Politics
28 February 2007 [09:25]
Annual report on municipalities was heard in Parliament.
28 February 2007 [09:18]
Turkish Historical Society is going to raise claim on the Khojaly genocide at international courts.
28 February 2007 [09:15]
Deputy Chief of Turkish Armed Forces General Staff army general Ergin Saygun, visiting Azerbaijan concerned himself with military educational institutions.
28 February 2007 [09:12]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov in the frame of his visit to Kazakhstan met with the chief of Senate Kasimjomart Tokayev.
28 February 2007 [09:00]
Azerbaijani Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova has appealed to the Grievous Crimes Court chairperson Mahbud Nebiyev with a letter.
28 February 2007 [08:30]
A group of rights defense organizations functioning in Azerbaijan made a statement on violation of Azerbaijanis' rights living in Iran.
28 February 2007 [07:40]
Iran's law enforcement bodies prevented the protest action on the 15th anniversary of Khojaly genocide in Tabriz, Azerbaijani circle in G?teborg informs.
28 February 2007 [07:30]
Azerbaijan Islamic Party is going to appeal to the Justice Ministry again to be registered, AIP chairman Hadji Hadjibala Nuri told.
28 February 2007 [07:10]
The Parliament's hearings on the 15th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide ended.
28 February 2007 [07:05]
The government of Japan and six Azerbaijani NGOs today signed contracts on the projects concerning reconstruction and construction of five schools and irrigation system.
28 February 2007 [07:00]
Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili rejected comparisons between Kosovo's bid for independence and the fate of two breakaway Georgian regions.
27 February 2007 [22:02]
Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) 9th Congress Organizing Committee chief Serdar Jalaloglu has appealed to the President Ilham Aliyev asking for release of political prisoners.
27 February 2007 [21:53]
"I said that some measures should be taken for the returning of Azerbaijani internally displaced persons to Nagorno Karabakh, this process can not be carried out immediately," Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov said commenting on the head of Azerbaijani community of Nagorno Karabakh Nizami Bahmanov's statement "Merzlyakov says that Azerbaijani and Armenian communities can not live together".
27 February 2007 [21:41]
Today Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev issued an executive order on State Program on Azerbaijani Resorts.
27 February 2007 [21:33]
The place of meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Robert Kocharian for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has not been determined yet, OSCE Minsk Group Russian co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov stated.
27 February 2007 [21:30]
President Ilham Aliyev received the UN resident coordinator Bruno Puezat.
27 February 2007 [17:45]
Kazakhstan's Prime Minister Kerim Mesimov met with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
27 February 2007 [16:58]
Talish Cultural Center deputy chief, poet and reporter of "Tolishi sedo" (Voice of Talish) newspaper Ali Nasir has been detained today in the morning, Hilal Mammedov, chief of the Committee for the Right Defense of Novruzeli Mammedov, chief of ANAS Institute of Linguistics, "Tolishi sedo" editor-in-chief who is now detained in the MNS detention place, told.
27 February 2007 [16:53]
President Ilham Aliyev today received the delegation led by Army General Ergin Saygun, Deputy Chief of Turkish Armed Forces General Staff.
27 February 2007 [16:35]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov during his visit in Kazakhstan met with his counterpart Marat Tajin today.
27 February 2007 [15:43]
Official Baku has sent a reply to the report of Andres Herkel and Tony Lloyd, PACE Monitoring Committee co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan related to the implementation of commitments undertaken while admission to the Council of Europe, head of Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation to PACE Samad Seyidov told.
27 February 2007 [14:01]
The issue on "frozen conflicts" in the GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) countries will be discussed at the spring session of the UN General Assembly, permanent representative of Moldova in UN Aleksey Tulbure told the journalists.
27 February 2007 [13:22]
"I know that Azerbaijani community of the United States has appealed to the US Secretary of States Rice with the letter. The United States regrets the tragic events in Khojaly 15 years ago and condemns all such attacks on civilians," spokesman Sean McCormack stated at the daily press briefing in the US Department of State.
27 February 2007 [13:05]
Azerbaijan Military Prosecutor's Office continues to examine military units of Air Forces and Air Defense Forces, Republic Military Prosecutor, Lieutenant General Khanlar Veliyev stated.
