Politics
12 November 2005 [12:58]
The Democratic Reforms party asked experts to make an independent evaluation of the poll results conducted in Azerbaijan by PA Consulting Group.
11 November 2005 [20:57]
"Elections were held in a very objective and peaceful form in Azerbaijan," reads statement of the members of the Georgian Central Election Commission Gizo Mchedlidze, Guram Chalagashvili and the Head of the press-service of Georgian CEC Tamara Mchedilishvili who observed the parliamentary elections held in Azerbaijan.
11 November 2005 [20:39]
The period of accreditation of Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will end on January 28, 2006.
11 November 2005 [20:32]
The president Ilham Aliyev received the head of the OSCE Election Observation Mission Geert Ahrens yesterday.
11 November 2005 [20:23]
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov will visit Strasbourg and Brussels in the middle of November to hold negotiations in the frame of the European Commission.
11 November 2005 [16:19]
The Azerbaijani State Department on Religious Establishments expressed its dissatisfaction by that the annual report of the U.S. State Department on adherence to freedom of religion in the world.
11 November 2005 [16:07]
One of the key objectives of Russian President Putin’s visit to Azerbaijan will be the opening of the Year of Russia in Azerbaijan in 2006, Abbas Abbasov, the Azerbaijani Vice Premier, told Trend. A serious of events will be held in Azerbaijan under President’s visit to Azerbaijan.
11 November 2005 [13:53]
"Statements by the opposition regarding their intentions to establish orange tents on squares are insignificant," stated the deputy-chief of the Baku city Main Board of Police Yashar Aliyev.
11 November 2005 [13:28]
"There is no doubt in the legality of the parliamentary elections held in Azerbaijan," stated the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov.
11 November 2005 [13:22]
Yesterday the Central Election Commission (CEC) has looked through received complaints. The secretary of the CEC Natig Mammadov stated that according to the complaints received by the organization from Nakhchivan city #4 Election Constituency (EC) law violations happened during the voting in polling station #2. Therefore the organization has decided to liquidate the results of the election returns at the station.
11 November 2005 [13:15]
"The International Crisis Group fully agrees with the OSCE statement on the elections held in Azerbaijan," stated the director of the "Caucasian project" of the International Crisis Group (ICG) Sabina Frazer at a press-conference held today.
11 November 2005 [12:14]
The Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) held a rally-concert yesterday celebrating the victory in the parliamentary elections.
10 November 2005 [18:51]
Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan started crime case on the facts of severe violations of electoral legislation in Binagadi ConEC2 #9 and Sumgayit ConEC 2#42. The election results from both are announced unreliable under article 308.1 (abuse of duties) and 161.1 (forgery of election documents, miscounting of voices purposely, breaching the rule on secret voting) of the Criminal Code.
10 November 2005 [18:37]
"The abolishment of the results in two constituencies is an indication that the Government of Azerbaijan is acting in response to the reported irregularities and fraud," said Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman of the US State Department.
10 November 2005 [18:12]
Chairman of Central Election Commission Mazahir Panahov told the journalist that, the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan were discussed during his meeting with the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish.
10 November 2005 [17:58]
"If stability in Azerbaijan is violated regulation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be postponed on an indefinite time. If taking into consideration that we have quite approached solution of the conflict, sudden deterioration of the situation would be very bad," writes OSCE chairman, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia Dmitri Rupel in his article printed in "The Wall Street Journal".
10 November 2005 [17:48]
President Ilham Aliyev signed decree on the dismissal of Heads of Executive Powers of Surakhani and Sabirabad.
10 November 2005 [17:31]
Interview of Day.Az with a deputy from the 30 Surakhan district Anar Mamedkhanov.
10 November 2005 [13:36]
The chairman of the Adalat (Justice) Party Ilyas Ismayilov appealed to the president of Azerbaijan.
10 November 2005 [13:11]
Since yesterday oppositionists are sending population SMS calling to participate in the rally of "Azadliq" bloc at the square in front of "Qalaba" cinema.
10 November 2005 [13:05]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Ukraine issued a statement on the results of the parliamentary elections held in Azerbaijan.
10 November 2005 [12:54]
Mishael Cheshin, Deputy President of Supreme Court of Israel will arrive in Baku tomorrow.
10 November 2005 [12:38]
"NATO is ready to dislocate peacekeeping forces in the South Caucasus if it is necessary," stated NATO communication officer for the South Caucasus Romualdas Rajusk.
