Politics
17 July 2009 [11:47]
On July 16 at the government meeting in Meshed city, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced reshuffles in the state agencies, IRNA reported.
17 July 2009 [11:32]
U.S. political expert and senior research fellow at the Jamestown Foundation Vladimir Sokor spoke in an exclusive interview with Day.Az.
17 July 2009 [10:58]
Newly re-elected Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad strongly criticized the West saying Iran's enemies had tried to interfere and foment aggression in its disputed presidential vote last month.
17 July 2009 [10:12]
Ex-candidate for the Iranian president Mir-Hossein Mousavi plans to set up a political front in the nearest future which makes authorities concerned This political front gives hope for opposition members for possible political changes in Iran. But both authority and opposition are doubtful of creation of new political union under current conditions.
17 July 2009 [09:59]
Azerbaijani Green Part is going to participate in the municipal elections, party chairman Mais Gulaliyev said.
17 July 2009 [09:45]
International peace-keeping organization International Alert has adopted a decision to change the date of the forth Armenia-Azerbaijan forum to be held in the first half of September, International Alert project manager on EurAsia Dessislava Rousanova said.
17 July 2009 [09:12]
17 July 2009 [08:59]
“Armenian defense ministry is investigating the reasons behind soldier’s leaving military unit,” Armenian defense ministry spokesperson Seyran Shahsuvaryan said.
17 July 2009 [08:47]
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan said he hopes the meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev will help to further align sides’ positions.
16 July 2009 [17:28]
“New Azerbaijan Party is fully ready for the coming municipal elections,” Deputy Executive Secretary of the ruling NAP and member of parliament Siyavush Novruzov said.
16 July 2009 [16:29]
The Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization and president's Gholam Reza Aghazade has resigned, ISNA reported.
16 July 2009 [16:20]
On July 16, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received a delegation headed by OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut.
16 July 2009 [15:57]
Richard Giragosian, Director, Armenian Center for National and International Studies, spoke in an exclusive interview with Day.Az.
16 July 2009 [15:41]
A shooting took place between the Azerbaijani border guards and trespassers who attempted to cross state borders of Azerbaijan along Russia-Azerbaijan-Georgia border in Balakan region on July 16.
16 July 2009 [14:49]
Azerbaijan’s peacekeeping continent of 43 people including officers and soldiers has returned home from Afghanistan.
16 July 2009 [14:27]
Editor-in-chief of St. Petersburg-based magazine Konservator, member of the Central Council of the Eurasian Congress of Azerbaijanis and presidium of the Federal National and Cultural Autonomy Azerros Rustam Arifjanov spoke in an exclusive interview with Day.Az.
16 July 2009 [14:19]
NATO recognizes Azerbaijan and Georgia’s territorial integrity, NATO representative James Appathurai said.
16 July 2009 [13:04]
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt will be on a visit to Azerbaijan within the EU troika on July 19-20.
16 July 2009 [12:36]
Congress of Ukrainian Azerbaijanis has initiated to open Azerbaijani consulates in Ukraine, CUA chairman Akif Gulmammadov said at news conference.
16 July 2009 [11:39]
Azerbaijan National Salvation Party’s Political Council held the next meeting, party’s press service said.
16 July 2009 [11:25]
“There will be no progress at the meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents because the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has reached deadlock," Vice President of the Russian Political Technologies Center Sergei Mikheyev said.
16 July 2009 [10:48]
"Turkey does not experience any problems with Azerbaijan."
16 July 2009 [10:22]
"The United States believe in the important role of Azerbaijan in supplying energy resources to Europe," Special Envy of the US on energy issues Richard Morningstar said.
16 July 2009 [10:00]
16 July 2009 [09:38]
“Opposition efforts aimed at unification prior to the municipal elections are their own business and we can not interfere with it,” Azerbaijani ruling New Azerbaijan Party Deputy Executive Secretary and member of parliament Mubariz Gurbanli said.
