Politics
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.
27 April 2007 [08:58]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev received former speaker of Turkish parliament Hikmet Chetin.
27 April 2007 [08:57]
Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA) and Azerbaijan Society of America (ASA) will organize a protest action outside the UN headquarters in New York, State Committee for Azerbaijanis Living Abroad told.
27 April 2007 [08:53]
The State Department denied on Thursday that it restored the controversial passage under Azerbaijani pressure.
27 April 2007 [08:50]
Head of President's Press Service Azer Gasimov held a press conference on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's first state visit to South Korea.
27 April 2007 [08:50]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov regarded the changes to initial 2006 State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices "completely inadmissible fact." He said making any changes to already published reports is a bad precedent.
27 April 2007 [08:24]
The appeal filed against the arrest of Rizvan Talibov, chief of the Defense Committee of former Health Minister Ali Insanov's rights, head of the Unity of Returning to Western Azerbaijan, will be considered on Friday, said Telman Novruzzade, lawyer for Talibov.
26 April 2007 [23:44]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received Ambeyi Ligabo the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
26 April 2007 [23:37]
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry welcomed the restoration of the first version of US State Department initial 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the Ministry said in a statement.
26 April 2007 [23:22]
"100 million euro has been allocated at the disposal of the European Commission for the implementation of the action plan between the European Union and Azerbaijan within first three years, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby told.
26 April 2007 [23:09]
"I visited Nagorno Karabakh as a member of British Delegation. Nagorno Karabakh is inalienable part of Azerbaijan. Internally displaced persons should be brought back to their homelands," The only Moslem member of British House of Lords Nazir Ahmad told journalists.
26 April 2007 [23:00]
NATO is expected to supply Azerbaijan and Georgia with new technical equipment for strengthening security of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Baku-Tbilisi-Arzurum pipelines.
26 April 2007 [22:44]
Today elections are held for full and corresponding membership of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS).
26 April 2007 [16:25]
President Ilham Aliyev today received Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
26 April 2007 [15:35]
Latvia's President Vaira Vike-Freiberga is to attend the summit of head of states of GUAM to be held in Baku on June, Latvian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Mikhails Popkovs told.
26 April 2007 [14:17]
"The United States' policy which respects Azerbaijan, respects status of Nagorno Karabakh has not changed," US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Anne Derse said when commenting on the State Department's restoring the first version of initial 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
26 April 2007 [14:10]
The occupied territories of Azerbaijan' will be liberated by the schedule to be worked out by Armenian Armed Forces, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said when commenting on the negotiations for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
26 April 2007 [13:57]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visited Russian Embassy in Russia.
26 April 2007 [13:35]
"Tolerance – is one of the best Azerbaijan's aspects, your country can be an example for Europe as well," Council of Europe Secretary General's special representative on Azerbaijan told.
26 April 2007 [13:02]
On behalf of Azerbaijani-American community of California, the AAC thanks the U.S.
26 April 2007 [11:56]
Davud Savalanoglu, representative of South Azerbaijan Awakening Movement (SANAM) to Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) made statement on his resignation.
26 April 2007 [11:12]
"I have arrived in Baku for one-day visit as the European Union approaches media issues very attentively. Of course, I am interested in concrete issues, and I discussed these issues in my previous visits and I intend to keep on debating these issues again," said EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby.
26 April 2007 [11:10]
One more missing Azerbaijani is said to have been captured by Armenians on May 8-9, 1992 during the occupation of Shusha.
26 April 2007 [11:06]
The monitoring on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, near the Tapgaragoyunlu village of Goranboy region of Azerbaijan is to be held in accordance with the mandate of personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office on April 27.
26 April 2007 [11:05]
"We hope certain amendment will be made to Azerbaijani legislation that will provide considering suits on professional activity of journalists on the basis of Civil Code. According to European standards, problems related to journalists are not solved in accordance with the Criminal Code," said OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti.
26 April 2007 [10:14]
26 April 2007 [09:54]
International scientific-practical conference on the role of tourism in the economy of Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member-states will be held in Baku on June 21-22.
26 April 2007 [09:51]
Opening ceremony of Azerbaijani branch of Russia's Caucasus Democratic Institution Development Fund was held.
26 April 2007 [09:48]
Azerbaijan's Interior Minister, General Colonel Ramil Ususbov today received Ambeyi Ligabo, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, the Ministry's Press service told.
26 April 2007 [09:44]
"The changes to the initial 2006 State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are right. The previous variant of the report was wrong. The situation needed clarifying, because the current stage of negotiations on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is very delicate," US Assistant Secretary of State, OSCE Minsk group co-chair Mathew Bryza stated in his interview to radio Voice of America.
26 April 2007 [09:39]
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