Politics
13 February 2007 [09:46]
The next meeting of Russia-Azerbaijan intergovernmental commission will be held in Moscow in March.
13 February 2007 [01:59]
Azerbaijan's Minister of National Security Eldar Mahmudov met the US delegation led by Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
13 February 2007 [01:40]
Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov met with the U. S. delegation led by Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 12 February, the Ministry's press service said.
13 February 2007 [01:35]
Members of the Council of Europes Ago Group will visit Baku, said Denis Bribosia, special representative of the Council of Europes Secretary General.
13 February 2007 [01:30]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan received at President Palace the U. S. delegation led by Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
12 February 2007 [17:23]
International Crisis Group (ICG) will start a new project on Nagorno Karabakh in March.
12 February 2007 [16:38]
The US President George Bush wrote to the House of Representatives expressing his disagreement with the approval of the bill on Armenian genocide, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said.
12 February 2007 [15:24]
European Court for Human Rights received 1478 appeals from Azerbaijan till 2007, Supreme Court chairman Ramiz Rzayev told reporters.
12 February 2007 [14:12]
Defence Minister, Lieutenant-General Safar Abiyev received the delegation led by the US Assistant Secretary of Defence Peter W. Rodman.
12 February 2007 [13:26]
Azerbaijan Democratic Party leader Rasul Guliyev issued order on the processes happening inside of the party.
12 February 2007 [12:54]
Armenian Armed Forces is bringing military equipment to Leletepe territory of occupied Azerbaijani region of Jebrail since Sunday.
12 February 2007 [10:57]
Late president's aide almost certain to win.
10 February 2007 [16:47]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev sent a message to President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei to congratulate them and the people of their country on Revolution Day.
10 February 2007 [16:32]
Regional cooperation in South Caucasus should promote "development of multilateral links among all, without exception, countries of the region," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued on February 10.
10 February 2007 [16:20]
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Saturday that the United States' increased use of military force is creating a new arms race, with smaller nations turning toward developing nuclear weapons.
10 February 2007 [15:30]
This is the first election since 1992. There is great anticipation after 30 years of Niyazov's rule but few hopes of any rapid change. Other states seem to be more interested in the country’s gas than in encouraging democratic developments.
10 February 2007 [15:23]
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday that it had suspended 22 of its 55 technical aid programs with Iran, giving Washington a modest victory in its efforts to isolate Tehran internationally in the hope of curbing its nuclear ambitions.
10 February 2007 [15:14]
The next sitting of Azerbaijan's parliament (Milli Majlis) will be held on February 16.
10 February 2007 [13:23]
A top US State Department official with responsibility for Turkey said the administration was committed to dissuading Congress from passing a resolution recognizing an alleged genocide of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, but said that it was difficult to make this case while Turkey still kept in its penal code laws which restricted freedom of speech.
10 February 2007 [12:45]
The Turkish government has appealed to the United States to encourage the Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq to comply with energy agreements, Matt Bryza, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, told the Turkish Daily News in an exclusive interview.
10 February 2007 [02:19]
Israeli troops charged onto the grounds of Jerusalem's most contentious religious site and fired tear gas and stun grenades Friday at stone-throwing Palestinians who were protesting Israeli excavation work taking place just outside the hilltop shrine.
10 February 2007 [02:00]
The 9th session of Organization of Islamic Conference Parliamentary Union Council will be held on February 14-16 in the capital of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur.
10 February 2007 [01:11]
President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Goran Lennmarker met with a group of NGO representatives in Azerbaijan.
09 February 2007 [22:42]
"Moving past their reluctant attitude in the 1990s, in the 21st century the alliance and the union have started to pursue a much more active policy toward the South Caucasus.
09 February 2007 [22:41]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan received Deputy Foreign Minister in Asia and Oceania Affairs and Iran's special envoy in Caspian Sea Affairs Mehdi Safari.
09 February 2007 [22:39]
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Special Representative of Iranian President for Caspian issues Mehdi Seferi paid one-day visit to Baku.
