Politics
16 March 2007 [08:28]
Daniel Fried, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs gave testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Europe, Washington, DC, March 15, 2007.
16 March 2007 [08:21]
Election Constituency (EC) of Khankendi #122 intends to increase the number of polling stations in the area.
16 March 2007 [07:57]
Like all representatives of the world community, I also wish a peaceful solution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, head of OSCE Office in Baku Jose Luis Herrero Ansola said at a press conference.
16 March 2007 [07:53]
"NATO does not interfere with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but follows the process of settlement," Robert Simmons, NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia told journalists.
15 March 2007 [23:08]
"Christian Strohal's initiative on dialogue between Azerbaijani authorities and opposition is an interesting idea. If the sides wish, OSCE Office in Baku can organize this dialogue," Jose Luis Herrero Ansola, Head of OSCE Office in Baku told journalists.
15 March 2007 [23:02]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev visiting Tajikistan met with Tajikistan's Prime Minister Akil Akilov.
15 March 2007 [22:54]
"We can not but agree to Vardan Oskanyan's statement that the situation on human rights in the South Caucasus in the past 15 years is unpleasant.
15 March 2007 [22:50]
The fourth meeting of National Coordinators Council of GUAM - Organization for Democracy and Economic Development started.
15 March 2007 [22:49]
Trial on case of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants accused of embezzlement, abuse of power and bribery continued in the second part of the day at Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes.
15 March 2007 [22:47]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev approved the law on amendments to the law "On status of Azerbaijani parliamentarians."
15 March 2007 [22:45]
"Making use of the letter and processes in ADP Azadliq alliance leadership made attempts to dictate Rasul Guliyev and us their terms. That is why they wanted to hide Rasul Guliyev's letter away from me," a leader of a part of Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) Sardar Jalaloghlu said.
15 March 2007 [22:42]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev on a visit in Tajikistan had a one-on-one meeting with Tajikistan's President Emomoli Rahmonov.
15 March 2007 [17:51]
"I am pleased with my visit in Baku. We are satisfied with the measures taken in the past two years within the framework of the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP). I am sure the partnership between Azerbaijan and NATO has a great potential," NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, Robert Simmons stated.
15 March 2007 [17:17]
Belarus government has prepared a special plan of measures on cooperation with Azerbaijan, Belarus Prime Minister Sergei Sidorski said while receiving Azerbaijani Ambassador to Belarus Ali Nagiyev.
15 March 2007 [16:48]
The books about the genocide committed against Azerbaijanis on March 31,1918 will be exhibited in Azerbaijan State National Library named after MIrza Fatali Akhundov, the director of the library Kerim Tahirov told.
15 March 2007 [16:34]
Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire again.
15 March 2007 [14:42]
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs issued a joint statement after the meeting of Azeri and Armenian Foregn Ministers.
15 March 2007 [14:20]
The members of Kartuli Dasi (Our Georgia) Party of Georgia organized a protest action outside Azerbaijani embassy in Georgia.
15 March 2007 [14:18]
All personal real estates of the tried former health minister Ali Insanov have been seized, the Real Estate Register Service chief Arif Garashov said.
15 March 2007 [13:29]
Azerbaijan's Parliament is to hold its next meeting tomorrow.
15 March 2007 [13:26]
Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorski will pay a business-like visit to Azerbaijan in late March.
15 March 2007 [13:22]
Ilham Aliyev has approved the agreement on humanitarian cooperation of the CIS countries.
15 March 2007 [13:20]
President Ilham Aliyev approved the agreement on "Socio-economic cooperation between Azerbaijan and Belarus till 2015".
15 March 2007 [13:17]
President Ilham Aliyev is visiting Tajikistan. Azerbaijani President was welcomed in Dushanbe airport and after that the head of state went to the residency.
15 March 2007 [13:13]
Israeli Parliament refused the proposal of Khaim Oron, parliamentarian from MEREC party on discussing so called Armenian genocide.
15 March 2007 [12:47]
The investigation of the criminal case ex-minister Farhad Aliyev and his brother, ex-president of Azpetrol company Rafig Aliyev has been completed and the materials have been already submitted to defense side.
