Politics
26 January 2006 [04:37]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs will visit Azerbaijan on February 1 and leave for Armenia on February 2, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told.
26 January 2006 [04:10]
The draft of the resolution presented by the Monitoring Committee concerning credentials of the Azerbaijani delegation was discussed in today's evening meeting of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
26 January 2006 [03:42]
Chief of Azerbaijan Democratic Party Rasul Guliyev is in New York, the US at present.
26 January 2006 [03:31]
Musavat Party leader Isa Gambar, leader of National Unity Movement Lala Shovkat Hajiyeva, president of the Public Forum for the Sake of Azerbaijan Eldar Namazov, who were invited to participate in the hearings to be held in the Monitoring Committee of Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly can't realize this invitation.
26 January 2006 [02:52]
Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) has made a decision on its candidates to be sent to Central Election Commission (CEC), YAP executive secretary Ali Ahmadov told.
25 January 2006 [15:47]
President Aliyev received on 25 January 2006 director of Austrian Federal Agency for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight Against Terrorism (BVT) Gert-Rene Polli.
25 January 2006 [15:16]
Turkish candidature is unacceptable for Armenia.
25 January 2006 [13:57]
Another 13 persons have taken signature cards from the Central Election Commission.
25 January 2006 [10:31]
Etibar Mammadov, leader of National Independence Party of Azerbaijan (NIPA) said that 216 of 350 congress representatives attended the gathering and the meeting was valid.
25 January 2006 [01:37]
Monitoring Committee of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe will make its decision known in the session on approval or disapproval of the mandate of Azerbaijani delegation on Wednesday.
25 January 2006 [01:25]
Azerbaijan Islamic Party will re-apply to the Justice Ministry for its registration, APA was informed by the party.
25 January 2006 [00:59]
Foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov received the Special Representative of European Union on Azerbaijan Alan Vaddams and newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to our country Stepan Volkoveski.
25 January 2006 [00:58]
Yesterday Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has received Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigori Karasin.
24 January 2006 [22:25]
"The acting chairman of OSCE cannot follow the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict from outside," Araz Azimov, the Azerbaijani deputy Foreign Minister, said.
24 January 2006 [21:54]
The visit of Ahmad Nejdet Sezer, the Turkish President, to Azerbaijan was postponed.
24 January 2006 [18:47]
Two liders will hold next meeting in France.
24 January 2006 [18:44]
Ilham Aliyev meets Russian Defence Minister Sergey Ivanov.
24 January 2006 [18:25]
Talks between Foreign Ministers Mammadyarov and Oskanian that occurred on 18-19 January in London concluded with the announcement that the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia will meet in Paris in February.
24 January 2006 [15:14]
Heikki Talvitie, a special representative of the European Union (EU) on the South Caucasus, is scheduled to pay a two-day visit to Baku approximately on Thursday, the Foreign Ministry informs.
24 January 2006 [15:09]
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs intend to a pay a short–term visit to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict region in February, Russian Ambassador Yuriy Merzlyakov, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair.
24 January 2006 [15:00]
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov told that he doesn't believe in the OSCE effectiveness during the press-conferense on Tuesday.
24 January 2006 [14:35]
The vice Premier, the Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov stated that five Caspian littoral states may establish the unified force unit in the region to counteract the mass destruction weapons proliferation, other threats and challenges.
24 January 2006 [11:16]
The Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan will hold an extraordinary session on January 24. The Session will confirm the new Election Commission members.
24 January 2006 [05:58]
Speaker of Milli Majlis Ogtay Asadov received Hungarian State Secretary of Foreign Ministry Andrash Barshoni.
24 January 2006 [05:40]
Next meeting of the TRACECA National and Permanent Secretaries will be held in the capital of Romania, Bucharest on February 7-8.
24 January 2006 [05:18]
Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) today issued a statement protesting the pardoning not all of the "Karabakh partisans" under the pardon decree.
