Politics

07 August 2006 [22:02]

Israeli strikes kill 17 Lebanese; U.N. delays truce vote

Israeli bombs killed at least 17 civilians in Lebanon and cut a vital aid lifeline to the south on Monday in renewed fighting after diplomatic efforts to end the 27-day-old war stalled.
07 August 2006 [21:51]

No U.S. Ambassador for Armenia

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee is putting off until September consideration of career diplomat Richard Hoagland as Ambassador to Armenia.
07 August 2006 [21:42]

Baku does not rule out replacement of OSCE MG Russian and French Co-Chairs

After replacement of US Co-Chair of the OSCE MG for settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, replacement of Russian and French Co-Chairs Yuri Merzlyakov and Bernard Fassier is also possible, stated Azeri President's Special Representative for Karabakh issue, Deputy FM Araz Azimov.
07 August 2006 [21:17]

Nardaran not to have local elections

"Local elections will not be held in Nardaran settlement in October 6, 2006," Central Election Commission chairman Mazahir Panahov told journalists.
07 August 2006 [21:04]

Safar Abiyev: "Azerbaijan is ready to liberate its territories"

Defense Minister, General Colonel Safar Abiyev today received French Ambassador to Azerbaijan Bernard Du Chaffaut and defence attache, Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Marc Babut, whose mission has ended.
07 August 2006 [20:54]

Emergencies Minister receives Turkish Deputy PM

Emergencies Minister Kamaladdin Heydarov today received the delegation led by Turkish Deputy Prime Minister & State Minister for Sports Mehmet Ali Shahin.
07 August 2006 [14:44]

Romanian President to visit Azerbaijan in October

Romanian President Traian Basescu is due to visit Azerbaijan in October this year, Azerbaijani ambassador to Romania Eldar Hasanov told.
07 August 2006 [13:49]

Turkish Deputy PM Mehmet Ali Shahin visits Azerbaijan

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister & State Minister for Sports Mehmet Ali Shahin is visiting Azerbaijan today.
06 August 2006 [23:43]

Iran's top nuclear negotiator rejects UN resolution

Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani rejected Sunday the resolution by the United Nations Security Council ordering Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment efforts by August 31.
06 August 2006 [21:06]

Hezbollah rockets kill 11 in Israel

Hezbollah guerrillas unleashed their deadliest barrage of rockets into northern Israel on Sunday, killing 11 people and wounding 14, while Israeli bombardment killed a dozen people in Lebanon as fighting intensified despite a draft U.N. cease-fire resolution.
06 August 2006 [19:07]

The Middle East Quarterly: "Israel and Azerbaijan's furtive embrace"

The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 changed the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East.
05 August 2006 [16:30]

U.S. official attacks Iran, Syria on Lebanon crisis

U.S. Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns sharply attacked Iran and Syria on Friday for stirring the latest crisis in Lebanon, U.S. media reported.
05 August 2006 [16:23]

Levon Ter-Petrosian to be nominated for presidency

Armenian Pan-National Movement plans to nominate former president Levon Ter-Petrosian for presidency in 2008's presidential election.
05 August 2006 [15:25]

Georgia, Azerbaijan agree on 30-kilometer border portion

The Georgian and Azerbaijani officials have agreed on demarcation of a 30-kilometer border line as a result of talks in Tbilisi on August 3-4.
05 August 2006 [10:11]

President Aliyev notes high level of mutual trust in ties with Russia

The relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are friendly and are characteristic of a high level of mutual understanding and mutual trust, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said, receiving the credentials from new Russian ambassador in Baku Vasily Istratov on Friday.
04 August 2006 [23:13]

Rally of protest staged in Nardaran

Residents of Nardaran district in Azerbaijan organized a demonstration in protest against Israeli military intervention in Lebanon.
04 August 2006 [22:35]

Officers punished for Karabakh war veteran's death in police office

Interior Ministry Interior Investigations Department completed the investigation into the mysterious death of Garabagh war veteran Rasim Alishov in the administrative building of Mingechevir city police department July 25, this year.
04 August 2006 [15:08]

Elmar Mammadyarov: "Azerbaijanis returning to Nagorno Karabakh should be provided first of all"

