Politics
07 September 2009 [10:17]
Azerbaijan Unified Popular Front Party (AUPFP) must get actively involved with the coming municipal elections, AUPFP chairman Gudrat Hasanguliyev said at a party meeting.
07 September 2009 [09:56]
Deputy chairman of Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP) Fuad Mustafayev resigned from from his post and has refused party membership.
07 September 2009 [09:48]
Brazil has urged Western powers discussing Iran's nuclear case to re-enter talks with Tehran rather than toughening sanctions on the country, Press TV reported.
07 September 2009 [09:33]
“As soon as we launched talks with Armenia through the mediation of Switzerland, some people here began to worry again,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a ceremony in Istanbul municipality.
07 September 2009 [09:19]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat on Sunday to start his official visit to the Central Asian nation, Xinhua reported.
07 September 2009 [09:08]
Turkish MP Canan Aritman urged prime minister to keep promise given to Azerbaijan concerning not opening of borders with Armenia until Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is resolved.
07 September 2009 [08:31]
Azerbaijan's Ambassador in Ankara Zakir Hashimov said Saturday the foreign ministries of Turkey and Azerbaijan discussed Turkish-Armenian relations over phone and reached a common understanding, Anadolu Agency reported.
05 September 2009 [12:17]
A militant killed in Ingushetia in a special operation Friday was a bandit warlord and was involved in an attempt to kill the Russian North Caucasus republic's president, security agencies said.
05 September 2009 [11:34]
The ruling New Azerbaijan Party says fraternal Turkey should not take steps against Azerbaijan's interests.
05 September 2009 [11:15]
The ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) is devising the concept concerning the municipal elections.
05 September 2009 [10:53]
Agenda of Baku visit by President a.i. of CE Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Ian Micallef has been made public.
05 September 2009 [08:57]
Kanat Saudabayev appointed Kazakh foreign minister upon the Kazakh President's decree on Sept. 4.
05 September 2009 [08:43]
Report by the Azerbaijani MPs was approved by the Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
05 September 2009 [08:32]
04 September 2009 [17:34]
Nobert Yevdayev, editor-in-chief of New York-based Russian language newspaper “Noviy Rubezh” (‘New Frontier’) and chairman Azerbaijani Friendly Association AZEM spoke in an interview with Day.Az.
04 September 2009 [15:26]
American mobile operator MetroPCS cooperates with Karabakh Telecom and offers roaming services in Armenia-occupied lands of Azerbaijan.
04 September 2009 [15:13]
No one has appealed so far to the special commission set up under the Defense Ministry to get war victim status, spokesman for Azerbaijani Defense Ministry Eldar Sabirglu said at a news conference.
04 September 2009 [14:24]
“Azerbaijani army is the strongest in the Caucasus for all parameters,” Azerbaijani Defense Ministry Spokesperson Colonel General Eldar Sabiroglu said at a news conference.
04 September 2009 [14:11]
Armenia-Turkey border opening contributes to the maintenance of peace, meanwhile weakens Georgia’s position in the region, Georgian expert on Caucasian issues Mamuka Areshidze said.
04 September 2009 [13:34]
“Friendly relations between Uzbek and Azerbaijani peoples have their roots back to centuries,” Uzbek ambassador to Azerbaijan Ismatulla Irgashev said.
04 September 2009 [12:46]
Beijing favors implementation of the four UN Security Council resolutions which urge unconditional withdrawal of Armenian troops from the Azerbaijani lands, Chinese ambassador to Azerbaijan Jan Yannyan said.
04 September 2009 [12:17]
“Uzbekistan has always favored and will further favor peaceful and political solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict based on Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and complying with UN Security Council resolutions and OSCE decisions,” Uzbek ambassador to Azerbaijan Ismatulla Irgashev said.
04 September 2009 [11:57]
Leader of Turkish Democratic Party and former speaker of the parliament Husamettin Cindoruk criticized the government for its agreement with Armenia, Haberturk reported.
