Politics
23 January 2006 [16:37]
Deputy Speaker of the Milli Majlis (MM) of Azerbaijani Valeh Aleskerov, who arrived in Astana to take part in the 10th anniversary of Kazakh Parliament, met there with its Speaker Ural Mukhammedzhanov.
23 January 2006 [12:12]
Georgian President Mikhael Saakashvili phoned Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev last Sunday.
23 January 2006 [09:42]
Winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) starts tomorrow. The Azerbaijani delegation will also attend the session.
22 January 2006 [19:00]
King Abdullah has begun the first ever state visit to China by a Saudi leader, expected to focus on boosting co-operation to fuel China's soaring energy needs.
22 January 2006 [18:42]
Gas supplies from Russia to Armenia and Georgia have been halted by two explosions on a pipeline that Georgia blames on Russian sabotage.
22 January 2006 [16:56]
Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel here Sunday branded as shameful the French President Jacques Chirac's recent threat of a nuclear strike on any state that launches terrorist attacks against France.
22 January 2006 [05:51]
Terrorist groups have become more active in Pankisi Valey in Georgia recently.
22 January 2006 [05:20]
"Asim Mollazadeh and Sabir Hajiyev are not represented in the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE according to parliamentary re-elections scheduled for May," - head of the delegation Samad Seyidov stated.
22 January 2006 [05:07]
Chiefs of the parties included in "Azadlig" bloc - Sardar Jalaloghlu, Isa Gambar and Ali Karimli have been invited to the gathering of Monitoring Group of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe.
22 January 2006 [05:02]
Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov conducted several meetings in the framework of his visit to Switzerland.
22 January 2006 [03:32]
Families of over 400 Libyan children with HIV asked for 4.4 billion euros ($5.3 billion) on Saturday from donors trying to end a standoff over six foreign medics accused of giving them the disease.
22 January 2006 [03:29]
Israel's Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz warned the people of Iran on Saturday that their president would bring disaster and suffering upon them if he continued to call for the destruction of the Jewish state.
21 January 2006 [22:37]
The man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 was back in an Istanbul prison Saturday, and his brother demonstrated outside to accuse judicial authorities of bowing to government pressure.
21 January 2006 [22:28]
Kuwait's ruling family yesterday agreed that Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah should replace the ailing Amir Shaikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Salem Al Sabah.
21 January 2006 [20:28]
Japan's PM Junichiro Koizumi has pledged to submit a bill to parliament letting women ascend to the throne.
21 January 2006 [20:23]
The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, has blamed a "global plot" against the Arab world for his country's deteriorating relations with Lebanon.
21 January 2006 [20:17]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused Israel on Saturday of assassinating former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the cause of whose death 14 months ago remains a mystery.
21 January 2006 [20:12]
U.S. Treasury officials visited Seoul on Saturday to discuss ways to stop North Korea's alleged illegal financial activities that Washington suspects were helping finance North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
21 January 2006 [20:08]
Iran, which has said it is shifting its money out European accounts as the threat of U.N. sanctions mounts, will not move its currency assets to Asia, a deputy central bank governor said on Saturday.
21 January 2006 [20:00]
Kosovo media have announced the death of President Ibrahim Rugova.
21 January 2006 [16:54]
The German government, facing allegations its spies in Iraq secretly abetted the US invasion that Berlin publicly opposed, has resisted calls for a parliamentary inquiry it said would fan anti-Americanism.
21 January 2006 [16:47]
Democratic senators took the Bush administration to task Friday for four years of domestic spying, while the president fought back with a planned embrace of the intelligence agency that is carrying out the effort.
21 January 2006 [16:27]
Georgia is interested in developing the kind of "strategic" relationship with Armenia that it already has with Azerbaijan, Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili said during an official visit to Yerevan on 16 January.
21 January 2006 [16:02]
Funding of political parties from the state budget will be touched in draft law on political parties to be discussed at parliament this year, told Ali Hasanov, Chief of Public Policy Department of the Office of President.
21 January 2006 [13:42]
China has proposed that stalled six-party talks on ending North Korea's nuclear programs be resumed early next month, a proposal that the United States also favors.
