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23 July 2009 [17:30]
Azercell and Azerfon have launched talks to settle differences regarding cut-off of interconnection channels, Azercell said.
23 July 2009 [15:18]
23 July 2009 [10:19]
Customs agencies contribute more to public budget revenues.
23 July 2009 [09:36]
Azerbaijan’s grain output including maize is expected to reach 3 million tons in 2009, 2.2 million tons of which will be wheat.
23 July 2009 [09:22]
Azerbaijan has secured stability of economy.
22 July 2009 [16:44]
On July 22, the Cabinet of Ministers held a large meeting on the socio-economic results of the first half of 2009.
22 July 2009 [12:52]
Oil prices fell for the first time since the last six trade sessions following official data testifying to increased oil reserves in the U.S. earlier last week.
22 July 2009 [11:38]
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Council will hold its next meeting in Baku, Norwegian ambassador to Azerbaijan Jone Romberg said.
22 July 2009 [11:21]
U.S. State Department Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar addressed the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
21 July 2009 [17:55]
The United Kingdom supports reforms implemented in Azerbaijan, business transparency, corporative governance and transition to international accounting system, London City Mayor Alderman Ian Luder said in Baku.
21 July 2009 [17:31]
Azerbaijan’s Azneft production union has launched a new well in Oil Rocks field, the SOCAR Web site said.
21 July 2009 [16:41]
RV Investment Group (deals with development of gold fields) and the Azerbaijani government signed a protocol on Azerbaijani gold export on July 21, founder and president of the company Reza Vaziri said on July 21.
21 July 2009 [16:16]
First Baku-Lvov flight will be carried out on August 3, 2009, Simurq Travel, engaged in the sale of tickets, said.
21 July 2009 [14:37]
Ganja-Odessa-Ganja flight will be launched to boost tourism in Azerbaijan and provide convenience of passengers.
21 July 2009 [14:01]
Armenia’s exports reduced 45.9 percent in January-June 2009 and totaled 98.9 billion drams.
21 July 2009 [12:33]
Armenia’s GDP shrank 16.3 percent in January-June 2009
20 July 2009 [15:32]
Oil export via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline will reach 50 million tons in 2009, SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev said at a meeting with Swedish Foreign Minister Karl Bildt in Baku, the SOCAR Web site reported.
20 July 2009 [13:38]
Azerbaijan may offer sattelite services soon, Azerbaijani Communication and Information Technology Minister Ali Abbasov said.
20 July 2009 [12:32]
Head of Iran’s national gas company Azizullah Ramezani says Iran’s involvement with filling up Nabucco is “quite possible”, Fars news agency reported.
20 July 2009 [11:37]
Housing of 23.1 million square meters has been privatized in Azerbaijan which makes up 68.9 percent of total housing, the State Statistics Committee said.
20 July 2009 [10:56]
The next stage of negotiations between Azerbaijani SOCAR and Turkish Botas on volume and price of Azerbaijani gas exported to Turkey as a part of the Shah Deniz-I will be held in early August, the SOCAR Web site said.
20 July 2009 [09:28]
In January-May 2009, nearly 17.4 million tons of cargo and 82.4 million passengers were conveyed via Europe-Caucasus-Asia transport corridor (TRACECA), the State Statistics Committee said.
18 July 2009 [08:57]
Oil prices demonstrated a rise following a report on unexpected rise in number of newly-built buildings in the U.S., Bloomberg reported.
17 July 2009 [12:22]
Azerbaijan reached $6.853 billion foreign trade turnover with 120 countries in January-May, 2009, the State Statistics Committee said.
17 July 2009 [10:27]
In January-July 2009, Azerbaijan’s communication sector rendered services worth 468.3 million manat, a rise of 12.3 percent from the same period of 2008, the State Statistics Committee said.
16 July 2009 [17:16]
Revenues from information and communication technologies grow 30-35 percent in Azerbaijan per year in recent years, Azerbaijani Communication and Information Technology Minister Ali Abbasov said.