04 September 2009 [11:38]
On Sept. 3, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev made a trip to country's Hajigabul region.
04 September 2009 [10:39]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev inaugurated several new facilities in country’s Hajigabul region on Sept. 3.
04 September 2009 [10:23]
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has announced an independence referendum bill as the centrepiece of the SNP's plans for the coming year, BBC reported.
04 September 2009 [10:06]
North Korea said Friday it entered a final phase of uranium enrichment and is also building more nuclear weapons with spent fuel rods, South Korean newswire Yonhap reported, citing Pyongyang state media, AFP reported.
04 September 2009 [09:52]
Kharabakh conflict settlement has always been and will always remain a priority task on Armenia’s foreign policy agenda, Armenian Ambassador to Russia Armen Smbatyan said.
04 September 2009 [09:32]
“Replacing of the Russian and U.S. co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are being discussed at talks”, chief of the International Relations Department of Azerbaijan's Presidential Administration Novruz Mammadov said.
04 September 2009 [09:19]
Civil Protection General Secretary of Greek Interior Ministry Margaritis Mouzas will pay a visit to Azerbaijan.
04 September 2009 [08:48]
Leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahceli has issued statement on the protocols agreed between the Turkish and Armenian governments.
04 September 2009 [08:21]
On Sept. 3, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow made a telephone call to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev.
03 September 2009 [17:19]
“There is a proposal to establish additional subcommittees under the EU cooperation committee and one of them will deal with visa and readmission issues," Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmoud Mammadquliyev said.
03 September 2009 [16:46]
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is not negotiating with Azerbaijan about country’s admission to the organization, CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha said.
03 September 2009 [16:26]
The governing New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) says establishing Turkey-Armenian relations is unacceptable until the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is resolved.
03 September 2009 [15:31]
Director of Eurasian Strategy Project and Georgetown University professor Cory Welt spoke in an interview with Day.Az.
03 September 2009 [15:17]
Turkish ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic commented on the discussions over the protocols on normalization of Turkey-Armenia relations.
03 September 2009 [14:58]
“Alican checkpoint on Turkey-Armenia border may be reopened only after Armenians free occupied Azerbaijani lands,” head of Igdir Trade Exchange Ismayil Aras said.
03 September 2009 [14:42]
“Armenian diplomats’ plans to gather in Azerbaijan’s occupied lands are not a constructive approach and represents a negative point in negotiations,” Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Elkhan Polukhov said commenting on reports claiming that Armenian diplomats will gather in Azerbaijan’s occupied lands.
03 September 2009 [13:17]
A female candidate has been approved for the new Cabinet of Ministers for the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
03 September 2009 [13:06]
Armenia’s mobile operator K-Telecom (VivaCell-MTS brand) owed by MTS group of companies offers roaming services in Nagorno-Karabakh.
03 September 2009 [12:23]
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev’s official visit to Azerbaijan will be rescheduled, Kazakhstan’s embassy in Azerbaijan said.
03 September 2009 [12:06]
Policies aimed at opening the borders with Armenia harm Azerbaijan, former head of Igdir municipality, chairman of Yerevan Turks Solidarity Circle Nurettin Aras said.
03 September 2009 [11:49]
Greece's Conservative prime minister on Wednesday called an early general election for Oct. 4, seeking a renewed mandate to impose tougher economic reforms and deal with the international financial crisis, AFP reported.
03 September 2009 [11:17]
Azerbaijan hopes that in talks with Armenia Turkey will not take steps contradicting Azerbaijan’s national interests, Azerbaijani Presidential Administration International Relations Department Chief Novruz Mammadov said.
03 September 2009 [10:56]
Two protocols on the establishment of the diplomatic relations and development of bilateral relations initialed by Turkey and Armenia was discussed at the meeting of the Central Management Board of Republican People’s Party (CHP).
03 September 2009 [10:16]
Azerbaijani and Turkish Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Ahmet Davudoglu had a telephone conversation on Sept. 2, Anadolu news agency reported.
