Politics
01 May 2007 [17:32]
Parliament approved draft law on Red Crescent Society in the second reading.
01 May 2007 [16:45]
A publication of article on so called "Armenian genocide" erupted scandal over the issue.
01 May 2007 [16:31]
Mongolia's Foreign Minister Nyamaagiyn Enkhbold is scheduled to visit Azerbaijan this year.
01 May 2007 [16:27]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev received the delegation led by Georgian Prosecutor General Zurab Adeishvili.
01 May 2007 [16:25]
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is arriving for official visit to Azerbaijan tonight at the invitation of President Ilham Aliyev.
01 May 2007 [16:23]
Draft law on Amnesty that was submitted to the parliament on the initiative of parliamentarian, president of Heydar Aliyev Foundation (HAF) Mehriban Aliyeva, was included into the parliament's agenda and to be debated on May 8.
01 May 2007 [16:20]
Former Health Minister Ali Insanov has been transfered to a mass cell in Bayil detention place #1.
01 May 2007 [16:15]
Azerbaijani and Georgian General Prosecutors' Offices concluded an agreement on cooperation.
01 May 2007 [14:18]
The US Department of State released Country Reports on Terrorism 2006. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism.
01 May 2007 [13:57]
Azerbaijan Communist Party and United Communist Party organized picket on May 1.
01 May 2007 [13:33]
UN will never discuss issues regarding claims on Armenian genocide.
01 May 2007 [13:26]
Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov presented a protest note to Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov, the Ministry's spokesman Khazar Ibrahim reports.
01 May 2007 [12:55]
OSCE coordinator on Economic and Environmental Activities Bernard Snoy's report on the fires in Nagorno Karabakh and other occupied regions of Azerbaijan has not yet been discussed at the UN General Assembly's session.
01 May 2007 [11:11]
Officials of Council of Europe and OSCE will meet in Madrid on May 3.
01 May 2007 [11:10]
Azerbaijani permanent representative to UN Agshin Mehdiyev, who doubles for extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to Cuba presented his credentials to the Foreign Ministry and President Fidel Castro.
01 May 2007 [10:41]
Jordan's charge d'affaires Abel Adaylekh is to arrive in Azerbaijan on Tuesday.
01 May 2007 [09:31]
"The researches on uranium enrichment in Armenia do not pose any threat to the neighboring countries. Despite the fact that Armenia is situated in seismologically active area, the reactors of Atomic Power Station are quake- resistant," Adil Geribov, director of Radiation Problems Institute of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences stated.
01 May 2007 [09:28]
Musavat Party held a rally demanding the annulment of the decision of Tariff Council, reduce of public utilities.
01 May 2007 [09:22]
Final variant of the report on the South Caucasus will be presented to the European Parliament in September, the European Parliament told.
01 May 2007 [09:19]
"The inclusion of issues on Azerbaijan in Brussels Forum shows the world's attention to the region, and our role in the world," Samad Seyidov, head of parliamentary commission for international affairs told.
01 May 2007 [09:16]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is to pay an official visit to Morocco May 3.
01 May 2007 [09:14]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will leave for Brussels to meet with representatives of NATO and European Union, Khazar Ibrahim, spokesman for Foreign Ministry told.
01 May 2007 [08:44]
Ruslan Bashirli, leader of Yeni Fikir youth movement was released from the punishment cell, Osman Kazimov, lawyer for Beshirli informed.
01 May 2007 [08:40]
Delegation of the German parliamentarians will pay visit to Azerbaijan in October at the invitation of Azerbaijani side.
30 April 2007 [22:52]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev appointed a chief to the State Migration Service.
30 April 2007 [22:42]
Two-day conference dedicated to "National Strategy for increase of transparency and combating corruption" started in Baku today.
30 April 2007 [22:33]
The members of delegation led by Dagestan's President Mukhu Aliyev visited the tombs of the then President Heydar Aliyev, Dagestan province party committee's first secretary Aziz Aliyev, academician Zarifa Aliyeva in the Honor Alley and Alley of Martyrs in Baku.
30 April 2007 [22:22]
Procedure for Nakhchivan-Iran visa has been simplified, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic State Customs Committee told.
