News for 14 October 2006
Politics
14 October 2006 [16:47]
Azeri FM Elmar Mammadyarov expects that during a meeting with Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian the parties will have an opportunity to find common points in most complicated matters of settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
14 October 2006 [16:22]
"We should be patient with the measures against France Parliament’s decision. There is no need to hurry," Novruz Mammadov, the President's Office International Relations Department chief told journalists.
14 October 2006 [13:23]
Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) made a statement on denouncing Azerbaijan law enforcement bodies which prevented the protest action of the organization outside France embassy for French Parliament's decision.
14 October 2006 [12:33]
The European Union on Friday condemned a French bill making it a crime to deny that the World War I-era killing of Armenians in Turkey was genocide, calling it unhelpful at a critical stage in the Muslim country's EU entry talks.
14 October 2006 [11:26]
Malaysia Diplomats from Muslim nations who are based in the United States should create a grouping to help correct misperceptions about Islam and curb anti-Muslim sentiment, Malaysia's ambassador said.
14 October 2006 [11:22]
Azerbaijan's top lawmaker held talks with visiting senior Chinese lawmaker Xu Jialu here on Friday and both sides expressed the hope to enhance cooperation between their parliaments.
14 October 2006 [10:46]
Azerbaijani Industry and Energy Minister Natig Aliyev has today received Nikolay Pastkevich, Belarusian ambassador to Azerbaijan.
14 October 2006 [01:41]
The 192-member General Assembly appointed South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as the next U.N. secretary-general by acclamation on Friday and the veteran diplomat who grew up during a war that divided his country pledged to "dispel the disillusionment" about the United Nations.
14 October 2006 [01:01]
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey was studying retaliatory measures against France following the approval of a law making it a crime to deny Armenians suffered genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks.
14 October 2006 [00:57]
Turkey's military said on Friday Armenian soldiers fired into its territory two days ago amid an escalation in tensions after France's passage of a law making it a crime to deny Armenians suffered "genocide" by Ottoman Turks.
14 October 2006 [00:44]
During a session of the Milli Mejlis (parliament) deputies started discussion and adopted in the first reading the bill "On private guard activity," which was submitted to parliament by the president as a legislative initiative.
Business
14 October 2006 [16:21]
Tariff Council will not discuss subway fee this year, Heydar Babayev, Azerbaijan Economic Development Minister and Tariff Council chief told journalists at the press conference.
14 October 2006 [13:45]
World Trade Organization (WTO) and UN Industry Development Organization (IDO) provide technical aid for Azerbaijan in 2006.
14 October 2006 [11:26]
Russia intends to maximally reduce electricity exports to Ukraine, Belarus, South Caucasus and Baltic States in winter, Anatoli Chubais, the head of RAO EES of Russia said.
14 October 2006 [11:19]
UniBank CB has increased the Progressive Deposit rates for USD entries.
14 October 2006 [11:19]
Nika Gilauri, Georgian Minister of Energy, will leave for Teheran on October 21 to negotiate gas import from Iran.
14 October 2006 [11:17]
Rise in the price of building materials results from dynamic development of construction sector, Azerbaijani Economic development Minister Heydar Babayev said.
14 October 2006 [10:53]
During the period of January-September the incomes of Azerbaijani population reached AZN 7.4bn at face value which represents a 21.2% or AZN 1.3 m on the same period last year.
14 October 2006 [10:50]
Gross domestic product – the output of goods and services produced by labor and property in Azerbaijan- grew by 34% year on year, in the first nine months of 2006, to AZN 3.1bn, State Statistical Committee told.
14 October 2006 [10:33]
The indicators of Azerbaijan Microfinance Bank for the first nine months of this year have grown more than 100%.
14 October 2006 [10:23]
Taxes Ministry Operational Control Department have to date examined 123 469 various kinds of trade facilities and found serious irregularities in 28 829 of them.
14 October 2006 [10:12]
Azerbaijani, Russian and Iranian railway senior officials will meet in Tehran to discuss the Project on North-South transport corridor, Azerbaijan State Railway Company Chief Arif Asgarov told media briefing that the trilateral meeting will take place in November.
14 October 2006 [01:09]
Statoil ASA, Norway's largest oil producer, agreed to a $21 million fine for paying bribes to try to win influence in Iran in violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
14 October 2006 [00:51]
Questions on construction of the Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku railway were discussed during a meeting between Azerbaijan's Transport Minister Ziya Mammadov, Georgia's Minister of Economic Development Iraqli Jacovadze and a representative of Turkey's Transport Minister Musa Tunjay.
Society
14 October 2006 [13:44]
"The Pardon Commission considers received appeals. The president will be informed about the appeals after investigating them," said Ali Hasanov, the President's Office Sociopolitical Department chief.
14 October 2006 [13:40]
An open letter to the Pope from 38 top Muslim clerics in various countries accepts his expressions of regret for his controversial speech on Islam.
14 October 2006 [13:27]
President Ilham Aliyev visited Sheki on Saturday.
14 October 2006 [13:20]
The representatives of US Embassy to Azerbaijan visited Azerbaijan Foreign Languages University.
14 October 2006 [13:18]
The bill adopted October 12 in the French parliament making a crime the statements denying so called "Armenian Genocide" sparked protests of Azeri youth.
14 October 2006 [13:13]
US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse hosted iftar in her residence, on October 13. She invited the religious figures and heads of the diplomatic corps.
14 October 2006 [10:01]
IAU students appeal to Court of Appeal about university administration and Education Ministry will be considered on October 17, Vugar Suleymanov, the member of Students' Rights Defense Committee informed.
14 October 2006 [00:48]
In an exclusive interview to the Day.Az online paper, Ulvi Mehtiev, an independent observer in Baku, commented the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
