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01 August 2005 [10:41]

Increase of diabetics in Azerbaijan causes anxiety, vice-president of International Diabetes Federation

The number of diabetics in Azerbaijan speedily increases and the government should take active steps to change the situation, professor Massimo-Massi Benedetti, the Vice-President of the International Diabetes Federation, stated to a news-conference on 29 July.
01 August 2005 [10:34]

14,453 border violators detained over last 3 years

A total of 14,453 border violators have been detained over the past 3 years.
30 July 2005 [11:00]

Conference dedicated to problems of Georgian Azerbaijanis to be held in Baku

The State Committee on Work with Azerbaijanis Living Abroad will hold a practical conference dedicated to the problems of the Georgian Azerbaijanis in Baku.
30 July 2005 [09:43]

59 thousand patients with diabetes mellitus registered in Azerbaijan

A roundtable on the problems caused by diabetes mellitus was held in the International Press Center with the participation of vise-president of International Diabetes Federation Massimo Massi Benedetti yesterday.
30 July 2005 [09:40]

French embassy hold workshop for teachers of french in Gabala region

The Embassy of France to Azerbaijan, the association of teachers of French and the Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Education hold a workshop for teachers of Gabala region.
30 July 2005 [09:27]

Weather expected to be non-stable in Azerbaijan in August

Weather is expected to be non-stable in the county in August.
30 July 2005 [09:19]

Azeri chess player won bronze medal of world championship

The World Chess Championship started in Belfor, France on 19 July ended the day before yesterday.
29 July 2005 [09:10]

?zerbaijan and Belarus to sign agreement on coopertaion in education

?zerbaijan and Belarus will sign agreement on cooperation in the educational field, the Ministry of Education (ME) told Trend.
28 July 2005 [08:44]

Norwegian embassy and Eurasia Foundation gave $ 56.154 to five organizations

The embassy of Norway in our country allocated grants for the local organizations in two phases together with the Eurasia Foundation for the purpose of supporting the development of civil society and democratic institutions in Azerbaijan.
28 July 2005 [08:39]

Around 150 new schools will be built before new school year in Azerbaijan

About 150 new schools will be built before the start of the new school year in Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijan Ministry of Education told Trend.
27 July 2005 [10:13]

Strong heat to continue till July 29 in republic

Weather condition will be non-stable mainly at evening and night hours in the territory of the republic on July 27-30.
27 July 2005 [09:39]

Azerbaijan will not to join world boxing championship among women

The President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA), Anvar Choudri, advised his Azerbaijani counterpart Agajan Abiyev to set up women boxing in the country.
27 July 2005 [09:06]

General Secretary of UEFA will arrive in Baku

General Secretary of UEFA Ulf Crister Olssen will arrive in Baku in early November.
27 July 2005 [08:39]

Ali Hasanov met with new representative of UNO Supreme Commissariat on Refugees in Azerbaijan

The deputy of the prime-minister, chairman of the Republic Commission on International Humanitarian Aid and State Committee on Work with Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (SCWRIDP) Ali Hasanov received the new representative in Azerbaijan of the UNO Supreme Commissariat on Refugees William Toll.
26 July 2005 [10:51]

328 religious congregations registered in Azerbaijan

328 religious congregations have been registered in Azerbaijan by 1 July, according to the information from the state committee on work with the religious structures, Trend reports.
26 July 2005 [08:45]

Opening of European classification tournament in female volleyball world grand-prix championship took place in Guba

In the evening of 25 July opening of the European classification tournament for Grand-Prix in the female volleyball-2006 took place at the Guba sports complex.
25 July 2005 [09:12]

International criminal group with NATO military uniform detained in Baku

The criminal group consisted of the residents of Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Dagestan, Turkey and Yemen was detained in Baku, according to the Central Polis Department of Baku and Office of Public Prosecutor.
25 July 2005 [08:24]

11 Azeri boxers to participate in European championship

Azerbaijani teenager boxers are preparing for the prestigious tourney.
25 July 2005 [08:10]

None of Azerbaijani tourists were injured in result of terrorist action happened in Egypt

None of the Azerbaijani tourists were injured in the result of the terrorist action happened in Egypt.
24 July 2005 [09:16]

