Politics
24 May 2007 [16:14]
A concrete decision should be made before Azerbaijan and Armenia presidents meet as the presidents have discussion on concrete issues, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said.
24 May 2007 [16:04]
There is no problem regarding the visit of the mission from the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on monitoring the South Caucasus cultural monuments.
24 May 2007 [16:01]
Azerbaijan always had a principle position on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. We support peaceful solution to the conflict and are ready to use all resources, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said.
24 May 2007 [15:03]
State Committee for Refugees and IDP and Executive Powers of the occupied regions of Azerbaijan held a roundtable devoted to the tasks about which President Ilham Aliyev spoke in meeting with the IDPs during the opening of new settlements in Yeni Ramana of Sabunchu region on May 4.
24 May 2007 [14:57]
Governments and armed groups around the world are using "the politics of fear" to crush human rights and encourage dangerous divisions in society, according to Amnesty International’s 2007 human rights report, released on Wednesday.
24 May 2007 [14:50]
Georgian Economy Minister, Giorgi Arveladze, Azerbaijan's Transport Minister, Ziya Mammadov and Kazakhstan's Transport and Communications Minister, Serik Ahmadov, have today come together in Tbilisi to discuss a number of issues of mutual interest.
24 May 2007 [14:36]
Prime Minister, Artur Rasizade, has left for Yalta to attend the meeting of CIS Council of heads of governments.
24 May 2007 [14:26]
New plan of actions is being prepared on future cooperation between NATO and Azerbaijan. Araz Azimov, deputy Azerbaijan foreign Minister told the journalists.
24 May 2007 [13:51]
The Economic Research Center has today delivered a presentation of "The Concept of Strengthening Municipalities in Azerbaijan".
24 May 2007 [12:54]
Azerbaijan and the European Union (EU) will hold negotiations on the country's WTO accession efforts in late May, Brussels.
24 May 2007 [12:39]
Armenian President Robert Kocharian agreed to OSCE Minsk Group co chairs' offer to meet Azerbaijan president in Saint Petersburg, Yuri Merzlyakov, Russian co chair of OSCE Minsk Group told the press conference in Yerevan on his visit.
24 May 2007 [11:54]
A criminal case has been opened against Rakhat Aliyev, the son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarabayev, on abduction charges, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
24 May 2007 [11:52]
Another train carrying Russian military hardware from a Soviet-era base in Georgia left the Caucasus state Thursday, the Georgian Defense Ministry said.
24 May 2007 [09:10]
Bank accounts of Baku Xeber newspaper have been arrested from May 18.
24 May 2007 [09:04]
Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's recent visit to Baku was very productive.
24 May 2007 [08:59]
Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Huseyn Avni Karslioglu will visit Nakhchivan on May 26.
24 May 2007 [08:58]
OSCE has announced its stance on the situation of freedoms of expression and press in Azerbaijan, said Jose Louis Herero, head of OSCE Office in Baku.
24 May 2007 [08:56]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov and Bernard Fassier met Armenian Prime Minister Serge Sarkisian in Yerevan.
24 May 2007 [08:55]
Spring session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly will be held on May 24-29 in the city of Madeira, Portugal.
24 May 2007 [08:53]
Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov ended his visit to Germany.
24 May 2007 [08:49]
Azerbaijan is going to appeal to international organizations with regard to the fires in Fuzuli and Goranboy regions. We want them to take a fair position, President's Office international affairs department chief Novruz Mammadov told journalists.
24 May 2007 [08:41]
On May 23, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan received a delegation of the U.S. Department of State led by Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud.
24 May 2007 [08:31]
Members of the Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations met with the representatives of embassies in Azerbaijan with regard to imprisonment of journalists and shut down of Gundalik Azerbaijan and Realny Azerbaijan newspapers.
24 May 2007 [08:29]
In an open letter to the president of Azerbaijan released Wednesday, the World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) said the "alarmingly high" number of jailed journalists makes the Eurasian nation "one of the least press-freedom friendly countries in the world."
24 May 2007 [08:26]
Press conference was held Wednesday on the anniversary of events occurred in May,2006 in Iranian regions where Azerbaijanis live.
24 May 2007 [08:23]
The co-chairmen of the Minsk Group on Nagorno Karabakh have arrived in Yerevan to look for ways of conflict settlement. The representatives of Russia and France, Yuri Mezlyakov and Bernard Fassier, met on Wednesday with Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian.