21 January 2006 [13:38]
Five members of the Iraqi president's staff were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their motorcade north of Baghdad, police said on Saturday, adding that President Jalal Talabani was not present.
21 January 2006 [13:29]
The United States has launched a glaring new chapter in its diplomatic fight with Cuba: an electronic screen broadcasting messages on its diplomatic building's side in a move Cuba calls a provocation.
21 January 2006 [13:15]
Venezuela and the US appear ready to sign a new agreement to fight international drug trafficking.
21 January 2006 [12:37]
21 January 2006 [04:46]
Delegation of Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) that had been on a visit in Turkey arrived Baku today.
21 January 2006 [04:18]
The First Secretary of the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Belgium Dr. Fuad Humbatov prepared a brief review dedicated to the tragedy of January 20.
21 January 2006 [00:28]
Israel has accused Iran and Syria of being behind Thursday's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
21 January 2006 [00:09]
A former Pentagon analyst was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison on Friday for passing U.S. defense information to two pro-Israel lobbyists and for sharing classified information with an Israeli diplomat.
20 January 2006 [19:57]
Embroiled in a nuclear standoff with the West, Iran said on Friday it was moving its foreign assets to shield them from possible U.N. sanctions, and flexed its oil muscles with a proposal to cut OPEC output.
20 January 2006 [19:47]
Iraq's Shi'ite Islamists were confirmed in power by election results on Friday that gave them a near-majority and paved the way for negotiations to begin on a national unity government promoted by the United States.
20 January 2006 [19:29]
The EU has warned Serbia that moves towards eventual EU membership may be halted if Belgrade fails to hand over top war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic.
20 January 2006 [17:50]
Foreign Minister, Elmar Mammadyarov, is current on a two-day visit to Strasbourg, France, said Tahir Tagizade, the head of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry.
20 January 2006 [17:46]
Valeh Aleskerov speaks about bilateral relations to Russian mass-media
20 January 2006 [17:40]
20 January 2006 [17:38]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov was commenting on the two-day consultations held in London with the Armenian FM, Vardan Oskanian and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs.
20 January 2006 [17:28]
Azerbaijani President signed a decree on upgrade of legal system in Azerbaijan and the application of the law on injection of changes and supplements in some legislative acts in Azerbaijan.
20 January 2006 [17:14]
"America is sacrificing democracy for the sake of its economic and energy interests," an Azeri politician has said.
20 January 2006 [17:06]
A meeting of the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia might be held in Paris on 10 February 2006, the Russian daily "Vremya Novostey" writes.
20 January 2006 [16:30]
Azerbaijan and Armenia have completed another round of talks on settling the long-standing conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.
20 January 2006 [03:53]
"Partnership for Peace Program" conference will be held in Oberammergau (Germany) on 19-20 January and a course "European Security Sciences" in Garmish Partinkirchen (Germany) from January 20 till 13 April in the framework of "Partnership for Peace Program" of NATO.
20 January 2006 [03:32]
Defense Minister of Russia Sergei Ivanov is expected to pay a visit to Azerbaijan on 23-25 January.
20 January 2006 [03:19]
The negotiations started yesterday between Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan Oskanian in London continued today.
20 January 2006 [02:36]
"It is impossible to speak of complete resolution of the conflict at present,"- head of the armed gang of separatist regime of the occupied lands of Azerbaijan Seyran Ohanian claimed.
20 January 2006 [02:24]
Newly appointed Ambassador of Ukraine to Azerbaijan Stepan Volkovetski will arrive Baku on January 21.
20 January 2006 [01:35]
"The meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers in London aims to prepare the meeting of the Presidents, to discuss some issues concerning the meeting of the heads of state, fix the place and date of the meeting," - Novruz Mammadov, director of department for international relations of President's Office.
20 January 2006 [00:43]
Iran warned of a world oil crisis if sanctions are imposed over its nuclear program even as the United States and Europe struggled to get support for UN Security Council action.
20 January 2006 [00:35]
The US is to reduce the number of its diplomats posted to Europe, and will send more to other countries, including China, India, Nigeria and Lebanon.
20 January 2006 [00:26]
Arabic TV station al-Jazeera has broadcast an audio tape it says is by the al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden.