16 July 2009 [09:24]
OSCE Secretary General Marc Brishambaut hopes that the Moscow meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan will mark a progress.
16 July 2009 [09:07]
Romania and Hungary can acts as peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh, Center for Political Innovations Director Mubariz Ahmadoglu said.
16 July 2009 [08:58]
It is not clear yet with what principles the statement by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs on resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict complies with, ruling New Azerbaijan Party Deputy Executive Secretary Mubariz Gurbanli said.
16 July 2009 [08:21]
NATO is grateful to Azerbaijan for its growing contribution to ISAF (the International Security Assistance Force) on the threshold of presidential elections in Afghanistan scheduled for August 20, NATO spokesperson James Appathurai said.
15 July 2009 [17:41]
“The most positive expectation from three Moscow meeting of of Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian presidents could be an agreement on the withdrawal of Armenian armed forces from the occupied lands of Azerbaijan," Director of the Russian Post-Soviet Research Center Alexander Karavayev said.
15 July 2009 [17:12]
Azerbaijan expressed today its satisfaction with NATO and its member states for their clear and firm support to country's territorial integrity as it was indicated in the final document of the last NATO Summit in Strasbourg (France) and Kehl (Germany), Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said.
15 July 2009 [16:07]
The presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan will discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement on July 18, RIA Novosti quoted Russian President's Aid Sergey Prikhodko as saying.
15 July 2009 [15:56]
Azerbaijani political expert Eldar Namazov spoke in an exclusive interview with Day.Az.
15 July 2009 [15:25]
Azerbaijani political expert Zardusht Alizade says Azerbaijan’s oil and gas reserves makes its position on the Karabakh issue more favorable.
15 July 2009 [15:19]
“Azerbaijan should demand Armenia to give maps and data sheets of the mine fields in the case of peace agreement”, said Chairman of the Azerbaijan Public Union for Anti-Mine Campaign Hafiz Safikhanov.
15 July 2009 [14:52]
President Barack Obama conceded Tuesday that the unemployment rate will keep growing for "several months" as he prepared to head to battered Michigan to unveil a plan to help train people for the next generation of jobs, AP reported.
15 July 2009 [14:42]
OSCE Secretary General and ambassador Marc Perrin de Brishambaut has arrived in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani president’s press service said.
15 July 2009 [14:16]
“I am surprised with the fact that Armenia does not see how they will be tied up to Russia by implemention of Madrid principles on Karabakh settlement proposed by mediators,” political expert Mubariz Ahmadoglu said.
15 July 2009 [13:35]
Activists of Baku branch of the WAC protests against repression against Uighurs in China.
15 July 2009 [13:14]
Azerbaijani political scientists believe the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents will not discuss resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at a meeting to be held in Moscow on July 17.
15 July 2009 [12:51]
Azerbaijan’s opposition Muasir Musavat party has appealed the Baku administrative body to permit it to rally in front of the body on July 22.
15 July 2009 [12:38]
15 July 2009 [12:14]
“I hope Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi will visit Azerbaijan by the end of the year”, Italian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Gian Luigi Masha told reporters.
15 July 2009 [12:07]
Monitoring was held on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces on July 15 after a mandate by the special envoy of the OSCE chairman-in-office.
15 July 2009 [11:46]
15 July 2009 [09:45]
Azerbaijan National Independence Party has held meetings in country’s regions due to preparations for the municipal elections, ANIP spokesperson Ali Orujov said.
15 July 2009 [08:38]
15 July 2009 [08:25]
15 July 2009 [08:18]
The Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov will visit NATO Headquarters on on July 15, 2009.
15 July 2009 [08:16]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev completes visit to the United Kingdom.
14 July 2009 [17:49]
"The OSCE is committed to the existing structures to addressing the region’s protracted conflicts and fully supports the work of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs," OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut said.
14 July 2009 [17:41]
"Vibrant political competition, a strong civil society and a free press are critical to the democratic process and represent key commitments," OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut said.