30 April 2007 [21:50]
Azerbaijani Parliament is expected to adopt Amnesty act on May 10, 2007, sources in the Parliament told.
30 April 2007 [17:03]
Yalchin Binnetli, deputy chief of the Union on Returning to Western Azerbaijan was sentenced to 10-day imprisonment by the decision of Yasamal district court.
30 April 2007 [15:32]
The European Union stressed Georgia's growing importance as a transit country for oil and gas from the Caspian Sea region at talks Monday as the EU seeks to reduce dependency on energy imports from Russia.
30 April 2007 [14:19]
Tomorrow Azerbaijani Parliament will hold next session.
30 April 2007 [13:16]
Georgia's Prosecutor General Zurab Adeishvili will arrive in Azerbaijan tonight.
30 April 2007 [12:52]
Dagestan's President Mukhu Aliyev is paying one-day official visit to Azerbaijan.
30 April 2007 [12:08]
The June summit of GUAM member-states may postpone if Ukrainian Rada does not ratify GUAM documents passed last year. Azerbaijan party officially warned Ukrainian parliament on this issue.
30 April 2007 [12:04]
The famous news presenter o Ukraine "5th channel" Igor Slisarenko has made a fragment on the economic development of Azerbaijan.
30 April 2007 [12:02]
Samir Mammadov, Armenian-captured Azerbaijani soldier officially refused to return to motherland, writing to his parents and said he wants to be handed over to a third country.
30 April 2007 [09:01]
Azerbaijan says it will go ahead with a high-level visit to the United States that it had canceled in protest of a U.S. State Department human rights report.
28 April 2007 [11:52]
A revolt by Turkey's secular opposition on Friday derailed the first round of voting on a presidential candidate with a background in political Islam, and in a harsh warning, the military hinted that it might act against the government if it strayed too far from secularism.
28 April 2007 [11:32]
Opposition politician Eldar Namazov, who resigned in October 1999 as an adviser to Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev, published a three-part article in February-March 2007 in successive issues of the opposition weekly "Realny Azerbaijan" focusing on the relative strength of regional political groupings in Azerbaijan and the role they have played in national politics both before and since independence.
28 April 2007 [11:29]
Russia's peoples' artist Iosif Kobzon visiting Azerbaijan held a press conference in Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.
28 April 2007 [11:26]
Baku Mayor's Office sanctioned pro-opposition Musavat Party's rally fixed for April 29.
28 April 2007 [11:25]
"The restoration of the language of the 2006 US State Department country reports on human rights is in favor of Azerbaijan. It proved that Azerbaijan is a leading country of the South Caucasus for its economic potential and geostrategic position," Eldar Namazov, president of Public Forum for Azerbaijan told journalists.
28 April 2007 [11:24]
The OIC conference "Role of media in the development of tolerance and mutual understanding" in Baku continues.
28 April 2007 [11:21]
European Youth Forum (EYF) started its meeting in Azerbaijan for the first time among the other Muslim countries.
28 April 2007 [11:18]
"There are some variants concerning the meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents. One of them is organizing the presidents' meeting on June 10, 2007 in St. Petersburg. But much depends on Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharian," said Yuri Merzlyakov, OSCE Minsk Group Russian co-chair.
28 April 2007 [11:17]
The conference held in Baku was the first conference in the framework of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) devoted to media. The participants of the conference consider this event very significant, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists.
28 April 2007 [11:07]
Monitoring on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, near the Tapgaragoyunlu village of Goranboy region of Azerbaijan was held on Friday in accordance with the mandate of Personal Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office.
28 April 2007 [11:06]
European Union (EU) has made a statement on media freedom in Azerbaijan.
28 April 2007 [11:03]
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, asked President Ilham Aliyev to issue a moratorium on criminal prosecution of journalists and follow up with a decriminalization reform.
28 April 2007 [10:58]
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Mathew Bryza, Yuri Merzlyakov and Bernard Fasier, who are mediating for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, will visit the region together with Josep Borrell, Special Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office.
28 April 2007 [10:57]
Azerbaijan Delegation is to raise a question on transfer of arms from Russia to Armenia and control of illegal arms at the meeting of NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Portugal.
