Politics
30 July 2009 [08:36]
Four pro-European opposition parties in Moldova took the lead after yesterday’s parliamentary elections in the ex-Soviet republic, results show.
30 July 2009 [08:21]
Azerbaijan and the United States will hold the next consultations in Washington.
29 July 2009 [17:25]
The Azerbaijani observers who monitor the snap parliamentary elections in Moldova did not face any problems,” Chief of International Relations Department of Azerbaijan Central Election Commission (CEC) Rovzat Gasimov said.
29 July 2009 [16:22]
Azerbaijani political scientists say the discussion of two issues on the Nagorno-Karabakh at the 64th UN General Assembly is a continuation of the diplomatic pressure on Armenia.
29 July 2009 [15:58]
29 July 2009 [15:37]
“It is difficult to speak about the updated version of the Madrid Principles as they have not been disclosed yet."
29 July 2009 [15:17]
Azerbaijan’s permanent representative to the Council of Europe Arif Mammadov spoke in an exclusive interview with Day.Az.
29 July 2009 [14:18]
The Obama administration is not ruling out the possibility of Russian membership in NATO.
29 July 2009 [13:56]
A former Armenian consul, a prior consular employee and an immigration attorney have been arrested after a two-year investigation into an alleged document scam aimed at helping immigrants avoid deportation, officials said Tuesday.
29 July 2009 [13:19]
Azerbaijan’s pro-opposition Great Establishment party is taking measures to boost party’s structure, party official Azhdar Aliyev said.
29 July 2009 [12:56]
Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck said he believes President Barack Obama is a racist. Beck made the statement during a guest appearance Tuesday on the "Fox & Friends" morning show. He said Obama has exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."
29 July 2009 [12:15]
Director of Center for Economic and Political Studies and former SOCAR President Sabit Bagirov spoke in an exclusive interview with Day.Az.
29 July 2009 [11:32]
“Armenian authorities seek to unite society and demonstrate that they have common enemy against which they should struggle together,” political expert Araz Alizade said while commenting on Armenian media reports about possible launch of hostilities in Azerbaijan’s occupied lands.
29 July 2009 [11:19]
The United Nations General Assembly's upcoming 64th session is going to have two Nagorno-Karabakh conflict related issues, Information center of the UN New-York Headquarters said.
29 July 2009 [10:21]
Associate professor at International Relations and Foreign Policy Department of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations at the Russian Foreign Ministry and candidate of political science Artem Malgin spoke in an exclusive interview with Day.Az.
29 July 2009 [09:58]
About 140 Iranians detained during protests against last month's disputed election result have been released from Evin prison, officials say.
29 July 2009 [09:36]
Moldovans are voting in a parliamentary election, three months after a disputed ballot led to violence and two deaths.
29 July 2009 [09:20]
Azerbaijan National Independence Party is going to participate in the coming municipal elections, party’s spokesperson Ali Orujov said.
29 July 2009 [08:57]
Iran and Russia will launch joint exercises “Clean and Reliable Caspian” in the Bender-Enzeli port in the southern part of the Caspian Sea on July 29.
28 July 2009 [17:44]
28 July 2009 [16:59]
Azerbaijan’s opposition Great Establishment Party is making all necessary arrangements for the coming municipal elections, party’s Supreme Assembly chairman Azhdar Aliyev said.
28 July 2009 [15:56]
Azerbaijan ranks first among former communist countries in Europe for coefficient of government’s legitimacy, according to the analysis at the book entitled "Right to Power: How State Gains and Loses Legitimacy" by associate professor at Portland State University Bruce Gilley.
28 July 2009 [15:42]
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have worked out updated version of the Madrid Principles at a meeting in the Polish city of Krakow, U.S. Co-Chair Matthew Bryza said in an interview to Radio Liberty.
28 July 2009 [15:26]
Baku reiterates that those who trip to Azerbaijan’s occupied lands without country’s authorities’ permission will not be allowed to Azerbaijan.