16 July 2009 [14:01]
The average salary totaled 298 manats in Azerbaijan in the first quarter of 2009. a rise of 19 percent from the same period of 2008, the State Statistics Committee said.
16 July 2009 [13:31]
“The market of mobile phones is striving in Azerbaijan and it is one of the most attractive areas for investments,” Azerbaijani Communication and Information Technology Minister Ali Abbasov said.
16 July 2009 [13:16]
Ukrainian Lvov Airlines will open Lvov-Baku-Lvov flight from August 3, Lvov Airlines Deputy Director General Sergei Pidgorodetskiy said at a news conference.
16 July 2009 [12:51]
Ukraine welcomes the gas deal on export of Azerbaijani gas from January 2010 signed between Azerbaijan State Oil Company and Gazprom, Ukrainian ambassador to Azerbaijan Boris Klimchuk said.
16 July 2009 [12:09]
The next round of talks on gas price will be held on July 17, CNN Turk reported.
16 July 2009 [11:52]
Azerbaijani citizens say payment of pensions via plastic cards is the major achievement of the pension system reforms, Social Protection Fund said in a statement.
16 July 2009 [11:14]
Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan talks over the Caspian issues are underway in Baku.
15 July 2009 [17:27]
The Azerbaijani government provided 1$00,000 in financial assistance to Tajikistan to support the victims of natural disasters this spring, the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan said.
15 July 2009 [13:46]
Azerbaijan-Korea Commission (Working Group) on Economic Cooperation held its third meeting in Seoul.
15 July 2009 [12:28]
A trilateral agreement on supply of Azerbaijani gas to Bulgaria as a part of the ITGI project was signed in Sofia on July 14, Italian ambassador to Azerbaijan Gian Luigi Masha told reporters.
15 July 2009 [11:52]
"Baku was instrumental, in my mind at least, in getting an agreement finalized at very last moment for this agreement with Turkey by reaching a deal with Russia," Alexandros Petersen, associate director of the Eurasia Energy Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington, said.
15 July 2009 [11:38]
The French Total denied media reports on closure of the company's Baku office in July.
15 July 2009 [11:04]
Azerbaijan will develop a code to regulate construction activities and align them with certain norms and laws, parliament’s Economic Policy Committee Chaiman Ziyad Samadzade said.
15 July 2009 [10:44]
Azerbaijan's and Turkey's signing an agreement on a gas export price can become the next step in implementing the Nabucco gas pipeline project, the Deputy Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator-Republican Richard Lugar said.
15 July 2009 [10:23]
In rating of resistibility against world crisis in economic, political and socio-cultural spheres, Armenia ranks in the last place among CIS member states, the first report by the union of Eurasian expert network said.
15 July 2009 [09:33]
Ukraine welcomed the launch of the Nabucco gas pipeline project intended to pump gas to Europe bypassing Russia and said it was ready to join, a deputy head of the Ukrainian president's secretariat said on Tuesday.
14 July 2009 [15:32]
Gas reserves in the Caspian region make it possible to realize only one major project - Nabucco, or Southern Stream. The chances of latter are more preferable, The Heritage Foundation Russia-Eurasia program director Ariel Cohen said.
14 July 2009 [13:33]
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki promised that his country will fill up Nabucco by half from 2015 by supplying 15 billion cubic meters of gas per year, The Financial Times said.
13 July 2009 [14:32]
Total of 50 Azerbaijani citizens were issued mortgage loans worth 2.56 million manat in the first decade of July.
13 July 2009 [13:55]
"Azerbaijan fully supports the Nabucco gas pipeline project and everything related to it."
13 July 2009 [13:49]
The Nabucco participant countries signed inter-governmental agreement in Ankara on July 13.
13 July 2009 [13:39]
"Iranian gas can be transported to Europe via Nabucco pipeline, if there would be acceptable conditions for this."
13 July 2009 [12:10]
Ural Airlines will open flight from Yekaterinburg to Ganja (Azerbaijan) starting from August 8.
