Politics
24 June 2006 [19:52]
On Saturday Central Election Commission has adopted a number of regulations in connection with by-elections for municipalities to be held on October 6.
24 June 2006 [14:00]
Matthew Bryza, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, recently gained a second job title: he has replaced Steven Mann as the U.S. cochair of the OSCE MG with moderating negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh.
24 June 2006 [13:45]
"OSCE Minsk Group American co-chair Matthew Bryza's statement shows that settlement process is against Azerbaijan," Karabagh Liberation Organization's statement says.
24 June 2006 [13:42]
Armenia will continue its participation in the talks over settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict Armenian President Robert Kocharian stated on Friday in Minsk at a full composition session of the CSTO Council of Collective Security.
24 June 2006 [12:56]
Conservative MP Jason Kenney's presence at a fundraiser for "Nagorno Karabakh Republic" has created some diplomatic unpleasantness with the Azerbaijani embassy and community in Canada.
24 June 2006 [10:25]
"We have many times stated that the main thing for us is to determine the status of Nagorno Karabakh," Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Vladimir Karapetyan stated while commenting on the US co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza's announcing details of the framework agreement between the parties to the conflict.
24 June 2006 [10:08]
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan raised the alleged destruction of Armenian graves in the Azerbaijani province of Nakhchivan at the UN Human Rights Council's session in Geneva.
24 June 2006 [09:53]
Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmoud Mammadguliyev, who was attending the first session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, will come back to Baku tonight.
24 June 2006 [08:59]
Debate on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict was held during session of the 63rd Rose-Roth seminar of NATO in Sochi.
23 June 2006 [23:02]
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev has described the efforts of international mediators to resolve Azerbaijan's dispute with Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh as "hopeless."
23 June 2006 [22:13]
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator said the United States is intent on toppling Tehran's government whatever happens in talks over its nuclear plans.
23 June 2006 [21:50]
The head of the judiciary in Iran's Eastern Azerbaijan Province today said that 330 people were arrested in connection with protests that erupted in May in the country's predominantly Azeri northwestern regions over a controversial cartoon.
23 June 2006 [16:06]
Azerbaijan government did not let Cyprus Republic Ambassador to Russia, Leonidas Pantelides to participate in 33rd session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers held in Baku.
23 June 2006 [15:36]
"The parties to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict are negotiating on the items of the framework treaty regarding Armenian armed forces' withdrawal from Azerbaijani territories," OSCE Minsk Group new US co-chair Matthew Bryza stated.
23 June 2006 [13:52]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met June 22 with Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Brunson McKinley, who is in Baku to participate in the 33rd session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers.
23 June 2006 [13:16]
Armenian occupying forces set fire to the occupied village Atyemazli of Azerbaijan’s region of Agdam, Karabakh at about 1.35 last night.
23 June 2006 [13:12]
Azerbaijani State Commission for prisoners of war, missing and hostages issued a statement regarding the recent statement released by the International Working Group (IWG) co-chairs.
23 June 2006 [10:18]
USAID intends to implement a institutional structure project on Azerbaijani parliament.
23 June 2006 [09:57]
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General Brunson McKinley, who attended the 33rd session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers in Baku from June 19 to 21, held a press conference on his visit.
23 June 2006 [09:50]
Yesterday Azerbaijani Foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov received deputy foreign minister of Iraq, Rafi-Al-Eyssavi.
23 June 2006 [09:45]
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Monitoring Committee will meet in Armenia from October 15 to 16 this year.
23 June 2006 [09:19]
Yesterday International conference on the subject of "Establishment and strengthening of peace in the South Caucasus" on the initiative of Azerbaijan Way Policy Movement (AWPM), held.
23 June 2006 [08:56]
Sayyid Badr bin Hamed bin Hamoud Al Busaidi, Omanian undersecretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held a meeting with Khalaf Khalafov, Azerbaijan deputy foreign minister, at the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry headquarters on Thursday.
23 June 2006 [08:38]
"The biggest Russian Diaspora in South Caucasus is in Azerbaijan. At present, 170 thousand Russian live in Azerbaijan, 2 thousand in Georgia, 5 thousand in Armenia." Russian community leader in Azerbaijan, Milly Majlis member Mikhail Zabelin has told.