24 January 2006 [05:11]
OSCE High-Level Planning Group (HLPG) started visiting the territories of Azerbaijan under occupation of Armenia.
24 January 2006 [04:58]
Today Southern Azerbaijan National Revival Movement (SANRM) appealed to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the purpose of preventing the activities of Iran on atomic energy production.
24 January 2006 [04:53]
Winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) starts today. The session started with the sitting of the committees.
24 January 2006 [04:47]
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) Rene van der Linden spoke about the situation in Europe, fighting international terrorism, alleged secret detentions in Europe, the cooperation of PACE with the Euro-Parliament, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to the US, the victims of the communist regime, Bird flue, the status of Kosovo and other issues in the press conference today.
24 January 2006 [03:48]
President Ilham Aliyev today received the delegation led by Andrash Barshoni, the State Secretary of Hungarian FM.
24 January 2006 [03:32]
Hungarian juridical bodies will assess the fact Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov murdered Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan from criminal but not political viewpoint.
24 January 2006 [03:28]
There is a gap for Azerbaijan in Monitoring Committee (MC) of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE).
24 January 2006 [02:59]
Deputy Foreign Minister, Special Envoy of President for Nagorno Karabakh negotiatoins Araz Azimov today held a press conference on the conclusions of the meeting held between Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers in London.
23 January 2006 [23:46]
United group of forces to be formed on Caspian.
23 January 2006 [21:51]
Hungarian FM meets Elmar Mammadyarov.
23 January 2006 [21:47]
The vice Premier, the Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov arrived on 23 January 2006 in Baku.
23 January 2006 [21:42]
The wife and five children of Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, have been arrested on charges of tax evasion as part of a broader investigation into fraud and secret bank accounts.
23 January 2006 [21:32]
Russia is doing all it can to minimize the consequences of the blasts on its gas pipelines in the North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
23 January 2006 [20:54]
The issue of the recent parliamentary elections results in Azerbaijan will be introduced into the winter session agenda of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
23 January 2006 [20:50]
Andreas Gross came out with the speech, in which he proposed not to approve the mandate of the Azerbaijan delegation.
23 January 2006 [18:31]
Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Ilham Aliyev and Robert Kocharyan will meet shortly in Paris for continuation of negotiations for the Nagorny Karabakh conflict settlement.
23 January 2006 [16:37]
Deputy Speaker of the Milli Majlis (MM) of Azerbaijani Valeh Aleskerov, who arrived in Astana to take part in the 10th anniversary of Kazakh Parliament, met there with its Speaker Ural Mukhammedzhanov.
23 January 2006 [12:12]
Georgian President Mikhael Saakashvili phoned Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev last Sunday.
23 January 2006 [09:42]
Winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) starts tomorrow. The Azerbaijani delegation will also attend the session.
22 January 2006 [19:00]
King Abdullah has begun the first ever state visit to China by a Saudi leader, expected to focus on boosting co-operation to fuel China's soaring energy needs.
22 January 2006 [18:42]
Gas supplies from Russia to Armenia and Georgia have been halted by two explosions on a pipeline that Georgia blames on Russian sabotage.
22 January 2006 [16:56]
Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel here Sunday branded as shameful the French President Jacques Chirac's recent threat of a nuclear strike on any state that launches terrorist attacks against France.
22 January 2006 [05:51]
Terrorist groups have become more active in Pankisi Valey in Georgia recently.
22 January 2006 [05:20]
"Asim Mollazadeh and Sabir Hajiyev are not represented in the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE according to parliamentary re-elections scheduled for May," - head of the delegation Samad Seyidov stated.
22 January 2006 [05:07]
Chiefs of the parties included in "Azadlig" bloc - Sardar Jalaloghlu, Isa Gambar and Ali Karimli have been invited to the gathering of Monitoring Group of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe.
22 January 2006 [05:02]
Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov conducted several meetings in the framework of his visit to Switzerland.