03 September 2009 [09:59]
Armenian National Committee of America has conveyed remarks of the Armenian community in America to the U.S. congressmen regarding protocols on normalization of Armenia-Turkey ties.
03 September 2009 [09:37]
03 September 2009 [09:14]
The agenda of the next meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the "Organization for democracy and economic development - GUAM" will be prepared by the organization's national coordinators in Kiev, GUAM Secretary General Valeri Chechelashvili said.
03 September 2009 [08:54]
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has welcomed the move by Armenia and Turkey to normalize relations.
03 September 2009 [08:32]
President Obama hosted a traditional Ramadan dinner for representatives of diplomatic corps (iftar) at the White House on Sept. 1.
02 September 2009 [17:17]
Leader of Turkey’s Democratic Party Husamettin Cindoruk commented on the protocols initialed by Turkish government and Armenia.
02 September 2009 [16:53]
Vladimir Voronin will step down as president of Moldova to become a member of the ex-Soviet state's parliament, a Communist Party official said on Wednesday.
02 September 2009 [16:36]
Azerbaijan will host an international youth conference with support of the Council of Europe.
02 September 2009 [16:19]
Azerbaijan Liberal Democratic Party re-negotiates to launch a bloc Independent Azerbaijan, ALDP chairman Fuad Aliyev said.
02 September 2009 [15:08]
Director of Ukraine-based Center for Political Studies and Conflict Science Mikhail Pogrebinski spoke in an interview with Day.Az.
02 September 2009 [14:47]
More municipalities in Azerbaijan whose power have not yet terminated yet want to join the municipal elections.
02 September 2009 [14:29]
Establishment of Turkmen naval base on the Caspian Sea in the nearest future should not be considered result of differences between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, Azerbaijani ambassador to Kazakhstan Latif Gandilov said.
02 September 2009 [14:14]
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force said on that on Aug. 30, a C-130H aircraft armed with Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) blasted a target test vehicle on the ground for the first time.
02 September 2009 [12:51]
The Russian Foreign Ministry has commented on Armenia and Turkey's readiness to normalize bilateral relations.
02 September 2009 [12:12]
02 September 2009 [11:57]
The Commonwealth has fully suspended Fiji after it refused to bow to demands to call elections by next year, BBC reported.
02 September 2009 [11:41]
“The recent statement by Armenian, Turkish and Swiss foreign ministries is a defeat of Armenian diplomacy,” expert at Armenia Center for Political and International Studies Ruben Mehrabyan said.
02 September 2009 [10:59]
Turkish authorities intend to open border with Armenia by late 2009 under the protocol on establishing diplomatic ties, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday.
02 September 2009 [10:47]
Microsoft has corrected error related to Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.
02 September 2009 [10:34]
02 September 2009 [10:15]
Samuel Lussac, a PhD candidate in International Relations at the Institute of Political Studies of Bordeaux, spoke in an exclusive interview with Day.Az.
02 September 2009 [09:53]
02 September 2009 [09:44]
Azerbaijani MP Rafail Huseynov will attend a meeting of the PACE Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs to be held on September 3-5 in Paris, France.
02 September 2009 [09:31]
Protocols on “Establishing Diplomatic ies between Armenia and Turkey” need approval by two countries’ parliaments, Turkish Prime Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
02 September 2009 [08:47]
Iran has prepared an "updated nuclear proposal" and is ready to talk to world powers, state television quoted the Islamic Republic's chief nuclear negotiator as saying on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
01 September 2009 [17:18]
The European Commission on Tuesday hailed Armenia and Turkey's efforts to normalize ties.
01 September 2009 [16:41]
Member of the Great National Assembly of Turkey (TGNA) from the National Movement Party (NMP) Şenol Bal commented on the statement by Turkish Foreign Minister to start negotiations on establishing diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia.
01 September 2009 [16:28]
Members of Azerbaijani parliament (Milli Mejlis) embarked on work on Tuesday.
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