Business
12 April 2006 [00:57]
Air France aviation company of France does not intend to open offices in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
12 April 2006 [00:53]
Diversification of the economy is very weak in Azerbaijan and the government of the country must speed up this process, stated the EBRD President Jean Lemierre being on a visit to Azerbaijan.
12 April 2006 [00:49]
A protocol on economic cooperation promotion between the Small and Medium Industry Development and Support Office (SMIDSO) of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Turkey and Ministry of Economic Development (MED) of Azerbaijan will signed in Istanbul on April 14.
12 April 2006 [00:44]
The Improtex Marine&Sport Facilities Company, official representative of the Japanese Yamaha brand in Azerbaijan started holding trainings on driving motorcycles and land rovers (Riding Schools).
12 April 2006 [00:41]
Operation of the Q-43/107M catalytic cracking unit stopped for repairs was resumed in the Baku Oil Refinery.
12 April 2006 [00:38]
Next auction on placement of short-term bonds of the National Bank of Azerbaijan (NBA) will be held in the Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) on Wednesday.
11 April 2006 [22:54]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is ready to support activity of the Garadah Cement and the issue of crediting the factory is now under discussion, the EBRD president, Jean Lumiere stated.
11 April 2006 [15:18]
Azerbaijan took part at the annual world summit of Intel Corporation–Intel Solutions Summit, which took place in Greece.
11 April 2006 [14:02]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is planning to invest in the implementation of the Azerbaijani projects more than 300 million EURO, the EBRD President, Jean Lemiere stated.
11 April 2006 [13:34]
Decisions on social–economic development in the regions will be made during the visit of the President, Ilham Aliyev to Sheki-Zakatal district from April 11, the Head of the social-political department at the President's Office, Ali Hasanov told.
11 April 2006 [12:21]
Today the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) signed $4.5 million credit line with a local financial institution, AzeriGazBank, for on-lending to micro- , small- and medium-sized Azerbaijani enterprises.
11 April 2006 [10:26]
Delegation of Cabinet Members, Senior Government Representatives, and Business Leaders from Azerbaijan to participate in the event.
11 April 2006 [09:34]
About 30 Azeri businessmen left for Turkey today to attend the Azerbaijan-Turkey business forum to be held in Istanbul April 11.
11 April 2006 [09:18]
Pursuing its integration into international communication, the Joint Venture (JV) Azercell Telecom signed roaming contract with Mobile cellular communication operator of Oman.
11 April 2006 [09:15]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) may grant loan to the Azerbaijan State Railway Office (ASRO) on the Locomotive Fleet Upgrade Project in syndicated form.
11 April 2006 [09:08]
Concreting works are underway in the Sheki module power plant which is currently being constructed.
11 April 2006 [07:58]
The Tariff Council plans to reconsider the energy tariffs.
11 April 2006 [07:55]
The goal of inspections was to find out the purposes money orders were used for.
11 April 2006 [07:52]
"Commercial banks of Azerbaijan are small and not open to international cooperation", journalists were given this statement by the Minister of Economic Development Heydar Babayev.
11 April 2006 [07:42]
No changes are expected to be made to interest rates on mortgage loans of the Mortgage Fund of Azerbaijan (MFA) funded from the state budget.
11 April 2006 [00:44]
BP, Europe's largest oil company, and its partners completed undersea pipelines to the $4.2 billion Shah Deniz field, a Caspian sea project scheduled to start supplying world markets by year's end.
11 April 2006 [00:22]
There is a search underway for effective ways of using the opportunities at hand for increasing the amount of transit goods transported by motor transport from Azerbaijani and Russian territory to Iran.
11 April 2006 [00:19]
Negotiations with the World Trade Organization are in progress.
11 April 2006 [00:16]
Air France has begun regular flights between Paris and Yerevan.
10 April 2006 [21:20]
The perspectives of the further development of the bilateral relations and the current state of the cooperation of Azerbaijan with the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was discussed at the meeting of Heydar Babayev, the Azerbaijani Minister of Economic Development, and Jean Lemierre, the President of EBRD, on Monday.
10 April 2006 [21:14]
BTC Co. completes testing of its third pumping station (PST-3) at the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in Turkey.
