Politics
12 September 2006 [20:06]
Ogtay Shiraliyev, Azerbaijani Minister of Health met September 11 with Vahid Jalal, Secretary General of Egyptian Fund of Technical Cooperation with CIS countries.
12 September 2006 [20:05]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met September 11 with Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu to discuss the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh as well as the latest developments in the Middle East, the 5th session of the Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers and other issues.
12 September 2006 [20:03]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met September 11 with Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Francesco Frangialli.
12 September 2006 [20:02]
Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov will meet with OSCE Minsk group co-chairs September 13 in London to discuss peaceful settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
12 September 2006 [19:56]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met September 11 with President of the Balkan Political Club, former Bulgarian leader Zhelyu Zhelev.
12 September 2006 [19:53]
Fuad Ismayilov, Azerbaijani ambassador to Austria and Slovakia presented his credentials to President of Slovakia Ivan Gasparovic.
12 September 2006 [19:42]
Azerbaijan's Minister of Emergency Situations, Col.-Gen. Kamaladdin Heydarov today received new Belarus ambassador plenipotentiary and extraordinary to Azerbaijan Nikolay Pastkevich.
12 September 2006 [19:40]
The Supreme Assembly of Azerbaijan Democratic Party has not held meetings for seven months.
12 September 2006 [19:37]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev visited Absheron District.
12 September 2006 [19:34]
Azerbaijan's authorized representative at the European Court of Human Rights Chingiz Askerov's exclusive interview to the APA.
12 September 2006 [19:29]
Official Ankara announced that at least 40 thousand Armenians are working in Turkey.
12 September 2006 [19:27]
The fifth session of the Islamic Conference Tourism Ministers has come to an end today. Baku Declaration and Resolution was adopted at the end of the Session.
12 September 2006 [16:01]
The contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops near the Gapanli village of Azerbaijani region of Terter was monitored in accordance with the mandate of personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office today.
12 September 2006 [14:41]
Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Atilla Koch attended a meeting held at the Union of Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen (TUSIAB).
12 September 2006 [14:02]
The Council of Europe Venice Commission elections and referendums department was surprised at the statement "The Venice Commission has not made any proposals to Azerbaijani Parliament regarding amendments to Electoral Code," made by head of Azerbaijani Parliament office Sefa Mirzayev.
12 September 2006 [13:23]
12 September 2006 [13:04]
September 12, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received at the Presidential Palace the delegation of the Balkan Political Club led by its President, former Bulgarian leader Zhelyu Zhelev.
12 September 2006 [12:35]
"Those who call themselves national oppositionists are jealous of Azerbaijan Path Political Movement activity." Ilgar Gasimov, APPM leader, told.
12 September 2006 [10:42]
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signaled Monday that a temporary suspension of Iran's nuclear programs might be enough to pave the way for the first direct negotiations involving the United States and Iran in more than a quarter-century.
12 September 2006 [10:15]
Arsons committed by Armenians at occupied Azerbaijani territories will be discussed at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Azerbaijan Parliament vice-speaker Ziyafet Askerov told journalists.
12 September 2006 [09:37]
The Embassy of the United States in Azerbaijan marked the fifth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrible terrorist attacks.
12 September 2006 [09:34]
No Lebanon refugee came to Azerbaijan during Israel-Lebanon conflict.
12 September 2006 [09:26]
11 September 2006 [19:45]
Georgia and Armenia have agreed on cooperation in the penitentiary sector.
11 September 2006 [19:25]
On September 11, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received at the Presidential Palace Sultan ibn Salman ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Secretary General of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Tourism Authority.
11 September 2006 [19:23]
On September 11, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received at the Presidential Palace Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism Atilla Koc.
11 September 2006 [19:22]
On September 11, President Ilham Aliyev received at the Presidential Palace Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Francesco Frangialli.
11 September 2006 [19:16]
As demand soars, central Asia's oil and gas reserves are a magnet pulling in the world's powers.
