Politics
08 October 2009 [08:21]
Azerbaijani minister of foreign affairs Elmar Mammadyarov met with the newly appointed Italian ambassador to Azerbaijan Mario Baldi to accept a copy of his credentials on Oct. 8.
07 October 2009 [17:53]
The world Armenian lobby hampers normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations with all its might, the director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Svante Cornell, said.
07 October 2009 [17:41]
07 October 2009 [17:30]
"I think that the note which the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry handed to the Iranian ambassador fully reflects Azerbaijan’s position and the country had to express its dissatisfaction in this regard,” Co-Chair of the World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) and member of Milli Majlis (parliament) Sabir Rustamkhanli said commenting on media reports that the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry handed a note to the Iranian ambassador.
07 October 2009 [17:19]
Hajj pilgrimage for Azerbaijani people will be implemented via the Caucasian Muslims Office, deputy chairman of the office Haji Sabir Hasanli said.
07 October 2009 [17:07]
Webcams will be used in the municipal elections in Azerbaijan, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Mazahir Panahov said.
07 October 2009 [16:49]
Director of Kiev-based Civil Society Studies Center Vitali Kulik spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
07 October 2009 [15:50]
07 October 2009 [15:45]
07 October 2009 [15:32]
Turkey may refuse EU membership in future, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said at a news conference held during his visit to France, the Turkish IHLAS news agency reported.
07 October 2009 [15:27]
The municipal election campaign has been officially launched in Azerbaijan.
07 October 2009 [15:15]
07 October 2009 [14:55]
Turkish ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic commented on reports about a ban on Azerbaijani flag during the Turkey-Armenia football match to take place in Bursa, Turkey on Oct. 14.
07 October 2009 [14:34]
People from Azerbaijan mainly emigrate to Europe which accounts for 74.3 percent of migrants, UN Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan Bruno Pouezat said commenting on a a report on human development of UN Development Programme.
07 October 2009 [14:28]
Officers of Azerbaijan’s Consulate General in Los Angeles made a presentation of Azerbaijan in Orange County, California.
07 October 2009 [14:19]
Azerbaijani parliamentarians led by Deputy Chairperson of Milli Majlis Bahar Muradova will attend the OSCE PA fall meeting, which is to take place in Athens, from 9 to 12 October.
07 October 2009 [13:52]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold trilateral meeting with Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents during a visit to Moldova, Spokesperson for the Russian president Natalya Timakova told media.
07 October 2009 [13:46]
The Senator from Arizona, Jon Kyl, considers Obama's decision to scrap plans for a long-range missile defense system based in Poland and the Czech Republic to be undercutting of "natural allies" in Poland and the Czech Republic in exchange for improved relations with Russia.
07 October 2009 [13:38]
The Azerbaijani Television and Radio Council will solve problems related to country's television indicated by the Presidential Administration senior official Ramiz Mehdiyev in his article posted to the state media recently.
07 October 2009 [13:25]
Armenian propaganda has made another mistake.
07 October 2009 [13:11]
Pan-Armenian tour of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was failure.
07 October 2009 [11:57]
To prevent spread of terrorism in the Nagorno-Karabakh, there is a need for international assistance, Mathieu Deflem, a famous American anti-terrorism analyst, said.
07 October 2009 [11:49]
As part of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's visit to Iran's Mazandaran province the Iranian Armed Forces held military exercises on the Caspian Sea with the participation of students of the Imam Khomeini Military Lyceum in the Noshehr city on Oct. 7, ILNA reported.
07 October 2009 [11:09]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has sent a letter of congratulation to President of Croatia Stjepan Mesic on his country`s Independence Day.
07 October 2009 [10:54]
"Washington hopes for tangible results at the upcoming meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia to be held in Chisinau on October 8," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Phillip Gordon said.
07 October 2009 [10:48]
Azerbaijani ambassador to Mexico Ilgar Mukhtarov has met with the Speaker of the House of Deputies of the Congress of Mexico Francisco Javier Ramirez.
07 October 2009 [10:35]
07 October 2009 [10:20]
On Oct.8-10, Ashgabat will host the International Exhibition "Turkmen Fish Industry - 2009" and the international scientific conference "Protection and rational use of water bio-resources of the Caspian Sea."
07 October 2009 [10:07]
Azerbaijan’s opposition Great Establishment opposition party plans to hold its next all-party meeting soon, the party chief and member of Milli Majlis (parliament) Fazil Mustafa said.