28 April 2007 [10:49]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received the delegation led by ali Sarikaya, president of the Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation (ICYFDC).
28 April 2007 [10:44]
It was no accident that Yashar Aliyev, Azerbaijan's new ambassador to the U.S., began his first official visit to the United States on Friday with a stop in Houston.
28 April 2007 [10:38]
Azerbaijan Court of Grave Crimes upheld the decision of Sumgayit Court on Rizan Talibov, chief of defense committee for former health minister Ali Insanov's rights, chief of Unity of Returning to Western Azerbaijan, in force.
28 April 2007 [10:32]
Azerbaijani and German Ambassadors to Georgia met local Azerbaijani nationals in the Cultural center of Azerbaijanis in Marneuli.
28 April 2007 [10:30]
Samad Seyidov, chief of the parliamentary standing commission of international affairs and interparliamentary relations left for Brussels to attend the forum of Marshall Fund.
28 April 2007 [10:25]
Trouble is brewing in Iran's 'Southern Azerbaijan' as the government targets Azeri human rights activists and cracks down on what some view as the Azeri ethnic minority's struggle for more democracy and human rights, and what others call separatism.
27 April 2007 [16:09]
Next round of negotiations between Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be held on June 10, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Armenian President Robert Kocharian announced the date and place of negotiations in a meeting with students of Yerevan State University.
27 April 2007 [16:02]
Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) attempted to hold a protest action outside Iranian Embassy. Police prevented protesters from holding action.
27 April 2007 [15:50]
"Repatriation of captured Azerbaijani soldier Samir Mammadov will depend on his will," said Andrzej Kasprzyk, Special Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office who is participating in the monitoring of the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, in the village of Tapgaragoyunlu of Goranboy region.
27 April 2007 [14:30]
The U.S. government has not changed its policy regarding the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, US State Department official Tom Casey said a briefing in Washington, D.C.
27 April 2007 [12:58]
"During the meeting with President Ilham Aliyev, I concerned myself with the current negotiations for peaceful resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The President informed me about the latest meetings between the parties. I think the parties have certain positive approaches to the problem," former Romanian President Ion Iliescu told journalists in Baku.
27 April 2007 [12:31]
Romania is a member of the European Union and this factor predetermines Romania's role in international relations, former President of Romania Ion Iliescu told journalists in Baku while commenting on the prospect of Romania's joining GUAM.
27 April 2007 [11:57]
Israeli-Azerbaijan International Association (IAIA) is planning to hold solemn event on May 28 - Republic day of Azerbaijan.
27 April 2007 [11:55]
The solemn opening ceremony of the US European Command's "Joint Tendency-2007" maneuvers started in Armenian Defense Ministry's Military Aviation Institute. Azerbaijani military men do not attend these maneuvers.
27 April 2007 [11:08]
27 April 2007 [10:48]
Serbia urged a U.N. Security Council fact-finding mission Thursday to reject a Western-backed plan that would give supervised independence to Kosovo, as thousands of Serb refugees rallied to demand they be able to return to the breakaway province.
27 April 2007 [09:18]
Azerbaijani delegation led by General Major Ilham Mehdiyev, chief of the Coastal Security of the State Border Service visited Turkey.
27 April 2007 [09:13]
Azerbaijani ambassador to the Kingdom of Netherlands Fuad Isgandarov presented his credentials to the Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
27 April 2007 [09:10]
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is scheduled to make an official visit to Azerbaijan on May 2-3.
27 April 2007 [09:09]
Head of Azerbaijan permanent representation to UN Agshin Mehdiyev will visit Cuba.
27 April 2007 [09:06]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received former Romanian President and the honorary chief of Social Democratic Party Ion Iliescu.
27 April 2007 [08:59]
Committee for the Defense of the Rights of World Azerbaijanis (CDRWA) applied to US Congress on the violation of rights of Iranian Azerbaijanis.
27 April 2007 [08:59]
The 15th anniversary of the occupation of Azerbaijani town of Shusha by Armenian foreces will be marked in Strasbourg, France, State Committee for Azerbaijanis Living Abroad informs.
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