11 September 2006 [19:11]
President Ilham Aliyev received September 11 at the Presidential Palace Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.
11 September 2006 [19:04]
Azerbaijan State Border Service (SBS) guards detained Russia's ARI cargo vessel.
11 September 2006 [18:57]
On September 11, President Ilham Aliyev received at the Presidential Palace Pakistan’s Minister for Tourism Mrs. Nilofar Bakhtiar.
11 September 2006 [18:54]
Lord Lester QC and Trowers & Hamlins are taking the government of Azerbaijan to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
11 September 2006 [16:45]
Azerbaijan's hosting two OIC conferences at level of minister in the past three months this year is a great achievement for the state. Both of the events were organized in high level.
11 September 2006 [15:37]
Muslim countries should encourage tourists to return to Lebanon and help efforts to rebuild the country's economy devastated by Israel's military campaign to uproot Hezbollah, the head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference said Monday.
11 September 2006 [15:31]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is flying to London for negotiations with OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs tomorrow, Tahir Tagizadeh, FM Press and Information Policy Office chief told.
11 September 2006 [14:27]
The Summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) heads of state and government will take place in Minsk, Belarus on October 17, CIS Executive Committee information department told.
11 September 2006 [14:08]
State Border Service officers prevented 15 border-violation cases in August. At the result of this 14 Georgians, 10 Azerbaijanis, three Iranians, two Afghanis, two Britons and a Russian were detained.
11 September 2006 [14:03]
The fifth session of the Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers continues in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.
11 September 2006 [13:54]
Azerbaijan's President called on the Muslim world Monday to unite its efforts against terrorism.
11 September 2006 [12:29]
Georgian law enforcement bodies arrested over 100 Armenians, who illegally passed the border with Russia.
11 September 2006 [12:23]
Early Monday morning, Armenian Armed Forces fired on the opposite positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces from the occupied Yusifjanli village of Azerbaijani region of Agdam.
11 September 2006 [10:19]
Interior Ministry of Azerbaijan has to date concluded 25 agreements, 19 contracts, 5 protocols and 4 memorandums on bilateral cooperation.
11 September 2006 [10:14]
Training Group of the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan has today provided training in two more election commissions (EC) due to municipal by-elections, CEC spokesman, Azer Sariyev, told.
10 September 2006 [23:37]
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has announced that he is against conditioning Turkey's EU membership on recognition of so-called Armenian genocide.
10 September 2006 [21:59]
The Georgian political parties supporting former State Security Minister Igor Giorgadze did not hold any secret meeting to plot a coup, Imedi party leader Irina Sarishvili, the chief of Giorgadze's charity fund, said at a news conference on Saturday.
10 September 2006 [21:18]
The 5th session of Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers was continued on September 10.
10 September 2006 [21:12]
Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, heading a delegation, is due to leave Tehran for Armenia on Monday.
10 September 2006 [19:22]
Iran's nuclear negotiator and the EU foreign policy chief said on Sunday misunderstandings had been removed and progress made during talks on Iran's nuclear program and they would meet again next week.
10 September 2006 [19:15]
Turkish and European Union officials were long bracing for a confrontation in fall over the sticky Cyprus row and reform requirements. But no matter how much anticipated it was, the 'hot autumn' arrived even more forcefully than expected.
10 September 2006 [18:58]
Turkey's Minister of Labour and Social Security Murat Bashesgioglu is going to visit Azerbaijan on September 13.
10 September 2006 [13:56]
Armenia purchased DW short-range missiles from China via Russia.
09 September 2006 [13:37]
In the frame of friendly relations between Azerbaijan and Egypt, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Fund for Technical Cooperation with CIS countries Vahid Jalal is expected to arrive in Baku with a two-day visit, September 10.
