Politics
02 October 2006 [09:26]
"OSCE Minsk Group failed to reach any progress in the settlement of the Nagorno Garabagh conflict. The co-chairs realize this themselves. We suggest the UN to establish a new group to mediate in the solution of the conflict. This new group should solve all conflicts in South Caucasus," Rovshan Mustafayev, Azerbaijan National Academy of Science Human Rights Institute director & co-chair of Baku Club told journalists.
02 October 2006 [00:06]
Iran on Sunday lashed out at a new U.S. bill of sanctions on entities or countries that provide goods or services for Iran's weapons programs.
02 October 2006 [00:03]
The Cold War is long over, but the tension between Georgia and Russia revisits many of its issues - allegations of spying by Moscow, suspicions of interference by the United States and concerns that a hot war will start without some sort of compromise.
01 October 2006 [15:17]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo congratulating him and the people of his country on the occasion of the Independence Day.
01 October 2006 [14:35]
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, said on Sunday he was in close contact with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to try to decrease tensions over the case of four Russian military officers detained in Georgia for alleged spying.
01 October 2006 [13:42]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message to President of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao to congratulate him and the people of his country on the occasion of the National Day.
01 October 2006 [12:27]
President George W. Bush signed legislation that would impose mandatory sanctions on entities that provide goods or services for Iran's weapons programs.
01 October 2006 [12:06]
Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan, sent a message to the ailing Fidel Castro wishing for his steady recovery and calling for stronger ties between the two countries.
30 September 2006 [16:32]
"As a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, France has been closely participating in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict for over ten years. I want to believe that it is high time to achieve peace accord," French President Jacques Chirac stated in Armenia.
30 September 2006 [15:54]
Law draft for Georgia's integration into the NATO is already brought to Senate of the USA.
30 September 2006 [15:51]
Russia says it has suspended plans for further withdrawal of its troops from Georgia amid worsening relations between the two neighbors.
30 September 2006 [15:31]
France's President Jacques Chirac visited monuments of the false "Armenian genocide victims" in Yerevan.
30 September 2006 [15:12]
Public debate on "Separatism and Caucasus without separatists" were held in the frames of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Human Rights Institute Baku club meeting.
30 September 2006 [15:03]
"Armenians' autonomy in Georgia is out of question. We perfectly realize their aim," Pata Davitaya, Georgian parliamentarian and UN International Academy of Information member told journalists.
30 September 2006 [15:00]
Armenian general should be called to account for having fought against Azerbaijan in Karabakh.
30 September 2006 [14:45]
Russia deploys military force to the border with Georgia, Vano Merabishvili, Georgian Interior Minister said.
30 September 2006 [14:39]
Today at 11 a.m. the Assembly of Musavat Party started its meeting.
30 September 2006 [14:16]
The Senate, with no debate Saturday, passed and sent to the president legislation that would impose mandatory sanctions on entities that provide goods or services for Iran's weapons programs.
30 September 2006 [14:12]
According to an IRNA report, Kiev ruled out certain media reports that it wants to sell Kolchuga early warning radar systems to Iran.
30 September 2006 [14:07]
Turkey's top naval commander joined other military leaders in speaking out against growing Islamist threats within Turkey, warning Friday that the military would not allow any concessions over the principle of secularism.
30 September 2006 [14:04]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected a ceasefire call by Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, urging Kurdish separatists instead to abandon their fight against security forces.
30 September 2006 [13:58]
NATO, the United States, and the EU have all attempted to calm the escalating spy row between Russia and Georgia.
30 September 2006 [13:55]
Armenia on Friday expressed serious concern at the escalating crisis between neighboring Georgia and Russia and again denied any responsibility for Russian espionage alleged by Tbilisi.
30 September 2006 [13:52]
The head of Armenia's Jewish community, Rimma Varzhapetian, publicly criticized the country's minister of the environment for making an antisemitic comment.
30 September 2006 [13:50]
French President Jacques Chirac arrived in Armenia Friday on a three-day visit to this ex-Soviet Caucasus nation.
30 September 2006 [13:48]
The French National Assembly has decided to vote in the coming days on a highly contentious bill -- shelved last spring, leading to dismay and anger among the Armenian diaspora in France -- that penalizes any denial of an alleged Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.