15 March 2007 [12:35]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev issued an executive order on approving the joint declaration of Azerbaijani and Latvian Presidents.
15 March 2007 [12:34]
Belarus government has worked out a plan on cooperation with Azerbaijan, Belarus Prime Minister Sergey Sidorski said.
15 March 2007 [12:32]
A bill on so called Armenian genocide has been presented to the Upper House of the US Senate.
15 March 2007 [11:48]
With Germany taking the helm, the EU sets its sights on the S Caucasus in a move to strengthen financial and political ties.
15 March 2007 [09:15]
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, long said to be the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed to them at a military hearing held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Saturday, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon Wednesday. He also acknowledged full or partial responsibility for more than 30 other terror attacks or plots.
15 March 2007 [08:54]
Ms. Maria Calivis, UNICEF Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) visited displaced-persons camp in Darnagul settlement of Baku.
15 March 2007 [08:52]
15 March 2007 [08:48]
Parliamentarians from the opposition Musavat Party will submit a draft law "On Amendments to Electoral Code" to the Parliament.
15 March 2007 [08:47]
Alexander Moroz, speaker of Ukrainian parliament today received the members of the Azerbaijan-Ukraine interparliamentary working group.
15 March 2007 [08:46]
An international conference "Kazakhstan's international cooperation: reality, tasks and prospects" is being held at Kazakhstan Upper Chamber's - Senate's initiative.
15 March 2007 [08:44]
Alexander Moroz, speaker of Ukrainian parliament today received the members of the Azerbaijan-Ukraine interparliamentary working group, Azerbaijani ambassador to Ukraine Talat Aliyev stated.
15 March 2007 [08:36]
Deputy Narimanov Prosecutor Isfendiyar Mehbaliyev was dismissed.
15 March 2007 [08:28]
Azerbaijan's Court of Appeals presided over by judge Mirza Tagiyev dismissed the appeal of the chief of Azerbaijan Peoples Front party Ali Karimli for Nasimi court's decision.
15 March 2007 [08:25]
The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) will meet in Paris on March 16.
15 March 2007 [08:18]
On Thursday Russian Duma will hold a debate on juridical ensuring of the energy and ecological security of CIS states of the Caspian region.
15 March 2007 [08:15]
Russian Federation Council and Azerbaijani Parliament are expected to sign a memorandum on cooperation during the visit of the chief of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov to Azerbaijan.
15 March 2007 [08:14]
Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe Thomas Hammerberg is to visit Azerbaijan on the first half of April.
14 March 2007 [22:45]
Turkey on Wednesday denied the news stories that direct flights would be allowed from Armenian capital Yerevan to eastern Turkish city of Van for the inauguration ceremony of the Akdamar Armenian Church.
14 March 2007 [21:54]
Armenia and Azerbaijan failed to move closer to resolving the Nagorno Karabakh conflict during their latest high-level negotiations held in Geneva.
14 March 2007 [21:36]
Baku Main Prosecutor's Office released official information on dismissal of Baku prosecutor Adalet Mirsalamli and his deputy Hafiz Babayev.
14 March 2007 [21:33]
Briefing was held in Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Tajikistan.
14 March 2007 [21:27]
Trial on case of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants accused of embezzlement, abuse of power and bribery continued in the second part of the day at Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes.
14 March 2007 [21:25]
Khaynmar Aron, parliamentarian from Meres party is expected to make speech about alleged Armenian genocide at the meeting of Israeli parliament, MP Yosef Shagal said.
14 March 2007 [21:23]
The congress of the Israel-Azerbaijan Association has been rescheduled, chief of the association, parliamentarian Yosef Shagal said.
14 March 2007 [18:06]
GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) national coordinators will tomorrow meet in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, March 15-16, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Ukraine Talat Aliyev told.
14 March 2007 [17:54]
RepresentativPresident Ilham Aliyev today received Robert Simmons, NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia.