09 September 2006 [13:36]
In connection with the events, which have occurred on August 29 in the city of Kondopoga of the Republic of Kareliya of the Russian Federation, on behalf of Minister of Foreign Affairs E. Mammadyarov, the general consul of Azerbaijan in St. Petersburg Gudsi Osmanov on September 7 has arrived in the capital of Kareliya, city of Petrozavodsk.
09 September 2006 [13:35]
On September 8, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko ended his Baku visit and left for home.
09 September 2006 [13:30]
Baku declaration will be adopted at conference of the tourism ministers of the Organization of Islamic Countries, Abulfaz Garayev said.
09 September 2006 [13:29]
Starting from last afternoon the Armenian Armed Forces continued to commit malicious arsons in the Azerbaijan territories occupied by Armenia.
09 September 2006 [13:29]
The 5th conference of the Organization of Islamic Conference has started in Baku on Saturday.
09 September 2006 [13:18]
"False maps, globes and school textbooks showing Azerbaijani regions -Nakhchivan and Karabakh- as Armenian territories are on sale in East and Southeast Asia," said Akbar Huseynli, an Azerbaijani living in Hong Kong.
09 September 2006 [09:49]
Azerbaijan Liberty Party will meet after the amendments to be made to the bill on political parties, Evez Temirkhan, the party vice-chairman stated.
09 September 2006 [09:26]
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan is conducting Roundtable of Central Asian Countries (SPECA countries) related to World Trade Organization (WTO) Accession issues, in Baku, 6-9 September 2006.
08 September 2006 [23:20]
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and his accompanying delegation who arrived today at the Heydar Aliyev Foundation were welcomed here by President Ilham Aliyev and first lady Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva.
08 September 2006 [22:39]
"Turkish government has not changed its policy regarding opening the border with Armenia," stated Erkan Ozaran, Deputy Chief of Turkish Mission to Azerbaijan.
08 September 2006 [22:29]
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Commander of Internal Troops Lieutenant-General Zakir Hasanov met September 8 with visiting delegation of the Association of the European and Mediterranean Police Forces and Gendarmeries with Military Status (FIEP).
08 September 2006 [22:22]
The conference of the Inter-European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (IEPFPD) commenced September 7 in Helsinki.
08 September 2006 [22:13]
In his congratulatory letter, President Ilham Aliyev on behalf of himself and the people of Azerbaijan extends felicitations to the General Secretary of the Korean Workers' Party, Chairman of the National Defense Commission Mr. Kim Jong Il on Korea’s national holiday - Day of Establishment of the Republic.
08 September 2006 [22:08]
Chairman of the Supreme Majlis of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Vasif Talibov met with Charge d'Affaires of Republic of Korea Lew Kwang-chul.
08 September 2006 [22:04]
On September 8, the President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko in the state residence 'Ulduz' has given interview to the Azerbaijan TV.
08 September 2006 [22:02]
08 September 2006 [22:01]
Visiting Baku Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and his accompanying delegation today visited the Alley of Martyrs where they commemorated brave sons of Azerbaijan who sacrificed their lives for independence and territorial integrity of the country, and laid wreaths at the memorial Eternal Fire.
08 September 2006 [21:58]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has congratulated his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmonov and his people on the Day of Independence of the Republic.
08 September 2006 [21:35]
Several motorized regiments of Azerbaijani Interior Troops will also function as police, Interior Troops commander, General Lieutenant Zakir Hasanov told journalists.
08 September 2006 [21:33]
The issues on arsons committed by Armenians on the occupied Azerbaijani lands will be discussed at the meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council's meeting scheduled for September 14.
08 September 2006 [21:32]
Azerbaijan National Academy of Science former president, academic Eldar Salayev will go Turkey for treatment in late September, the academic told the APA. He has undergone two surgeries in the US for his eyes.
08 September 2006 [21:28]
The agenda of the autumn session of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) scheduled for October 2-6 has been announced.
08 September 2006 [21:27]
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