30 September 2006 [13:31]
The member of the House of Lords in the British Parliament Baroness Vivien Sterr, Governor of Edinburgh Prison David Croft and Deputy Director of the John Smith Memorial Trust Joanna Lamb will be visiting Azerbaijan on October 2.
30 September 2006 [13:28]
On September 29, Chinese Embassy arranged a ceremony dedicated to the 57th anniversary of proclamation of the People's Republic of China.
30 September 2006 [13:17]
Spain's company engaged in woodwork in the Armenian-occupied Azerbaijani lands.
30 September 2006 [13:06]
Regular meeting of Central Election Commission chaired by Mazahir Panahov was held Sept. 29.
30 September 2006 [12:56]
Cuba and Azerbaijan signed two accords Friday to promote dialogue and bilateral cooperation at the same time promising to defend a peace, stability and equitable development agenda in international forums.
30 September 2006 [12:44]
Charles Both, a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer for Farhad and Rafiq Aliev, said the authorities have violated both Azerbaijani law and international human rights norms.
30 September 2006 [12:01]
Council of Europe will send an election observation mission leaded by Romanian Lyudmila Sfirloaga to observe local elections in Azerbaijan scheduled for 6 October.
30 September 2006 [11:55]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev issued an executive order on dismissal of head of executive power of Masalli region Ogtay Aliyev.
30 September 2006 [10:27]
"The damage to the real estate in the Azerbaijani territories occupied by the Armenian Armed Forces costs USD80-100bn with consideration of the present inflation," State Real Estate Registration Service (SRERS) chairman Arif Garashov said.
30 September 2006 [10:18]
"The exclusion of Turkish candidates from the list for their rejecting false "Armenian genocide" in the Netherlands have nothing to do with democracy even with humanness," Turkish parliamentarian from ANAP party, member of foreign relations commission Zubeyir Amber told.
29 September 2006 [19:09]
Parliamentary elections in November 2005 brought severe negative consequences for the Azerbaijani opposition.
29 September 2006 [19:01]
Minister of Emergency Situations Col. Gen. Kamaladdin Heydarov has received French ambassador to Azerbaijan Bernard Amaudric du Chaffaut.
29 September 2006 [18:56]
"Armenia can start war only after Azerbaijan's attack," Vartan Oskanian, Armenian Foreign Minister stated at the press conference.
29 September 2006 [18:42]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and his Cuban counterpart Felipe Perez Roque are due to sign Friday in Cuban capital of Havana an inter-ministerial accord for the exemption of visas.
29 September 2006 [15:33]
Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Mathew Bryza (US), Bernard Fasier (France) and Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), who are mediating in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, will visit Azerbaijan on October 2 this year, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Tahir Taghizadeh told.
29 September 2006 [15:20]
Russia's ambassador to Georgia continued Moscow's diplomatic attack on Tbilisi Friday dismissing espionage charges brought against four officers stationed in the capital.
29 September 2006 [15:18]
A senior Russian MP launched a vitriolic attack on the Georgian leadership Friday and called on Russia's government to use every available lever to pressure Tbilisi over an acrimonious espionage scandal.
29 September 2006 [14:43]
Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan, Lieut. Gen. Aydin Aliyev met September 28 with US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mrs. Anne Derse.
29 September 2006 [14:29]
On September 27, representative of Azerbaijan exercised the Right of Reply on the last day of the general debates at the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly to make some things clear about the statements made by Armenia's Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian at the General Assembly.
29 September 2006 [14:26]
Latif Gandilov, Azerbaijan's Ambassador to Kazakhstan met with S. Abdurrahmanov, Chairman of the Committee for International Affairs, Defense and Security of the lower chamber of Kazakhstan Parliament (Majlis).
29 September 2006 [14:22]
"Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, at a meeting with Samuel Bodman, US Secretary of Energy, discussed construction of a Caspian gas pipeline and peaceful atom development," Karim Massimov, Vice Premier, Minister of Economy and Budget Planning has stated this at a briefing for journalists.
29 September 2006 [14:03]
Former president of Azpetrol Group of Companies Rafig Aliyev faced new accusations on September 28, Jamil Hasanli, Rafig and Farhad Aliyevs' Rights Defense Committee chief told journalists.