09 February 2007 [22:36]
NATO coordinator to Azerbaijan Lopen Peerlinman is expected to pay three-day visit to Azerbaijan on February 14.
09 February 2007 [22:28]
The United States will allocate $4.3 million to Azerbaijan for holding international military education and training in 2008.
09 February 2007 [17:54]
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Goran Lennmarker made a speech in Baku State University.
09 February 2007 [17:52]
Azerbaijani ambassador to Ukraine Talat Aliyev prepared proposals on opening consulates-general and honorary consulates in a number of big regions of Ukraine.
09 February 2007 [16:42]
Iran's ambassador to Azerbaijan said on Friday that abducting Iranian diplomats in Iraq by the US troops is considered being a terrorist act and violation of international regulations.
09 February 2007 [16:35]
"My report on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict will cause numerous discussions. Some may agree and some disagree. Yesterday, I met with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. He seemed to agree with some points in the report," President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Goran Lennmarker told reporters.
09 February 2007 [16:16]
Russia's defense minister said granting independence to the Serbian province of Kosovo may set a dangerous precedent, triggering disintegration of other states across Eurasia.
09 February 2007 [16:14]
The next summit of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development-GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) will be held in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku in June this year.
09 February 2007 [16:07]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev is expected to visit Kiev on March 17.
09 February 2007 [16:04]
"The settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is very important both for the whole region and from the aspect of the region's integration into Europe.
09 February 2007 [15:57]
On February 8, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Khurshid Anwar, a Secretary General of the Economic Cooperation Organization, who is in Baku to attend the International Conference on Fight Against Counterfeit Drugs.
09 February 2007 [15:56]
On February 8, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Minister of Justice of Georgia Giya Kavtaradze.
09 February 2007 [15:46]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Khurshid Anwar, a Secretary General of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), who is in Baku to attend the International Conference on Fight against Counterfeit Drugs.
09 February 2007 [14:29]
"The Nagorno Karabakh conflict means neither a separatist regime nor internal conflict. It is the aggression of an internationally recognized sovereign country against another one," spokesman of Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry Tahir Tagizadeh stated.
09 February 2007 [11:24]
Iran stepped up its warnings to the United States, with the nation's supreme leader saying Tehran will strike U.S. interests around the world if his country is attacked.
09 February 2007 [11:01]
The U.S. Senate is considering a bill supporting Georgia's bid to enter the NATO. The Congress bill is to pass the bill as it already did last fall.
09 February 2007 [10:52]
Armenia and Azerbaijan have become independent countries just like other former Soviet Republics after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
09 February 2007 [10:39]
Armenia's President Robert Kocharian has approved country's comprehensive national security strategy that declares democracy and good governance a top priority and reaffirms the "complementary" foreign policy pursued by his administration.
09 February 2007 [10:28]
Pakistan expressed its readiness to share its experience in creating a defence industry in Azerbaijan.
09 February 2007 [02:19]
Yesterday, the Ambassador of South Korea to Azerbaijan has visited the northern regions of Azerbaijan.
09 February 2007 [02:15]
The I Forum of Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora organizations will be held in Baku.
09 February 2007 [02:13]
The teacher of Istanbul University Mehmet Rerinchak will make report on "Truths and imperialist falsehood in Russian and Armenian documents" in City University, London on February 25, Talat Pasha Movement Coordination Center stated.
09 February 2007 [02:08]
President Aliyev received Economic Cooperation Organization Secretary General Khurshid Anvar Feb 8.
09 February 2007 [02:05]
President Ilham Aliyev received the delegation led by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Goran Lenmarker.
09 February 2007 [01:53]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received delegation leaded by Italian International Trade Deputy Minister, senator Milos Budin.
09 February 2007 [01:04]
Azerbaijani Armed Forces officer Lieutenant-Colonel Rasim Muradov has appealed to the Ministry of National Security and General Prosecutor's Office of unlawfulness in Security brigade and peacekeeping party of Defense Ministry, Muradov stated.