28 July 2009 [15:04]
There are problems with identification of the Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan, Chairman of the State Committee for Refugees and IDPs and Deputy Prime Minister Ali Hasanov said.
28 July 2009 [14:46]
The dispute between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan over the Caspian Sea resources mustn't be taken to the international arbitration court, the only solution to the problem is international mediation, said Kaan Nazli, analyst of Turkey, Eastern Europe and Caspian region for New-York based Medly Global Advisers.
28 July 2009 [14:21]
Azerbaijan's territories occupied by Armenia have turned into center of organized crime, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov said at a meeting of the State Commission for Combat against Drug Addiction.
28 July 2009 [14:15]
The European Union is ready to assist with the peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict which is implemented by the OSCE Minsk Group at the moment, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, which presides over the EU currently, Frank Belfrage said while accepting credentials from head of the Armenian representation Avet Adonts.
28 July 2009 [13:52]
28 July 2009 [13:37]
The Azerbaijani government has stated long before that it is ready for the processes that will follow a peace treaty on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
28 July 2009 [13:19]
Day.Az has received another letter of discontent from a regular reader from England.
28 July 2009 [12:18]
28 July 2009 [11:26]
Oil prices fell for the first time over the last 4 days during sale of contracts for a fixed profit, as market participants felt that the rise crude prices has been excessive on the backdrop a low demand for fuel.
28 July 2009 [11:12]
Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Noman Bashir will trip to Azerbaijan.
28 July 2009 [10:58]
EU extended on July 27 mandate of its monitoring mission in Georgia (EUMM) for another year, till September 14, 2010, saying the mission’s “presence on the ground remains a key stabilizing factor."
28 July 2009 [10:41]
“Relations with Turkey are important for Armenia and we expect Turkey’s response in this regard."
28 July 2009 [10:10]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first tenure will terminate in a less than 10 days.
28 July 2009 [10:02]
“Opposition proposals to set up a larger coalition or to resume national resistance movement are quite realizable,” chairman of opposition Umid Party and member of parliament Igbal Agazade said.
28 July 2009 [09:43]
International lawyer Erkin Gadirli spoke in an exclusive interview with Day.Az.
28 July 2009 [08:43]
Azerbaijani community of the Nagorno-Karabakh has approved a plan of action for 2009.
28 July 2009 [08:38]
The leaders of Taiwan and China have directly exchanged messages for the first time in 60 years, the Associated Press reports.
28 July 2009 [08:21]
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has been discharged from hospital, one week after he had a blood clot removed from his heart, said the alliance on Monday, Xinhua reported.
27 July 2009 [17:53]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was discharged Monday from the hospital where he spent the night after collapsing while jogging.
27 July 2009 [17:42]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen Bernard Fassier (France), Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), and Matthew Bryza (USA) had on July 25-26 a working consultation in the Polish city of Krakow to prepare a refreshed document on Karabakh conflict regulation based on Madrid Principles.
27 July 2009 [17:29]
Vice President on international program and policy at the Hudson University Andrews Bimbash says opening Armenia-Turkey borders requires intensified and delicate diplomacy with Azerbaijan.
27 July 2009 [17:07]
“Parliamentary Assembly of the Turkic Speaking Countries will meet in September for the first time,” Azerbaijan-Turkey parliamentary group head Nizami Jafarov said.
27 July 2009 [16:56]
“Increased proposals in the U.S. Congress to repeal 907th amendment fosters Azerbaijan’s fair position worldwide,” Azerbaijani member of parliament and member of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party political council Aydin Mirzazade said.
27 July 2009 [15:38]
27 July 2009 [15:27]
Azerbaijan’s pro-opposition Unified Popular Front Party held the next meeting on July 27, the party said.
27 July 2009 [14:59]
Political expert Rasim Agayev spoke in an exclusive interview Day.Az.
