News for 23 October 2006
Politics
23 October 2006 [23:14]
Iran has launched a second batch of centrifuges at its pilot nuclear fuel plant despite possible U.N. Security Council sanctions, diplomats said.
23 October 2006 [23:02]
The Head of the OSCE Office in Baku welcomed the Azerbaijani President's pardon of two newspaper editors imprisoned this year for libel.
23 October 2006 [18:17]
The Kars-Akhalkalaki-Baku project will be implemented since it's first of all a political project, political scientist, rector of the Caucasus Media Institute Alexander Iskandaryan said.
23 October 2006 [18:13]
Formally the Minsk process was not stopped. The OSCE MG is a format created for contribution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement. But since 2001 it has been frozen, political scientist, rector of the Caucasus Media Institute Alexander Iskandaryan said.
23 October 2006 [15:56]
A two-week training programme on police tactics during rallies, public demonstrations or major events, organized by the OSCE Office in Baku, ended in Azerbaijan.
23 October 2006 [15:34]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev arrived October 23 in the Lerik province.
Business
23 October 2006 [15:42]
Turkey has been monitoring the "saddening events" between Turkish and Kazakh workers in Kazakhstan, and the Turkish Embassy in Almaty has launched necessary initiatives, Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
23 October 2006 [15:40]
The BP led AIOC consortium has began pumping oil four months earlier than planned from the East Azeri field, part of the huge Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) group of fields in the Caspian Sea, the company said on Monday.
23 October 2006 [15:38]
ATA Holding recently joined the International Hockey Federation (FIH) as one of their major sponsors.
23 October 2006 [15:36]
The Moscow office of the International Bank of Azerbaijan has opened its second branch in Saint Petersburg.
Society
23 October 2006 [23:49]
The relationship between journalism and politics, media laws, investigative reporting, and the role of the media in a democratic society will be the focus of a training course organized by the OSCE Belgian Chairmanship in Brussels this week.
23 October 2006 [23:30]
After the organization in Elista of the World Championship Match, the FIDE President received a congratulation letter from the Minister of Youth and Sports of Azerbaijan Mr Azad Ragimov, addressed to the Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Mr. Kirsan Ilyumnzhinov.
