Politics
14 January 2006 [21:17]
Discussions of the 2-nd and 3-d periodic reports of the Azerbaijan government on the UNO “Convention on Children’ Rights” will take place on 19 January 2006 in the framework of the 41st session of the UNO Committee on children’s rights.
14 January 2006 [20:57]
14 January 2006 [20:44]
"No secret prisons of US CIA exist in Azerbaijan." Said Leo Platfoet, rapporteur of PACE Monitoring Group.
14 January 2006 [13:50]
Spanish King Juan Carlos I received the diplomatic corps accredited in Madrid.
14 January 2006 [13:43]
14 January 2006 [03:16]
Congress of World Azerbaijani (CWA) will appeal to Council of Europe, UNO, France, Germany and Great Britain on repressions against Southern Azerbaijani Turks by Iranian Government.
14 January 2006 [03:13]
Nasimi District court has elongated arrest time of ex-ministers Farhad Aliyev and Ali Insanov for four more months.
14 January 2006 [02:52]
Opposition MPs say they aren’t going call like-minded colleagues to join the Parliament sessions. They say it’s personal position.
14 January 2006 [02:47]
The results of the 6 November parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan might be discussed in winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) due on 23 January.
14 January 2006 [02:35]
The agenda of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) winter session was announced.
14 January 2006 [02:06]
Musavat Party has not selected its representative to the Central Election Commission yet.
13 January 2006 [19:16]
13 January 2006 [19:07]
13 January 2006 [16:35]
Hafiz Pashayev, the Azerbaijani Ambassador to the United States, gave a written answer to ill-natured statements by the co-chairmen of a working group of the Congress on Armenian issues, John Nolenberg and Frank Pollone.
13 January 2006 [11:16]
“The reshuffle in executive bodies will continue,” head of the President’s Office socio-political department Ali Hasanov said.
13 January 2006 [10:30]
Stance of official Baku regarding deployment any peace-keeping forces in Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone is clear, says Ziyafet Asgerov, vice-speaker of Milli Majlis.
13 January 2006 [05:36]
“The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh will be settled in the near future,” French President Jacques Chirac has said.
13 January 2006 [05:21]
“Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia are to discus uncoordinated issues in the process of the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh in the meeting to be held in London on 17-18 January” - Russian co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov told in Yerevan, APA reports.
13 January 2006 [05:16]
Turkish President Ahmed Necdet Sezer is expected to pay an official visit to Azerbaijan in late January, said Turkish ambassador to Azerbaijan Turan Morali.
13 January 2006 [05:02]
“The regulation of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is one of the priorities of OSCE for 2006” - OSCE new chairman-in-office, Belgium Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht told in his first press conference.
13 January 2006 [04:56]
The British parliament will not reply to Armenians’ claims concerning the alleged destruction of tombstone crosses in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, the country’s official said in an interview with local ANS TV channel.
13 January 2006 [04:54]
Foreign ministers of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov and Armenia Vardan Oskanian will hold their next meeting in London January 18-19 to discuss ways of settling the long-standing dispute over Nagorno Karabakh.
13 January 2006 [04:50]
PFPA chief Ali Kerimli has met with US deputy ambassador to Azerbaijan John Polashki.
13 January 2006 [04:46]
12 January 2006 [22:30]
The expert on Caucasus, renowned journalist Thomas Holts has delivered a report in the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of John Hopkins University, Washington, on theme “Islamic fundamentalism in Azerbaijan: threat or a myth”, the Washington-based correspondent of AzerTAc said.
12 January 2006 [21:30]
“Venice Commission doesn’t work on its own initiative. We are sent inquiry by either upper bodies of the Council of Europe or the countries to prepare recommendations on any issue or establishing cooperation”- said Sergei Kuznetsov, associate of the department for elections and referendums of the Council of Europe Venice Commission.
12 January 2006 [21:06]
A group of local TV heads, NGOs, and the Press Council of Azerbaijan will visit this country, ANS reports.
