Politics
06 October 2009 [08:32]
The delegations of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan launched consultations on consular issues in Astana on Oct 5.
06 October 2009 [08:21]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today received Pakistani delegation led by Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Tariq Majid.
05 October 2009 [17:57]
On Oct. 5, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev received a delegation headed by the US Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel B. Poneman, AzerTAj state news agency reported.
05 October 2009 [17:45]
05 October 2009 [17:39]
The Azerbaijani Parliamentary Legislation and Legal Policy Committee recommended considering the amendments and additions to the law on "Prosecutor's Office."
05 October 2009 [17:23]
05 October 2009 [17:11]
Chief of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Political Analysis and Public Relations Department Elnur Aslanov spoke with Trend News in an interview.
05 October 2009 [16:49]
“The campaign for municipal elections will be launched in near future,” Central Election Commission Spokesperson Azer Sariyev said.
05 October 2009 [15:44]
In all countries, which President Serzh Sargsyan tripped as part of his Pan-Armenian tour to persuade the diaspora to support the Armenian-Turkish protocols, he was greeted by mass protests.
05 October 2009 [15:27]
05 October 2009 [14:24]
Doctor of historical sciences, professor, chief of the scientific department of the Russian Volga-Vyatka Academy of State Service Andrei Makarichev spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
05 October 2009 [12:35]
Azerbaijani Minister of Defense Safar Abiyev and Pakistani Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Tariq Majid discussed prospects of Azerbaijani-Pakistani military and political cooperation in Baku on Oct. 5.
05 October 2009 [11:51]
Azerbaijani ambassador to Switzerland Elchin Amirbayov spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
05 October 2009 [11:16]
The Irvine mayor’s office organized a festival to promote cultures of peoples living in the United States on Oct. 3.
05 October 2009 [10:53]
Azerbaijan's Consul General in Los Angeles Elin Suleymanov and member of the consulate staff Elman Abdullayev have ended a working visit to Utah.
05 October 2009 [10:09]
Irish voters have strongly endorsed the European Union's Lisbon Treaty - 16 months after their first vote rejecting it plunged EU reforms into deadlock, BBC reported.
05 October 2009 [09:57]
Chairman of the Pakistani Army Joint Staff Committee General Tariq Majeed arrived in Azerbaijan on Sunday evening.
05 October 2009 [09:43]
The U.S. is considering jointly using two Russian radars as part of its missile defense system, US Assistant Secretary of Defense Alexander Vershbow said in an interview with a Russian news agency.
05 October 2009 [09:27]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that Teheran's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency had left no ambiguity over Teheran's nuclear activities, AP reported.
05 October 2009 [09:05]
The 9th Summit of Heads of Turkic-speaking states started in Nakhichivan (Azerbaijan) on Oct. 3.
05 October 2009 [08:47]
The head of the U.N. nuclear agency arrived in Iran on Saturday for talks on a timetable for inspectors to visit a newly disclosed unfinished nuclear enrichment plant, state radio reported.
05 October 2009 [08:38]
Prime Minister and Istanbul deputy Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been re-elected as chairman of his ruling Justice & Development (AK) Party on Saturday, Turkish World Bulletin news agency reported.
05 October 2009 [08:21]
The talks in Yerevan were constructive, believe the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, arriving in Baku on Oct. 4.
03 October 2009 [12:51]
"Resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan will create fertile ground for the full normalization of relations in the South Caucasus region,” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at joint news conference with EU Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn, CNN Turk reported.
03 October 2009 [12:38]
An al Qaeda-linked Uzbek militant leader was killed in Pakistan in a US drone missile strike in August, Pakistani intelligence agency officials said Friday, Reuters reported.
03 October 2009 [12:25]
Azerbaijan's health ministry has conducted checks in private health care institutions.
03 October 2009 [11:53]
Vote counting is due to begin shortly in the Republic of Ireland's crucial second referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, BBC reported.
03 October 2009 [11:35]
03 October 2009 [11:14]
A delegation from Bosnia-Herzegovina handed in on Friday an official application for a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP).
03 October 2009 [10:25]
The Republic of Korea has appointed new ambassador to Azerbaijan.
03 October 2009 [10:10]
Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan was met riots and whistles in Paris.
03 October 2009 [09:37]
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev arrived in Azerbaijan for an official visit on Oct. 2.
03 October 2009 [08:56]
Minister of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan, Lieutenant-General Eldar Mahmudov received Chairman of the National Security Committee (NSC) of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant-General Amangeldi Shabdarbayev, who is on an official visit to Azerbaijan, the MNS said in a statement.
03 October 2009 [08:36]
Azerbaijan's Press Council plans to hold a series of events in October related to the level of training of journalists and the society to defamation, which will promote the liberalization of the information environment, the Head of the Press Council Aflatun Amashov said.
02 October 2009 [17:54]
An Israeli soldier held by Hamas in Gaza for three years appears healthy in a video handed over to the Israeli authorities, officials say, BBC reported.
02 October 2009 [17:15]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Turkish-speaking countries (TurkPA) will work to obtain international status.
02 October 2009 [16:30]
Brochures and DVD-disks distributed by Armenian delegation in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) has caused discontent of the Azerbaijani delegation.
02 October 2009 [16:13]
02 October 2009 [15:59]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a letter of condolence to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over the loss of live caused by a powerful earthquake which struck the island of Sumatra.
