Politics
13 August 2006 [02:11]
Ukrainian first deputy Prime Minister & Finance Minister Mykola Azarov met with Azerbaijani ambassador to Ukraine Talat Aliyev.
12 August 2006 [15:08]
NATO Parliamentary Assembly president Pierre Lellouche has written to Armenian Parliament speaker Tigran Torosyan calling him and his country to treat official representatives correctly.
12 August 2006 [15:02]
The United Nations Human Rights Council held an emergency session in Geneva on Friday.
12 August 2006 [15:01]
Azerbaijani ambassadors, consuls and other members of diplomatic corps will meet at the Foreign Ministry on August 14 this year.
12 August 2006 [14:55]
Azerbaijani Army soldier Mahir Mirzali Akhundov was killed in mine explosion in Gazakh region on 10 August.
12 August 2006 [11:20]
The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea that has come into force on August 12 will enable the Caspian states to make joint efforts for the protection of a unique ecological system of the inland sea on the basis of a clear-cut normative document, taking into account the interests of all the people.
12 August 2006 [10:14]
The Azerbaijan Intellectual Movement (AIM) issued statement against Israeli military aggression on Lebanon, the AIM office informs.
12 August 2006 [10:09]
The Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) appealed for holding conference with the presence of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) ambassadors in Azerbaijan, KLO leader Akif Naghi stated.
12 August 2006 [09:46]
The CIS heads of state summit will be held in Minsk in November 2006.
12 August 2006 [09:16]
Azerbaijani Armed Forces will fully meet NATO standards by 2008. The Defense Ministry press secretary, Colonel Ramiz Malikov states.
11 August 2006 [22:47]
Key U.N. Security Council members have agreed on a resolution to end Israel's month-old war with Hizbollah and a vote was possible later on Friday, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said.
11 August 2006 [22:26]
A senior aide to President Ilham Aliyev has warned that Azerbaijan could turn to the United Nations if French, Russian and American mediators continue to ignore its internationally recognized sovereignty over Nagorno Karabakh.
11 August 2006 [22:16]
On Friday some residents of Azerbaijan settlement of Nardaran staged a protest action denouncing Israeli military intervention in Lebanon.
11 August 2006 [22:14]
Azerbaijan Milli Majlis Speaker Oqtay Asadov in a telephone conversation with Iran's Ambassador to Baku Afshar Soleymani stressed on immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.
11 August 2006 [14:27]
There is not any fact on Lebanese refugees illegally arriving in Azerbaijan due to Israeli attacks on the country.
11 August 2006 [14:25]
"I hope the court will arrive at a fear decision on Haji Mammadov and his criminal gang," Azerbaijani Interior Minister Ramil Usubov told journalists.
11 August 2006 [14:22]
Armenia's National Academy of Science Archeology Institute announced the results of the archeological excavations carried out in occupied Azerbaijani region of Agdam.
11 August 2006 [14:05]
Armenian occupying forces have begun to commit large-scale arsons in Noyemberyan region that border with the Azerbaijani region of Gazakh since Wednesday afternoon.
11 August 2006 [14:00]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev today visited southern region of Lenkeran. The head of state first laid a wreath on the monument of the then President Heydar Aliyev in the park named after him.
11 August 2006 [13:23]
Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire again.
11 August 2006 [09:15]
Turk states' Interparliamentary friendship groups will meet to form Turk States Parliamentary Assembly, Nizami Cafarov, head of Azerbaijani parliament standing commission for culture, stated.
11 August 2006 [00:07]
The United States and Europe do not want a dialogue with Iran on its access to peaceful nuclear technology and were using bullying tactics in their atomic row with Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview published Thursday in India's Hindu newspaper.
10 August 2006 [23:58]
With an expanded Israeli ground offensive into Lebanon on hold for now, a U.S. envoy returned to Jerusalem on Thursday for what diplomats described as a last-ditch push for a deal on a U.N. resolution.
10 August 2006 [23:49]
Around 70 residents of Nardaran, Azerbaijan held a pro-Hezbollah rally.
