Politics
26 September 2006 [20:25]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has sent a message of congratulations Shinzo Abe on his election Prime Minister of Japan.
26 September 2006 [20:21]
26 September 2006 [20:08]
The European parliament insists controversial conclusions on Turkey's EU membership bid are "fair but tough."
26 September 2006 [19:56]
Commander of Interior Troops Zakir Hasanov: "I advocate public and democratic control on the Army."
26 September 2006 [19:47]
Chief of the Azerbaijan Committee against Torture Elchin Behbudov met with former economic development minister Farhad Aliyev and former health minister Ali Insanov, held in National Security Ministry jail.
26 September 2006 [16:45]
"We can achieve progress in finding the persons missing as a result of the conflicts in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia," said Leo Platvoet, PACE rapporteur on prisoners of war and missing persons.
26 September 2006 [16:31]
One cannot blame Armenia for thinking that Azerbaijan is not ready or interested in a negotiated peace, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated at the 61st session of the UN General Assembly.
26 September 2006 [14:39]
Russian strategic bombers will practice cruise missile launches and aerial bombardment during a four-day annual combat readiness inspection, an air force spokesman said Tuesday.
26 September 2006 [14:00]
Speaking at the General Assembly of the United Nations on September 25 in New York Elmar Mammadyarov, Foreign Affairs Minister of Azerbaijan, informed about the UN GA resolution on arsons commited in Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenians.
26 September 2006 [13:57]
"Following Roman Pope Benedict XVI's anti-Islam remarks, Armenians began to use Azerbaijani historical heritage-mosque in occupied Agdam village as stable and pigsty. Other historical mosques in Nagorno Garabagh have been destroyed by Armenians," writes Iran's "Cumhuriyyi Islam" (Islamic Republic) newspaper in today's issue.
26 September 2006 [13:34]
The Foreign Ministers from GUAM member states – Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova – who met in New York on September 25 on the sidelines of the 61st Session of the UN General Assembly, decided to intensify efforts for the formation of GUAM peacekeeping forces and civilian police units, according to Civil Georgia.
26 September 2006 [13:32]
Azerbaijan's Embassy in Iran expressed an official protest to the Foreign Ministry in connection with some Iranian businessmen's establishing relations with the alleged regime in Nagorno Karabakh province of Azerbaijan.
26 September 2006 [13:30]
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Monitoring Committee co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan Tony Lloyd and Andres Herkel will visit the country from October 29 till November 4 this year.
26 September 2006 [10:15]
Pro-opposition Musavat Party's Supreme Assembly held meeting yesterday.
26 September 2006 [10:13]
The pro-opposition Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) will place a picket outside Iranian embassy in Azerbaijan, Nazim Alesgerov, ANIP deputy chief stated.
26 September 2006 [10:07]
Delegation led by first deputy Prime Minister Yagub Eyyubov started two-day visit to Iran.
26 September 2006 [09:44]
Poland's Sejm marshal Marek Yurek is going to visit Azerbaijan on November 8-9.
26 September 2006 [09:31]
Amnesty International is greatly concerned by new arrests and detentions in Iran targeting human rights activists, minority community activists and others peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and association.
26 September 2006 [09:12]
The next summit of Caspian states will take place in Tehran, Iran.
25 September 2006 [22:42]
Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov is visiting the United States to take part at general debates of the 61st session of UN General Assembly in New York.
25 September 2006 [21:43]
The 11th meeting of the Turkic States and Communities will be held in Baku in 2008.
25 September 2006 [21:41]
A delegation led by the First Deputy Prosecutor General Rustem Usubov has participated at the Second Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Conference organized by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Prosecutors Association jointly with the International Association of Prosecutors on 21-22 in Kyiv, press service of the Prosecutor General said.
25 September 2006 [21:34]
Security services of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) countries will be held at the Armenian nuclear power plant on September 26-29, the CIS Antiterrorist Centre's chief Colonel-General Boris Mylnikov said.
25 September 2006 [21:28]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev issued an executive order on dismissal of Sahib Akbarov from the post of the head of the Executive Power of Kalbajar region.
25 September 2006 [21:20]
The Armenian Defense Ministry said Monday that an Azerbaijani sniper had killed an Armenian soldier.