"The limit of the negotiations for resolution of the Nagorno Garabagh conflict has not run short. Since, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group propose new meeting between the Foreign Ministers, Azerbaijani is ready for that," Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov stated.
04 August 2006 [14:59]

Joint meeting of Azerbaijan and Georgia for delimitation and demarcation of borders

The joint meeting of the Governmental Commissions of Georgia and Azerbaijan for delimitation and demarcation of state borders was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
04 August 2006 [14:11]

President issues order to raise salary of State Courier Service servants

President Ilham Aliyev issued an executive order on raising monthly salary of special ranking officers and civil servants of the State Courier Service at Cabinet of Ministers.
04 August 2006 [13:58]

Armenian cease-fire break kills Azerbaijani soldier

Overnight Armenian Armed Forces fired on Azerbaijani Army positions in Girmizikand village of Terter region.
04 August 2006 [12:49]

Iran calls for Israel's "elimination"

Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Thursday for the "elimination" of Israel.
04 August 2006 [11:11]

U.S. Senator to vote against Bush's Ambassador nominee for Armenia

Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman said Wednesday he will vote against President George W. Bush's selection to become the next ambassador to Armenia because the nominee refuses to describe the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide.
04 August 2006 [10:14]

OIC members press for unconditional ceasefire in Middle East

Countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Thursday endorsed a declaration on the Lebanon situation, voicing their full support for the Lebanese people and urging the UN Security Council to do more to realize an unconditional ceasefire.
04 August 2006 [08:56]

Arzu Abdullayeva: "We monitored Shusha prison during our visit to Nagorno Karabakh"

Today Arzu Abdullayeva, chairmen of the Azerbaijan National Committee at the Helsinki Civil Assembly, gave a press conference on the visit to the Nagorno Karabakh July 28-30.
04 August 2006 [08:35]

Protest action staged outside Israeli Embassy

Several members of the Center to Defend Freedom of Religious Belief and Conscience staged protest action outside Israeli Embassy in Baku in protest against operations in Palestine and Lebanon.
04 August 2006 [08:09]

Mass protest actions to start in Azerbaijan if Israel refuses to stop military operation in Lebanon

"If Israel does not stop military operations against Lebanon, mass protest actions will be staged in Nardaran district,” leader of the Azerbaijan Islamic Party Hajiagha Nuri stated.
04 August 2006 [00:27]

Institute for War and Peace Reporting: "Gloom over Karabakh peace process"

Revelations about the latest peace deal leave the conflicting parties still far apart.
03 August 2006 [22:54]

Swedish FM: "Azerbaijanis face very severe discrimination in Iran"

Swedish Foreign Minister Yan Eliasson responded to the appeal made by Abbas Lisani, who was arrested in demonstrations in Iran.
03 August 2006 [22:26]

Rifat Hisarchigoglu: "We won't change our stance until Armenia pulls out its troops from Azerbaijani lands"

"Why should we change our position while Armenia have not pulled out its troops from the Azerbaijani territories and give up it claims against Turkey?" Rifat Hisarchigoglu, president of Chambers and Exchanges Union of Turkey told.
03 August 2006 [21:59]

Arkadi Gukasyan: "We recognize Azerbaijan's rights regarding Nagorno Karabakh status and ready to discuss the issue"

"Arkadi Gukasyan told me that he recognizes Azerbaijan's rights regarding the status of Nagorno Karabakh and they are ready to discuss it," the Helsinki civil Assembly Azerbaijan National Committee chair Arzu Abdullayeva told.
03 August 2006 [21:39]

Vasili Istratov: "Co-chairs are doing their best to make the parties reach agreement"

New Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov today visited the Honor Alley in the capital Baku today.
03 August 2006 [21:24]

Minsk Group co-chairs propose Azerbaijani and Armenian FMs to meet

August 2, 2006, the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassador Yuriy Merzlyakov (Russia), Ambassador Bernard Fassier (France) and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza (USA) met at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris to assess the current stage in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
03 August 2006 [16:24]

Grave with Azerbaijanis collectively buried found in Aghdam

"Grave, where 21 Azerbaijanis were buried collectively, has been found near Marzili village of Aghdam," the Helsinki Civil Assembly Azerbaijan National Committee head Arzu Abdullayeva told quoting the representative on Nagorno Karabakh Karen Ohajanyan.
03 August 2006 [14:57]