22 January 2006 [03:32]
Families of over 400 Libyan children with HIV asked for 4.4 billion euros ($5.3 billion) on Saturday from donors trying to end a standoff over six foreign medics accused of giving them the disease.
22 January 2006 [03:29]
Israel's Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz warned the people of Iran on Saturday that their president would bring disaster and suffering upon them if he continued to call for the destruction of the Jewish state.
21 January 2006 [22:37]
The man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 was back in an Istanbul prison Saturday, and his brother demonstrated outside to accuse judicial authorities of bowing to government pressure.
21 January 2006 [22:28]
Kuwait's ruling family yesterday agreed that Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah should replace the ailing Amir Shaikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Salem Al Sabah.
21 January 2006 [20:28]
Japan's PM Junichiro Koizumi has pledged to submit a bill to parliament letting women ascend to the throne.
21 January 2006 [20:23]
The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, has blamed a "global plot" against the Arab world for his country's deteriorating relations with Lebanon.
21 January 2006 [20:17]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused Israel on Saturday of assassinating former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the cause of whose death 14 months ago remains a mystery.
21 January 2006 [20:12]
U.S. Treasury officials visited Seoul on Saturday to discuss ways to stop North Korea's alleged illegal financial activities that Washington suspects were helping finance North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
21 January 2006 [20:08]
Iran, which has said it is shifting its money out European accounts as the threat of U.N. sanctions mounts, will not move its currency assets to Asia, a deputy central bank governor said on Saturday.
21 January 2006 [20:00]
Kosovo media have announced the death of President Ibrahim Rugova.
21 January 2006 [16:54]
The German government, facing allegations its spies in Iraq secretly abetted the US invasion that Berlin publicly opposed, has resisted calls for a parliamentary inquiry it said would fan anti-Americanism.
21 January 2006 [16:47]
Democratic senators took the Bush administration to task Friday for four years of domestic spying, while the president fought back with a planned embrace of the intelligence agency that is carrying out the effort.
21 January 2006 [16:27]
Georgia is interested in developing the kind of "strategic" relationship with Armenia that it already has with Azerbaijan, Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili said during an official visit to Yerevan on 16 January.
21 January 2006 [16:02]
Funding of political parties from the state budget will be touched in draft law on political parties to be discussed at parliament this year, told Ali Hasanov, Chief of Public Policy Department of the Office of President.
21 January 2006 [13:42]
China has proposed that stalled six-party talks on ending North Korea's nuclear programs be resumed early next month, a proposal that the United States also favors.
21 January 2006 [13:38]
Five members of the Iraqi president's staff were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their motorcade north of Baghdad, police said on Saturday, adding that President Jalal Talabani was not present.
21 January 2006 [13:29]
The United States has launched a glaring new chapter in its diplomatic fight with Cuba: an electronic screen broadcasting messages on its diplomatic building's side in a move Cuba calls a provocation.
21 January 2006 [13:15]
Venezuela and the US appear ready to sign a new agreement to fight international drug trafficking.
21 January 2006 [12:37]
21 January 2006 [04:46]
Delegation of Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) that had been on a visit in Turkey arrived Baku today.
21 January 2006 [04:18]
The First Secretary of the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Belgium Dr. Fuad Humbatov prepared a brief review dedicated to the tragedy of January 20.
21 January 2006 [00:28]
Israel has accused Iran and Syria of being behind Thursday's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
21 January 2006 [00:09]
A former Pentagon analyst was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison on Friday for passing U.S. defense information to two pro-Israel lobbyists and for sharing classified information with an Israeli diplomat.
IDPs return to rebuilt Shusha as part of Great Return State Program
Battle for the Caucasus: Azerbaijan needs a stable Georgia
Azerbaijan, Russia inks agreement on Development of Transit Freight Transportation
President Ilham Aliyev sends letter to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian
Azerbaijan, Turkiye discuss regional security issues
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov sends congratulatory message to President Ilham Aliyev on his birthday
Sweden's Climate and Environment Minister calls for Shein and Temu to be banned in country