25 September 2006 [16:20]
"Rasul Guliyev has always stood against me, since I was in prison. He struggled against me in secret way. But now it is obvious," Gurban Mammadov, member of the Supreme Assembly of Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) told that while commenting on the incident between him and fugitive party leader Rasul Guliyev during the republic-wide meeting last Sunday.
25 September 2006 [15:53]
"Dynamic processes are ongoing in northern Iraq. I will investigate the situation in Kerkuk, Mosul, Erbil, Terafel and other cities," Turhan Chomez, ruling AKP parliamentarian from Balikesir, told.
25 September 2006 [14:43]
Members of Armenian community in Ukraine held a meeting in Kyiv organized by the Union of Ukrainian Armenians.
25 September 2006 [13:50]
Russia will not allow GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) peacekeepers to the conflict zones in the CIS, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov stated.
25 September 2006 [12:38]
In the eight months of 2006, Azerbaijani State Commission for prisoners of war, missing persons and hostages cleared the fate of 122 Azerbaijanis registered as missing as a result of Armenia's aggression against Azerbaijan.
24 September 2006 [17:32]
Armenia creates artificial obstacles on realization of the visit of Edward O'Hara, PACE Rapporteur on monitoring of cultural monuments in the South Caucasus to Baku, Yerevan and Tbilisi since May, 2006.
24 September 2006 [16:02]
The foreign ministers of nations forming a Black Sea economic alliance have agreed on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly that they will meet in Moscow for formal talks on November 1, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
24 September 2006 [13:23]
Seventeen people were wounded when a bomb planted in a truck was detonated outside a police building in the eastern Turkish city of Igdir on Saturday.
24 September 2006 [13:10]
Venezuela's foreign minister was detained at a New York airport on Saturday, prompting an apology from the U.S. government and compounding already tense relations between the two countries.
24 September 2006 [12:55]
24 September 2006 [12:44]
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul pressed for a seat on the U.N. Security Council, saying it was "long overdue" and warranted given Turkey's front-line role in securing peace in Lebanon.
23 September 2006 [20:19]
Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, who is in charge of UN contacts regarding the future status of the Albanian-dominated Serbia's region of Kosovo made it clear Friday he does not agree with the apprehensions that imposition of independence on might set a dangerous precedent.
23 September 2006 [15:16]
New academic Year starts in Iran, but Azerbaijanis protest against Persian-language schools.
23 September 2006 [15:13]
Azerbaijan's Defense Minister Colonel General Safar Abiyev received Zhang Haizhou, Chinese Ambassador to Azerbaijan.
23 September 2006 [14:58]
A monument to Armenian general Gurgen Dalibaltian who fought against Azerbaijan during a war in Nagorno Karabakh will be erected in Akhalkalaki.
23 September 2006 [14:52]
Minister of Education Misir Mardanov met with Belarussian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikolay Pastkevich.
23 September 2006 [14:39]
France's Defense Ministry said on Saturday a secret service report saying al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had died could not be confirmed but said it would launch an inquiry into the leak of secret documents.
23 September 2006 [14:12]
Discussion on the 'frozen conflicts' in the GUAM (Georgia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova) has started at the 61st session of the UN General Assembly.
23 September 2006 [13:41]
The UK is interested in stability, democracy, prosperity and rule of law in all of the South Caucasian states, British Ambassador to Azerbaijan Laurie Bristow said.
23 September 2006 [13:35]
23 September 2006 [13:23]
Turkey-European Union Joint Parliamentary Commission Co-Chairman Joost Lagendijk said yesterday that Turkey had a chance on the road to its EU membership.
23 September 2006 [12:38]
"We are ready to make a report on our activities to the parliamentarians and citizens," said Interior Minister Ramil Usubov.
23 September 2006 [12:16]
Nagorno Karabakh conflict is a big obstacle to the development of the relations between Europe and South Caucasus, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev told Bertelsmann Forum 2006 in Berlin.
23 September 2006 [11:22]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev participating in the International Bertelsmann Forum 2006 in Berlin met with Speaker of Georgian Parliament Mrs. Nino Burjanadze at Aldon hotel on September 22.
23 September 2006 [02:10]
Azeri Foreign Ministry intends to open a new Embassy in Malaysia.
