Politics
26 September 2009 [09:41]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday he will call off his decision to deploy missiles in the enclave of Kaliningrad, his response to the United States scrapping missile shield plans in Europe, Reuters reported.
26 September 2009 [09:24]
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged European nations in a new audio tape aired on Friday to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, Reuters reported.
26 September 2009 [09:18]
U.S. President Barack Obama said at a bilateral meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he was aware of "critical importance" of resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Anadolu news agency reported.
26 September 2009 [08:57]
The Azerbaijani people should be confident that Turkey will not take any steps harming Azerbaijan, Chairman of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Mehmet Ali Sahin told reporters in Baku.
26 September 2009 [08:42]
A meeting of the Caspian littoral states' border service chiefs will be held in Baku by late 2009, Head of the State Border Service Lieutenant-General Elchin Guliyev told reporters.
26 September 2009 [08:39]
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict stands out as a major threat to international and regional peace and security, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said speaking on Friday at the UN General Assembly.
26 September 2009 [08:35]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev inaugurated a new building for the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan (Parliament) on Sept. 25.
26 September 2009 [08:30]
Exercises held on the Caspian Sea testify to high skills, military and psychological readiness of Azerbaijan State Border Service (SBS), said presidential adviser on military affairs Vahid Aliyev.
25 September 2009 [17:38]
Azerbaijan's Military Doctrine will be developed by early 2010, President's Adviser on Military Affairs Vahid Aliyev said.
25 September 2009 [17:14]
During its centuries-old history, the Armenian nation had several republics and then lost them, said Armenian parliament's Heritage Party parliamentary faction member Zaruhi Postanjian on the “Parliamentary Week” television program broadcast on Public TV.
25 September 2009 [16:56]
A new co-rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee on Azerbaijan to replace Yevgenia Zhivkova will be appointed on Oct. 1, PACE spokesperson Angus McDonald said.
25 September 2009 [16:24]
The Azerbaijani parliament has launched a Department for European Integration.
25 September 2009 [16:09]
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has presented a note to the Turkish Embassy in Azerbaijan.
25 September 2009 [15:55]
The Ecological Care Public Association and scientists of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) call on Armenia to stop the ecological terrorism in the occupied territories of the country.
25 September 2009 [15:29]
Lithuania supports territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and favors solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict under this principle, Vice Speaker of the Lithuanian Seym Ceslovas Stankevicius told reporters in Baku.
25 September 2009 [15:08]
Chairman of the PACE Sub-Committee on External Relations and member of the Polish Seim (parliament) Tadeusz Iwiński spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
25 September 2009 [14:47]
A twinning project “Support to Milli Mejlis” was held on Friday in Milli Mejlis (Azerbaijani Parliament).
25 September 2009 [14:35]
Senior research fellow at the European Policy Center and an expert on Southern Caucasus Amanda Akcakoca spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
25 September 2009 [14:23]
There is no need to amend the Election Code of Azerbaijan, ruling New Azerbaijan Party senior official Siyavush Novruzov said.
25 September 2009 [13:52]
“The embassy of Czech Republic in Azerbaijan will begin functioning in November, but solemn opening ceremony of the embassy is scheduled for next spring,” ambassador of Czech Republic to Azerbaijan Radek Matula told reporters.
25 September 2009 [13:29]
10th meeting of the Azerbaijan-EU Cooperation Committee is underway in Baku.
25 September 2009 [13:11]
Officials have told The Associated Press that Iran has revealed the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant.
25 September 2009 [12:48]
Azerbaijan's cooperation with Islamic umma [community] is one of priorities of the country's foreign policy, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov stated in a meeting with the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Foreign Ministry said.
25 September 2009 [12:11]
On September 24, Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal met with the EU ambassadors accredited in Ankara, CNN Turk reported.
25 September 2009 [11:57]
It is high time to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh and all other conflicts in the Caucasus taking into account territorial integrity of countries in the region, CNN Turk reported Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying at the UN Security Council.
25 September 2009 [11:44]
Ruling parties of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) and Nur Otan, will sign an agreement on cooperation.
25 September 2009 [11:18]
25 September 2009 [10:27]
Azerbaijan plays an important role in European energy security, Switzerland's Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said in a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov in New York.
25 September 2009 [09:54]
“Statements of threat to Azerbaijan by Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan point to concerns of Armenia,” Azerbaijani Member of Parliament Zahid Oruj said commenting on the statement by Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan claiming that "the Armenian army is able to put an end to war dreams of Azerbaijan".
25 September 2009 [09:23]
On Sept. 24, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers made public the second report on the situation of minority languages in Armenia, the CoE Web site said.
25 September 2009 [08:49]
Chief of Azerbaijan's opposition party does not exclude that the disagreement between the two parties - the founders of the movement in which they are united , can further deepen the crisis within the opposition.
25 September 2009 [08:43]
The U.N. Security Council, at a summit chaired by U.S. President Barack Obama, unanimously approved a resolution on Sept. 24 that envisaged a world without nuclear weapons, Reuters reported.
25 September 2009 [08:38]
Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Mehmet Ali Sahin will start an official visit to Azerbaijan`s capital on Sept. 25.
25 September 2009 [08:21]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received a Czech delegation headed by President of the Senate Premysl Sobotka on Sept. 24.
24 September 2009 [17:59]
24 September 2009 [17:53]
Lithuania is ready for a new phase of cooperation with Azerbaijan in the parliamentary sphere.
24 September 2009 [17:11]
The first sitting of Azerbaijani parliament’s fall session will be held on Sept. 30, the parliament said.