12 January 2006 [17:44]
The Council of Europe (CE) made a decision to monitor the by-elections in Azerbaijan on 13 May 2006 in 10 constituencies.
12 January 2006 [15:44]
Ceasefire breach was fixed in the Armenian-Azerbaijani frontline on Thursday, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry announced.
12 January 2006 [11:28]
“Azadliq” bloc sent an appeal to Council of Europe (CE) on irregularities committed in November 6 parliamentary elections.
12 January 2006 [11:18]
The day before yesterday annual account of chairman of the organization Lord Russell Johnston was adopted at the Sub-Committee of Council of Europe on Nagorno Karabakh in Paris.
12 January 2006 [11:10]
“The status of Nagorno Karabakh is not discussed in the current stage of Azerbaijan-Armenia talks on the regulation of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.”
12 January 2006 [11:03]
Monitoring is expected to be held in Borsunlu village of Goranboy, in the contact line of troops tomorrow in accordance with the mandate of the personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office.
12 January 2006 [10:41]
“If required, Turkey can send peacekeeping forces to Nagorno Karabakh under the mandate of international peacekeeping troops”.
12 January 2006 [10:36]
The report on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict drawn up by Rassel Johnston, chief of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe Subcommittee for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, English parliament member was discussed in the sitting of the subcommittee in Paris.
12 January 2006 [10:16]
The major subject of the forthcoming visit to the South Caucasus region of the acting chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
12 January 2006 [09:20]
The Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers, Elmar Mammadyarov and Vardan Oskanian, will meet in London on 18-19 January.
11 January 2006 [23:05]
The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Danial Ahmetov has been invited to pay an official visit to Azerbaijan.
11 January 2006 [22:47]
The report on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict drawn up by Rassel Johnston, chief of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe Subcommittee for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, English parliament member was discussed in the sitting of the subcommittee in Paris.
06 January 2006 [12:15]
The letter addressed to the British Prime Minister Tony Blair by the “Azadlig” bloc leaders after the parliamentary elections was replied by British Minister for European affairs Douglas Alexander.
06 January 2006 [12:09]
Health of ex-minister of economic development Farhad Aliyev held in investigation ward of Ministry of National Security (MNS) is not stable.
06 January 2006 [12:04]
Yesterday Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) issued a statement concerning the negotiations in the direction of the settlement of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
06 January 2006 [11:47]
“It is not a right step to separate a corridor through Lachin region and it is unacceptable. Because, it might result in some nuances contradicting Azerbaijan’s interests.
06 January 2006 [11:41]
International Crisis Group (ICG) is working on new projects in Southern Caucasus. The project named “European Union in Southern Caucasus” is led by director of “Caucasus Project” of ICG Sabina Freizer.
06 January 2006 [11:38]
“The ruling New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) will participate in the by-elections.”
06 January 2006 [11:32]
7 persons have nominated their candidacies for by-elections so far to be held on 13 May 2006.
06 January 2006 [11:28]
According to the joint action plan approved between the Interior Ministries of Azerbaijan and Russia a number of operating events under the agreed name “Border” has been held at the frontier areas.
06 January 2006 [11:26]
For the purpose of prolonging the period of broadcast of the Russia ORT TV-channel in Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies (MCIT) has already presented the draft of that contract to the Russian State TV-Radio Company.
06 January 2006 [11:18]
Work over the final report on parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutes and Human Rights (ODIHR) continues.
06 January 2006 [11:04]
Next gathering of Sub-committee of Council of Europe on Nagorno Garabagh will be held in Paris on January 9.
28 December 2005 [10:45]
December 31-Solidarity Day of Azerbaijanis in the World will be celebrated in various countries of the world. APA was told by the press service of State Committee on work with Azerbaijanis Living in Foreign Countries that a range of measures have already been initiated to be realized in Russian Federation.
28 December 2005 [10:42]
Members of Armenian Academy of Science accused Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev of making anti-Armenian statements.