23 June 2006 [00:00]
About a hundred people took part in an action of protest in Moscow on Thursday against installation of a monument to the late Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev.
22 June 2006 [22:02]
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Science, Education and Culture Committee held hearing today.
22 June 2006 [21:57]
Nakhchivan was not shown as territory of Azerbaijan at the web-site of Cameroon Company operating in Azerbaijan.
22 June 2006 [21:53]
First Deputy Chairman of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) Serdar Jalaloglu met with Mustafa Mashadi, First Secretary of the Iranian Embassy in Azerbaijan today.
22 June 2006 [21:49]
The presentation ceremony of the book titled "Karabakh conflict: Azerbaijani point" published in Moscow was held today.
22 June 2006 [14:17]
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) foreign ministers called for an end of Turkish Cypriot's isolation in their final declaration issued on Wednesday.
22 June 2006 [13:42]
Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov has met with Council of Europe (CE) Deputy Secretary General Mod de bur-Bukikkio, who is on a visit in our country as a guest to participate at Islamic Conference Organization foreign ministers 33rd session.
22 June 2006 [13:29]
The Benelux Azerbaijan Congress Initiative Group, World Union of Azerbaijani Political Migrants (WUAPM) and the Azerbaijan's Friends Society held a joint meeting in Amsterdam yesterday.
22 June 2006 [10:52]
Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has welcomed the inclusion of Kazakhstan in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline.
22 June 2006 [09:23]
Council of Europe Cabinet of Ministers 969th session was held.
22 June 2006 [02:21]
Iran's foreign minister says President Bush should not be in a hurry for a response to a Western incentives package aimed at curbing Tehran's sensitive nuclear activities.
22 June 2006 [02:06]
Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday elaborated on results of the Organization of Islamic Conference's Baku ministerial gathering and Tehran's stands on some regional and international affairs.
21 June 2006 [21:04]
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul on Wednesday reiterated Turkey's refusal to open its harbors and airports to Greek Cypriot traffic if international sanctions against Turkish Cyprus are not lifted.
21 June 2006 [20:59]
President Bush said on Wednesday Iran was taking too long to respond to an offer of incentives to halt nuclear work that could lead to atomic weapons, and urged it to reply within weeks.
21 June 2006 [20:27]
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met with his Pakistani, Filipino, Afghan and Bahraini counterparts on the sidelines of the 33rd OIC Foreign Ministerial summit and discussed various issues.
21 June 2006 [20:17]
Member-states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) have issued a demand to Armenia to immediately, unconditionally and irrevocably withdraw its armed units from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
21 June 2006 [20:13]
Two Frenchmen, Enri Tomassini, who is the cultural advisor at the French embassy in Ashkhabad, and OSCE's employee Benjamin Moro faced spying charges in Turkmenistan once Turkmen right advocate Annakurban Amangylydzhov testified against them.
21 June 2006 [20:00]
A change has been made to the agenda of the summer plenary session of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), which takes place in Strasbourg from 26 to 30 June 2006.
21 June 2006 [17:48]
The lack of a Muslim state on the UN Security Council is a source of regret, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.
21 June 2006 [17:44]
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has called for accelerating the peaceful settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
21 June 2006 [17:42]
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) supports Iran's right to pursue a peaceful nuclear program, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told journalists on Wednesday.
21 June 2006 [17:20]
Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus called on Turkey and South Caucasus countries to arrange for "alternative fuel supplies to Europe to ensure its energy independence."
21 June 2006 [17:16]
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told journalists in Baku that Tehran had yet to make a decision on a deal offered by Western governments aimed at defusing the standoff over its nuclear program.
21 June 2006 [17:14]
His Royal Highness Prince Mohamed Bolkiah, Brunei's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in a statement expressed support of current efforts to implement the Organisation of Islamic Conference's (OIC) 10-year Programme of Action.
21 June 2006 [17:12]
Morocco has called on the member states of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to work for reinforcing commercial exchanges between Islamic countries and expanding their participation in international trade, besides ensuring the defence of their common interests.
21 June 2006 [17:05]
Thailand's Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon told counterparts of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference this morning that the Thai government is tackling the problem of insurgency in the country's deep South at its roots, and tackling the difference in people's religions and cultures in the region.
21 June 2006 [17:03]
Iran is expected to give response to the "package of incentives" proposed to end the tension ahead of the G-8 summit on June 29.