27 February 2007 [12:55]
Azerbaijani Consulate General in St. Petersburg held a commemorative event in Beloselskikh-Belozerskikh palace.
27 February 2007 [09:10]
A group of young members of the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) held a protest action outside international offices in Baku.
27 February 2007 [08:55]
Protest action was held on the 15th anniversary of Khojaly genocide outside Armenian Embassy in Iran, editor of Yarpaq newspaper Said Muganli informed.
27 February 2007 [08:45]
Tomorrow Azeri Parliamentarian Gultekin Hadjiyeva is leaving for Brussels to participate in the meeting of PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population.
27 February 2007 [08:40]
Azerbaijani Youth Club of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) with support of Heydar Aliyev Foundation held an event "15 years without Khojaly", Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia informs.
27 February 2007 [08:30]
The next meeting of the working group of five Caspian states on determining the status of the Caspian Sea is being held in Tehran.
27 February 2007 [08:25]
Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) made a decision on holding joint rallies on the recent events in Iran along with all parties, the party leader Ayaz Rustemov told.
27 February 2007 [08:20]
National Security Minister Eldar Mahmudov issued an executive order on appointing Perviz Veliyev, the chief of National Security Ministry’s Lenkeran department to Garadagh district, Baku.
27 February 2007 [08:15]
Estonian Population Minister Paul-Eerik Rummo will be visiting Azerbaijan March 7-10 at invitation of Azerbaijan State Committee on work with Azerbaijanis Living Abroad.
27 February 2007 [08:10]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received Zeyno Baran, Director of the Center for Eurasian Policy of Hudson Institute of US.
27 February 2007 [08:05]
Today President Ilham Aliyev received Iran's Ambassador to Azerbaijan Afshar Suleymani.
27 February 2007 [08:00]
Poland is ready to participate in the negotiations for the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, stated Polish Foreign Minister Anna Fotiga in the press conference in Armenia.
27 February 2007 [07:15]
Azerbaijan People's Party has decided to hold its next congress in May, deputy chief of the party Giyas Sadikhli informs.
27 February 2007 [07:10]
Chairman of Central Election Commission Mezahir Penahov is visiting Great Britain at the invitation of leadership of British Association of Election Officials.
27 February 2007 [07:05]
Monitoring is planned to be held on February 27 in Fuzuli–Horadiz territory of Azerbaijani region of Fuzuli, in the contact line of troops in accordance with the mandate of personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-office.
26 February 2007 [21:25]
Armenia's parliament has passed a bill giving ethnic Armenians the right to hold dual citizenship, a measure which could almost quadruple the number of its nationals around the world.
26 February 2007 [20:55]
Azerbaijan's Parliament (Milli Majlis) held a debate on the Khojali genocide committed by Armenian forces 15 years ago.
26 February 2007 [20:09]
Next meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan Oskanian for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be held in mid March this year.
26 February 2007 [20:00]
Azerbaijan's Defense Minister Safar Abiyev today received the delegation led by Deputy Chief of Turkish Armed Forces General Staff army general Ergin Saygun.
26 February 2007 [19:45]
Estonia's Population Minister Paul-Eerik Rummo will make a visit to Azerbaijan in early March to attend the world congress of Turkish and Azerbaijani Diasporas and meet with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev.
26 February 2007 [18:51]
Hundred prominent US businessmen appealed to President George Bush.
26 February 2007 [15:57]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will pay official visit to Astana, first secretary of Foreign Ministry Department of Press and Information Khazar Ibrahim informed.
26 February 2007 [15:35]
"Azerbaijani Parliament recognized the massacre committed in Khojaly as genocide. I think that we should do our best to prepare legal grounds of these events by means of different court instances, raising this problem in international courts and recognition of Khojaly genocide in the international organizations," Novruz Mammadov, head of President Office International Relations Department stated.
26 February 2007 [14:43]
The State Border Service expressed its official protest to Iranian Embassy in Baku and border commissioner on Iranian helicopters' violation of Azerbaijani airspace on February 22, the Service chief, Lieutenant General Elchin Guliyev told.
26 February 2007 [14:02]
"The Parliament doesn't need to adopt an additional law on the Khojaly genocide. The decision adopted in 1994 confirms the recognition of Khojaly tragedy as a genocide and marking of February 26 as a day of genocide," Vice-speaker Ziyafet Asgarov stated.