14 July 2009 [17:20]
14 July 2009 [16:59]
The European Union will provide 20 million euro in aid to Azerbaijan to promote agriculture, EU Baku office said.
14 July 2009 [16:38]
Lider TV expert Tofiq Abbasov spoke in an exclusive interview with Day. Az.
14 July 2009 [16:15]
Head of the Caucasus Muslims Clerical Office Allahshukur Pashazade has been invited to take part in UNESCO meeting in Moscow on July 21.
14 July 2009 [15:56]
The European Parliament elected Jerzy Buzek as its president Tuesday, making the ex-Polish premier and pro-democracy activist the first easterner from a former Communist country to head a major EU institution, AP reported.
14 July 2009 [15:51]
“We are close to the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.”
14 July 2009 [15:22]
Nizami district organization of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party held a conference on 40th anniversary of national leader Heydar Aliyev’s accession to power.
14 July 2009 [14:35]
Prosecutor General's Office and Interior Ministry of the Republic of Azerbaijan released statement on arrest of Adnan Hajizadeh, co-founder of Ol Youth Movement and Emin Milli (Abdullayev), representative of the Alumni Youth Network.
14 July 2009 [14:13]
Mir-Hossein Mousavi will form a political front soon, Former Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi's adviser Alireza Hoseini Behishti said, Ilna News agency reported.
14 July 2009 [13:31]
Al-Qaeda's North African wing has threatened to target Chinese workers in Africa in revenge for the deaths of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang.
14 July 2009 [13:02]
Well-known U.S. expert on foreign policy, security and international relations and head of the Russia-Eurasia program at the Heritage Foundation Ariel Cohen spoke in an exclusive interview with Day.Az.
14 July 2009 [12:35]
Uighur people is satisfied with the support of the Turkish government and people who were one of the first to express concerns over the clashes between local authorities and Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, president of World Uighur Congress Rabiya Kadir said.
14 July 2009 [12:12]
Azerbaijan’s opposition Musavat party attempted to rally in front of the Chinese embassy in Baku on July 14, party’s youth organization head Tural Abbasli said.
14 July 2009 [11:52]
International Alert is ready to assist with settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
14 July 2009 [11:34]
Parties united in the Union for Democracy are designing a unified platform on participation in the coming municipal elections.
14 July 2009 [11:21]
Azerbaijan has well-defined defense and army building policy, Azerbaijani member of parliament and deputy chairman of the Security and Defense Committee of the parliament Aydin Mirzazade said.
14 July 2009 [10:35]
Swedish Foreign Minister who presides over in the EU Carl Bildt will visit the South Caucasus with a group of three on July 16-20, official message of Swedish chairmanship said.
14 July 2009 [10:26]
Interview with Bulent Aliriza, Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Director of its Turkey Project.
14 July 2009 [10:17]
“The release of Basic Principles on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement implies certain requirements for Armenia."
14 July 2009 [09:24]
Azerbaijan’s Muasir Musavat party held meetings on the coming municipal elections in the regions, party chairman Hafiz Hajiyev said.
14 July 2009 [08:33]
The Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev congratulated the French President Nicolas Sarkozy onnational holiday - Bastille Day, AzerTaj state news agency reported on July 13.
13 July 2009 [17:43]
Activists of the Garabagh Liberation Organization (GLO) attempted to stage a protest in Baku and regions.
13 July 2009 [17:28]
Professor at U.S. Montana University and journalist Thomas Goltz and researcher Jason Katz tripped to Alibayli and Agdam villages of Azerbaijan’s Tovuz region.
National table tennis player wins bronze at int'l tournament
Discussions on financial stability held between CBA, US Department of Treasury
Income of Azerbaijani banking sector reaches significant milestone
AvtoVAZ may return to Uzbekistan market
Gas deal between Armenia, Azerbaijan to speed up signing peace
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Azerbaijan-Hungary Intergovernmental Commission marks milestone in Baku Summit