09 February 2007 [00:39]
Foreign Minister and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President did not discuss Nagorno Karabakh conflict during their meeting, the President told journalists.
09 February 2007 [00:36]
Georgian Justice Minister Gia Kavtaradze is on visit to Azerbaijan, Justice Ministry informs.
09 February 2007 [00:06]
Today British Ambassador to Azerbaijan Laurie Bristow visited Euroatlantic Center.
08 February 2007 [23:56]
Azerbaijan intends to sign international agreement with a number of countries on removal of double taxation, Taxes Minister Fazil Mammadov stated.
08 February 2007 [22:47]
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted resolution on the protection of national minorities in Armenia and Germany.
08 February 2007 [17:22]
The investigation of criminal case against former Health Minister Ali Insanov, former Finance Minister Fikret Yusifov, former Ganja Police chief Natig Afandiyev former President's office department chief Akif Muradverdiyev on Article 29, 278 (coup d'etat) of the criminal code is under way.
08 February 2007 [17:11]
"I'd like Armenia also to participate in regional projects. But I understand that now our friends, who realize Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project, are not ready to include Armenia. But it is a political fact," stated OSCE MG American Co-Chair Matthew Bryza.
08 February 2007 [15:48]
There are a lot of facts confirming involvement of Zori Balayan, one of ideologists of "Great Armenia", in Khojali.
08 February 2007 [15:05]
"I think Goran Lenmarker did not mean concluding of peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia, but reaching an agreement on the core principles of the settlement," said Yuri Merzlyakov, Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.
08 February 2007 [14:40]
"If the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is settled it will significantly lighten our task in the issue of gas usage, which will pass through the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline in future.
08 February 2007 [13:59]
"Akif Shahbazov's order to annul the Assembly's January 27 decision on constructive dialogue with the government is right step," the chief of Azerbaijan Democrat Party Rasul Guliyev told the APA while commenting on the Shahbazov's order.
08 February 2007 [13:40]
"I hope Azerbaijan and Armenia will reach an agreement until the meeting of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in July in Kiev, where the report on Nagorno Karabakh will be discussed.
08 February 2007 [13:39]
Turkish Prime Minister Rajab Tayyip Erdogan will pay a visit to Azerbaijan in early March.
08 February 2007 [12:27]
Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova condemn local self-governance and parliamentary elections in breakaway Abkhazia scheduled for February 11 and March 4, respectively, Ukraine said in a statement made at the session of the Council of Europe (CoE) Deputy Ministers' Committee on behalf of GUAM-member states on February 7.
08 February 2007 [10:44]
08 February 2007 [10:42]
Georgia's Justice Minister Gia Kavtaradze will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan at the invitation of his Azerbaijani counterpart on February 8.
08 February 2007 [10:26]
Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) has set the date of the picket to be held outside of Iranian Embassy.
08 February 2007 [10:25]
"The United States recognizes Azerbaijan's territorial integrity. The clue to the solution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is peaceful settlement. I hear these words from Azerbaijani government as well," Colleen Graffy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs U.S. Department of State stated at the meeting in State Management Academy at Azerbaijani President's Office.
08 February 2007 [10:20]
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) winter session will start in Vienna on February 22-23.
07 February 2007 [22:49]
Turkey's foreign minister said Tuesday a proposed resolution in Congress to condemn as genocide the early 20th century killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians would harm Turkish-American relations if it passes.
07 February 2007 [22:33]
Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov met with the delegation headed by Harada Chikahito, Director-General, European Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
07 February 2007 [22:27]
The visit of President of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) Goran Lenmarker and Secretary General of OSCE PA Spenser Oliver has started.
07 February 2007 [22:24]
Armenia and Azerbaijan are "very close" to hammering out an agreement on Nagorno Karabakh before their presidential elections due next year, Washington's chief Karabakh negotiator said on Wednesday.