Politics
30 August 2006 [08:54]
Central Election Commission Training Group specialists held trainings in six more constituencies due to repeat, additional, new and first time local elections today, Azer Sariyev, CEC press service officer informs.
29 August 2006 [21:21]
Ilham Aliyev states the negotiation process is a primary option.
29 August 2006 [21:17]
Representatives from 36 countries are scheduled to attend September 9 in Baku, the 5th conference of Tourism Ministers of the Organization for Islamic Conference (OIC) member states, Aydin Ismiyev, head of tourism department of the Ministry of Culture & Tourism said.
29 August 2006 [21:13]
In the framework of his official trip to Slovenia, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First lady Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva today visited National Assembly, the lower house of the country's parliament.
29 August 2006 [20:49]
Brussels has voiced alarm at the mounting risk of open warfare in the EU's southeast neighbours - Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - amid European plans to sign new cooperation pacts and build new pipelines in the region.
29 August 2006 [16:44]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced defiance on Tuesday as a deadline neared for Iran to halt work the West fears is a step toward building nuclear bombs, and challenged President Bush to televised debate.
29 August 2006 [15:50]
Next round of talks on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict will take place in mid-September.
29 August 2006 [14:02]
Armed Forces peacekeeping party started trainings related to deploying peacekeepers to Lebanon.
29 August 2006 [13:40]
"The Karabakh peace talks are at a critical point, and the international community must do its best to bring Azerbaijan back into constructive course for serious discussion of the principles that are currently on the negotiating table," Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said while speaking at the Caspian Prospects 2008 congress in Bled, Slovenia.
29 August 2006 [09:38]
China's and Kazakhstan's participation in the construction of Kars-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Baku railway is another failure of Armenia's Foreign Ministry.
29 August 2006 [09:13]
Azerbaijan's patience is wearing thin over the lack of movement toward Nagorno Karabakh peace settlement, and officials in Baku are taking out their frustration on the OSCE's trouble-shooter responsible for monitoring the cease-fire.
29 August 2006 [09:09]
The Association of the European and Mediterranean Police Forces and Gendarmeries with Military Status (FIEP) approves the cooperation between Azerbaijani Interior Forces and the FIEP.
28 August 2006 [22:23]
The Israeli soldier, who was captured by Palestinian militants in Gaza and triggered Israel's massive offensive in the region, was in "good condition," a spokesman for the Hamas-led Palestinian government said Monday.
28 August 2006 [20:23]
Umid (Hope) party Chairman Iqbal Agazade said that "if events unfold normally," he will run for president in the ballot due in late 2008.
28 August 2006 [20:18]
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian held a meeting with OSCE Minsk Group cochairman from the United States Matthew Bryza on Monday on the sidelines of the two-day international forum "Caspian Outlook 2008" in the Slovenian town of Bled.
28 August 2006 [20:07]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received the OSCE American co-chair, ambassador Matthew Bryza.
28 August 2006 [20:05]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on 28 August at his residence in received special envoy of OSCE Chairman-In-Office Pierre Chevalier.
28 August 2006 [20:03]
President Ilham Aliyev on August 27 at the Golf Hotel of the Bled city of Slovenia met with EU Special Representative on South Caucasus Peter Semnebey.
28 August 2006 [20:01]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on 27 August at the Golf Hotel of the Bled city of Slovenia received Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia, state minister on affairs of integration to Europe and Euro-Atlantic structures Georgi Baramidze.
28 August 2006 [19:58]
Political developments in Turkey have the West concerned about the country's possible actions in northern Iraq and its role as an oil and gas facilitator.
28 August 2006 [19:49]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev visiting Slovenia today had a one-on-one meeting with Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek.
28 August 2006 [19:44]
Azerbaijan's Emergencies Minister, Col. Gen. Kamaladin Heydarov received the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne E.Derse.
28 August 2006 [19:35]
The managing director of an Iranian daily has been acquitted of insulting Iran's Azeri minority after the newspaper was banned for a cartoon that sparked protests, an official said on Monday.
28 August 2006 [19:07]
At least three people were killed and 15 injured in a suspected bomb attack in Turkey's Antalya.
28 August 2006 [15:28]
Azerbaijan's State Committee for Religious Communities (SCRC) today held a large meeting with representatives of religious communities.
28 August 2006 [14:34]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who is attending in "Caspian prospect-2008" international forum in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, is expected to have bilateral meetings, Tahir Taghizadeh, FM Press and Information Policy Department chief told.
28 August 2006 [14:22]
The status of the Caspian Sea should be determined by international agreement in order to achieve regional stability and the economic development of three former Soviet Union states - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
28 August 2006 [13:10]
The inauguration of a heavy-water plant in Iran could bring closer a military action against Teheran by the United States and Israel.
28 August 2006 [12:59]
28 August 2006 [12:25]
President Ilham Aliyev is on the visit to Slovenia.
28 August 2006 [12:08]
Armenia on Sunday broke its ceasefire with Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Monday.
28 August 2006 [09:49]
Four separate bombs at a popular Turkish coastal resort and in the country's commercial hub Istanbul wounded at least 27 people, including 10 British tourists, authorities said on Monday.
27 August 2006 [22:13]
Hezbollah head says he did not think capturing Israeli soldiers would lead to war.
27 August 2006 [17:48]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian will meet in Slovenia, Ljubljana within the framework of the international conference "Caspian-2008."