10 August 2006 [23:38]
An Azerbaijani opposition leader announced on Thursday an initiative to call an international conference in Baku on September 12 to discuss the problems faced by the large community of ethnic Azerbaijanis in Iran.
10 August 2006 [23:36]
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister and special envoy for Caspian Sea affairs, Mehdi Safari, on Thursday conferred with Azeri Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov on issues of mutual interest.
10 August 2006 [21:52]
Today roundtable on the results of work done for Azerbaijan's being admitted to the World Trade Organization.
10 August 2006 [21:41]
Georgian power structures' heads held a meeting on the situation in conflict zones.
10 August 2006 [15:54]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the criminal gang led by Haji Mammadov, former official of Crime Investigation Department of Interior Ministry.
10 August 2006 [15:18]
President Ilham Aliyev today received the delegation led by Iranian President's special representative for the Caspian issues, deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari.
10 August 2006 [13:54]
Mahmud Mammadguliyev, the Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister, stated to a meeting dedicated to Azerbaijan's entrance to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that the State Commission on Azerbaijan's entrance to the WTO is to submit answers to questions put by the WTO member-states to the secretariat of this organization.
10 August 2006 [13:28]
The United States welcomes Russian investments in Central Asia and China, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza told reporters on Wednesday, Aug. 9.
09 August 2006 [19:41]
"If security strip around Nagorno Karabakh is given to Azerbaijan, we will get the people to rebel," said Armenian Democratic Party leader & former aid to President Aram Sarkisian.
09 August 2006 [19:10]
Amnesty International is concerned at the sharp deterioration in freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, and in particular the killing, beating and intimidation of journalists.
09 August 2006 [18:55]
Prosecutor says evidence links imprisoned former minister to journalist's murder.
09 August 2006 [18:52]
Azerbaijan's former economic development minister Farhad Aliyev was checked up in the medical station of National Security Ministry this morning.
09 August 2006 [18:50]
Turkish government signed a protocol on cooperation in managing emergency situations with Azerbaijan's Emergencies Ministry and protocol on cooperation in youth and sports spheres with Youth and Sports Ministry.
09 August 2006 [18:43]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov ended his official visit in Sweden.
09 August 2006 [16:39]
Some members of the Azerbaijan Islamic Party attempted to place picket outside Israeli embassy demanding to end Israeli military attacks on Lebanon and Palestine.
09 August 2006 [16:31]
Defense Minister Colonel-General Safar Abiyev met August 8 with the newly appointed Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Azerbaijan Vasiliy Istratov.
09 August 2006 [13:47]
Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire in the direction of the Azerbaijani region of Agdam.
09 August 2006 [13:30]
Parliament is working on draft law on amnesty.
09 August 2006 [10:49]
The ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) will not punish its members, who individually run for the repeat local elections.
08 August 2006 [17:02]
President Ilham Aliyev issued executive orders on dismissal of heads of executive power of several regions.
08 August 2006 [16:52]
Defense Minister, General Colonel Safar Abiyev today received Russian extraordinary and plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov.
08 August 2006 [16:10]
Police of Azerbaijan forced a crowd of about a hundred to leave an area near the Israeli mission in Baku where they had planned to hold a picket in support of Lebanon.
08 August 2006 [13:30]
Armenian armed forces fired on Efetli village of the Azerbaijani region of Agdam in different directions from occupied Azerbaijani territories.
08 August 2006 [09:18]
President Ilham Aliyev received the newly appointed extraordinary and plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus to Azerbaijan Nikolay Pastkevich.
08 August 2006 [00:35]
According to the General Information and Press Bureau of the Ianian Foreign Ministry, on Monday in Tehran Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met with the Head of Muslims Affairs Bureau in Caucasus Sheikh ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazadeh.
08 August 2006 [00:26]
A top police officer who took the blame for the high profile killing of a journalist in Azerbaijan told a court on Monday he would provide details of the murder but only behind closed doors.
07 August 2006 [22:04]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today received the Turkish delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, State Minister Mehmet Ali Shahin.