13 July 2009 [11:58]
“The direction of the Nabucco gas pipeline is the major problem for the pipeline."
13 July 2009 [11:26]
Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz denied Sunday reports that Turkey gave up its right to receive 15 percent of the natural gas supplied via the Nabucco pipeline, saying the country is likely to get a larger share instead, Xinhua reported.
13 July 2009 [11:08]
Russia's aggravating relations with Ukraine and Turkmenistan will give push to construction of Nabucco gas pipeline, Energy Security Analysis analyst Andrew Reed said.
13 July 2009 [09:39]
Russia is free to supply gas to the Nabucco pipeline.
13 July 2009 [09:26]
Iraq does not possess surplus gas to pump via the Nabucco gas pipeline, Spokesperson for the Iraqi government Ali al-Dabbagh said.
11 July 2009 [10:45]
SOCAR Marketing and Economic Operations Department exported nearly 1.229 million tons of oil via Baku-Novorossiysk in January-June 2009.
11 July 2009 [09:33]
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Friday hailed an agreement to be signed by Turkey and four European Union member states on a gas pipeline project as crucial for EU's energy security, Xinhua reported.
11 July 2009 [09:22]
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili will attend Nabucco accord signing ceremony on July 13 as a part of his two-day visit to Ankara, Business Georgia reported.
11 July 2009 [09:07]
President Gurbangulu Berdimuhammedov for the first time announced possibility of gas supply for the Nabucco pipeline project by Turkmenistan.
10 July 2009 [17:14]
Turkey and Azerbaijan discussed prices for natural gas and development of fields.
10 July 2009 [14:58]
Estate Market Participants public union has released results of the monitoring into the first housing market conducted in June 2009.
10 July 2009 [14:39]
Azerbaijani parliament may adopt Customs Code in the autumn session, State Customs Committee First Deputy Chairman Asgar Abdullayev said.
10 July 2009 [13:30]
Azerbaijan plans to enter the World Trade Organization with status of developing country, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammadguliyev said in Geneva at a final meeting of the working group on Azerbaijan’s WTO admission.
10 July 2009 [10:59]
Azerbaijan is prepared to establish long-term business contacts with Turkmen partners, SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev said at a meeting with Turkmen President Gurbangulu Berdimuhammedov.
10 July 2009 [10:48]
Azerbaijan, Iraq and Egypt will become the main suppliers to the EU-backed Nabucco gas pipeline, delivering 15 billion cubic meters of gas per year from 2015, Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer, Chief Executive of the Austria’s OMV, member of Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH consortiumm, said.
10 July 2009 [10:34]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said at the Azerbaijan-Syria business forum in Baku that Syria will buy Azerbaijani gas.
10 July 2009 [09:43]
World oil prices increased slightly on July 9 on the backdrop of weak demand in large economies.
10 July 2009 [08:44]
Azerbaijani Industry and Energy Minister Natig Aliyev has met with the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan.
09 July 2009 [16:42]
“State Agency for Control over Consumer Market at the Azerbaijani Economic Development Ministry monitors prices on consumer market twice a week.,” head of the agency Zahid Isayev said.
09 July 2009 [14:06]
Azerbaijani Association of Tourism Agencies is preparing package of proposals to cancel VAT for tourism companies.
09 July 2009 [11:23]
Azerbaijan’s oil refineries produced 2.983 million tons of oil in January-June 2009, according to the SOCAR.
09 July 2009 [08:35]
Total, French oil company, has stopped activity in Azerbaijan.
08 July 2009 [16:30]
Gas supply to Armenia was suspended on July 8.
08 July 2009 [15:07]
Trend Capital interview with SOCAR Marketing and Economic Operations Department (MEOD) Director General Tofig Gahramanov.
08 July 2009 [13:45]
Azerbaijani State Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Patents has appealed all governmental agencies to toughen control over imports of Chinese subquality children’s toys which are harmful for health.
08 July 2009 [12:06]
Nearly 60 hotels operating without license have been shut down in Azerbaijan.
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