27 August 2006 [15:41]
Iran insisted on Sunday it would never stop uranium enrichment despite a looming U.N. deadline to halt the sensitive atomic work, which the West says is part of an effort to build atomic bombs.
27 August 2006 [13:40]
An Iranian MP called on the Foreign Ministry officials to show a decisive reaction to the "interventionist measures", as he calls, taken by the Republic of Azerbaijan.
27 August 2006 [13:36]
On August 27 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visits Slovenia.
27 August 2006 [13:14]
"I work on the basis of OSCE's mandate, agreed on with the sides. I am not going to resign"
27 August 2006 [13:11]
27 August 2006 [13:10]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has sent a message to his Moldavian counterpart Vladimir Voronin to congratulate him on the Independence Day.
27 August 2006 [13:00]
Barely acknowledged by the Western media, military exercises organized by Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan under the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, (CSTO) were launched on the 24th of August.
27 August 2006 [12:52]
Visiting Ukraine World Azerbaijanis Congress president Javad Derakhti met with Ukrainian parliament members.
27 August 2006 [12:48]
US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has misrepresented Azerbaijan's map.
27 August 2006 [12:44]
Muslim circles have expressed alarm and disgust at the publication of a redrawn map of the Islamic world in a journal closely linked to the US armed forces.
26 August 2006 [14:48]
The Federal District Court of San Francisco has sentenced former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko to nine years in prison and $10 million in fines for extortion, fraud, and money laundering.
26 August 2006 [14:46]
Iran's President Mahmoud Akhmadinejad inaugurated Saturday a heavy-water production plant in the town of Arak (190 km to the west of Tehran).
26 August 2006 [14:36]
Amnesty International said it was concerned over the plight of a political prisoner jailed since June 8 in a public statement on August 25.
26 August 2006 [12:20]
26 August 2006 [12:17]
26 August 2006 [10:26]
Bulgarian Embassy in Azerbaijan moved to new premises.
26 August 2006 [10:24]
Central Election Commission Training Group's specialists on Friday gave trainings related to the repeat, additional, new and first local elections on some constituencies.
25 August 2006 [20:43]
The Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) held on 24 August a meeting of board to discuss activity of the Party in first half of 2006.
25 August 2006 [20:03]
British parliament has passed a bill that bans activity of PKK, Kongra-Gel and KADEK terrorist organizations in the country.
25 August 2006 [20:02]
An Armenian analyst says Azerbaijan is unlikely to start a war against Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh in the next few years despite its increasing military spending and bellicose rhetoric.
25 August 2006 [19:38]
"The ethnic crimes in Russia cannot be regarded as an attitude of the whole Russian people towards Armenians," the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia Ruben Tovmassyan said during a news conference on August 24. He said that "Russia has been and is Armenia's best friend."
25 August 2006 [18:55]
One of the key ideologists of Armenia's occupation of Azerbaijani lands, Nagorno Karabakh conflict Silva Kaputikyan died of stroke at the age of 87.
25 August 2006 [16:53]
The ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) Managing Staff held a sitting today.
25 August 2006 [16:00]
"The Azeri-Armenian dispute will not go on as it has. Either it will be resolved, or it will get worse for both side.
25 August 2006 [15:56]
New states might become the TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission (IC) members, Akif Mustafayev, IC national secretary in Azerbaijan told.
25 August 2006 [15:24]
Turkish Congress will be held in Kamar district in Antalya, Turkey on 17-20 September this year.
25 August 2006 [14:16]
25 August 2006 [10:59]
The Committee to Protect the Rights of Farhad Aliyev has appealed to the ambassadors in Baku of the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey.
25 August 2006 [10:49]
On Aug.27, President Ilham Aliyev is to leave for Slovenia to participate in Caspian Outlook international conference organized by Slovenian government.
25 August 2006 [09:09]
Central Election Commission chairman Mazahir Panahov met with Belarus extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikolay Patskevich.
25 August 2006 [09:01]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received Lynn Muller, new head of the World Food Organization (WFO) representative office in Azerbaijan.
25 August 2006 [08:45]
Central Election Commission (CEC) Training Group specialists gave trainings in five constituency election commissions on the eve of the repeat, additional, new and first local elections, Rovzat Gasimiv, Training Group chief told.
24 August 2006 [21:58]
Azerbaijan's Prosecutors' Office and Justice Ministry today jointly reported about Economic Development Ministry Entrepreneurship Promotion Department former chief Alihuseyn Shaliyev committing suicide.
24 August 2006 [21:42]
On August 24, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received the Turkish delegation led by Head of Igdyr Municipality Nurettin Aras.
24 August 2006 [21:24]
Sheikhulislam Allahshukur Pashazadeh, Chairman of the Office of Caucasian Muslims met August 24 with Vasily Istratov, Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan.
24 August 2006 [15:09]
"International organizations' monitoring in Azerbaijani lands affected by fires will help solve this problem," Denis Bribosia, Council of Europe Secretary General special representative on Azerbaijan told journalists.
24 August 2006 [14:42]
"European Court of Human Rights will consider Azerbaijan's complaint regarding the crimes committed by Armenia," Chingiz Asgarov, Azerbaijani representative at the European Court of Human Rights told.
24 August 2006 [11:59]
Armenians have intensively violated the ceasefire in Agdam front.
24 August 2006 [09:46]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov today received the delegation led by Abdullah Al-Khatib, Foreign Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
24 August 2006 [08:37]
"I discussed meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan on telephone talks with France co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Bernard Fasier yesterday," Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists.
23 August 2006 [20:34]
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