27 July 2009 [14:21]
Muasir Musavat party is negotiating with other political parties in an effort to set up a single union, the party chairman Hafiz Hajiyev said.
27 July 2009 [14:07]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev congratulated Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on a victory in the presidential elections.
27 July 2009 [13:49]
Georgia’s Foreign Ministry is grateful to Belarus Foreign Ministry who called its citizens to abide by Georgia’s laws while tripping to that country.
27 July 2009 [13:13]
Editor of the on-line journal of world politics "Transnational Perspectives", former professor and Director of Research at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies in Geneva Rene Wadlow spoke in an exclusive interview with Day.Az.
27 July 2009 [11:53]
Iran is ready to supply nuclear fuel for Armavir atomic power station in Armenia, Tehran Times quoted Western Azerbaijan province governor Rahim Kurbani as saying.
27 July 2009 [11:39]
“Whatever the International Court of Arbitration decides, neither Azerbaijan nor Turkmenistan will abide by it,” Azerbaijani political expert Vafa Guluzade said while commenting on recent statement by Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov to assert his country’s rights to disputable oil and gas fields on the Caspian Sea in arbitration court.
27 July 2009 [11:21]
The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs held a working meeting in Krakow, Poland on July 25-26.
27 July 2009 [09:53]
Onetime rival of President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton says she hoped there would a woman US president in her lifetime but doubts she herself would run for America's top job again.
27 July 2009 [09:42]
27 July 2009 [09:37]
“I expected that Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow will not repeat mistakes of his predecessor."
27 July 2009 [09:24]
After a weeklong dissension among Iran's ruling system over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first deputy pick, three ministers have been sacked, Press TV reported.
27 July 2009 [09:12]
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov's statement concerning appeal to the international arbitrage to solve the issue on disputable territories on the Caspian Sea with Azerbaijan was unexpected, head of Public Finances Monitoring Center (PFMC) Ingilab Ahmadov said.
27 July 2009 [08:59]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been hospitalized.
27 July 2009 [08:42]
Azerbaijan will assert its stance on development of oil fields on the Caspian Sea by all means available, ANS TV quoted Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov as saying.
27 July 2009 [08:34]
An international arbitrage is necessary to solve differences between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, above all, in the issue of delimitation of the border fields in the Caspian Sea, Turkmen President Gurbangulu Berdimuhammedov said at a governmental meeting.
27 July 2009 [08:21]
Iranian - ethnic Azerbaijani singer Faeqeh Atashin better known as Googoosh urges the world community to adequately react to the developments in Iran.
25 July 2009 [09:48]
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ordered President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to dismiss his choice to serve as vice-president, state TV says.
25 July 2009 [09:43]
The latest updates from the Central Election Commission say that the incumbent president, Kurmanbek Bakiev has won 83.8 percent of votes (1,665.305 voters).
25 July 2009 [08:44]
The Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are not going to attend the meeting of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs scheduled to be held on July 25-26 in Krakow, American co-chair Matthew Bryza told “Armenpress” news agency.
25 July 2009 [08:32]
24 July 2009 [17:41]
“There are some laws in cultural sphere that need to be formed into a code,” parliament’s cultural committee chairman Nizami Jafarov said.
24 July 2009 [17:28]
Theoretical conference on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement will be held in Azerbaijan.
24 July 2009 [17:17]
There were no falsifications and grave violations during Kyrgyz presidential elections on July 23.
24 July 2009 [16:37]
“Azerbaijan keeps a close eye on issue of Russia’s arms supply to Armenia,” Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Elkhan Polukhov said commenting on weapons Armenia bought from Russia the report about which Armenia submitted to the UN armament register.
24 July 2009 [16:18]
Armenia’s report indicating small number of weapons bought from Russia aims to divert attention, Azerbaijani political expert Fikrat Sadigov said while commenting on a report regarding weapons bought from Russia last year presented by Armenia to the UN armament register.
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