20 January 2006 [00:05]
The annual report of the U.S. nonprofit organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized Azerbaijan.
20 January 2006 [00:00]
Azerbaijan and Armenia held another round of talks on settling the long-standing Upper Garabagh conflict in London on Wednesday.
19 January 2006 [23:42]
The composition of the Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe, which will attend the PACE winter session from January 23 to 27, was approved yesterday.
19 January 2006 [23:30]
"?rmenia does not give up its agressor’s claims by pursuing the destructive policy," the Azerbaijan Defense Minister Safar Abiyev said in a statement on 19 January 2006 during the meeting with the Deputy Commander of the Headquarters of the U.S. European Command General Charles F. "Chuck" Wald.
19 January 2006 [23:14]
President Aliyev and General Wald discussed ANAMA activities
19 January 2006 [13:47]
Sergey Lavrov welcomes the OSCE Minsk Group proposal for the Azerbaijan and Armenia Presidents early meeting.
19 January 2006 [04:49]
"A statement of the chair of the Customs Committee of Armenia about existence of trade links between Azerbaijan and Armenia is nothing but nonsense".
19 January 2006 [04:10]
"The International Crisis Group expects Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents to achieve concrete results in their meeting due to in February" - Vise-president of the International Crisis Group Alain Deletroz issued this statement.
19 January 2006 [02:48]
One Armenian prisoner of war previously detained in Azerbaijan was repatriated under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
19 January 2006 [02:19]
Press service of Iranian embassy in Azerbaijan spread the statement concerning peaceful nuclear program of the country issued by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at press conference on January 14.
19 January 2006 [02:13]
Defense Minister of Russia Sergey Ivanov will pay an official visit to Armenia on January 25.
18 January 2006 [22:02]
The head of Russian Federal Security Service (FSS) Nikolay Patrushev in the interview to the "Russian", has expressed satisfaction with cooperation of special services of the foreign states, including Azerbaijan's.
18 January 2006 [21:24]
The members of the Azeri Panel to participate in the winter Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have been determined.
18 January 2006 [18:03]
"The U.S. government allocated $17m for the program on mine clearing of the Azerbaijani territories over the last 7 years," Jonathan Henick, the spokesman of the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan, told.
18 January 2006 [14:47]
Vagif Sadikhov, the Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister, is representing Azerbaijan in a burial ceremony of the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah.
18 January 2006 [14:26]
General Charles F. "Chuck" Wald, the Deputy Commander of the Headquarters of the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, arrived in Azerbaijan on Wednesday for meetings and discussions at the Ministry of Defense.
18 January 2006 [14:24]
Ceasefire breach was fixed in the Armenian-Azerbaijani frontline on Tuesday.
18 January 2006 [14:15]
On Tuesday the Turkish prime minister Rejep Tayyub Erdogan received a delegation of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party headed by Ali Ahmadov, the Executive Secretary of the party, who is currently visiting Ankara at the invitation of the ruling party of Turkey – the Party of Justice and Development.
18 January 2006 [04:26]
Works concerning establishment of the representations of the Ministry of Economic Development in embassies of Azerbaijan in the foreign states have been started.
18 January 2006 [04:05]
Leader of Azerbaijan National Union Movement (ANUM), elected candidate from Yasamal ConEC 3 #17 Lala Shovkhat Hajiyeva made her step on refusing the deputy mandate official.
18 January 2006 [03:50]
The report on the 6 November parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan drawn up by OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) located in Warsaw, capital of Poland will be announced in several weeks.
18 January 2006 [03:15]
"Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko is going to pay an official visit to Azerbaijan. This visit is of great importance for both Ukraine and Azerbaijan" Ukrainian charge d'affaires in Azerbaijan Igor Kizima told.
Turkish Minister of National Defense arrives in Azerbaijan
Ammunition neutralized in Baku's Khazar district
Talks on economic cooperation between Russia, Turkiye underway in Ankara
WB Regional Director: Now is right time to improve competitiveness of Middle Corridor
Azerbaijani MoD presents review of last week events [VIDEO]
Azerbaijan, Georgia discussed prospects of cooperation in science & education
Azerbaijani MoD holds event on occasion of Kalbajar City Day