Heydar Aliyev Foundation created internet-portal «Azerbaijan»

The Heydar Aliyev Foundation created the Internet-portal «?zerbaijan» (www.azerbaijan.az).
24 July 2005 [08:51]

President of International Wrestling Federation expected

Rafael Martinneti, the President of International Wrestling Federation (FILA), will visit Azerbaijan on 4 August.
24 July 2005 [08:26]

TRT to prepare telecast consisting of 13 parts about famous persons of Azerbaijan

The Baku representation of the Radio-Television Structure of Turkey intends to prepare a telecast consisting of 13 parts about lives and creations of the famous persons of Azerbaijan like Uzeyir Hajibayov, Nariman Narimanov, Samad Vurghun, Jafar Jabbarli, Ahmad Javad and others since September of this month.
24 July 2005 [08:08]

1465 crime facts related to drugs registered in Azerbaijan in 2005

1465 crime facts related to drugs were registered in our country in 2005.
22 July 2005 [08:53]

UNICEF and Azerbaijani government organizes roundtable discussion on children violence

The children violence in Azerbaijan will be the major topic of the forthcoming roundtable discussion on July 27, which will be organized by Azerbaijani government and the representative office of the UNICEF in Azerbaijan.
22 July 2005 [08:35]

92 ambulance cars delivered to the health institutions

The Health Ministry today delivered 92 ambulance cars to the health institutions in the regions and cities at Freedom Square.
21 July 2005 [09:35]

Azerbaijan team is in 116th stage in rating table of FIFA

The worldwide football structure FIFA explained the rating table of the national teams for July yesterday.
21 July 2005 [09:21]

Oil Academy to open its branch in Egypt

A branch of the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy will open in Egypt, Trend reports quoting Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov.
21 July 2005 [09:09]

26 persons drowned, 77 rescued since beach season started

26 persons have drowned, 77 have been rescued since beach season started this year.
20 July 2005 [09:10]

Malaria found in 108 persons in Azerbaijan this year

It turned out during the 6 months of this year that there are 108 persons infected with malaria in Azerbaijan. This infectious disease was found in 57 of them on June.
20 July 2005 [08:59]

Freestyle wrestlers win four medals at European championship

Azerbaijani junior team of freestyle wrestlers won a silver medal and 4 bronze medals in the European Championship held in Tiran.
19 July 2005 [09:34]

??hriban Aliyeva conferred honourable award “Woman of the Year”

President of Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the UNESCO Good Will Ambassador, the first lady of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva has been conferred the honorable award “The Woman of the Year”.
18 July 2005 [08:19]

President of World Wrestling Federation to come to Baku

President of World Wrestling Federation Raphael Martinetti will come to Baku in early August.
18 July 2005 [08:13]

Azeri referee appointed inspector at match of champions league

Asim Khudiyev, an inspector of the FIFA, was appointed inspector at match of European Cups of the season for the 2nd time. He will leave for Kiev to join the 1st single combat of the second round of Champions League, where Ukrainian ‘Dinamo’ will play with Swiss ‘Tun’.
16 July 2005 [10:27]

Azerbaijanis being tortured in Georgian prisons

“I was imprisoned for five years sentence of the Supreme Court of Georgia. It is more than one year that I have been serving time in the Central Prison of Tbilisi. I was accused of a roguishness article”.
15 July 2005 [09:27]

Special operation held for to arrest the gang of vahabis in Baku

On July 12 to 13 at night shooting happened in Novkhani settlement of Apsheron region.
15 July 2005 [08:55]

Criminal group involved in robbery appeared in Baku

New criminal group has appeared in Baku. It was not possible to detain the criminal group which is involved in robbery in different districts of the capital for the time being.
15 July 2005 [08:42]

Ilham Aliyev issued decree on granting presidential pensions to National Heroes

President Ilham Aliyev issued decree “On Granting Pensions of President of Azerbaijan Republic to the persons received the rank of National Hero”.
14 July 2005 [08:58]

