Politics
25 October 2006 [19:58]
Central Election Commission (CEC) ratifies final protocol on October 6 local elections.
25 October 2006 [19:48]
Oleg Bilorus, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly vise-president and Ukraine representative to the organization visits Azerbaijan.
25 October 2006 [19:43]
Mahmudali Chohraganli, the leader of South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement (SANAM) who resigned on October 17 because of health problems took back his resignation.
25 October 2006 [19:39]
OSCE PA autumn session will be held in Malta on November 17-19.
25 October 2006 [16:01]
Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group will visit the Karabakh conflict region after the meeting with Armenian and Azeri FMs scheduled November 14 in Brussels.
25 October 2006 [15:56]
"Ambassador of France to Armenia Henri Cuny's remarks on the issue of Turkish borders are not wise," Dr. Sedat Lachiner, Director of Ankara-based International Strategic Research Organization, stated.
25 October 2006 [15:50]
One more Azerbaijani wanted for 1994 coup d'etat was arrested in Russia.
25 October 2006 [15:10]
Communique was adopted on the results of Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers’ meeting held with the participation of Minsk Group co-chairs and OSCE Secretary General's Personal Representative Andrey Kasprzyk in the France Foreign Ministry.
25 October 2006 [14:21]
A military delegation of Azerbaijan arrives in Kyiv to share experience in training personnel.
25 October 2006 [11:38]
There is a terrorist group in Dagestan's territories bordering with Azerbaijan.
25 October 2006 [11:37]
Armenian Armed Forces' units in occupied Bash Gervend village and Kokeltme Birliyi territory of Aghdam region fired on opposite positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces.
25 October 2006 [00:12]
Iran is keen to restart talks with six major powers on the disputed Iranian nuclear program and was willing to discuss all issues, Tehran's envoy to Russia said Tuesday, according to news reports.
25 October 2006 [00:10]
Iran is unlikely to be able to develop a nuclear bomb before 2015, the chief of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency said on Tuesday.
25 October 2006 [00:06]
The Party of European Socialists (PES) group co-chairman, Finnish Parliament Speaker Paavo Lipponen and an accompanying delegation met Turkish Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc in the Turkish parliament on Tuesday.
24 October 2006 [23:57]
Azerbaijan military delegation is paying a visit in accordance with a cooperation plan between Kazakh and Azerbaijan Defense ministries on October 24-25, 2006.
24 October 2006 [23:52]
The Georgian Foreign Ministry regrets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's statement that "Russia so far does not plan to resume air traffic with Georgia."
24 October 2006 [22:14]
The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia met in Paris for talks Tuesday on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, and discussions were "very frank and open-minded," mediators said.
24 October 2006 [20:47]
UC Irvine doctorate student Javid Huseynov spoke Saturday at a conference for Azerbaijani youth.
24 October 2006 [00:16]
"Turkey expects the United States to take concrete steps in regard to fight against terrorist organization PKK," said retired ambassador Faruk Logoglu, chairman of Eurasia Strategic Studies Center in Ankara (ASAM).
23 October 2006 [23:14]
Iran has launched a second batch of centrifuges at its pilot nuclear fuel plant despite possible U.N. Security Council sanctions, diplomats said.
23 October 2006 [23:02]
The Head of the OSCE Office in Baku welcomed the Azerbaijani President's pardon of two newspaper editors imprisoned this year for libel.
23 October 2006 [18:17]
The Kars-Akhalkalaki-Baku project will be implemented since it's first of all a political project, political scientist, rector of the Caucasus Media Institute Alexander Iskandaryan said.
23 October 2006 [18:13]
Formally the Minsk process was not stopped. The OSCE MG is a format created for contribution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement. But since 2001 it has been frozen, political scientist, rector of the Caucasus Media Institute Alexander Iskandaryan said.
23 October 2006 [15:56]
A two-week training programme on police tactics during rallies, public demonstrations or major events, organized by the OSCE Office in Baku, ended in Azerbaijan.
23 October 2006 [15:34]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev arrived October 23 in the Lerik province.
21 October 2006 [19:20]
Turkey's chief European Union negotiator Ali Babacan, as part of his visits to European capitals to voice Turkey's views, yesterday completed his contacts in Athens.
