Politics
02 May 2007 [22:05]
Azerbaijan and Belarus presidents gave a briefing in Baku today.
02 May 2007 [21:57]
Miklos Haraszti, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media published final variant of the report on journalists' opportunities on getting information in OSCE member states in 2006.
02 May 2007 [16:31]
Azerbaijan and Belarus Presidents are holding one-on-one meeting in Baku.
02 May 2007 [16:29]
Defense minister of Azerbaijan, colonel-general Safar Abiyev met with the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the country Nasser Hamidi-Zare.
02 May 2007 [16:26]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan sent a message of congratulation to the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, on the country's national holiday - the Constitution Day.
02 May 2007 [16:24]
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and his accompanying delegation have visited the Alley of Honors in Baku, where they laid wreaths at the graves of the national leader of Azerbaijan people Heydar Aliyev and his wife Academician Zarifa Aliyeva.
02 May 2007 [12:43]
"I do not pursue a goal to participate in the 2008 presidential elections. It depends both on the current situation in the country and other factors," Chairman of Azerbaijan Social-Democratic Party Ayaz Mutallibov exclusively told.
02 May 2007 [11:42]
Azerbaijan's National Security Minister, chairman of the State Committee for Prisoners of War, Hostages, and Missing Persons Eldar Mahmudov raised an issue at UN office in Azerbaijan on release of Azerbaijani soldier Samir Mammadov, who has been captured by Armenians.
02 May 2007 [11:40]
The Second summit of GUAM will be held in Baku on June 18-19, 2007.
02 May 2007 [11:36]
"Freedom House" states about various oppressions and court processes on journalists in Azerbaijan last year.
02 May 2007 [10:24]
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko arrived in Baku Tuesday night.
02 May 2007 [10:21]
Iran accused the United States and other world powers of being the world's true nuclear threats at a meeting hamstrung by Tehran's opposition to language calling for full compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
02 May 2007 [10:17]
Turkey's highest court on Tuesday blocked a presidential candidate with a background in Islamic politics, pitching the country into early elections and a referendum on the role of religion in its future.
02 May 2007 [10:10]
Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Marat Tazhin said his country was eager to get the OSCE Chairmanship in 2009 and was introducing a range of democratic reforms to meet this goal.
02 May 2007 [09:43]
Russia applied to Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry on the National Television and Radio Council's decision to stop the broadcasting of ORT and RTR TV channels.
02 May 2007 [09:41]
Iranian Ambassador to Baku Nasser Hamidi-Zare and Azeri Minister of Internal Affairs Ramil Usubov in a meeting on Tuesday discussed matters of bilateral interest.
02 May 2007 [09:21]
The conference of the Turkish–Asia Centre for Strategic Research is to be held in the Ataturk centre on May 3, the head of Azerbaijan Ataturk Centre Dayanat Osmanli told.
02 May 2007 [09:14]
Azerbaijan intends to open its Embassy in Vietnam.
02 May 2007 [09:05]
Being opposition party, Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) will establish relations with other political organizations representing this camp after the congress.
02 May 2007 [09:03]
Baku will host the 33rd meeting of scientific-technical commission for standardization for Intergovernmental Council on CIS Standardization, Metrology and Certification, and the 16th meeting of working group on information technologies.
01 May 2007 [21:50]
Azerbaijani student, who was injured during the clash with Armenian students in "South-West" exhibition organized at the Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow, has been identified.
01 May 2007 [21:33]
Turkish Constitutional Court passed a decision on suspension of the presidential elections.
01 May 2007 [21:11]
"We are working out tactical and strategic aspects of our election campaign for 2008. US National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute are cooperating with us, and rendering assistance in staff training. Our specialists to function in the regions and centre take courses. The election plan is already ready. Ilham Aliyev is the only candidate of us," Deputy Secretary of ruling YAP, MP Siyavush Novruzlu stated.
01 May 2007 [18:09]
"Parliamentarians and civil servants can not engage in entrepreneurship. It is confirmed by the law," parliamentarian, Deputy Executive Secretary of ruling YAP Siyavush Novruzov said while commenting on suspension of "Avropa gapilari" OJSC founded by Baba Tagiyev.
01 May 2007 [18:02]
Permanent parliamentary commission for legal policy and state system establishment held its meeting.
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.
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