21 June 2006 [17:01]
Thailand's Foreign Minister Kantathi Suphamongkhon opened an honorary consulate general in Azerbaijan on Tuesday.
21 June 2006 [16:28]
"Venue of the next round of the talks related to legal status of the Caspian Sea is known, though time has not been fixed yet. The next meeting is to be held in Turkmenistan between the sides." Deputy FM Khalaf Khalafov has told journalists in his statement.
21 June 2006 [16:16]
Head of the State Committee for Religious Organizations Rafig Aliyev today told journalists that some officials are engaging in politics in mosques on the pretext of worship.
21 June 2006 [15:34]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov held press conference dedicated to Islamic Conference Organization (ICO) foreign ministers councils' 33rd session.
21 June 2006 [14:44]
The Heydar Aliyev Foundation is going to take Armenia to the International Criminal Hague Court for material damage it inflicted to Azerbaijani people.
21 June 2006 [14:36]
"There is a large item on the Nagorno Garabagh problem in the Baku Declaration adopted at the 33rd session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers hosted in Azerbaijan," Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Khalaf Khalafov told journalists.
21 June 2006 [14:26]
The next meeting on delimitation of borders between Azerbaijan and Georgia will be held in Tbilisi.
21 June 2006 [14:11]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has held some meetings on the sidelines of the 33rd Session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry's press-service reported.
21 June 2006 [13:48]
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USA appointed to Azerbaijan, Ms. Dyors will arrive in Baku July 8.
21 June 2006 [13:26]
Minsk Group co-chairs' report will be listened at OSCE Permanent Council meeting to be held tomorrow.
21 June 2006 [13:17]
Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, Duke of York, son of Queen of Great Britain Her Majesty Elisabeth II visits Azerbaijan in the end of June.
21 June 2006 [09:37]
Milly Majlis first Deputy Chairman, Security and Defense Permanent Committee Chairman Ziyafet Asgarov has met with International Red Cross Committee Baku representation leader Ms.Mary Vernts, regional representative of the organization in Moscow for armed and security issues, William Bow.
21 June 2006 [09:31]
The International Working Group to search for prisoners of war, missing and hostages ended the two-day visit to the occupied Azerbaijani territories.
21 June 2006 [09:28]
The 63rd Rose-Roth seminar of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly will be held in Sochi, Russia June 22-24.
21 June 2006 [08:12]
One more echelon loaded with weapons and military equipment of the Russian 62nd military base in Akhalkalak, Georgia, started from the Georgian Salka railway station at 9a.m yesterday.
20 June 2006 [23:14]
The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan was also focused on at the 33rd session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers.
20 June 2006 [22:22]
The contact front line in Aghdam region of Azerbaijan is due to be monitored on June 28 in accordance with the mandate of the personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office.
20 June 2006 [22:10]
Treaty on cooperation between Azerbaijani and Russian Interior Troops will be signed.
20 June 2006 [21:54]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Ali Sarikaya, President of the Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation.
20 June 2006 [16:14]
Armenian Armed Forces intelligence office head, Major-General Basenchi Azoyan who died suddenly at the age of 59, became victim of conflict with the Defense Minister Serj Sarkisyan, a stament says on a forum section of an Armenian internet site.
20 June 2006 [15:33]
Azerbaijani resident Polad Sirajov detained in Guantanamo prison of the USA in Cuba, will be handed over to Netherlands after two days by the help of International Red Cross Society.
20 June 2006 [15:24]
A conference of Muslim countries in Azerbaijan this week has decried growing Islamophobia in the West in the wake of a furore sparked by the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in several European newspapers.
20 June 2006 [15:22]
"The opening of borders between Armenia and Turkey is not topic of discussion," Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told journalists while visiting the Qafgaz University in Azerbaijan.
20 June 2006 [15:22]
Pakistan has expressed hope that the appointment of an Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) special envoy will help in the early resolution of the Kashmir dispute.
EU acknowledges strategic significance of Baku International Sea Trade Port in Middle Corridor
Weapons & ammunition discovered in Khankendi
South Korea conducts live-fire exercises near borders of DPRK
Azerbaijani Army units conduct inspection in military equipment
TikTok closed in Kyrgyzstan
Azerbaijan's AccessBank joins UN Global Compact
Navigating challenges in Azerbaijan's trade turnover amidst global uncertainties