23 September 2006 [01:25]
Azeri Minister of Internal Affairs, Colonel-General Ramil Usubov on 22 September met with Russian Ambassador Vasiliy Istratov.
23 September 2006 [01:23]
Members of Milli Majlis (Azerbaijan Parliament) Musa Guliyev and Vidadi Mammadov will leave September 23 for the Kirghiz capital of Bishkek to attend the international parliamentary conference on HIV/AIDS Prevention in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
23 September 2006 [01:22]
Defense Minister, Colonel-General Safar Abiyev met September 21 with Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Azerbaijan Lawrence Bristow, press service of the Ministry said.
23 September 2006 [01:10]
U.S. Senate approved yesterday the amendment to the law prohibiting financing of construction of the Baku-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway bypassing Armenia.
23 September 2006 [00:51]
Azeri and Armenian foreign ministers Elmar Mammadyarov and Vartan Oskanian will discuss settlement to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict with the co-chairmen of the mediating OSCE Minsk Group in New York September 25-26, Azeri officials said.
22 September 2006 [22:23]
Russia warned on September 22 that Georgia's integration into NATO will target Russia's political, military and economic interests "and will have a negative effect on a fragile situation in the Caucasus".
22 September 2006 [16:09]
President Ilham Aliyev is paying a working visit to the Federal Republic of Germany today.
22 September 2006 [15:50]
Armenian Armed Forces violated the ceasefire again killing Azerbaijani Army soldier.
22 September 2006 [10:48]
Azerbaijani National Security Minister, chef of State Commission for prisoners of war, missing persons and hostages, General Lieutenant Eldar Mahmudov received the International Committee of the Red Cross (IRCC) Baku office former chief Mary Vernts and present one Martin Amasher.
22 September 2006 [10:39]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today received Ambassador David A. Gross, the U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy.
22 September 2006 [09:59]
"The activities of embassies in Hungary were not suspended due to recent riots in the capital Budapest. Azerbaijani Embassy operates as usual," Nigar Efendiyeva, embassy official told.
22 September 2006 [09:11]
Ilham Aliyev issued an executive order to confirm Azerbaijani composition of the Azerbaijan-Italy intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation.
21 September 2006 [21:58]
Defense Minister, Gen.Col Safar Abiyev today received the delegation led by General William Ward, Deputy Commander of the U.S. European Command.
21 September 2006 [21:54]
Poll was conducted among Azerbaijani parliament members. The question was whether the Nagorno Karabakh problem with Armenia can be solved through peaceful way or through war.
21 September 2006 [21:34]
Armenian families, who have been transferred to Armenian-occupied Azerbaijani territories, are leaving the region collectively.
21 September 2006 [15:58]
Israel has found an unexpected friend. It is Azerbaijan, writes Israeli writer Meyir Uzeil, who visited Azerbaijan in the composition of delegation of Writers-Envoys September 4.
21 September 2006 [15:06]
Head of NATO Parliamentary Assembly defense and security subcommittee Fran Coock will visit Azerbaijan from October 16 to 18.
21 September 2006 [13:48]
Azerbaijani embassy and consulate in Russia suspended issuing passports to Azerbaijanis due to appearing of frauds.
21 September 2006 [13:44]
President Ilham Aliyev issued an executive order on appointment of first deputy Prime Minister Yagub Eyyubov member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Economic Council.
21 September 2006 [13:37]
The next meeting for establishment of GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) peacekeeping forces is expected to be held at level of deputy chairmen of General Staffs by the end of this year.
21 September 2006 [13:34]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev will pay a working visit to Germany from September 22 to 23, German Embassy told.
21 September 2006 [10:00]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez yesterday used his annual address to the United Nations to call President Bush "the devil himself" and "world dictator," topping the rhetorical blast of his Iranian counterpart the previous day.
21 September 2006 [09:40]
Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) will place picket outside Iranian embassy in Baku.ghjnt
21 September 2006 [09:38]
"Iran is one of the most dangerous states for Azerbaijan. That is why we should more seriously react to Iranian high ranking officials' any comments on Azerbaijan," Isa Gambar, Musavat Party leader said.
21 September 2006 [09:36]
The ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party executive secretary Ali Ahmadov received Russia's ambassador Vasili Istratov.
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