News for 16 October 2006
Politics
16 October 2006 [20:47]
Ziyafet Askarov, first deputy Milli Majlis chairman, head of the delegation of Azerbaijan in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly met with the NATO delegation led by Vahit Erdem, Chairman, NATO PA Sub-Committee on Future Security and Defense Capabilities.
16 October 2006 [20:39]
Minister of Defense, Col. Gen. Safar Abiyev met with the delegation led by Vahit Erdem, NATO PA Chairman of Sub-committee on Future Security and Defense Capabilities.
16 October 2006 [19:53]
The Vatican on Monday officially confirmed that Pope Benedict will visit Turkey at the end of November, a trip that had been put into doubt by Muslim anger over controversial comments he made about Islam.
16 October 2006 [19:26]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on October 16 received Ambassador Peter Allgeier, US Representative at World Trade Organization (WTO).
16 October 2006 [19:15]
As was earlier reported, a delegation led by Vahit Erdem, NATO PA Chairman of Sub-committee on Future Security and Defence Capabilities is on official visit in Azerbaijan.
16 October 2006 [19:00]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree on calling back Azerbaijan permanent representative to COE Agshin Mehdiyev.
16 October 2006 [18:53]
"The delegation organized by COE General Secretary Terry Davis is more reliable, because it includes different experts from different fields. They will investigate cultural heritage of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia," Rafael Huseynov, the member of Azerbaijani delegation to COE told journalists.
16 October 2006 [16:01]
President Moshe Katsav faced mounting pressure on Monday to quit after police recommended he be charged with rape in a sex scandal tarnishing a public office Israelis cherish as being above their rough-and-tumble politics.
16 October 2006 [14:49]
GUAM Parliamentary Assembly signed communique on activating the settlement of "frozen" conflicts in its third meeting in Chisinau.
16 October 2006 [13:20]
The participants, who tied their mouth with ribbon symbolically, hit hands together for 15 minutes.
16 October 2006 [13:16]
Canada-Azerbaijan Circles Federation held meeting in Toronto on October 15, Azerbaijan Educational and Cultural Center press service in Canada informs.
16 October 2006 [12:42]
The Armenian foreign minister describes the Turkish government's offer to set up a joint commission of historians to examine the killings as 'dishonest.'
16 October 2006 [11:43]
Armenian Armed Forces violated ceasefire for 20 minutes beginning from 16.50, October 15.
Business
16 October 2006 [20:33]
The weighted average exchange prices made up 0.8730 AZN for 1 US dollar in the Baku Interbank Currency Exchange on October 16.
16 October 2006 [20:26]
Armen Avetisian, the controversial chief of the Armenian customs, claimed on Monday that his agency is not as corrupt as is widely thought and might even be more law-abiding than customs authorities in the United States.
16 October 2006 [18:51]
Azerbaijan has suspended grain imports from Russia and Kazakhstan.
16 October 2006 [16:30]
The external debt of Azerbaijan has stood at USD 1 8bn and that is to say, per capita foreign debt equaled to $215, Ziyad Samadzade, chairman of economic policy standing commission of Parliament, said reporters.
16 October 2006 [16:08]
Turkish consumers were advised on Sunday to cool their anger over the French parliament's decision to criminalize denial that Armenian killings during World War I constituted "genocide."
16 October 2006 [15:34]
The fare for subway will not rise next year.
16 October 2006 [15:12]
Chairman of the Chamber of Auditors of Azerbaijan Vahid Novruzov will attend the Slovak Chamber of Auditors' international conference on "European Union's 8th Directive and statutory audit" in Slovakia's capital of Bratislava, October 19-20.
16 October 2006 [13:17]
The World Trade Organization's requirements to Azerbaijan are very difficult, Deputy Foreign Minister, head of the negotiations group for WTO accession, Mahmud Mammadguliyev said.
16 October 2006 [12:36]
A workshop took place today, examining problems of Azerbaijan's industry priorities development within Technical Cooperation Program for Azerbaijan by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and World Trade Organization (WTO).
16 October 2006 [11:37]
Wartsila said it has won an order to supply Azerbaijan's AzerEnerji with a 300 MW multi-fuel power plant.
16 October 2006 [09:51]
The industry and energy ministers of Korea and the Republic of Azerbaijan will hold a joint economic conference on Monday in Seoul to discuss ways to boost economic cooperation.
Society
16 October 2006 [20:53]
The 18th World Karate Championship organized by the World Karate Federation wrapped up in the Finnish city of Tamper.
16 October 2006 [20:46]
The chief of the Itar-Tass property management department, Anatoly Voronin, has been found dead in his apartment in Bolshoi Kondratievsky Pereulok street, a source at the Moscow Prosecutor's Office said on Monday.
16 October 2006 [20:13]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
16 October 2006 [19:34]
The meeting with well-known American mugam performer Jeffrey Werbock was held October 14 in Azerbaijan State Theatre of Songs named after Rashid Behbudov.
16 October 2006 [19:19]
Jan Wiegers, Finance Director of the International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA) visited Azerbaijani State Students Admission Commission.
16 October 2006 [19:02]
Azerbaijan week in the frame of 60th anniversary of UNESCO started in Paris.
16 October 2006 [18:53]
The experts' jverdict on the death of Ikram Khelilov, the chief of Ganja Police Office Traffic Police Department was announced to Ibrahim Rustemov, the lawyer for accuser Zabit Kazimov who was arrested on suspision of Khelilov's death.
16 October 2006 [18:49]
Last week the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan broke up a transnational network funneling illegal drugs from Iran toward Europe via Azerbaijan.
16 October 2006 [16:05]
While diplomatic relations are on a knife's-edge due to the French Parliament passing a bill penalizing denial of the so-called Armenian genocide, Turkish and Armenian documentary photographers were in Istanbul yesterday to open a joint exhibit.
16 October 2006 [13:44]
Parliament football team was set up, PM Fuad Muradov, the team player, informed.
16 October 2006 [13:27]
Warmer weather to predominate in Azerbaijan this week, Umayra Tagiyeva, Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry National Hydrometeorology Department bureau chief informs.
16 October 2006 [12:34]
Yeni Musavat newspaper was allotted a place in the fifth floor of Azerbaijan publishing house, Aghabey Askerov, the director of the publishing house told journalists.
16 October 2006 [11:44]
13th World Judo Championship among the sportsmen under 20 in the capital of the Dominican Republic ended.
16 October 2006 [11:42]
An accident happened in oil well #467 in 'Gum adasi' Oil and Gas Extraction Company.
16 October 2006 [11:40]
Popular artist Sekine Ismayilova will go on a tour to Hungary soon.