21 October 2006 [19:19]
The European Commission is expecting Turkey to pass its 9th reform package for EU accession and take a stance on the Cyprus issue to finalize its progress report, which will be released on Nov. 8.
21 October 2006 [17:53]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a message of congratulations to his Hungarian counterpart Laszlo Solyom on the Day of the Republic.
21 October 2006 [17:50]
Next week French FM Philippe Douste-Blazy will meet with Azeri and Armenian FMs Elmar Mammadyarov and Vartan Oskanian.
21 October 2006 [17:38]
Stepan Volkovedskli, Ukraine extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to Azerbaijan visited Zagatala.
21 October 2006 [17:34]
Armenian Armed Forces' units in occupied Veyselli and Garakhanli villages of Fuzuli region fired on opposite positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces.
21 October 2006 [17:31]
Ukraine Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Khandogiy addressed the UN General Assembly meting dedicated to the cooperation with the regional organizations.
21 October 2006 [01:23]
A French parliamentary bill that would make it a crime to deny that Armenians suffered 'genocide' at the hands of Ottoman Turks in World War One makes no sense, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.
21 October 2006 [01:17]
A senior Iranian cleric warned the West on Friday not to escalate tensions in the region by pressuring the Islamic Republic to abandon its nuclear pursuit.
21 October 2006 [01:15]
Iran's president has warned that Muslims around the world will take revenge on states which support Israel against the Palestinians.
21 October 2006 [01:03]
Turkey Bakhchasaray University prepared one million application forms against false Armenian genocide for sending European Court of Human Rights.
21 October 2006 [00:48]
Constituent assembly of the China-Azerbaijan Society of Friendship took place On October 19 in Baku.
20 October 2006 [22:19]
Levon Ter-Petrosian, Armenia's former president, will return to active politics to participate in the presidential election of 2008, the leader of an opposition party strongly supporting him claimed on Friday.
20 October 2006 [22:11]
Rally was held in Nardaran, Baku, due to Jerusalem Day.
20 October 2006 [17:37]
Turkey defined the preliminary sanctions against for the adoption of law by France Parliament that makes it crime to deny false Armenian genocide.
20 October 2006 [17:35]
The second round of consultations between Russia and Azerbaijan Foreign Ministries’ Press and Information Departments began on Friday.
20 October 2006 [16:46]
On Friday Azeri and Armenian Defense Ministers Safar Abiyev and Serge Sargsyan met at the Azeri-Armenian border by suggestion of OSCE CiO's personal representative Andrzej Kasprzyk within the framework of measures for increasing mutual trust between the sides.
20 October 2006 [16:33]
Milli Majlis members Elman Mammadov and Zahid Oruj partook in the 64th NATO Parliamentary Assembly Rose-Roth Seminar, which commenced October 19 in Chisinau, Moldova.
20 October 2006 [16:02]
On October 20, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Italian delegation led by Famiano Crucianelli, the country's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-chair of the Consultative Forum on Economic Relations between Azerbaijan and Italy.
20 October 2006 [13:39]
Turkish soldiers and civilians on Friday arrived in Beirut to join the UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, making Turkey the first Muslim country to contribute troops to the mission.
20 October 2006 [13:27]
"I disrespect my country and myself by keeping an order of enemy country," stated Kamran Inan, one of the professional politicians of Turkey and former state minister.
20 October 2006 [13:22]
Armenian Armed Forces began military trainings in occupied Aghdere region beginning from 09.00 today, the peasants of frontline villages of Terter told.
20 October 2006 [12:17]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message to South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon, the next UN secretary-general, congratulating him on his election.
20 October 2006 [12:09]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met October 19 with visiting Health Minister of Mexico Julio Frenk.
20 October 2006 [09:51]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev approved the state program on improvement of activity of the country's national security agencies for the years of 2007-2011.
19 October 2006 [22:17]
Local observers say the transfer of a special Baku police unit to the Interior Ministry may be designed to strengthen the government's influence in underdeveloped regions in advance of the country's 2008 presidential campaign.