10 April 2006 [17:16]
The stock exchange activity, development routes and budget in the current year have been adopted at the meeting of the Baku stock exchange shareholders meeting.
10 April 2006 [15:37]
From 3 through 7 March AZERI LT average price, sold by Azerbaijan in Supsa and Novorossiysk port, was $66.86 per barrel or $2.48 per barrel down as compared to the previous week.
10 April 2006 [15:02]
In the course of investigation conducted by the Ministry of Industry and Energy to reveal the illegal increase of liquefied gas prices at the filling stations, it was discovered that some of them sold the gas at 20-24 gepig per 1 liter.
10 April 2006 [14:27]
On Monday Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President, has received Jean Lemierre, the President of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
10 April 2006 [14:10]
6.786 tons of oil from 38 exploitation wells have been extracted by the oil-gas extracting company Bulla-Deniz this March, this is in 15, 2% more than it was previously forecasted.
10 April 2006 [13:11]
The work on foundation carried out at new module power station in the Shaki region.
10 April 2006 [11:16]
Internet provider Azeronline has reduced the cost of its web services provided to the post-paid subscribers of Azerbaijan's leading cellular provider, Azercell Telecom.
10 April 2006 [09:26]
Turan Company concluded contract with the Azerbaijani representation of the Murphy International Company of Great Britain on selling two MAZ (Minsk Car Factory) marked trucks to the latter.
10 April 2006 [08:41]
President of State Oil Company of (SOCAR) Rovnag Abdullayev received the delegation led by European Commission Deputy Head of External Affairs Fokion Fotiadis.
10 April 2006 [08:30]
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) President Rovnag Abdullayev received the delegation led by Polish Economy Minister Piotr Wozniak.
09 April 2006 [21:38]
The first phase of Iran-Armenia gas export pipeline is expected to kick off in early December 2006, technical and foreign relations director of Armenia Energy Ministry Leon Vartanian announced on Sunday.
08 April 2006 [17:13]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said his country planned to enter European natural gas markets in the future.
08 April 2006 [08:55]
"Azerbaijan ensured Canada R.V.Investment Company with rights to operate gold deposits in Azerbaijan. What makes us surprise is that the company has not defended its rights so far. We expected the R.V. Investment to exercise its full rights and appeal to the international courts within a short period of time to prevent illegal exploitation of gold deposits in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan," the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Huseyn Baghirov told journalists.
08 April 2006 [07:18]
The Joint Venture CATEL completed installation of the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) wireless communication main station in Mingechevir.
08 April 2006 [07:13]
The senior economists of the World Bank (WB) Christian Petersen and Christos Kostopulos, and director of the poverty reduction and economic management sector in Europe and Central Asia Sherol Gray visited Baku.
08 April 2006 [07:07]
In March of the current year, 510.07 million cubic metres was surrendered to the Azerigas Close Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) instead of 486.68 million cubic metres of the plan and the forecast was overfulfilled 4.8%.
07 April 2006 [16:16]
Azerbaijani-Turkish business forum will be held in Istanbul April 1 under the organization of the Association of Azerbaijani-Turkish Businessmen (AATB), the Entrepreneurship Development Department of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Economic Development, AzPromo in the cooperation with Istanbul Trade Chamber and Istanbul Industry Chamber.
07 April 2006 [13:44]
Microsoft has announced the beginning of the first stage of the MS Windows XP localization for Azerbaijan.
07 April 2006 [10:59]
Poultry farms in Azerbaijan have agreed to fix same price on fowl and egg sold in the whole country.
07 April 2006 [10:19]
Azeronline Company founded by the Joint Venture (JV) Azercell Telecom reduced the price of the Internet package given to postpaid subscribers of JV.
07 April 2006 [10:08]
Today President of Azerbaijani Advertising Union Hajiami Atakishiyev has held a press conference dedicated to 40th congress of International Advertisement Unity.
07 April 2006 [09:54]
Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population has paid all the allowance of the people for the past months.
07 April 2006 [09:49]
Last year 114 companies were established in Azerbaijan with participation of Turkish capital.
07 April 2006 [09:29]
The Transeurocom provider company started rendering Internet services in the regions of Azerbaijan.
07 April 2006 [09:26]
In March of the current year, about 110 million kWh of electricity entered the power network of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan.
