Politics
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.
04 August 2006 [08:56]
Today Arzu Abdullayeva, chairmen of the Azerbaijan National Committee at the Helsinki Civil Assembly, gave a press conference on the visit to the Nagorno Karabakh July 28-30.
04 August 2006 [08:35]
Several members of the Center to Defend Freedom of Religious Belief and Conscience staged protest action outside Israeli Embassy in Baku in protest against operations in Palestine and Lebanon.
04 August 2006 [08:09]
"If Israel does not stop military operations against Lebanon, mass protest actions will be staged in Nardaran district,” leader of the Azerbaijan Islamic Party Hajiagha Nuri stated.
04 August 2006 [00:27]
Revelations about the latest peace deal leave the conflicting parties still far apart.
03 August 2006 [22:54]
Swedish Foreign Minister Yan Eliasson responded to the appeal made by Abbas Lisani, who was arrested in demonstrations in Iran.
03 August 2006 [22:26]
"Why should we change our position while Armenia have not pulled out its troops from the Azerbaijani territories and give up it claims against Turkey?" Rifat Hisarchigoglu, president of Chambers and Exchanges Union of Turkey told.
03 August 2006 [21:59]
"Arkadi Gukasyan told me that he recognizes Azerbaijan's rights regarding the status of Nagorno Karabakh and they are ready to discuss it," the Helsinki civil Assembly Azerbaijan National Committee chair Arzu Abdullayeva told.
03 August 2006 [21:39]
New Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov today visited the Honor Alley in the capital Baku today.
03 August 2006 [21:24]
August 2, 2006, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Yuriy Merzlyakov (Russia), Ambassador Bernard Fassier (France) and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza (USA) met at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris to assess the current stage in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
03 August 2006 [16:24]
"Grave, where 21 Azerbaijanis were buried collectively, has been found near Marzili village of Aghdam," the Helsinki Civil Assembly Azerbaijan National Committee head Arzu Abdullayeva told quoting the representative on Nagorno Karabakh Karen Ohajanyan.
03 August 2006 [14:57]
Dagestan Interior Ministry, Federal Security Service and Russian Defense Ministry squads conducted special operation in Andi and Gunkha villages of Botlikhsk region August 1.
03 August 2006 [13:39]
Saint Petersburg governor Valentina Matviynko will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan late September this year.
03 August 2006 [13:19]
Armenians are still breaking the ceasefire.
03 August 2006 [10:30]
The commission for delimitation and demarcation of Azerbaijan-Georgia borders will meet in Tbilisi on 3-4 August in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
03 August 2006 [09:12]
The European Union did not include Hezbollah into the list of terrorist organizations.
02 August 2006 [21:55]
Newly appointed Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov has arrived in Baku.
02 August 2006 [21:46]
"Opening of Turkey-Armenia border is not work of Gars municipality head, government, even state," this statement was given by AKP Kars parliamentarian Zeki Karabayir.
02 August 2006 [16:15]
Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko considers GUAM (alliance of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as destructive forces.
02 August 2006 [14:33]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France), Matthew Bryza (US) and personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzei Kasprzyk are meeting in Paris today.
02 August 2006 [14:21]
Hizbollah guerrillas battled up to 6,000 Israeli troops on five fronts in south Lebanon on Wednesday, escalating a conflict which Israel's prime minister vowed to pursue until a strong international force arrived.
02 August 2006 [14:21]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday rejected a UN Security Council resolution that would give his nation until August 31 to suspend uranium enrichment.
02 August 2006 [13:58]
Prime Minister Arthur Rasizadeh is paying an official visit to Malaysia today.
02 August 2006 [13:46]
The trial of Azerbaijani former Finance Minister Fikret Yusifov was over in Nasimi district court today.
02 August 2006 [12:28]
02 August 2006 [12:06]
Armenia's Armed Forces violated the cease-fire on the front line for eight times last month.
02 August 2006 [09:51]
President Ilham Aliyev received the delegation led by Tatarstan's Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov yesterday.
02 August 2006 [08:46]
Nagorno Karabakh Azerbaijanis Majlis congress will be held in Baku September 30.
02 August 2006 [08:41]
"Azerbaijan is ready to give the highest status to Karabakh Armenians. But Armenia does not give chance to solution of the conflict."
02 August 2006 [01:27]
In 2006 Azerbaijan's military budget will total $700 million, President Ilham Aliyev said at a session of the Cabinet of Ministers on Monday.
02 August 2006 [01:25]
Israeli forces thrust into Lebanon on Tuesday in an escalation of the war and landed troops by helicopter in the Hizbollah heartland near Baalbek, but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said a ceasefire may be on the horizon.
02 August 2006 [01:22]
Stunned Cubans nervously contemplated a future without Fidel Castro on Tuesday after the communist U.S. foe who has dominated political life for nearly 50 years stepped aside for the first time with a serious illness.
02 August 2006 [00:53]
U.S. MG Co-Chair is on the visit to Azerbaijan.
02 August 2006 [00:38]
"Borders between Turkey and Armenia might be opened within three terms. Turkish President, prime minister and parliament leader have announced these terms for several times.
02 August 2006 [00:26]
Azerbaijani Parliament Speaker Ogtay Asadov met with the newly-appointed US Ambassador to the country Anne Derse.
01 August 2006 [14:15]
U.S co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza has arrived in Azerbaijani today following the visit in Georgia.
01 August 2006 [10:01]
Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran to Azerbaijan issued statement on the events happened in Qana village of Lebanon.
01 August 2006 [09:38]
"Of course, one of the items discussed was Nagorno Karabakh participation in the talks and I think Mr Bryza, like the other mediators, understands that it's impossible to resolve the conflict without Karabakh," head of separatist regime acting in occupied Azerbaijani lands Arkady Ghukasian said after the meeting with OSCE Minsk Group U.S. Co-chair Matthew Bryza.
01 August 2006 [09:04]
German-Azerbaijani intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation will come together in Bonn, German August 14-17.
01 August 2006 [08:33]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov plans to visit Sweden.
01 August 2006 [00:11]
As the crisis over Iran's nuclear research program intensifies, US officials appear to be paying greater attention to the demands and concerns of the country's ethnic Azeris, its largest minority group.
31 July 2006 [23:39]
The U.N. Security Council on Monday demanded that Iran suspend its nuclear activities in a month or face the threat of sanctions, but Tehran denounced the move as illegal and vowed to press on.
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