26 February 2007 [13:41]
"The United Nations and the world countries should feel ashamed for the Khojaly genocide. The world does ignore the occupation of Azerbaijan’s lands, its one million refugees and Khojaly genocide."
26 February 2007 [13:11]
"The happenings in Khojaly 15 years ago are terrible, and results of this tragedy are being felt today. Numerous people died in result and Azerbaijani people still mourn over this tragedy and we join their grief," special representative of the Council of Europe Secretary General to Azerbaijan Denis Bribosia stated.
26 February 2007 [12:52]
Commemorative event was held today in front of the monument Mother's Cry erected in honor of the victims of the Khojaly genocide of 15 years ago.
26 February 2007 [12:33]
An incident occurred during the international conference on Khojaly genocide organized in The Hague by Igdir municipality and Azerbaijani Consulate General to Kars, the conference organizer, head of Igdir municipality Nureddin Aras stated.
26 February 2007 [12:26]
The 15th anniversary of Khojaly genocide is marked today.
26 February 2007 [10:06]
Grand Unity Party (BBP) leader Muhsin Yazicioglu on Sunday said that the Khojali massacre should be recognized as genocide in a message to mark the 15th anniversary of the massacre.
25 February 2007 [17:21]
15th anniversary of Khojaly genocide was commemorated in General Consulate of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles.
25 February 2007 [15:04]
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's overnight visit to Turkey has focused attention to the strategic dialogue between the two democratic nations in the Eastern Mediterranean.
25 February 2007 [14:55]
Iran said Saturday the United States was not in a position to take military action against it and urged Washington and its allies to engage in dialogue.
25 February 2007 [14:40]
On the night of Feb. 25, 1992 Armenian and Soviet troops attacked the Azeri village of Hojali.
25 February 2007 [14:30]
Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan Andar Shukputov met with Ogtay Asadov, the Speaker of the Milli Majlis (Azerbaijan Parliament) on February 23.
24 February 2007 [20:35]
A unit of Revolutionary Guards attacked the rebels in a remote area near the Turkish border.
24 February 2007 [20:14]
Serdar Jalaloglu-led Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) held a conference today.
24 February 2007 [14:40]
Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Afshar Suleymani will soon end his diplomatic mission, the Embassy press secretary Majid Feyzollahi stated.
24 February 2007 [13:12]
Poland's Foreign Minister will visit Armenia tomorrow within her visit to the South Caucasus.
24 February 2007 [10:10]
Reports about the violation of Azerbaijani airspace by Iran's helicopters are false, Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Afshar Suleymani stated on Friday.
24 February 2007 [09:50]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko had a telephone talk.
24 February 2007 [09:10]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received new appointed head of the OSCE Office in Baku Jose Luis Herrero Ansola.
24 February 2007 [08:50]
Turkey and Azerbaijan are taking action to counter the intensifying attacks of the Armenian diaspora, which has been striving for an international recognition of the so-called Armenian genocide.
24 February 2007 [08:35]
It will be expedient if European Parliament draws up report on Nagorno Karabakh. My colleague and I will discuss it on returning to Brussels, member of European Parliament, German Parliamentarian Cem Ozdemir said.
24 February 2007 [08:30]
The Nagorno Karabakh conflict cannot be solved unless relations with Turkey are restored, stated former foreign minister of Armenia, leader of Heritage Party Raffi Hovannisian.
24 February 2007 [08:25]
Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Friday that Azerbaijan is working to open an embassy in Seoul for the first time since the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1992.
24 February 2007 [08:15]
As America struggles to stabilize Iraq while fighting rages, the last thing it needs is to become embroiled in a new crisis with Turkey.
24 February 2007 [08:05]
Moldovan Prime Minister Valsile Tarlev met his Azeri counterpart, Artur Rasizade, within his official visit to Azerbaijan.
24 February 2007 [07:25]
Reports about Azerbaijan National Independence Party's (ANIP) cooperation with Rasul Guliyev-led Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) are not true. We discussed it neither in ANIP nor with the representatives of that party, ANIP chairman Ayaz Rustamov said.
24 February 2007 [07:20]
Azerbaijan's Commissioner on Human Rights Elmira Suleymanova made a statement on the 15th anniversary of Khojali genocide.
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