Terrorists in Dagestan attempt to enter Azerbaijan

Dagestan Interior Ministry, Federal Security Service and Russian Defense Ministry squads conducted special operation in Andi and Gunkha villages of Botlikhsk region August 1.
03 August 2006 [13:39]

St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko to visit Azerbaijan

Saint Petersburg governor Valentina Matviynko will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan late September this year.
03 August 2006 [13:19]

Armenian Military Forces break ceasefire in Gazakh and Terter

Armenians are still breaking the ceasefire.
03 August 2006 [10:30]

Commission for delimitation and demarcation of Azerbaijan-Georgia borders to meet

The commission for delimitation and demarcation of Azerbaijan-Georgia borders will meet in Tbilisi on 3-4 August in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
03 August 2006 [09:12]

EU refuses to recognize Hezbollah as terrorist

The European Union did not include Hezbollah into the list of terrorist organizations.
02 August 2006 [21:55]

New Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan arrives in Baku

Newly appointed Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov has arrived in Baku.
02 August 2006 [21:46]

Zeki Karabayir: "Azerbaijan should know that Turkey will not act against its concerns"

"Opening of Turkey-Armenia border is not work of Gars municipality head, government, even state," this statement was given by AKP Kars parliamentarian Zeki Karabayir.
02 August 2006 [16:15]

Belarus President calls GUAM and CIS destructive forces

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko considers GUAM (alliance of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as destructive forces.
02 August 2006 [14:33]

Minsk Group co-chairs discuss Matthew Bryza's visit to Azerbaijan and Armenia

OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France), Matthew Bryza (US) and personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzei Kasprzyk are meeting in Paris today.
02 August 2006 [14:21]

Thousands of Israeli troops battle in south Lebanon

Hizbollah guerrillas battled up to 6,000 Israeli troops on five fronts in south Lebanon on Wednesday, escalating a conflict which Israel's prime minister vowed to pursue until a strong international force arrived.
02 August 2006 [14:21]

Iranian President rejects UN Security Council Resolution

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday rejected a UN Security Council resolution that would give his nation until August 31 to suspend uranium enrichment.
02 August 2006 [13:58]

Azerbaijani Premier to attend OIC emergency meeting

Prime Minister Arthur Rasizadeh is paying an official visit to Malaysia today.
02 August 2006 [13:46]

Ex-Finance Minister sentenced to 18 months in jail

The trial of Azerbaijani former Finance Minister Fikret Yusifov was over in Nasimi district court today.
02 August 2006 [12:06]

Armenians violated cease-fire eight times last month

Armenia's Armed Forces violated the cease-fire on the front line for eight times last month.
02 August 2006 [09:51]

President received Tatarstan PM

President Ilham Aliyev received the delegation led by Tatarstan's Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov yesterday.
02 August 2006 [08:46]

Nagorno Karabakh Azerbaijanis Majlis congress to be held

Nagorno Karabakh Azerbaijanis Majlis congress will be held in Baku September 30.
02 August 2006 [08:41]

Arthur Rasizade: "Nagorno Karabakh is the biggest problem of Azerbaijan"

"Azerbaijan is ready to give the highest status to Karabakh Armenians. But Armenia does not give chance to solution of the conflict."
02 August 2006 [01:27]

Azerbaijan's military expenditures to total $700m in 2006

In 2006 Azerbaijan's military budget will total $700 million, President Ilham Aliyev said at a session of the Cabinet of Ministers on Monday.
02 August 2006 [01:25]

Israel expands war

Israeli forces thrust into Lebanon on Tuesday in an escalation of the war and landed troops by helicopter in the Hizbollah heartland near Baalbek, but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said a ceasefire may be on the horizon.
02 August 2006 [01:22]

Fidel Castro steps aside, brother in charge

Stunned Cubans nervously contemplated a future without Fidel Castro on Tuesday after the communist U.S. foe who has dominated political life for nearly 50 years stepped aside for the first time with a serious illness.
02 August 2006 [00:53]

President Aliyev meets Matthew Bryza

U.S. MG Co-Chair is on the visit to Azerbaijan.
02 August 2006 [00:38]

Azeri diplomat: "Question of borders' opening with Armenia is outside Gars municipality's competence"