29 September 2006 [13:59]
Azerbaijani imprisoned ex-economic development minister Farhad Aliyev appealed to intellectuals and parliamentarians.
29 September 2006 [13:54]
Ex-minister of economic development Farhad Aliyev's real estates including the properties registered as those of some legal entities were seized by a court decision, State Real Estate Registration Service chairman Arif Garashov said.
29 September 2006 [13:52]
Russian Ambassador to Georgia Vyacheslav Kovalenko has confirmed that Lieut. Col. Konstantin Pichugin is staying at the headquarters of the Group of Russian Troops in the Transcaucasia in Tbilisi.
29 September 2006 [13:49]
The Georgian Interior Ministry said Friday that one Russian serviceman has been released and four officially charged with espionage in a scandal that threatens to wreck already tense bilateral relations.
29 September 2006 [13:46]
Iran's foreign minister reiterated Friday the Islamic Republic's position that it does not see any reason to announce a moratorium on its uranium enrichment program.
29 September 2006 [13:43]
The US Department of Defense at the Pentagon has apologized to Turkey for an incident in which an American lieutenant colonel used a map showing 18 different cities in Turkey inside an area labeled "Kurdistan" during a seminar at the Rome-based NATO Defense College.
29 September 2006 [13:38]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev will address the first sitting of Milli Majlis autumn session on October 2.
29 September 2006 [13:31]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev is scheduled to arrive in Latvia for a two-day working visit next Wednesday [Oct. 4], a spokeswoman for Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga said.
29 September 2006 [10:16]
An appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction of three Azerbaijani opposition youth activists on charges of attempting to stage a coup, but reduced a prison term for one of them.
29 September 2006 [10:14]
"We accept both Nagorno Karabakh's independence and its inclusion into Armenia," Armenian President Robert Kocharyan said in his interview to Al-Jazeera TV channel.
29 September 2006 [09:58]
Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has called up two uncapped defenders to his squad for next month's Euro 2008 qualifier against Azerbaijan.
29 September 2006 [08:53]
Leader of Democratic Reforms Party (DRP) Asim Mollazadeh met with Russian ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov.
29 September 2006 [08:09]
Armenian Environment Protection Minister Vardan Ayvazyan made insulting remarks against Jews which angered the Jewish community of the country.
28 September 2006 [16:23]
The State Committee for Azerbaijanis Abroad (SCAA) prepares for the first Forum of Azerbaijani and Turkish Diasporas to be held in Baku in March next year, SCAA chief Nazim Ibrahimov told the press conference.
28 September 2006 [16:09]
Press conference was held in Baku devoted to the end of the meeting of the heads of border departments' working group of the International Border Issues Conference (SIOFOK Conference).
28 September 2006 [16:07]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev received chairman of Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)-Executive Secretary Vladimir Rushaylo.
28 September 2006 [15:57]
Azeri Deputy FM, Special Representative of Azeri President on NK Araz Azimov considers linking the Nagorno Karabakh settlement with the future model of self-determination of Kosovo population groundless.
28 September 2006 [14:54]
Lawyers for the imprisoned ex-development minister Farhad Aliyev have many times appealed for inviting doctors, specialists for treatment of the ex-minister.
28 September 2006 [13:47]
The mission of European Union trio will visit Azerbaijan on October 3.
28 September 2006 [13:44]
Georgia's Foreign Ministry demanded Thursday the surrender of a Russian intelligence officer accused of espionage.
28 September 2006 [13:40]
Over 40 international terrorism men suspects have been detained on Azerbaijan borders, Elchin Guliyev, chief of the State Border Service (SBS) said.
28 September 2006 [13:35]
Armenia continues violating the ceasefire.
28 September 2006 [13:33]
The European Parliament (EP)adopted a critical report on Turkey's accession to the European Union on Wednesday afternoon.
28 September 2006 [13:13]
"The proposals offered by the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is quite balanced and fair," said French President Jacques Chirac while commenting on current situation in the settlement of the Nagorno Garabagh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
28 September 2006 [09:17]
Media in Dagestan are carrying out propaganda against Azerbaijan under the head of "Chernovic" newspaper published in Mahachkala.
28 September 2006 [00:19]
Fall session of Milli Majlis of third convocation is to resume on October 2.
28 September 2006 [00:15]
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