News for 19 October 2006
Politics
19 October 2006 [22:17]
Local observers say the transfer of a special Baku police unit to the Interior Ministry may be designed to strengthen the government's influence in underdeveloped regions in advance of the country's 2008 presidential campaign.
19 October 2006 [21:38]
Finland's foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja criticized France harshly for their bill criminalizing the denial of an Armenian genocide and said that the French parliament "has made a bad mistake."
19 October 2006 [21:29]
A statement released by the office of Azerbaijani Prosecutor-General announced on October 18 the removal of a lawyer defending former Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev.
19 October 2006 [21:24]
The European Court for Human Rights agreed on October 18 to hear the case of former Azerbaijani Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev.
19 October 2006 [21:20]
Armenia can no longer afford to hold elections falling short of democratic standards and must therefore "draw the line" under its post-Soviet history of electoral fraud, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday.
19 October 2006 [21:11]
On 19 October, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev welcomed to the Presidential Palace Mexican Health Minister Julio Frenk.
19 October 2006 [21:00]
Azerbaijani Foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Armenian Foreign minister Vartan Oskanian's next talks in the frame of Prague Process will be held on October 24, said Yuri Merzlyakov, Russian co-chair of OSCE Minsk group and coordinator on Karabakh conflict.
19 October 2006 [20:46]
President Ilham Aliyev received the ambassadors of Muslim countries to Azerbaijan.
19 October 2006 [16:02]
Protest action took place outside of France embassy in Bucharest.
19 October 2006 [15:35]
Armenia Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said that he will resign before presidential elections in 2008.
19 October 2006 [14:35]
Turkey's state broadcasting watchdog has recommended a boycott of French-made programmes and films in protest at the French parliament's support for a bill that would make it a crime to deny the Armenian "genocide".
19 October 2006 [14:04]
19 October 2006 [13:57]
Turkey President Ahmed Necdet Sezer issued a decree on appointing new ambassador to Azerbaijan.
19 October 2006 [13:37]
The leader of South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement (SANAM) Mahmudali Chohraganli has resigned, Agri Garadaghli, chief of the press service of SANAM office in Baku, stated.
19 October 2006 [13:29]
The delegation headed by Mikhail Kaminin, the chief of Russia Foreign Ministry Information and Press Department will visit Baku tomorrow, Tahir Taghizadeh, the chief of Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department informs.
Business
19 October 2006 [21:08]
Azerbaijan will not be able to supply Georgia this year with the additional gas supplies that the Georgian government is seeking in order to forestall the possibility of an energy crisis. Some experts in Baku believe that Russia's ongoing diplomatic row with Georgia is influencing Azerbaijani policy decisions.
19 October 2006 [15:57]
Strong fire happened in Khatai district today.
19 October 2006 [15:25]
The first Shah Deniz gas is expected to be produced by the end of this year.
19 October 2006 [14:45]
Oil steadied below $58 on Thursday ahead of an OPEC meeting where ministers were expected to cut production for the first time in more than two years.
Society
19 October 2006 [21:03]
6099 crimes were registered in Baku in January-September, 2006 out of 680 which are grave crimes and felonies.
19 October 2006 [21:02]
Nuride Ateshi, the director of Nizami Genjevi Culture Institute in Germany found new archive documents about Gurban Said in Italy.
19 October 2006 [20:49]
635 criminal cases out of 1873 registered ones in 2006 are drug selling crimes.
19 October 2006 [20:48]
Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov, former high ranking official of the Interior Ministry Crime Investigation Department.
19 October 2006 [16:32]
Conscription Commission was set up to control draft in Azerbaijan, the Cabinet of Ministers told.
19 October 2006 [16:15]
As of October 1, Azerbaijani population reached 8.506m which represents an increase of 0.8% or 70 000 as against the early year.
19 October 2006 [15:14]
Court of Grave Crimes today continued the trial of the gang led by Haji Mammadov.
19 October 2006 [14:23]
"We control the criminogenic situation in Baku. No sensational cases have been recorded in the capital since the arrest of Haji Mammadov's criminal gang. We should work hard to prevent kidnappings and not let anyone to violate stability," Maharram Aliyev, Baku Police Office chief told at the press conference.
19 October 2006 [14:16]
On Thursday the Red Crescent Society of Azerbaijan is opening newly constructed safe-play areas for children in two villages of the front-line district of Fizuli, in the south-western part of the country, where large numbers of mines and explosive remnants of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict continue to prevent a return to normal life.
19 October 2006 [14:05]
President Ilham Aliyev was awarded Germany Mikhail Zhukov Fund's prize for his successful ecological policy.
19 October 2006 [14:01]
Group visits Holocaust Museum during 3-week tour of area nonprofits
19 October 2006 [13:31]
"World Boxing Championship is well-organized compared to previous years. The fans are interested in box," Anwar Chowdhry, the president of International Amateur Boxing Association stated.