07 October 2009 [09:56]
Presidents of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan will not take part at the meeting of the heads of the CIS member states to take place In Chisinau on Oct. 9, Moldovian Foreign Ministry official Alexei Krakan said.
07 October 2009 [09:44]
US President Barack Obama promised lawmakers Tuesday to move with a sense of urgency on deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, but warned his new war strategy would not please everyone, France24 reported.
07 October 2009 [09:13]
07 October 2009 [08:47]
Azerbaijan’s Defense Minister, Colonel-General Safar Abiyev received American co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Robert Bradtke on Oct. 6, the defense ministry said.
07 October 2009 [08:31]
06 October 2009 [17:34]
Kazakhstan conducted large-scale exercise on the Caspian Sea near Aktau port.
06 October 2009 [16:58]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received chairwoman of Slovak Constitutional Court Ivetta Macejkova on Oct. 6.
06 October 2009 [16:44]
A possible union of the NATO and the CSTO should not deprive others of the right to join, which is one of the points of agreement on the union of the organizations, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former Assistant to U.S President Jimmy Carter said.
06 October 2009 [16:36]
Azerbaijan Minister of Defense Industry Yaver Jamalov has met Pakistan`s Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Tariq Majid.
06 October 2009 [16:21]
Great Establishment party does not intend to enter into any bloc or alliance on the eve of municipal elections, chief of the pro-opposition Great Establishment Party and member of Milli Majlis (parliament) Fazil Mustafa said.
06 October 2009 [16:06]
Azerbaijan is preparing for the upcoming for the next round of the meeting between Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan to take place in Chisinau on Oct. 8, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told reporters.
06 October 2009 [15:22]
“It seems that Azerbaijan expects results from the presidents’ upcoming meeting in a constructive manner,” Azerbaijani political expert Rasim Musabayov said commenting on media reports that the next meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan will take place in Chisinau.
06 October 2009 [14:31]
The senior official of the Azerbaijani Central Elections Commission (CEC) will attend an international meeting in Poland.
06 October 2009 [14:18]
Azerbaijani political expert Fikrat Sadigov spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
06 October 2009 [13:58]
Tajiktelecom has corrected the error related to Azerbaijan's territorial integrity on its Web site after interference of the Azerbaijani embassy to Tajikistan.
06 October 2009 [12:50]
The talks between Azerbaijani and Armenian communities of Nagorno-Karabakh must be held at a neutral territory, representative of Azerbaijani intellectuals and Rector of Azerbaijan's Academy of Music Farhad Badalbeyli said.
06 October 2009 [12:29]
Azerbaijan is ready to compromise in resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict only within its principle position, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told reporters on Oct. 6.
06 October 2009 [12:14]
Defense Secretary Robert Gates blamed the Taliban's revival on a past failure to deploy enough troops to Afghanistan and said U.S. forces would not withdraw whatever the result of President Barack Obama's strategy review, Reuters reported.
06 October 2009 [11:48]
The head of the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh discussed with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs the issue of refugees' return to the occupied territories.
06 October 2009 [11:22]
The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs have not offered the sides any papers to sign in Chisinau.
06 October 2009 [10:54]
The next meeting between Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijani and President Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia will take place in Chisinau on Oct. 8, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Yuriy Merzlyakov told reporters in Baku on Oct. 6.
06 October 2009 [10:47]
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Robert Bradtke of the U.S., Bernard Fassier of France and Yuriy Merzlyakov of Russia who are on a visit to Baku met with Chairman of Public Union of Nagorno Karabakh Azerbaijani Community Bayram Safarov.
06 October 2009 [10:35]
Azerbaijan’s opposition parties are at their last gasp, Chief of the Social Democratic Party of Azerbaijan and political expert Araz Alizade said commenting on the upcoming participation of Azerbaijani opposition parties in municipal elections to be held in Dec. this year.
06 October 2009 [10:27]
FM of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov met here Pakistan`s Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Tariq Majid.
06 October 2009 [10:16]
06 October 2009 [09:23]
Professorial Fellow in International Relations at Oxford University S. Neil MacFarlane spoke to Day.Az in an interview.
06 October 2009 [08:51]
For a long and lasting peace in the region, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be resolved within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister said.
06 October 2009 [08:44]
After visiting the tomb of the Azerbaijani nationwide leader Heydar Aliyev and Alley of Martyrs, Pakistan`s Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Tariq Majid met here Azerbaijani Minister of Defense Colonel-General Safar Abiyev on Oct. 5.
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.