02 October 2009 [15:48]
Azerbaijan has refuted media reports claiming that it voted for deprivation of Russian delegation's vote right in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
02 October 2009 [15:28]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has sent a letter of congratulation to President of Korea Lee Myung-bak on his country`s National Foundation Day.
02 October 2009 [15:13]
Head of the Azerbaijan-Turkey Inter-Parliamentary Working Group and Member of the Azerbaijan Parliament Nizami Jafarov spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
02 October 2009 [14:56]
Only Iranian population would suffer from new sanctions or unilateral restrictive measures imposed by western countries towards Iran, senior analyst at the International Crisis Group Frederic Tellier said.
02 October 2009 [14:42]
02 October 2009 [14:33]
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has today arrived in Azerbaijan for an official visit.
02 October 2009 [13:45]
A meeting of border guards of Iran and Azerbaijan will be held soon.
02 October 2009 [13:21]
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Robert Bradtke of the United States, Bernard Fassier of France and Yuriy Merzlyakov of Russia arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh on Oct. 2.
02 October 2009 [11:11]
Iran will never give up it obvious rights, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili has stressed during his talks with the European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Press TV reported.
02 October 2009 [10:32]
Given scale of the military equipment of all other Caspian countries' fleets, Turkmenistan's step to build naval forces "seems the least possible measure", 'Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper' quoted Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov as saying.
02 October 2009 [10:09]
“The process of settlement of the Karabakh conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group should proceed without preconditions,” OSCE Minsk Group U.S. Co-Chair Robert Bradtke said in an interview with the Armenian Public Television.
02 October 2009 [09:44]
"We welcome the steps of sides which lead to the peaceful resolution of the conflict," French Minister for European Affairs Pierre Lellouche told reporters.
02 October 2009 [09:26]
"Unfortunately, I have to note that there is a different Council of Europe with different standards," Head of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE Samad Seyidov said debates on the report "The future of the Council of Europe in the light of its 60 years of experience" by the French MP Jean-Claude Mignon held as part of the autumn session of the organization.
02 October 2009 [09:18]
Brighton town of the Great Britain hosted on September 28 a seminar focusing on Conflicts in Sothern Caucasus and Europe`s energy security within annual congress of the British Labor Party, Azerbaijan`s Embassy to Great Britain said.
02 October 2009 [09:03]
02 October 2009 [08:52]
Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister of the Czech Republic Martin Bartak met with Defense Minister of Azerbaijan Safar Abiyev in Baku on Oct. 1, the Defense Ministry said.
02 October 2009 [08:41]
The situation in the Caucasus does not meet the interests of the region countries, said Turkish President Abdullah Gul at the opening of the autumn session of the Grand National Assembly (Parliament) of the country, CNN Turk television channel reported.
02 October 2009 [08:33]
Armenia attempted to show the map of so-called “Nagorno Karabakh Republic” in its stand at the JATA International Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan.
02 October 2009 [08:21]
The European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) and Constitutional Court of Turkey co-organized Thursday the 4th Conference of Secretaries General of the Eureopan Constitutional Courts on Oct. 1.
01 October 2009 [17:57]
Slovenian President Danilo Turk sees Azerbaijan as an important partner of Europe in energy security.
01 October 2009 [17:42]
On Oct. 1, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received a delegation headed by Vice-Prime Minister, Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic Martin Bartak AzerTAj state news agency reported.
01 October 2009 [17:30]
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan received OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Robert Bradtke of the United States, Bernard Fassier of France, Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia and Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk on Oct. 1.
01 October 2009 [17:07]
A meeting was held with outgoing Korean ambassador to Azerbaijan Lyu Kwang Chul in Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense Industry, the ministry said.
01 October 2009 [16:37]
Romania's Social Democrats quit the coalition government on Thursday in protest at the sacking of a minister ahead of a November presidential election, jolting markets and raising the risk of failure to meet IMF aid terms, Reuters reported.
01 October 2009 [16:28]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a congratulatory letter to his Nigerian counterpart Umaru Yar`adua on country`s Independence Day.
01 October 2009 [15:42]
Chairman of Pakistan’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Tarig Majid will visit Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Defense Ministry’s press service said.
01 October 2009 [15:37]
Turkmenistan considers possibilities to hold further bilateral talks on the Caspian sea oil fields with Azerbaijan, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow said at a meeting with representatives of the Turkmen media outlets.
01 October 2009 [15:23]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has not supported Georgia's initiative to deprive the Russian delegation to the Assembly of the vote right.
01 October 2009 [15:17]
Russia-based Institute of Globalization Problems Director Mikhail Delyagin spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
01 October 2009 [14:17]
“Accreditation of journalists of the Turkish NTV television channel in Azerbaijan has been canceled without terms,” Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Elkhan Polukhov said.
01 October 2009 [13:54]
Amendments to Law on Prosecutor's Office are not linked with certain persons, Azerbaijani Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov said.
01 October 2009 [13:43]
"Azerbaijani government considers that the Lachin corridor should be opened for both Azerbaijan and Armenia."
01 October 2009 [13:38]
The OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia, Bernard Fassier of France and Robert Bradke of the U.S. today have made an official statement in which they again described the conditions under which the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be settled.
01 October 2009 [13:16]
Baku is hosting conference “NATO/ PfP defence policy and strategy” organized by Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
01 October 2009 [12:42]
Co-chairs of the OSCE Minks Group on resolution of the Karabakh conflict have arrived in Yerevan.
01 October 2009 [12:34]
The delegation led by NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning Jiri Sedivy has arrived in Azerbaijan.
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