Politics
20 February 2007 [16:09]
The program envisages future reforms, application of NATO standards, development perspectives.
20 February 2007 [15:57]
Azerbaijan's commitments undertaken while admission to the Council of Europe will be debated at the meeting of the PACE Monitoring Committee in Strasbourg on March 28.
20 February 2007 [14:50]
The appeals are mostly connected with the violation of the Article 6 of European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Right to a fair trial) and Article 11 (Right to freedom of assembly and association).
20 February 2007 [14:29]
The European Court of Human Rights' judgment on case of former commander of Azerbaijan's Internal Troops is to be implemented till February.
20 February 2007 [13:11]
Armenian President Robert Kocharian renewed his offer to establish diplomatic ties with Turkey and proposed setting up a joint government commission to discuss sensitive issues, a French newspaper said on Monday.
20 February 2007 [13:05]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will visit Saudi Arabia on February 22.
20 February 2007 [13:03]
Armenian Armed Forces units violated ceasefire again.
20 February 2007 [13:02]
Azerbaijan's parliamentary delegation led by Vice-Speaker Bahar Muradova has left for Vienna to attend the winter session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
20 February 2007 [12:45]
20 February 2007 [11:28]
Azeri authorities have arrested two journalists, who work at a newspaper that covers Iranian issues, for high treason, a spokesman for the ministry of national security said on Monday.
20 February 2007 [09:30]
Energy security in the OSCE region will be one of the main topics of discussion during the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's (OSCE PA) meeting in Vienna on 22 and 23 February.
20 February 2007 [09:25]
Iran is seeking the resumption of talks on the country's controversial nuclear program with the European Union foreign policy chief, the foreign minister said Monday.
20 February 2007 [09:15]
The next rally of Musavat Party will be held on March 18.
20 February 2007 [09:10]
NATO's Assessment mission has come to Georgia.
20 February 2007 [08:42]
Azerbaijani consulate general in Kars will organize a number of events on Khojali genocide, Consul general Hasan Zeynalov informs.
20 February 2007 [08:20]
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Linguistics department chief, the editor-in-chief of "Tolishi sedo" newspaper Novruzeli Mammadov is accused of Article 274 (high treason) of Criminal Code.
20 February 2007 [08:15]
15th anniversary of Khojali genocide will be marked in the province of Osaka, Japan, Azerbaijan-Japan Friendship Society informed.
20 February 2007 [08:10]
Union of Return to Western Azerbaijan (URWA) and former health minister Ali Insanov's Right Defense Committee chief Rizvan Talibov held a press conference on legal procedure of former minister.
20 February 2007 [07:50]
The delegation led by Azerbaijani Consul General to St. Petersburg Gudsi Osmanov left for Komi Republic.
20 February 2007 [07:25]
"We have just started the implementation of the European Neighborhood Policy action plan for Azerbaijan. We pay much attention to basic aspects of the plan. Azerbaijan is in transition period and faces a number of problems," Peter Semneby, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus told journalists.
20 February 2007 [07:10]
On Monday ambassador of Azerbaijan Latif Gandilov paid respect to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Marat Tazhin.
19 February 2007 [23:14]
"The discussions held in Paris were very productive," saif Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov while commenting on the latest meeting of the Minsk Group co-chairs in Paris on February 15-16.
19 February 2007 [23:12]
Azerbaijani MPs Elton Mammadov, Fattah Heydarov, Ekrem Abdullayev, Aydin Abbasov and Fuad Muradov left for Berlin at the invitation of Azerbaijani House in Germany.
19 February 2007 [23:11]
Serdar Jalaloglu-led Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) made a decision on Rasul Guliyev's dismissal from the ADP.
19 February 2007 [23:10]
Azerbaijan's Defense Minister, Colonel-General Safar Abiyev left for United Arab Emirates on February 17 to attend International Defense Exhibition (IDEX).
19 February 2007 [23:04]
The mission on cultural monuments of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will visit the South Caucasus in May this year.