07 April 2006 [09:17]
April 13, meeting of the Board of Directors of the BTC CO. Company will take place in Baku.
06 April 2006 [23:29]
The appeal of the Barmek-Azerbaijan Vice President, Omar Gunel to change the court's decision on keeping him in custody was rejected, the presiding judge Alim Namazov told.
06 April 2006 [23:07]
BP has launched the third advance bore at Western Azeri, BP informs. The daily oil extraction debit has reached 60,000 barrels.
06 April 2006 [22:42]
The Ministry of Connection and IT has put new post office into exploitation.
06 April 2006 [14:51]
Azerbaijan has out an issue on selection of minimal standards, which could really distinguish the countries implementing the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) from those which only imitate it, the head of the commission on implementation of the EITI, also the Executive Director of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAR), stated to a news conference titled "EITI: experience of pilot countries".
06 April 2006 [14:25]
The funds allocating from the public budget to the Azerbaijani Armed Forces has increased from $170m to $600m, Khanlar Valiyev, the Military Prosecutor stated at news conference April 6.
06 April 2006 [14:00]
Presentation of a report on Perspectives of economic development and Asian region, developed by the leading specialists of Honk-Gong was held at the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
06 April 2006 [12:59]
The conference "Role of Sumgayit enterprises in establishment of strong industry potential" will be held in Sumgayit on April 12 at the initiative of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Industry and Energy and the Sumgayit Executive Power.
06 April 2006 [12:38]
The price for AZERI LT CIF on April 5 was $66.66 per barrel (rose $0.76 per barrel against the previous price). Density of Azeri Light is 34.6 degrees by API, sulphur content is 0.14%.
06 April 2006 [12:08]
Poultry product fair will be held in Baku April 9 under the organization of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Economic Development and the Poultry Keeping Society.
06 April 2006 [11:29]
The Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) produced 678.1 million cubic meters of gas from Azerbaijan's major Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli offshore fields in January-March 2006, or 2.6 times over the same period of last year.
06 April 2006 [09:50]
Azerbaijan's parliament speaker Ogtay Asadov today received the delegation led by John Bourn, the chief inspector and auditor of the British National Audit Office.
06 April 2006 [09:20]
The Antimonopoly Policy Department of the Ministry of Economic Development plans to complete the monitoring of the cellular phone market on April 10.
06 April 2006 [09:07]
In March of the current year, about 2,324 billion kWh of electricity was produced in the Azerenergy system and it exceeds the same indicator of preceding March by 5%.
06 April 2006 [08:54]
The Tax Crimes Preliminary Investigation Department under the Ministry of Taxes started 18 criminal cases on tax evasion and illegal entrepreneurship facts in March.
06 April 2006 [08:31]
Prospects for Azerbaijan's joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) and economic development were in focus at the event, "The World Trade Network and Azerbaijan", in Baku on Wednesday.
05 April 2006 [20:44]
Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President, received the delegation led by John Bourn, the chief inspector and auditor of the British National Audit Office.
05 April 2006 [20:26]
The Accountancy Chamber report will be heard at the Milli Majlis next hearing.
05 April 2006 [20:22]
Azerbaijan's State Oil Company said Wednesday it had produced 2.2162 million tons (16.29 million bbl) of oil in the first quarter of 2006, the same as in Q1 2005.
05 April 2006 [16:07]
The recently completed Black Sea Energy Conference, hosted in Bucharest by Romania's Chamber of Commerce and Industry, discussed various energy-related themes and presented energy projects for the Black Sea area in the near future, along with existing opportunities and challenges to the Black Sea energy markets.
05 April 2006 [16:03]
After launching the tanker will be completed and put under mooring tests. The customer will receive it in summer 2006.
05 April 2006 [15:54]
At today's plenary session of Kazakhstani Majilis (Lower Chamber of Parliament) it approved draft law "On ratification of Protocol on amendments to agreement between governments of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan on free trade as of June 10, 1997".
05 April 2006 [15:51]
Delegation of Yeni Azerbaijan Party is on the visit to the PRC.
05 April 2006 [15:14]
The companies involved in the gold mining industry are also expected to join the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Azerbaijan, Samir Sharifov, the Executive Director of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAR) told journalists.
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