10 November 2005 [12:33]
President of Russia Vladimir Putin made a called to the head of the state Ilham Aliyev and congratulated Ilham Aliyev with successful democratic parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.
09 November 2005 [21:09]
Today the CEC adopted a decision to annul election results of some polling stations of eights Binagadi precinct.
09 November 2005 [20:44]
Yesterday the Ambassador of Norway to Azerbaijan held a press conference on the results of the elections.
09 November 2005 [20:05]
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer made a statement on the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.
09 November 2005 [17:45]
Hasan Karimov, the deputy of PFPA chairman informed APA news agency that "Azadliq" bloc has made a decision on holding a rally-meeting on November 12 together with National Unity Movement.
09 November 2005 [17:11]
Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) plans to hold a rally on November 20.
09 November 2005 [16:25]
The oppositional block "Azadliq" along with "Yeni Siyaset" [New Politics] block and the Liberal Party of Azerbaijan have started their promised rally at the "20 January" subway station and are moving towards "Gelebe" movie theater were they will hold a meeting that was sanctioned by the city authorities.
09 November 2005 [14:36]
The whereabouts of ex-speaker, the head of Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, Rasul Guliyev are unknown even to his relatives.
09 November 2005 [14:29]
"OSCE Long-term Observation Mission will stay in Baku until they make final statement on November 6 Elections held in Azerbaijan," said the Mission's coordinator on media Urdur Gunnadukhter.
09 November 2005 [14:08]
The statement of the US Department of State by Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman of the Department.
09 November 2005 [13:55]
Statement of the Presidency of the European Union on the Parliamentary Elections in Azerbaijan.
09 November 2005 [13:48]
New Parliament is expected to hold its first sitting in the late November or early December.
08 November 2005 [20:44]
"The authorities are ready for a dialogue with the opposition representatives, protesting against the results of the elections," said the executive secreatary of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) Ali Ahmedov.
08 November 2005 [19:57]
The the Central Election Committee (CEC) held a meeting on Tuesday. The meeting considered some complaints on the results of the voting and adopted appropriate decisions.
08 November 2005 [17:02]
"The ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party (YAP) won the 2005 parliamentary elections," the YAP executive secretary Ali Ahmedov told the news conference on 8 November, Trend reports.
08 November 2005 [15:34]
Member of the elections observation mission of Bulgaria held a news conference on Tuesday to sumerize the result of the monitoring of poll on 6 November, Trend reports.
08 November 2005 [15:25]
The US State Department called on the citizens of Azerbaijan to avoid violence while clearing out the issues of violations during the November 6 parliamentary elections, Trend reports citing "RIA Novosti".
08 November 2005 [14:53]
Yesterday "Yeni Siyaset"[New Politics] bloc held a press conference dedicated to the initial results of the parliamentary elections.
08 November 2005 [14:35]
21-member delegation of Islamic Republic of Iran observed the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan (APA).
08 November 2005 [13:42]
"An interpreter of the international observation mission with a number of gross linguistic and lexical mistakes distorted the words uttered by the PA OSCE chairman during the news conference," said Azer Gasimov, the press-secretary of the Azerbaijani President.
08 November 2005 [13:24]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev valued the results of the parliamentary elections as positive in an interview to the Azerbaijan state television AzTV on Tuesday.
08 November 2005 [13:08]
"The voting was generally calm. The observers assessed the voting process positively in 87 percent of the stations they have visited and negatively in 13 percent of polling stations" - concluded the International Election Observation Mission (IEOM) in a preliminary statement released yesterday.
08 November 2005 [12:57]
Head of the Central Election Commission Mazahir Panahov held a final press conference on the results of the parliamentary elections yesterday. He said that the "Elections" Information Center received the initial results: 46.8% of voters over the republic participated in the voting.
07 November 2005 [21:58]
The USAID ensured overhaul monitoring of the results of the exit poll conducted by the PA Government Services on the voting day in Azerbaijan to prevent undesirable impact on the results in favor of any candidate to deputies," reads a press release spread by the U.S. embassy to Azerbaijan.
07 November 2005 [21:17]
"Freedom of assembly is one of the main political freedoms and if the Azerbaijani opposition expresses will to hold peaceful actions, the government must not hinder it," Andres Herkel, the PACE co-rapourteur on Azerbaijan, stated at a meeting with journalists on Monday.
07 November 2005 [21:09]
"The parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan can be regarded as successful. They were democratic, transparent and fair guaranteed by the improved elections legislation system," Elmira Suleymanova, the Azerbaijani Ombudsman told Trend news agency.