24 May 2007 [08:19]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a letters of condolence to Turkey's President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the massive injuries and loss of lives caused by a blast in the trade center in Ankara.
24 May 2007 [08:13]
Azerbaijani security agents have seized computer hard drives, CDs and other materials from the editorial offices of two opposition newspapers and from the apartment of the top editor, effectively closing down the newspapers, a defense lawyer said Wednesday.
24 May 2007 [08:02]
Polish President Lech Kaczynski received Wednesday visiting Speaker of Azerbaijani Parliament Ogtay Asadov to discuss issues related to bilateral political, cultural and energy cooperation.
24 May 2007 [08:01]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov paid an official visit to Turkmenistan.
24 May 2007 [07:59]
Government officials in Azerbaijan are denying any intention to crack down on media freedom in the country.
23 May 2007 [14:59]
"We will negotiate with Azerbaijani military circles on future prospects of cooperation between Turkish and Azerbaijani Armed Forces," head of Turkish Armed Forces Staff delegation, General Colonel Eyyub Kaptan told journalists in Baku.
23 May 2007 [14:06]
"Mixed-member electoral system will be applied in Azerbaijan when there is an opposition with cultural thinking and democratic values. We will possibly debate on these issues in the next five years," head of President's Administration Ramiz Mehdiyev said.
23 May 2007 [13:57]
Freedom of expression and media is protected by the state, it will be so in the future, President’s Office socio-political department chief Ali Hasanov said.
23 May 2007 [13:54]
"Our joint activity with Foreign Ministry will not aim only to attract attention to Armenians' committing arsons in Karabakh, but also to prevent it," Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry Huseyn Bagirov said.
23 May 2007 [13:34]
Bakhtiyar Mammadov, wanted active participant by Azerbaijan law-enforcement bodies has been arrested and handed over to Azerbaijan.
23 May 2007 [12:54]
"Democracy in societies in transition" international conference organized by President's Office, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and State Management Academy started in Gulustan palace.
23 May 2007 [12:12]
The inaugural conference for the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Caspian Marine Environment is being hosted today in Baku by the Government of Azerbaijan.
23 May 2007 [10:14]
Turkmenistan, isolated from the rest of the world under its former leader, plans to open up its Caspian Sea coast to foreign tourists.
23 May 2007 [09:23]
Azerbaijan's Parliament ratified on Tuesday a protocol to intergovernmental agreement signed between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan on reciprocal without visa entrance/departure for both countries citizens.
23 May 2007 [09:20]
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, expressed concern on Tuesday over the eviction of the country's two main independent newspapers from their premises, and new procedures against their imprisoned editor, Eynulla Fatullayev.
23 May 2007 [09:09]
The issue on the situation of media in Azerbaijan will hardly be debated at the summer session of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE). There are many issues on the agenda, said PACE co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan Tony Lloyd.
23 May 2007 [09:06]
Denis Bribosia, Special Representative of Council of Europe Secretary General to Azerbaijan went to Nakchivan.
23 May 2007 [09:05]
Head of the working group on Azerbaijan-Russia interparliamentary relations Arif Rahimzade, parliamentarians Elton Mammadov, Rovshan Rzayev and Mikhail Zabelin will leave on Wednesday for Moscow to attend the meeting of bilateral interparliamentary commission of Russian Federal Assembly.
23 May 2007 [09:03]
Azerbaijani and German Foreign Ministries are having political and security talks in Berlin.
23 May 2007 [09:01]
The number of Azerbaijani journalists in prison has reached a record high over the past month, even while one senior government official maintains that the country's leadership is doing everything possible to respect press freedom.
23 May 2007 [08:57]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received Adil Adalya, newly appointed charge d'affaires of Kingdom of Jordan to Azerbaijan.
23 May 2007 [08:41]
Armenian separatists will hold traditional Armenian contest-festival in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan on June 1-5.
23 May 2007 [08:25]
Prosecutors have filed new, terrorism-related charges against an Azerbaijani opposition newspaper editor who was convicted of libel and sentenced to prison last month, a top security official said Tuesday.
23 May 2007 [08:10]
Iran has reportedly arrested more than 15 people after they allegedly called for a demonstration in the northwestern city of Tabriz to mark the anniversary of the publication of a cartoon offensive to Iran's Azeri minority.