14 March 2007 [17:40]
President Ilham Aliyev conferred Glory order on Novruz Mammadov, chief of President's Office International Relations Department.
14 March 2007 [17:11]
The State Commission for Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons is taking steps to release captured soldier of Azerbaijani Armed Forces Samir Mammadov, the commission secretary Shahin Sayilov told.
14 March 2007 [17:05]
The next round of negotiations for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict was held between Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan Oskanyan in Geneva, Foreign Ministry spokesman Khazar Ibrahim told.
14 March 2007 [15:24]
Mazam Village territory of Azerbaijani region of Gazakh, in the contact line of troops in accordance with the mandate of personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-office was monitored.
14 March 2007 [15:18]
Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Sergey Mironov will visit Azerbaijan on March 27-28.
14 March 2007 [15:14]
Trial on case of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants accused of embezzlement, abuse of power and bribery continued at Azerbaijan’s Court of Grave Crimes.
14 March 2007 [14:57]
Iran's president voiced defiance on Wednesday as world powers prepared to put the finishing touches to new sanctions against the Islamic Republic, saying his country would not surrender.
14 March 2007 [14:17]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has left for Geneva to attend the negotiating process for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
14 March 2007 [14:14]
The National Coordinators Council of GUAM, an alliance of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova, will discuss plans to reorganize GUAM at a planned meeting on March 15-16, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andriy Deschytsia announced on Tuesday.
14 March 2007 [14:10]
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Pentagon's chief Robert Gates have written to the House of Representatives.
14 March 2007 [14:09]
Turkey's President Ahmed Nejdat Sezer vetoed some appointments in the Foreign Ministry.
14 March 2007 [14:06]
"Presidential elections are not being discussed in the Azadliq alliance now. The reports about Ali Kerimli's nominating his candidacy to presidency are false," leader of National Unity Movement Lale Shovket Hajiyeva said while commenting on ex-speaker Rasul Guliyev's statement on regarding his support of Ali Kerimli's candidacy in 2008.
14 March 2007 [12:40]
14 March 2007 [12:38]
New head of OSCE Office in Baku Ambassador Jose Luis Herrero Ansola will tomorrow announce priorities on Azerbaijan for 2007.
14 March 2007 [12:28]
"Kestutis Kudzmanas is to be Lithuania's first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan. The first Lithuanian ambassador to Azerbaijan bears a great responsibility," Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus said.
14 March 2007 [12:16]
Robert Simmons, NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia has arrived in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.
14 March 2007 [11:55]
It was flattering to read Edward Luttwak's piece in the Wall Street Journal (February 27, 2007) titled Persian Shrug. In the opinion piece Luttwak repeated this writer's argument, expressed a year ago on the pages of the Philadelphia Bulletin that U.S. strategy with regard to Iran must involve the various ethnic minorities in Iran that account for almost 50 percent of the population.
14 March 2007 [08:20]
I don't consider the activity of Parliament satisfactory. Parliament can't react sufficiently to the ongoing processes in the country, support reforms and take measures on the restoration of the rule of law, the chief of United Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, parliamentarian Gudrat Hasanguliyev said.
14 March 2007 [08:19]
Chief of World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) Javad Derakhti met with US Ambassador Anne E. Derse.
14 March 2007 [08:17]
Georgia's position on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict was expressed clearly in the documents signed with Azerbaijan, Georgia's outgoing Ambassador to Azerbaijan Zurab Gumbaridze said to journalists.
14 March 2007 [08:05]
I have not met with Isa Gambar and have no intention to do it, leader of Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) Etibar Mammadov said while commenting on the reports about his meeting with Musavat leader Isa Gambar and discussing 2008 presidential elections.
14 March 2007 [07:49]
The presidents of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and Ilham Aliyev, had a telephone conversation and decided to restore and intensify fully-fledged bilateral contacts, the Turkmen president’s press service said on Tuesday.
14 March 2007 [07:44]
There were divergences in the opposition Musavat Party, some of them have already been solved, but there are still some. They will possibly be solved as a result of discussions, the member of Musavat Supreme Assembly Vurgun Eyyub said.
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