19 February 2007 [22:42]
EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby today has met with Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
19 February 2007 [22:37]
Clashes have emerged between Cossacks and Armenians and Georgians in Stavropol.
19 February 2007 [22:31]
Azadliq alliance does not intend to change its position concerning the Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP), said Citizen and Development Party leader Ali Aliyev.
19 February 2007 [22:26]
The Supreme Assembly of Rasul Guliyev-led ADP (Azerbaijan Democrat Party) part held the next meeting in the office of Classic Azerbaijan Popular Front Party.
19 February 2007 [15:51]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on Monday called for a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear program, emphasizing the central role of the United Nation's atomic regulator.
19 February 2007 [15:07]
Leo Platvoet, Rapporteur on the Missing Persons of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will visit Armenia in April.
19 February 2007 [14:58]
"I have not made any changes to my report on missing persons. I received no complaints from Azerbaijan," said Leo Platvoet, PACE Rapporteur on the Missing Persons in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
19 February 2007 [14:36]
On Sunday European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby visited internally displaced-persons camps in Galagayin settlement of Sabirabad region in Azerbaijan.
19 February 2007 [14:25]
Foreign Minister Frank-Valter Schtainmayer is visiting Azerbaijan. German Minister today met with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov.
19 February 2007 [12:08]
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammerberg will concern himself with the living conditions of internally displaced persons within his visit to Azerbaijan.
19 February 2007 [11:51]
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev focused their talks Sunday on energy issues and ways the two countries could increase cooperation.
19 February 2007 [11:45]
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan Andar Shukputov held a working meeting with Samed Seidov, tha chairman of the Milli Majlis comission on international relations and interparliamentary ties.
19 February 2007 [01:47]
Hundreds of opposition activists rallied in the Azerbaijani capital Sunday in the latest of a series of authorized protests against steep rises in municipal gas, electric and water rates.
18 February 2007 [20:46]
Germany's foreign minister departed Sunday for a tour of three ex-Soviet states in the oil-rich south Caucasus region, in an effort to explore possibilities of reducing German dependence on Russian oil and gas.
18 February 2007 [01:43]
Iranian police and insurgents clashed briefly after a bomb — described as "sound bomb" — went off in southeastern Iran but injured no one, the country's state-run news agency said on Saturday.
18 February 2007 [01:37]
The chief of Turkey's powerful military General Staff accused Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq of actively backing Turkish Kurd rebels there and said Ankara must take action, a state news agency said on Saturday.
17 February 2007 [22:48]
UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization) has accepted the map of Southern Azerbaijan in Iran.
17 February 2007 [17:40]
Head of President's Press Service, Azer Gasimov, held a press conference on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Germany.
17 February 2007 [17:34]
Following last month's assassination of Hrant Dink, some U.S. State Department officials and Armenia's foreign minister urged Turkey to use this opportunity to normalize relations with Armenia by opening the border and "face our history" by abolishing Article 301.
17 February 2007 [17:33]
Animation of the Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway project became possible due to Russia's shortsighted policy aimed to restrain CIS 'obstinate' member states, head of the department of international relations at the institute of political and military studies Sergey Markedonov said.
17 February 2007 [17:29]
Deterioration of bilateral relations between Russia and Azerbaijan in 2006 has got a logical continuation in 2007, head of the department of international relations at the institute of political and military studies Sergey Markedonov said.
17 February 2007 [17:03]
17 February 2007 [17:02]
Special representative of the European Union for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby has arrived in Baku.
17 February 2007 [17:01]
OSCE ODIHR has released preliminary report on parliamentary elections to be held in Armenia on May 12.
17 February 2007 [17:00]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has today received Peter Semneby, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus.
17 February 2007 [16:55]
Moscow and Yerevan's vision of the Armenian-Russian partnership and the Nagorno Karabakh problem weren't traditionally a topic of bilateral consensus, head of the department of international relations at the institute of political and military studies Sergey Markedonov said.
17 February 2007 [16:51]
The Crimea AR Supreme Rada Speaker Anatoliy Grizenko received Azerbaijan's ambassador to Ukraine Talat Aliyev and Ukraine Azerbaijanis Congress official Ali Orujov.
