Politics
10 September 2009 [11:07]
Armenian armed forces launched offensive toward Aghdam region of Azerbaijan at about 9.23 on Sept. 9.
10 September 2009 [09:37]
‘Turkey-Armenia normalization will give an incentive to resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” Turkish ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic said.
10 September 2009 [09:22]
Amid international calls on Iran to engage the West over its nuclear program, the country presents the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany with its latest package of proposals to tackle global issues, Press T reported.
10 September 2009 [08:43]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan on Sept. 9 received Gianluidji Masha, Italian ambassador to Azerbaijan, on completion of his diplomatic mission.
10 September 2009 [08:21]
On Sept. 9, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev expressed condolences to his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul.
09 September 2009 [17:34]
Agnes Vadai, Senior State Secretary of Hungarian Defense Ministry is visiting Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani Defense Ministry's Deputy Spokesperson Teymur Abdullayev said.
09 September 2009 [15:47]
Head of the Political Forecasting Service of the Center for post-Soviet Studies Alexander Karavaev commented on the upcoming informal meeting of heads of Caspian littoral states in Aktau.
09 September 2009 [15:10]
Speaker of Turkish parliament Mehmet Ali Shahin will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan.
09 September 2009 [14:53]
Nokia, world-famous cell phones producer, has made an error related to the Republic of Azerbaijan.
09 September 2009 [14:39]
“Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze will pay a visit to Azerbaijan,” the Georgian embassy in Baku said.
09 September 2009 [14:28]
“Azerbaijan is ready to open borders with Armenia only after Yerevan frees occupied Azerbaijani lands,” Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Elkhan Polukhov said commenting on some media reports which claim Europe and Turkey are developing ‘Roads of the Peace’ project which will connect Azerbaijan and Armenia.
09 September 2009 [14:13]
Lately there has been an impression that Yerevan finds living in peace, with the relative majority of its neighbors, boring.
09 September 2009 [13:26]
An Azerbaijani left party is going to take part in the municipal elections independently.
09 September 2009 [12:52]
Azerbaijani officer was wounded after Armenian Armed Forces violated ceasefire.
09 September 2009 [12:38]
Monitoring was held on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces on Sept. 9 after a mandate by the special envoy of the OSCE chairman.
09 September 2009 [12:16]
”As to the summit of the Caspian littoral states in Aktau, this is meeting of the Caspian littoral states included in the CIS,” Azerbaijani political expert Fikrat Sadigov said commenting on upcoming meeting of the Caspian littoral states in Aktau without Iran’s participation.
09 September 2009 [11:57]
In the recent years Azerbaijan has been actively cooperating with the U.S. Military on New demilitarization and Biological Threat Reduction programs, the Congressional Research Service to the members and committees of U.S. Congress said.
09 September 2009 [11:29]
09 September 2009 [10:47]
Ruling New Azerbaijan Party’s branch in country’s Terter region has held a preparatory meeting for the coming municipal elections, the party’s press office said.
09 September 2009 [09:43]
The Incumbent Afghan President Hamid Karzai is moving closer to winning re-election as election authority said Tuesday he has received 54.1 percent of the votes with results from 91.6 percent polling stations, Xinhua reported.
09 September 2009 [09:32]
The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has said imposing new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program would be counterproductive, Press TV reported.
09 September 2009 [09:11]
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has warned against the implications of an informal summit between Iran's northern neighbors along the Caspian Sea, Press TV reported.
09 September 2009 [08:42]
Moldova's Constitutional Court Tuesday declared legal the acts adopted by the parliament on Aug. 28, according to which Liberal Party's leader Mihai Ghimpu was elected speaker, Xinhua reported.
09 September 2009 [08:21]
The newly elected Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey Mehmet Ali Sahin said he hopes for solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in near future.
08 September 2009 [17:31]
“Discussions and statements by public members in Azerbaijani press would not go unheeded by the Armenian side,” member of Azerbaijan’s Milli Majlis (parliament) Aydin Mirzazade said.
08 September 2009 [17:07]
The Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received the Italian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Gianluigi Masha on completion of his diplomatic mission in Baku, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
08 September 2009 [16:48]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a message of congratulation to his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon on the country`s Independence Day.
08 September 2009 [16:29]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will visit Russia on Thursday and Friday as part of his 11-day world tour, the Kremlin said.
08 September 2009 [15:26]
The Central Election Commission (CEC) continues the training for constituencies.
08 September 2009 [15:11]
The U.S. and Russian presidents will meet in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to discuss progress towards a new bilateral arms control treaty, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
08 September 2009 [14:45]
Former first lady of the US Laura Bush praised the performance of her husband’s successor Monday, breaking with many Republicans in telling CNN that she thinks President Obama is doing a good job under tough circumstances.
08 September 2009 [14:38]
Azerbaijani MP Asim Mollazade will participate in the XIX Economic Forum to be held in Poland.
08 September 2009 [14:29]
08 September 2009 [14:12]
The autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will not discuss any issues related to Azerbaijan.
08 September 2009 [13:55]
08 September 2009 [13:42]
“No Azerbaijani citizens appealed to the Azerbaijani embassy in Georgia after the earthquake,” consul at Azerbaijani embassy in Georgia Farhad Mammadov said.
08 September 2009 [12:04]
The issues of sub-regional cooperation will be discussed at the informal summit of Azerbaijani, Russian, Kazakh and Turkmen Presidents in Aktau, Azerbaijani ambassador to Kazakhstan Latif Gandilov said.
08 September 2009 [11:49]
“I think appointment of a new co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group will not impact resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” Azerbaijani political expert Zardusht Alizade said commenting on Robert Bradtke’s recent appointment as OSCE Minsk Group co-chair from the United States.