07 August 2006 [22:02]
Israeli bombs killed at least 17 civilians in Lebanon and cut a vital aid lifeline to the south on Monday in renewed fighting after diplomatic efforts to end the 27-day-old war stalled.
07 August 2006 [21:51]
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee is putting off until September consideration of career diplomat Richard Hoagland as Ambassador to Armenia.
07 August 2006 [21:42]
After replacement of US Co-Chair of the OSCE MG for settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, replacement of Russian and French Co-Chairs Yuri Merzlyakov and Bernard Fassier is also possible, stated Azeri President's Special Representative for Karabakh issue, Deputy FM Araz Azimov.
07 August 2006 [21:17]
"Local elections will not be held in Nardaran settlement in October 6, 2006," Central Election Commission chairman Mazahir Panahov told journalists.
07 August 2006 [21:04]
Defense Minister, General Colonel Safar Abiyev today received French Ambassador to Azerbaijan Bernard Du Chaffaut and defence attache, Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Marc Babut, whose mission has ended.
07 August 2006 [20:54]
Emergencies Minister Kamaladdin Heydarov today received the delegation led by Turkish Deputy Prime Minister & State Minister for Sports Mehmet Ali Shahin.
07 August 2006 [14:44]
Romanian President Traian Basescu is due to visit Azerbaijan in October this year, Azerbaijani ambassador to Romania Eldar Hasanov told.
07 August 2006 [13:49]
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister & State Minister for Sports Mehmet Ali Shahin is visiting Azerbaijan today.
06 August 2006 [23:43]
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani rejected Sunday the resolution by the United Nations Security Council ordering Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment efforts by August 31.
06 August 2006 [21:06]
Hezbollah guerrillas unleashed their deadliest barrage of rockets into northern Israel on Sunday, killing 11 people and wounding 14, while Israeli bombardment killed a dozen people in Lebanon as fighting intensified despite a draft U.N. cease-fire resolution.
06 August 2006 [19:07]
The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 changed the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East.
05 August 2006 [16:30]
U.S. Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns sharply attacked Iran and Syria on Friday for stirring the latest crisis in Lebanon, U.S. media reported.
05 August 2006 [16:23]
Armenian Pan-National Movement plans to nominate former president Levon Ter-Petrosian for presidency in 2008's presidential election.
05 August 2006 [15:25]
The Georgian and Azerbaijani officials have agreed on demarcation of a 30-kilometer border line as a result of talks in Tbilisi on August 3-4.
05 August 2006 [10:11]
The relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are friendly and are characteristic of a high level of mutual understanding and mutual trust, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said, receiving the credentials from new Russian ambassador in Baku Vasily Istratov on Friday.
04 August 2006 [23:13]
Residents of Nardaran district in Azerbaijan organized a demonstration in protest against Israeli military intervention in Lebanon.
04 August 2006 [22:35]
Interior Ministry Interior Investigations Department completed the investigation into the mysterious death of Garabagh war veteran Rasim Alishov in the administrative building of Mingechevir city police department July 25, this year.
04 August 2006 [15:08]
"The limit of the negotiations for resolution of the Nagorno Garabagh conflict has not run short. Since, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group propose new meeting between the Foreign Ministers, Azerbaijani is ready for that," Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov stated.
04 August 2006 [14:59]
The joint meeting of the Governmental Commissions of Georgia and Azerbaijan for delimitation and demarcation of state borders was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
04 August 2006 [14:11]
President Ilham Aliyev issued an executive order on raising monthly salary of special ranking officers and civil servants of the State Courier Service at Cabinet of Ministers.
04 August 2006 [13:58]
Overnight Armenian Armed Forces fired on Azerbaijani Army positions in Girmizikand village of Terter region.
04 August 2006 [12:49]
Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Thursday for the "elimination" of Israel.
04 August 2006 [11:11]
Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman said Wednesday he will vote against President George W. Bush's selection to become the next ambassador to Armenia because the nominee refuses to describe the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide.
04 August 2006 [10:14]
Countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Thursday endorsed a declaration on the Lebanon situation, voicing their full support for the Lebanese people and urging the UN Security Council to do more to realize an unconditional ceasefire.
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