17 February 2007 [14:32]
The meeting of Azerbaijan Democrat Party's Supreme Assembly will be held at the headquarters of Classic Front Party.
17 February 2007 [13:47]
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will hold winter session in Vienna on February 22-23.
17 February 2007 [13:35]
Putting Putin's 'US-bashing' speech on the Web site of the Turkish Office of the Chief of General Staff amounts to a warning to Washington, says retired Maj. Gen. Kuloglu. Meanwhile, the Russian leader promoted defense minister Ivanov to first vice premiership in another move seen as a sign of Putin.s consolidating his power.
17 February 2007 [13:23]
"Georgia is going to join NATO and this accession will occur in a few years," said "foreign minister" of separatist Abkhazian regime Sergey Shamba.
17 February 2007 [09:35]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan met with the Prime Minister of Baden-Wurtenberg, a Federal Land of Germany, Gunther Ettinger, February 16.
17 February 2007 [09:30]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that granting independence for Kosovo would have "the most negative consequences" for the Balkans and Europe, Russian media reported — some of the strongest language yet on an issue that has deepened Moscow's disagreements with the West.
17 February 2007 [09:25]
A Georgian court held closed hearings Friday on appeals from three men convicted of being accomplices of a Russian who smuggled weapons-grade uranium to an agent posing as a rich foreign buyer, a court spokeswoman said.
17 February 2007 [09:10]
Azerbaijani soldier Vusal Garajayev who was released form Armenian capture was transferred to Bayil isolation ward #1.
17 February 2007 [08:25]
Turkish Armed Forces General Staff Chief, General Yasar Buyukanit visiting the US met with his American counterpart Peter Pace and Deputy Secretary of Defence, Eric Edelman.
17 February 2007 [08:10]
The Board of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is expected to discuss 25 issues at the meeting.
17 February 2007 [08:00]
Moldovan Prime Minister Vasile Tarliyev will meet with the members of Caspian Integration Business Club within his visit to Azerbaijan.
17 February 2007 [07:55]
The ruling New Azerbaijani Party (YAP) press service made statement on tried former Health Minister Ali Insanov's statement at the Court of Grave Crimes concerning the party.
17 February 2007 [07:50]
European Union president Germany said Friday that the bloc is willing to help the new leadership of Turkmenistan implement democratic reforms and urged the nation's new president to free political prisoners.
17 February 2007 [07:35]
Ankara Businessmen Circle held a conference on the theme "Turkish-Armenian relations - past, present and genocide claims" in the capital of Turkey Ankara.
17 February 2007 [07:05]
A Turkish court on Friday sentenced seven suspected al-Qaida militants to life in prison for the deadly 2003 bombings in Istanbul.
17 February 2007 [07:00]
Police in Azerbaijan prevented activists from holding a demonstration Friday in front of the Iranian Embassy, where they had planned to protest alleged persecution of ethnic Azeris in the neighboring country.
16 February 2007 [20:36]
An expert group headed by chief of the international legal cooperation department of the Justice Ministry of Azerbaijan Zaver Gafarov from 12 to 15 February has visited Morocco, embassy of Azerbaijan to Morocco said.
16 February 2007 [20:34]
President Ilham Aliyev met on February 16 with German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Michael Glos.
16 February 2007 [20:31]
On April 16 Latvia's Foreign Minister Artis Pabriks will pay official visit to Baku.
16 February 2007 [20:29]
A range of events will be organized on the 15th anniversary of Khojali genocide in the US.
16 February 2007 [20:28]
"If Penah Huseyn continues to quarrel in Parliament, we'll invite him to the Disciplinary Committee meeting and interrogate him. Parliamentarian shouldn't exchange words with speaker," Milli Majlis Disciplinary Committee chief Agajan Abiyev said.
16 February 2007 [20:18]
"GUAM countries had no intention to impede any constructive measures and the negotiating process for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," said Foreign Ministry Press and Information Policy Department chief Tahir Tagizadeh.
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