08 September 2009 [11:24]
Azerbaijan is ready to work with the new American co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry's Spokesman Elkhan Polukhov said commenting on the U.S.'s recent appointment of a new mediator in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution.
08 September 2009 [11:19]
The newly appointed U.S. Co-Chairman of the OSCE MG Robert Bradtke is a great and experienced diplomat, Bradtke's predecessor Matthew Bryza said.
08 September 2009 [11:06]
Professor of Government and Politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs at the U.S. George Mason University Mark Katz spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
08 September 2009 [10:54]
“There is still much to do before reopening the borders,” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davudoglu said in Tbilisi in response to a question about recently negotiated Turkey-Armenia protocols.
08 September 2009 [10:47]
Monitoring will be held on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces near the Gapanli village of Azerbaijan's Terter region on Sept. 9.
08 September 2009 [10:37]
“Nomination of OSCE Minks Group co-chair is not decisive,” Azerbaijani political expert Vafa Guluzade said commenting on Robert Bradtdke’s appointment as U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.
08 September 2009 [10:11]
“For Turkey the main thing is interests of Azerbaijan, so we must be very careful in terms of rapprochement with Armenia,” publicist Yilmaz Oztuna said in Turkey’s state-owned ‘Turkiye’ newspaper.
08 September 2009 [09:53]
Israel approved on Monday the building of 455 settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a move opposed by its U.S. ally and Palestinians but which could pave the way for a construction moratorium sought by Washington, Reuters reported.
08 September 2009 [09:17]
The Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan has issued a warning to Azerbaijan nationals with respect to the situation in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
08 September 2009 [08:36]
08 September 2009 [08:21]
Former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Robert Bradtke has been appointed as new American co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group, a source in department for the Europe and Eurasia at U.S. Department of State said.
07 September 2009 [17:58]
The Poti court changed preventive punishment towards captain of Buket vessel, Azerbaijani citizen Ilgar Imanverdiyev.
07 September 2009 [17:52]
“I think there will be still more intrigues around Nabucco,” Azerbaijani political expert Rasim Agayev said while commenting on recent media report about Armenia’s possible joining of Nabucco gas pipeline project.
07 September 2009 [17:27]
Azerbaijan will never agree with Armenia’s involvement with the Nabucco gas pipeline project, Azerbaijani parliament’s standing economic policy committee chair Vahid Ahmadov said commenting on media reports about Armenia’s possible involvement with Nabucco.
07 September 2009 [17:18]
07 September 2009 [16:42]
Over the past 10 years, Azerbaijan has adopted 30 laws concerning municipalities.
07 September 2009 [16:33]
Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Araz Azimov will make a trip to the United States next week.
07 September 2009 [16:25]
The Central Election Commission has designed a timetable for the 2009 municipal elections, CEC Chairman Mazahir Panahov said.
07 September 2009 [15:23]
The London Information Network on Conflicts and State-building (LINKS) Executive Director Dennis Sammut spoke in an interview with Day.Az.
07 September 2009 [15:01]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev intends to urge leaders of the Caspian littoral states to build relationships in the gas sector on the basis of an intergovernmental medium-term and long-term agreement.
07 September 2009 [14:44]
Turkey`s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davudoglu has paid an official visit to Georgia.
07 September 2009 [14:31]
OSCE's Baku Office will continue to voice its initiatives to improve Azerbaijan's electoral legislation.
07 September 2009 [14:18]
The Azerbaijani Constitutional court has received claims concerning the municipalities.
07 September 2009 [13:58]
Iran welcomes the call from the Secretary General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa to establish dialogue between Tehran and the Arab countries, Iranian television IRINN reported Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying to media.
07 September 2009 [13:37]
In recent years Azerbaijan border guard has covered a long way of development and has acquired significant capacity to perform any task in the field of border security, Chief of Azerbaijani State Border Service, commander of Border Troops Lieutenant-General Elchin Guliyev said.
07 September 2009 [13:13]
In an interview with reporters Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davudoglu spoke about the unofficial meeting of the EU foreign ministers where he made two proposals.
07 September 2009 [12:47]
Head of the Heritage Foundation Moscow Office Yevgeny Volk spoke in an interview with Day.Az.
07 September 2009 [12:36]
The Azerbaijani Central Election Commission (CEC) is not satisfied with the percentage of women represented in election bodies.
07 September 2009 [12:22]
Representatives of the U.S. Department of State have arrived in Turkey to debate Armenia-Turkey relations and resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
07 September 2009 [12:04]
The study revealed that only 41 percent of municipality chiefs have higher education, Azerbaijani Presidential Administration senior official said.
07 September 2009 [11:49]
Azerbaijani parliament’s senior official Latif Huseynov visited Montenegro.
07 September 2009 [11:39]
Senior official of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration believes that problems related to residence registration of voters need to be addressed in Azerbaijan.
07 September 2009 [10:57]
OSCE Special Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti plans to discuss freedom of speech situation in Baku on Sept. 7 to 11, the OSCE Baku Office said.
07 September 2009 [10:44]
The US not only increased its arms sales by nearly 50 percent last year but its share of world weapons sales also rose to more than two-thirds despite the global economic downturn, a New York Times reported.
07 September 2009 [10:38]
The Ecuadorean government says President Rafael Correa's chief of security has died of swine flu, AP reported.
07 September 2009 [10:23]
Greek ambassador to Azerbaijan Ioannis Metaksas will pay an official visit to country’s Nakhchivan region on Sept. 8 to 9, Greek embassy in Azerbaijan said.
07 September 2009 [10:17]
Azerbaijan Unified Popular Front Party (AUPFP) must get actively involved with the coming municipal elections, AUPFP chairman Gudrat Hasanguliyev said at a party meeting.
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