28 December 2005 [10:40]
Yesterday President İlham Aliyev signed a decree on confirmation of State Program on technical development of defense system of state borders of Azerbaijan republic in 2006-2010.
28 December 2005 [10:11]
Yesterday chief of Azerbaijani committee against tortures Elchin Behbudov conduct monitoring in the investigation ward of Ministry of National Security.
28 December 2005 [10:00]
Meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents may take place on 10 February 2005, the OSCE Minsk Group Russian co-chairman Yuri Merzlykaov said in a statement during his interview with the ATV channel, Trend reports.
28 December 2005 [09:50]
“We will raise repatriation of Ramil Safarov before the Budapest court after the announcement of the sentence.”
28 December 2005 [09:44]
The opposition leaders have not received official invitation to Strasbourg on the eve of the January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE).
28 December 2005 [09:44]
The Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has been invited to pay an official visit to Azerbaijan, the advisor of the Azerbaijan’s Embassy to Egypt Agaselim Shukyurov told Trend.
28 December 2005 [09:41]
Human Rights activists from Poland, Switzerland, USA and Norway have been invited to the conference on human rights in Baku, the chairman of the Society on Women’s Rights Defense named after Dilara Aliyeva, Novella Djafaroglu told Trend.
28 December 2005 [09:37]
6 Azerbaijani citizens captured by Armenian side were set free during 2005.
28 December 2005 [09:34]
The Milli Mejlis chairman of Azerbaijan Ogtay Asadov received on 27 December 2005 the Charge d’Affaires of Ukraine in Azerbaijan Igor Kizima.
28 December 2005 [09:32]
Candidates of “Azadliq” bloc will appeal to European Court on fraudulent facts and violation of their rights in November 6 parliamentary elections from January.
28 December 2005 [09:25]
The president Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on confirmation of the composition of the Tariff (Price) Council.
24 December 2005 [09:54]
6 opposition-minded parliamentarians established a fraction today.
24 December 2005 [09:43]
Yesterday Karabakh liberation Organization (KLO) appealed to Pyotr Burdikin charge d'affaires of Russian federation in Azerbaijan.
24 December 2005 [09:40]
“Caucasus Democracy Institution” conducted a survey so as to determine the political tendency of population of Armenia.
24 December 2005 [09:39]
“The latest events in Baku cannot be explained as strain of criminogenic situation. All of these events were caused by different factors. These crimes were not committed by a concrete group and are not organized crimes.”
24 December 2005 [09:38]
The Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC) started the Deepwater Guneshli (DG) predrilling programme.
24 December 2005 [09:37]
“We suggest monitoring our historical monuments in the occupied territories protesting to the opinion that the tombs belonging to Armenians are destroyed by Azerbaijanis” - head of Azerbaijan History and Cultural Monuments Protection Organization NGO Faig Ismayilov told APA.
24 December 2005 [09:35]
Powers of the judge of the Economic Court Djafar Veliyev and the jugde of the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan Republic Sudaba Hasanova are suspended, the decision on it has been taken at the sitting of the Parliament of Azerbaijan, held on 23 December 2005.
24 December 2005 [09:33]
Winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe will be held on January 23-27, 2006.
24 December 2005 [09:28]
At the Milli Mejlis next meeting on 23 December 2005, 19 draft laws have been put on discussion and passed. The widest discussions among the documents caused introducing of supplements and amendments to the laws of Azerbaijan “On Statistics” and “On State Secret”.
24 December 2005 [09:25]
The next sitting of the Milli Mejlis permanent commission on international relations and inter-parliamentary ties took place on 23 December 2005. Two draft laws have been debated at the sitting,
24 December 2005 [09:23]
Development of strategic cooperation based on geographically important location corresponds both to the bilateral interests and the regional ones, the Ambassador of Iran to Azerbaijan Afshar Suleymani said in a statement on 22 December 2005.
24 December 2005 [09:19]
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