23 May 2007 [08:05]
Poland's Senate Speaker Bogdan Borusewicz and visiting Speaker of Azerbaijani parliament Ogtay Asadov discussed Tuesday possibilities of developing parliamentary, political and economic cooperation.
22 May 2007 [23:32]
Armenian Armed Forces continue to commit arsons in the occupied parts of Azerbaijani regions of Fuzuli and Jabrail.
22 May 2007 [23:05]
The delegation composed of high-ranking officers of Turkish Armed Forces Staff is visiting Baku, Defense Ministry told.
22 May 2007 [22:43]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is scheduled to make a one-day official visit to Turkmenistan tomorrow, Ministry spokesman Khazar Ibrahim told.
22 May 2007 [22:32]
I would not like to make a final statement on the suspension of establishing GUAM peacekeeping forces.
22 May 2007 [22:12]
Azerbaijani Parliament held a meeting today. MPs touched upon some issues during the parliamentary debates.
22 May 2007 [13:38]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov today presented Sheikh of all the Caucasus Haji Allahshukur Pashazade with "Friendship order" in accordance with the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
22 May 2007 [12:55]
An opposition party leader on Monday alleged that the government had ordered the fatal shooting of another opposition figure, but a top figure in the parliament's majority coalition rejected the claim.
22 May 2007 [12:10]
Former Industry Minister of France Patrick Devedjian will occupy the post of Secretary General of the ruling UMP party. This post was vacant after former UMP leader Nicolas Sarkozy was elected France's new President.
22 May 2007 [12:06]
Russia will continue playing an active role as a mediator in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told students at Baku State University on Tuesday.
22 May 2007 [12:00]
Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire again.
22 May 2007 [11:18]
Russia is interested in stability and the absence of hot spots on its borders, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told students at Baku State University on Tuesday.
22 May 2007 [09:04]
Delegation of the French Senate's France-Caucasus Friendship Group led by Senator Ambroise Dupont met with Vice-Speaker of Azerbaijan Parliament Bahar Muradova and members of the working group of Azerbaijan-France Inter-parliamentary ties.
22 May 2007 [09:01]
Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Artur Rasizade on 21 May received the delegation led by the FM of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov.
22 May 2007 [08:59]
According to the bilateral military cooperation plan between Azerbaijan and Ukraine, representatives of the Azerbaijan Armed Forces are attending a final planning conference of the Sea Breeze-2007 training on May 20-24 in Odessa, Ukraine.
22 May 2007 [08:57]
Azerbaijan's Minister of Justice Fikret Mammadov met Monday with Iran’s new ambassador to Azerbaijan Nasir Hamidi Zare.
22 May 2007 [08:43]
Training on "Acquaintance with logistics" will be held in Ankara from May 21 till June 1 and "Control and management of air space" will be held in Izmir on May 24-25 in the framework of the program of Partnership for Peace (PFP) according to the individual program signed between NATO and Azerbaijan.
22 May 2007 [08:41]
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has posted wrong information on the Azerbaijani province of Nagorno Karabakh in the section on Armenia that says "Armenian leaders remain preoccupied by the long conflict with Muslim Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh, a primarily Armenian-populated region, assigned to Soviet Azerbaijan in the 1920s by Moscow."
22 May 2007 [08:35]
European Union made a statement on the state of freedom of expression in Azerbaijan when Eynulla Fatullayev was arrested and we remain in this position, said Per Stankina, Ambassador of Germany chairing the European Union.
22 May 2007 [08:32]
The next presidential elections in Azerbaijan are to be held on October 15, 2008 according to the legislation, Central Election Commission chief Mazahir Panahov said.
22 May 2007 [08:30]
Armenian armed forces have begun to burn down occupied parts of Azerbaijani regions of Fuzuli and Jabrayil again.
22 May 2007 [08:28]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received on Monday Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov.
22 May 2007 [08:07]
Azerbaijan and Germany are interested in expansion of cooperation in protection of borders, deputy chief of State Border Service, Maj. Gen. Farhad Tagizade said.
22 May 2007 [08:02]
Azerbaijani Parliamentarian Sabir Hajiyev has left for Kyiv to attend the meeting of Political Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE).
22 May 2007 [07:59]
OSCE is going to monitor the Anticorruption Centre in Guba region this autumn.
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