Azeri national box team beats Koreans

Azeri sportsmen defeated Koreans with score 7:4 on the first day of the World Cup box tournament, which started in Moscow. Shahin Ismayilov (57 kg), Ramal Amanov (60 kg), Emin Maharramov (64 kg), Ruslan Khairov (69 kg), Javid Tagiyev (75 kg), Vugar Alakbarov (91 kg) and Mahammad Adamov (above 91 kg) gained a victory in their weight categories, Agajan Abiyev.
14 July 2005 [08:49]

$600,000 allotted to education program in 2005

$600,000 was allotted to the implementation of the ‘Development program on provision of secondary school system of Azerbaijan with pedagogic personnel for 2005-2009’ in 2005.
13 July 2005 [08:51]

“Kocheriler” film of Rustam Ibrahimbayov to be presented to Oscar premium

The famous film producer Rustam Ibrahimbayov returned to the native land after finishing his visit in Kazakhstan last day.
13 July 2005 [08:42]

Azeri football team won Icelandic club

‘Neftchi’, an Azerbaijani football team, faced with problems on the eve of the host match within the first qualifying round of the Champions League against Icelandic ‘Hagnarfierdur’ to be held on Tuesday at Tofik Bahramov Republican stadium.
13 July 2005 [08:32]

Azerbaijani sportsmen to participate in the 17th World Jewish Sports competitions

Our 10 sportsmen left for Israel to participate in the 17th World Jewish Sports competitions called “Maccabiah”.
13 July 2005 [08:31]

UNESCO General Director to visit Azerbaijan

Konchiro Matsaura, the UNESCO General Director, will visit Azerbaijan from 23 to 27 August 2005, Misir Mardanov, the Azerbaijani Education Minister, told Trend.
13 July 2005 [08:26]

Misir Mardanov: “Primary education in Azerbaijan is expected to be 5 years by 2007”

Primary education in Azerbaijan is expected to last for 5 years by 2007. Besides, several subjects will be abolished and new subjects meeting modern standards will be taught instead.
12 July 2005 [08:51]

Azerbaijanis formed Bavaria Medical Organization in Germany

The Azerbaijanis formed Bavaria Medical Organization in Germany.
11 July 2005 [08:21]

85512 school-leavers submitted their documents to be admitted to high schools in Azerbaijan

This year 85512 school-leavers submitted their documents to be admitted to high schools.
09 July 2005 [08:13]

National holiday of France to be celebrated in Baku

National holiday of France-Bastille Day will be celebrated in Baku.
09 July 2005 [07:57]

Police ordered to increase vigilance, security measures intensified in Metropolitan

Police offices districts of Baku were given special instructions to increase vigilance after the terror acts in London.
07 July 2005 [08:54]

Azerbaijanis increased 4.6 times in number in Moscow for the past 16 years

The number of population in cities has been decreasing sharply in Russia recent years.
07 July 2005 [08:45]

Number of population of Azerbaijan reached 8 million 388 thousand persons by 1 July

According to the information by July 1 of this year, the number of the population of Azerbaijan reached 8 million 388 thousand persons.
06 July 2005 [10:05]

Disabled people form 4% of population of Azerbaijan

Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population revealed very serious facts in connection with the fake certificates of invalidity recently.
06 July 2005 [09:37]

Conference of International Social Maintenance Association to be held in Baku in September this year

The delegation led by the chairman of the State Social Defense Fund (SSDF) Salim Muslumov participated in the international conference held in the capital of Russia, Moscow from June 29 to 1 July.
06 July 2005 [09:22]

“IFES” and “British Council” implement joint project

International organization of the United Kingdom on educational opportunities and cultural relations “British Council” in cooperation with “IFES” has been realizing project since the end of June.
06 July 2005 [08:58]

Monument to Heydar Aliyev to be erected in Moscow

Monument to Heydar Aliyev will be erected in Moscow. The Moscow city public commission on monumental art approved on 5 July the proposal of the Azerbaijan’s Embassy to Russian Federation on installing the monument to the former President of Azerbaijan in the capital city, in the square, adjoining the ‘Baku” Cinema-and-Concert complex, Trend reports.
05 July 2005 [09:17]

Teymur Rajabov earned silver medal and 16 thousand euros in European championship

The European championship held among the male chess-players in the capital of Poland, Warsaw finished.
05 July 2005 [08:41]