19 October 2006 [21:38]
Finland's foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja criticized France harshly for their bill criminalizing the denial of an Armenian genocide and said that the French parliament "has made a bad mistake."
19 October 2006 [21:29]
A statement released by the office of Azerbaijani Prosecutor-General announced on October 18 the removal of a lawyer defending former Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev.
19 October 2006 [21:24]
The European Court for Human Rights agreed on October 18 to hear the case of former Azerbaijani Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev.
19 October 2006 [21:20]
Armenia can no longer afford to hold elections falling short of democratic standards and must therefore "draw the line" under its post-Soviet history of electoral fraud, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday.
19 October 2006 [21:11]
On 19 October, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev welcomed to the Presidential Palace Mexican Health Minister Julio Frenk.
19 October 2006 [21:00]
Azerbaijani Foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Armenian Foreign minister Vartan Oskanian's next talks in the frame of Prague Process will be held on October 24, said Yuri Merzlyakov, Russian co-chair of OSCE Minsk group and coordinator on Karabakh conflict.
19 October 2006 [20:46]
President Ilham Aliyev received the ambassadors of Muslim countries to Azerbaijan.
19 October 2006 [16:02]
Protest action took place outside of France embassy in Bucharest.
19 October 2006 [15:35]
Armenia Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said that he will resign before presidential elections in 2008.
19 October 2006 [14:35]
Turkey's state broadcasting watchdog has recommended a boycott of French-made programmes and films in protest at the French parliament's support for a bill that would make it a crime to deny the Armenian "genocide".
19 October 2006 [14:04]
19 October 2006 [13:57]
Turkey President Ahmed Necdet Sezer issued a decree on appointing new ambassador to Azerbaijan.
19 October 2006 [13:37]
The leader of South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement (SANAM) Mahmudali Chohraganli has resigned, Agri Garadaghli, chief of the press service of SANAM office in Baku, stated.
19 October 2006 [13:29]
The delegation headed by Mikhail Kaminin, the chief of Russia Foreign Ministry Information and Press Department will visit Baku tomorrow, Tahir Taghizadeh, the chief of Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department informs.
18 October 2006 [23:41]
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is pleased to announce the appointment of Envera Selimovic as the Representative of the Department of Public Information in the United Nations Office in Baku, Azerbaijan.
18 October 2006 [21:52]
Israel's Prime Minister has urged Russia to join ranks against Iran's nuclear program.
18 October 2006 [21:47]
The U.S. Congress has approved the sale of 30 new F-16 fighter jets to Turkey.
18 October 2006 [21:40]
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Mikl?s Haraszti, expressed his concern on Tuesday about the French National Assembly's adoption in a first reading of an amendment that aims to criminalize the denial that the 1915 killings of Armenians in Turkey was genocide.
18 October 2006 [21:38]
German Deputy Foreign Minister Guenter Gloser criticized Turkey for slowing efforts to become eligible for European Union membership, saying the mostly Muslim nation must strengthen its democracy and end a trade embargo on Cyprus.
18 October 2006 [21:35]
Iran warned on Wednesday that a likely U.N. Security Council resolution for imposing sanctions against Tehran would wreck any possibility for a compromise to resolve the standoff over the country's nuclear program.
18 October 2006 [21:29]
The U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe expressed on Wednesday dismay at President Robert Kocharian's refusal to meet her on her first-ever visit to Armenia that focused on democratization and other political reforms.
18 October 2006 [21:25]
In comments during a Yerevan press conference, Armenian parliament speaker Tigran Torosian and his deputy Vahan Hovannisian complained on October 17 that Russia's decision to impose a transport blockade of Georgia has caused considerable economic harm to Armenia and criticized Moscow for failing to take Armenian interests into account.
18 October 2006 [16:12]
"I have not heard of any official announcements that Azerbaijan is seeking expulsion of France from the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs," Head of Press and Information Policy Department at the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Tahir Tagizadeh is quoted as saying to Day.Az, while commenting on calls for it after the lower house of France's parliament passed a law that envisages criminal punishment for denial of the so-called "Armenian genocide."
18 October 2006 [12:21]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev announced Tuesday a campaign to counter the influence of the Armenian diaspora, a major backer of ethnic-Armenian separatists in the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region.
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