completed its ratification of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, intensifying the pressure on the Czech Republic to overcome its objections and become the final member state to pass the treaty, AFP reported.
16 October 2009 [11:36]
Day.Az interview with Senior research fellow at the European Policy Center and an expert on Southern Caucasus Amanda Akcakoca.
16 October 2009 [11:13]
Bosnia and Lebanon won seats Thursday on the Security Council and will be in the rare position of being subject to scrutiny by the U.N.'s most powerful body while serving their two-year terms, AP reported.
16 October 2009 [10:09]
In the interview with the French L`Express magazine, the Turkish President Abdullah Gul said that Ankara did not face any pressure in order to normalize his country's relations with Armenia, the Turkish ANADOLU news agency reported.
16 October 2009 [09:04]
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met visiting Lithuanian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavicius on Oct. 15.
16 October 2009 [08:45]
U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and the Azerbaijani people on the Day of State Independence on behalf of the American people, AzerTaj state news agency reported.
16 October 2009 [08:33]
OSCE PA Special Representative on Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia Goran Lennmarker will visit all three countries in the South Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in November.
16 October 2009 [08:21]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received head of the Iranian Presidential Office Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie on Oct. 15.
15 October 2009 [17:58]
15 October 2009 [17:15]
15 October 2009 [16:56]
Opening Turkish-Armenian border without the liberation of occupied lands will be a blow to the back of Azerbaijan, said the First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Azerbaijan.
15 October 2009 [16:45]
Iran’s Embassy to Armenia said rumors spread over iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death are slander and has nothing to do with the reality.
15 October 2009 [16:37]
Day.Az interview with Chargé d'affaires of Azerbaijan in Cuba Ilham Agayev.
15 October 2009 [16:21]
On Oct.15, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received Qatari Culture and Heritage Minister Hamad Bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari, the Foreign Ministry said.
15 October 2009 [16:06]
Deputy Chairman of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) expressed dissatisfaction to the U.S. Embassy regarding the work of the OSCE Minsk Group.
15 October 2009 [15:18]
On Oct.15, the of the Azerbaijani parliamentary committee recommended bill "On Peacekeepers" for discussion at the parliament's autumn session.
15 October 2009 [14:25]
15 October 2009 [14:09]
Iran's Supreme Religious Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died.
15 October 2009 [13:55]
The OSCE Office in Baku opened a Legal Resource Centre (LRC) in Ganja today to offer free legal advice to residents and support training activities for law professionals, OSCE said.
15 October 2009 [13:38]
Former Vice Chairman of the U.S. Congress's Armed Services Committee Curt Weldon urges Azerbaijani Diaspora in the U.S. to be more active in their efforts to abolish the 907 amendment in the Congress.
15 October 2009 [13:22]
A draft law on the state budget 2010 of Azerbaijan was sent to the parliament, Chairman of the Parliament’s Economic Policy Committee Ziyad Samedzade said.
15 October 2009 [13:11]
Azerbaijan and Cuba are expected to sign about 10 documents in economic and humanitarian spheres, Cuba's ambassador to Azerbaijan Marcelo Caballero Torres told reporters.
15 October 2009 [12:57]
15 October 2009 [12:48]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today has inaugurated Olympic Sport Complex in Hovsan, a settlement near the capital city of Azerbaijan.
15 October 2009 [12:34]
There is a crisis inside the political Movement for Karabakh and the Republic, so participation of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) in the municipal elections still remains in question, Azerbaijan’s opposition ADP Chairman Sardar Jalaloglu said.
15 October 2009 [12:23]
15 October 2009 [12:08]
Fitch Ratings awarded the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) with long-term Issuer Default Rating "BB+" and short-term Issuer Default Rating "B".
15 October 2009 [11:47]
"Joint efforts are made not to move backwards in the Turkey-Armenia relations," Turkey's President Abdullah Gul told reporters after the meeting with Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan who arrived in the Turkish city of Bursa to watch Turkey-Armenia football match on Oct. 14, Anadolu news agency reported.
15 October 2009 [11:31]
Day.Az interview with famous Russian political expert and founder of Institute of Russia's National Strategy Stanislav Belkovski.
15 October 2009 [11:17]
High-ranking officials of the Norway’s justice and police ministry will visit Azerbaijan on Oct. 25-28.
15 October 2009 [10:54]
Turkey and Armenia are not writing a history, but creating it, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said commenting on a meeting with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan who arrived in Turkish city of Bursa to watch the Turkey-Armenia football match on Oct. 14, CNN Turk reported.
15 October 2009 [10:39]
Turkey will make every possible effort to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after the meeting with the Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation, CNN Turk reported.
15 October 2009 [10:12]
Normalization of Turkey-Armenia relations began even before the football match between national squads of the countries, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told media before leaving for Iraq, CNN Turk TV channel reported.
15 October 2009 [09:44]
Azerbaijan's election constituencies registered 256 candidates for the local elections in Azerbaijan.
15 October 2009 [09:33]
"The recent progress in Turkish-Armenian diplomacy, culminating in the recent signing of the two protocols between the two countries, has already triggered an intense reaction in domestic politics within Armenia."
15 October 2009 [08:45]
President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday sent a greeting to the XV Congress of the European Fair Play Movement which started in Baku on Oct. 24.
15 October 2009 [08:21]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Tuesday delegates of the 6th Conference of Ministers of Culture of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) held here in the framework of the cultural year “Baku-Islamic Culture Capital-2009”.
14 October 2009 [17:48]
Turkey will not take any actions contradicting Azerbaijan's interests, deputy chairman of the committee for foreign relations of Turkish ruling Justice and Development Party Gursad Tuzman said at a meeting with Azerbaijani MPs.
14 October 2009 [17:32]
The Azerbaijani diaspora has begun negotiations with the Turkish diaspora to prevent opening of the Turkish-Armenian borders.
14 October 2009 [17:17]
“No one can interfere with and undermine Azerbaijan-Turkey relations,” Member of Azerbaijani Parliament and head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE Samad Seyidov told Turkish reporters, CNN Turk reported.
14 October 2009 [16:57]
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan arrived in Turkey today.
14 October 2009 [16:46]
Azerbaijan National Democratic Party staged a protest action in front of Turkish embassy in Azerbaijan on Oct. 14 in a protest against the protocols on normalization of relations signed between Turkey and Armenia.
14 October 2009 [16:15]
“If West’s proposals are beneficial for Ankara, the Turkey-Armenia border will be opened,” Azerbaijan-based Peace and Democracy Institute Conflict Science Department Director Arif Yunus said.
14 October 2009 [15:51]
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has left for Bursa, Turkey at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul.
14 October 2009 [15:34]
As part of her trip to Turkey, Azerbaijani Member of Parliament Ganira Pashayeva participated in a number of programs at the Turkish television channels.
14 October 2009 [15:13]
"We have heard numerous promises by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu,” Azerbaijani Political Expert Fikrat Sadigov said commenting on Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s upcoming visit to Baku.
14 October 2009 [14:45]
Association for Civil Society Development in Azerbaijan (ACSDA) offered some changes in the Electoral Code.
14 October 2009 [13:58]
Day.Az interview with member of Turkey’s Grand National Assembly from the Republican People’s Party Canan Aritman.
14 October 2009 [13:39]
Azerbaijan's left parties will hold their public and political forum on Nov.15 in Baku, Chairman of the Azerbaijani National Socialist Party (ANSP) Rovshan Huseynov said.