News for 05 October 2006
Politics
05 October 2006 [23:58]
Both Azerbaijan and Armenia appear to be "playing for time" in their conflict over Nagorno Karabakh, the European Union's special representative for the South Caucasus, Peter Semneby, said on Thursday.
05 October 2006 [20:02]
"There is no need to involve the UN in the solution of the conflicts in CIS countries. I find it meaningless," Sergey Lavrov, Russia Foreign Minister in the press conference.
05 October 2006 [19:58]
OSCE mission to assess the arsons has come to Ganja.
05 October 2006 [19:49]
PACE Political Committee adopted a pact on the stability in South Caucasus after a long discussions, said Samad Seyidov, the head of Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation in PACE.
05 October 2006 [19:47]
There is no doubt that Armenia needs Russia to be strong. But does Russia need a strong Armenia? This is not a rhetorical question.
05 October 2006 [18:53]
Azerbaijan's ambassador to Tehran said that if the crisis in Nagorno Karabakh is not solved through negotiations and peaceful means, his country would study the last solution, meaning that the Republic of Azerbaijan would resort to military option.
05 October 2006 [18:44]
Meeting of the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation G. Krasin with the Ambassador of Azerbaijan in Moscow Polad Bulbuloglu took place on October 4.
05 October 2006 [18:35]
Jamil Hasanli, the former Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev's and his brother Rafig Aliyev's Rights Defense Committee chief will sue Zakir Garalov.
05 October 2006 [18:32]
French parliamentarians prepared a bill which envisages five-year sentence and financial penalty of 45000 euros for denial of so called Armenian genocide.
05 October 2006 [16:29]
The next meeting of Presidential Pardon Commission (PC) has taken place. In a few days a pardon will be granted, Zalimkhan Yagub the member of PC told.
05 October 2006 [15:56]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Latvia is ongoing.
05 October 2006 [14:14]
Co-chairs of International Working Group for searching war prisoners, missing persons and hostages Svetlana Gannushkina, Bernhard Klazen, Armenian coordinator Carina Minasyan, Azerbaijani coordinator Evez Hasanov and coordinator from Nagorno Karabakh Albert Voskanyan are in Strasburg.
05 October 2006 [12:28]
Azerbaijan's Ambassador to Austria and Slovenia Fuad Ismayilov has presented his credentials to the President of Slovenia Janez Drnovsek.
05 October 2006 [12:26]
Repeat, additional, new and first time elections will be held to some local authorities on Friday.
05 October 2006 [12:23]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs did not visit occupied Azerbaijan territories.
05 October 2006 [09:54]
Congressional letter, signed by 77 members has been sent to the White House to call on George Bush to expand relations with Karabakh, PanArmenian came to know from the NKR Representative Office in the U.S.
05 October 2006 [09:30]
"Nagorno Karabakh conflict will not be solved this year despite resumption of negotiations," said in Stratfor research center report.
05 October 2006 [00:40]
Turkish Foreign Ministry expressed deep sorrow over statements of French President Jacques Chirac who supported so-called Armenian genocide during his visit to Armenia.
05 October 2006 [00:32]
Chairman of Azerbaijan's Central Election Commission Mazahir Panahov met October 4 with US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mrs. Anne Derse.
05 October 2006 [00:30]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on 4 October visited the Latvian Seym.
Business
05 October 2006 [19:44]
On Thursday the World Bank and Azerbaijani Government have signed an agreement on Agricultural Develoment and Credit Project Phase II. According to the agreement, the World Bank will allow a loan of 29mn to the Government.
05 October 2006 [19:01]
Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Tehran voiced his country's enthusiasm for transferring its oil to the waters of the Persian Gulf.
05 October 2006 [18:50]
Executive Director of the Azerbaijan State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) Shahmar Movsumov met with executive director of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) Nana Tanko and head of the Open Society Institute-Soros Foundation Farda Asadov.
05 October 2006 [18:38]
"A number of officers-in-reserve cannot receive belongings compensation because, Finance Ministry did not allocated funds for it," said Ilgar Verdiyev, Defense Ministry press service officer.
05 October 2006 [15:04]
The Shah Deniz gas and condensate development project has continued to progress according to schedule since the beginning of 2006 and construction is currently almost complete overall.
05 October 2006 [09:43]
Azerbaijani authorized credit institutions received 191 official appeals from the citizens for mortgage within seven months.
05 October 2006 [09:40]
Economic Development and Trade Minister of Russia, German Gref, will pay a visit to Azerbaijan October 5.
05 October 2006 [09:14]
In September of this year according to the calculations by the Analytical Department of the BSE, in the government securities market (excluding repo operations market) International Transaction Systems headed ranking of brokers with brokerage services in the total amount of AZN 29 691 593.72 provided to two client.
05 October 2006 [08:58]
International Epizootic Bureau (IEB) lifts ban for fowl-flesh and products export and import, according to State Veterinary Service at Agricultural Ministry's information.
05 October 2006 [00:42]
The project of Iran's gas conveyance pipeline to Armenia will come on stream early 2007, Reza Kasaiizadeh, the managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said here on Wednesday.
Society
05 October 2006 [19:54]
540 secondary schools were postponed due to the local elections, Mazahir Panahov, Central Election Commission (CEC) chief told journalists.
05 October 2006 [19:07]
One of Azerbaijan's top players has switched to basketball after coming home to find that the summer transfer window had already closed.
05 October 2006 [18:48]
Azerbaijani junior judoists will compete in the 13th World Judo Championship to be held October 12 in Dominican Republic.
05 October 2006 [18:47]
The meeting with representatives of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) was held in the Azerbaijan Technical University (ATU).
05 October 2006 [18:40]
Ramil Safarov sentenced for lifetime prison for murdering Armenian officer Gurgen Margarian called the legal representative of his family.
05 October 2006 [18:37]
Ganja Police Patrol Service (PPS) sergeant Zaur Isayev savagely beat the other police sergeant Mubariz Ahmedov.
05 October 2006 [18:34]
Baroness Vivien Stern, a member of the House of Lords in British parliament who is in visit to Baku to get acquainted with the penal system held a Press Conference saying that her visit is very interesting.
05 October 2006 [18:30]
A Farewell ceremony with Hajibaba Bagirov, People’s artist took place in Azerbaijan State Comedy Theatre.
05 October 2006 [15:34]
Ramil Safarov, sentenced for lifetime prison for murdering Armenian officer Gurgen Margarian, called the legal representative of his family Ikram Shirinov, the lawyer told.
05 October 2006 [14:07]
The interference of outside TV channels in Azerbaijan's airspace has decreased by 85-90%.
05 October 2006 [13:58]
International Telecommunication Union has registered Shusha TV channel as Azerbaijan's although it is being used by Armenians.
05 October 2006 [12:50]
"The reason for delay of issuance of a license to ANS is that it was given a number of severe warnings," stated Nushirevan Meherremli, National Television and Radio Council (NTRC) chief.
05 October 2006 [10:01]
Next monitoring on Bird flu will be held in Azerbaijan in mid-October. It will be the fifth monitoring in Azerbaijan conducted after April, State Veterinary Service at the Agricultural Ministry told.
05 October 2006 [09:36]
The delegation headed by Yuri Osipov, the president of Russian Academy of Science visits Azerbaijan today on the occasion of the start of Russia year in Azerbaijan.
05 October 2006 [09:22]
Anticorruption Department at the Prosecutor's office received 205 applications.
05 October 2006 [09:14]
The first session of Iran-Azerbaijan Friendship Group's General Assembly convened here on Wednesday evening, following the appointment of five new members of its board of governors.