07 November 2005 [19:26]
On Monday representatives of the Central Elections Commissions (CEC) and Russia and Ukraine, Igor Kachur and Mikhael Okhendovskiy (Ukraine) and Siyabshakh Shapiyev (Russia), who participated in the parliamentary elections, held a press conference.
07 November 2005 [18:58]
Anar Mamedkhanov who was re-elected to the new Parliament, says that principles of exit-polling were violated at his precinct.
07 November 2005 [18:54]
A "New Politics" alliance’s chairmen announced today that the bloc plans protest actions against falsifications of the voting results.
07 November 2005 [18:27]
For this moment 95, 74 percent of ballots were processed. The processed data allows drawing preliminary results of elections by parties.
07 November 2005 [18:24]
Political block Azadliq does not recognize the results of the elections and starts constitutional fight for their cancellation and new elections to the parliament,” said leader of Musavat party Isa Gambar.
07 November 2005 [18:09]
"The parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan do not meet the commitments of Azerbaijan to international institutions and do not meet the democratic standards," said the president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) Elsy Gastings at a news conference on November 7 in Baku.
07 November 2005 [18:05]
"The victory of 33% of independent candidates testifies the democratic organization of the parliamentary elections," Akkan Suver, the head of the Turkish observation mission, also chairman of Marmara Fund, said at a news conference in Baku.
07 November 2005 [18:02]
A group of international observers for the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan held on 6 November noted their high level. It has been told at the news conference on 7 November held by the analysts of the American Democratic Centre and the London Democratic Institute, Trend reports.
07 November 2005 [17:49]
The CIS observation mission recognizes the elections to Milli Mejlis (the Parliament) of Azerbaijan. The head of the CIS observation mission Vladimir Rushaylo stated today at a news conference in Baku that the elections were in conformity with the local legislation and the norms of democracy.
07 November 2005 [14:48]
The Baku executive power sent a reply letter to the application of the "Azadliq" block regarding the rallies on 8, 9 and 10 of November.
07 November 2005 [14:00]
The Central Election Commission published preliminary results of the elections to the Parliament.
07 November 2005 [13:23]
"Observers from Latvia did not noticed any serious violations during the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan that could jeopardize validity of the results of the voting," stated the chairman of the Latvian Central Election Committee (CEC) Arnis Tsimdars.
07 November 2005 [12:30]
The latest data from Ganja states that 59,930 inhabitants, or 41.85% participated in the elections. 143,190 electors were registered at four existing constituencies in Ganja.
07 November 2005 [12:02]
Andreas Gross and Andreas Herkel, the European parliamentarians involved in the monitoring process in Ganja, held a news conference on November 6 at 11:00 p.m.
07 November 2005 [11:35]
"The parliamentary elections held on Sunday succeeded," Ali Ahmadov, the Executive Secretary of the Yeni Azerbaijan (New Azerbaijan) Party said at a news conference on Sunday.
06 November 2005 [22:28]
"No serious violations were revealed in the elections," stated Etibar Mammadov, the leader of the Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP).
06 November 2005 [22:17]
At 9:00 p.m. the CEC held an exceptional session called on the demand of five members of the CEC with Vidadi Makhmudov heading them.
06 November 2005 [21:44]
"Azadliq" bloc is going to demand cancellation of the election results.
06 November 2005 [18:48]
"We have registered mass violations during today elections" stated the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan Ali Kerimli.
06 November 2005 [17:11]
The Democratic Party of Azerbaijan decided to leave on Rasul Guliev to decide whether he wants to come back.
06 November 2005 [16:51]
The embassy of the United States is closely observing the voting process at the voting precinct where ex-speaker Rasul Guliev is running.
06 November 2005 [12:31]
The president gave a small interview while visiting polling station at the school #6 at Sabayil precinct 29.
06 November 2005 [12:21]
The CIS Executive Secretary, head of the CIS Observation Mission Vladimir Rushaylo commented on the Elections' process.
06 November 2005 [10:12]
Faramaz Javadov, arrested during the Friday search at the election headquarters of Rasul Guliyev was released yesterday night.
05 November 2005 [14:48]
"The Russian military presence hinders regulation of the conflicts in Georgia and Moldova," says a joint statement spread by the delegations of the GUAM countries (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) adopted at the meeting of the OSCE Standing Council in Vienna on Thursday.
05 November 2005 [14:22]
The law "On adoption of a joint communique between Azerbaijan and Turkey" became effective on Saturday, November 5. The communique was signed by the sides in Baku on 30 June and adopted by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on 30 September 2005.
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