"Borders between Turkey and Armenia might be opened within three terms. Turkish President, prime minister and parliament leader have announced these terms for several times.
02 August 2006 [00:26]

Azerbaijan-US relations reached 'strategic partnership' level

Azerbaijani Parliament Speaker Ogtay Asadov met with the newly-appointed US Ambassador to the country Anne Derse.
01 August 2006 [14:15]

OSCE Minsk Group co-chair Matthew Bryza visits Baku

U.S co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza has arrived in Azerbaijani today following the visit in Georgia.
01 August 2006 [10:01]

Embassy of Iran issued statement on the events happened in Qana village of Lebanon

Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran to Azerbaijan issued statement on the events happened in Qana village of Lebanon.
01 August 2006 [09:38]

Arkadi Ghukasian: "Minsk Group knows Karabakh settlement is impossible without Khankendi participation"

"Of course, one of the items discussed was Nagorno Karabakh participation in the talks and I think Mr Bryza, like the other mediators, understands that it's impossible to resolve the conflict without Karabakh," head of separatist regime acting in occupied Azerbaijani lands Arkady Ghukasian said after the meeting with OSCE Minsk Group U.S. Co-chair Matthew Bryza.
01 August 2006 [09:04]

German-Azerbaijani intergovernmental commission to meet

German-Azerbaijani intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation will come together in Bonn, German August 14-17.
01 August 2006 [08:33]

Foreign Minister to visit Sweden

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov plans to visit Sweden.
01 August 2006 [00:11]

Ethnic Azeri predicts more protests in Iran

As the crisis over Iran's nuclear research program intensifies, US officials appear to be paying greater attention to the demands and concerns of the country's ethnic Azeris, its largest minority group.
31 July 2006 [23:39]

UN demands Iran stop nuclear work

The U.N. Security Council on Monday demanded that Iran suspend its nuclear activities in a month or face the threat of sanctions, but Tehran denounced the move as illegal and vowed to press on.
31 July 2006 [23:34]

UN postpones meeting to plan new Lebanon force

The United Nations on Monday indefinitely postponed a meeting called by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to begin planning a new peacekeeping force for Lebanon, setting back hopes for a quick end to the bloodshed.
31 July 2006 [22:58]

Israel rejects ceasefire calls

Israel rejected mounting international pressure on Monday to end its war against Hizbollah and launched a new incursion into Lebanon, as world powers squabbled over the urgency of a ceasefire.
31 July 2006 [19:50]

President Aliyev meets WB official

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received the delegation led by Mr. Peter Thomson, manager of the World Bank Infrastructure and Energy Sector for Europe and Central Asia, 31 July.
31 July 2006 [19:40]

Al Qaeda Chechen member extradited to Russia

Chechnya-born Russian citizen Gadji Chankayev, who was sentenced for seven years in jail by Azerbaijani Court of Appeal, has been extradited to Russia on July 29.
31 July 2006 [19:27]

President Aliyev: "Azerbaijan will never agree to Nagorno Karabakh separation"

Azerbaijan's territorial integrity cannot be a subject for negotiations, and Azerbaijan will never agree to Nagorno Karabakh's separation, President Ilham Aliyev has said.
31 July 2006 [18:14]

Armenia ready for cooperation on ecology issues with Baku

Yerevan attaches importance to the creation of atmosphere of trust in the region and is ready to cooperate on ecology issues with the Azeri side, said Armenian Foreign Ministry's Acting Spokesman Vladimir Karapetian.
31 July 2006 [16:57]

OSCE Office in Baku: "Azerbaijani public broadcaster has achieved impressive results"

The first part of an OSCE Office programme to help improve Azerbaijani Public Television (PTV), concluded today with the completion of a study to assess the broadcaster's needs.
31 July 2006 [14:50]

Israel announced 48 hours ceasefire regime

Israeli army agreed stopping of avia attacks to south territories of Lebanon within 48 hours.
31 July 2006 [14:23]

Matthew Bryza: "Minsk Group proposals are rather acceptable for Armenia"

Following the talks with Armenian President Robert Kocharian and Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan in Yerevan July 29, the US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Mathew Bryza arrived in Khankendi and had talks with head of the separatist regime Arkadi Gukasyan.
31 July 2006 [13:00]

Armenians violate the ceasefire again

Armenian Armed Forces violated the cease-fire in the contact front line again.