Baku police has no problem to cope with criminal groups

There is no criminal group in Baku, which could evolve problem for the police bodies, Maherram Aliyev, the chief of the Baku Central Police Department, told Trend.
02 July 2005 [10:06]

European youth to visit Azerbaijan

A delegation, involving members of the Brussels-based European Youth Forum (EYF), will be visiting Azerbaijan July 20 through 25.
02 July 2005 [09:07]

Number of foreign students studying in Azerbaijan increased in comparison with previous year

About 3500 foreign students from 41 countries study in the high schools of our country at present.
02 July 2005 [08:25]

Teymur Rajabov is the strongest chess-player in accord with FIDE rating table

The Worldwide Chess federation FIDE announced its new rating list.
02 July 2005 [08:22]

Project directed to improving primary health service being prepared

The USA International Development Agency (USAID) is preparing a project directed to improving the primary health service together with the health Ministry.
01 July 2005 [09:31]

International Student Festival to be held in Baku

The International Student festival will be held in Baku in September of this year.
01 July 2005 [09:08]

Former soviet passports lose their validity in Azerbaijan

On Friday, 1 July, the former Soviet passports will lose their validity term in the territory of Azerbaijan, the Interior Ministry announced. Along with the Soviet passports, Form 9 also becomes invalid in Azerbaijan.
30 June 2005 [08:46]

Azerbaijani professor taking bribes from student in Turkey arrested

Azerbaijani teacher taking bribes from student in Turkey was arrested.
29 June 2005 [08:59]

Azerbaijan still in the bottom of UEFA rating

Azerbaijan is ranked among the countries with lowest UEFA ratio for 2004/05 season.
29 June 2005 [08:48]

Situation on malaria to be studied in Azerbaijan

Situation on malaria will be studied in Azerbaijan soon. Experimental checking ups will be held in 10 regions covering all the regions of the country during this investigation held by local specialists.
28 June 2005 [09:12]

Building of Catholic Church in Baku delays

Though Catholic Church was expected to be built in Baku this year, this is delayed. It must be noted that, the Church is to be built in Nobel Avenue.
28 June 2005 [08:41]

Interior ministry: «There are much more drug addicts in Azerbaijan, not 18 thousand»

«The official statistics of drug addicts number in Azerbaijan does not reflect the actual state of affairs in the country”, officials from the central Board on fighting drugs of the Interior Minister of Azerbaijan told Trend.
25 June 2005 [08:39]

There are 311 thousand refugees and 700 thousand internally displaced persons in Azerbaijan

The chairman of the State Committee on Work with Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, the deputy of the prime-minister Ali Hasanov held a press-conference in headquarters of YAP.
25 June 2005 [08:36]

Baku to host world championship in rhytmic gymnastics

Rhythmic gymnastics federations of 48 countries have applied for participation in the world championship tournament, to be hosted in Baku this autumn.
25 June 2005 [08:19]

Azeri culture days held in Russia

The Azerbaijani culture days will be held in Sverdlovsk Province of Russia from 23 to 29 June under the Azerbaijani Year in Russia, the Azerbaijani Culture Minister announced.
22 June 2005 [08:55]

Document admission to high schools starts tomorrow

Document admission to the high schools for the 2005-2006 academic years is starting since today.
21 June 2005 [08:37]

There are 947.586 refugees and internally displaced persons in Azerbaijan

There are 17.1 million refugees and 4.4 million internally displaced persons in the world at the moment.
19 June 2005 [08:28]

20 foreign citizens achieved refuge status in Azerbaijan

The government of Azerbaijan is preparing the plan of additional measures for solving the social problems of foreign citizens wanting to get refuge status.
17 June 2005 [09:26]

57 citizens of Azerbaijan got rights for education in Germany

The right for study in Germany in 2005 received 57 citizens of Azerbaijan, the German Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Detlef Lingemann and the head of the DAAD information center in Baku, Ulrike Mitter stated during the ceremony at the German-Azerbaijan cultural center Kapellhaus” on 16 June.
15 June 2005 [09:24]

UNICEF in Azerbaijan moves on child care project

UNICEF is launching the second phase of the project, Taking care of all children in Azerbaijan, to cover 2005 through 2006.