24 September 2009 [16:39]
BBC News Web site contains a error related to Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.
24 September 2009 [16:19]
There are more than 30 matters on the agenda of the first meeting of the Azerbaijani parliament's autumn session.
24 September 2009 [16:06]
Russian political expert and head of the Political Forecast Service at the Center for Post Soviet Studies Alexander Karavayev spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
24 September 2009 [15:17]
Senior official of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Human Rights Institute Araz Qurbanov spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
24 September 2009 [14:54]
Chechen president Ramzan Kadirov has sent a strongly-worded message to Azerbaijan.
24 September 2009 [13:52]
A bill on the Azerbaijani peacekeepers was included in the agenda of the autumn session of Azerbaijani parliament.
24 September 2009 [12:42]
“Territorial integrity and sovereignty are very important for every state. This problem should be solved in line with international law,” president of the Czech Senate Přemysl Sobotka told reporters in Baku.
24 September 2009 [11:53]
The embassy of Czech Republic will be opened in Azerbaijan in late November, chairman of the Czech Senate Prshemisl Sobodka told reporters n Baku.
24 September 2009 [11:18]
The protocol, signed on Aug. 31 between Turkey and Armenia under Switzerland's mediation, will be discussed at the Turkish Parliament on Oct. 10-11, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his speech at the UN General Assembly.
24 September 2009 [11:09]
Azerbaijan’s Consul General in Los Angeles Elin Suleymanov spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
24 September 2009 [10:45]
The European Commission is ready to contribute to a rapid settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
24 September 2009 [10:01]
The Azerbaijani and Turkish Foreign Ministers have discussed the situation with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution in New York.
24 September 2009 [09:43]
24 September 2009 [09:28]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stuck to his script of railing against Israel and the United States in a speech on Wednesday that shed no new light on the Islamic state's nuclear strategy.
24 September 2009 [09:11]
Azerbaijani ambassador to Kazakhstan Latif Gandilov has been awarded Golden Prometheus prize.
24 September 2009 [08:21]
23 September 2009 [17:33]
Russia believes that interests of all littoral states must be taken into consideration as much as possible in determining the legal status of the Caspian Sea.
23 September 2009 [17:25]
Whoever will be elected secretary general, the relations between Azerbaijan and the Council of Europe will not change.
23 September 2009 [17:10]
The Czech Republic supports strengthening the cooperation with Azerbaijan, Chairman of the Senate of the Czech Parliament Přemysl Sobotka said during his official visit to Baku on Sept. 23.
23 September 2009 [16:58]
Gordon Brown will signal his readiness to scale back Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent as part of an international deal to dramatically cut the world's nuclear arsenal. metro.co.uk reported.
23 September 2009 [16:45]
Ruling New Azerbaijan Party Shamkir regional office is preparing for the coming municipal elections, the party’s Web site reported.
23 September 2009 [16:26]
West tries to prevent integration processes in the Muslim world, and there is a need to think about ways to prevent such aggression from outside, representative of the Caucasus Strategic Research Center Elmir Guliyev said.
23 September 2009 [16:12]
The Caspian Sea and the Caspian cooperation is a very important element for the Russian-Azerbaijani relations, Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vladimir Dorokhin said at a meeting with the Russian Ambassadors to Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
23 September 2009 [15:47]
MagicJack has made a gross error related to Azerbaijan.
23 September 2009 [15:28]
Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities will observe the municipal elections in Azerbaijan in December.
23 September 2009 [15:09]
Honorary President of the Parliamentary Assembly of Western European Union (Belgium) Stef Goris spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
23 September 2009 [14:51]
The Foreign Ministries of Azerbaijan and Cuba will take place in Baku in early October.
23 September 2009 [14:27]
U.S. President Barack Obama has delayed a decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan because of doubts about its election and the legitimacy of its government, and is considering other options, officials said on Tuesday, NewsDaily reported.
23 September 2009 [14:11]
Azerbaijan Humanist Party Leader Ogtay Atakhan spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
23 September 2009 [13:54]
German diplomats are prepared to walk out in protest if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeats before the UN General Assembly his past denials of the Holocaust, Berlin officials confirmed Tuesday, DPA reported.
23 September 2009 [13:39]
Political regimes in the Middle East create favorable conditions for the emergence of Islamic movements, Professor at the Michigan University, Expert on political Islam, Mohammed Ayyoub, said in his speech at the Center for Strategic Studies under the Azerbaijani President in Baku.
23 September 2009 [12:52]
Vice Speaker of the Lithuanian Seim (parliament) Ceslovas Stankiyavicus will announce start of the Lithuanian-Azerbaijani cooperation project as part of the European Union in Baku, Lithuanian ambassador to Azerbaijan Kestutis Kudzmanas said.
23 September 2009 [11:18]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd) says his country is not a threat to the United States as President Barack Obama has said, but "an opportunity", Associated Press reported.
23 September 2009 [10:37]
NATO is ready to expand cooperation with Azerbaijan in preventing and eliminating consequences of emergency situations.
23 September 2009 [10:29]
The Romanian Embassy hopes to continue Turkey's fruitful activity as the NATO coordinator to Azerbaijan, the Romanian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Nicolae Ureke said at the seminar in the NATO school on Sept. 23.
23 September 2009 [09:36]
President of Israel-Azerbaijan International Association and former member of the Israeli Knesset Iosif Shagal spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
23 September 2009 [09:28]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in the United States to attend a number of key international events and hold talks with foreign leaders.
23 September 2009 [08:57]
Azerbaijan seeks to have good relations with neighbors, but Armenia should take steps in this direction too, said Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
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