Politics
03 August 2005 [10:30]
Head of state Ilham Aliyev yesterday left for Riyadh to attend the funeral of the passing King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
03 August 2005 [10:21]
The next meeting of the Chairmen Council of the “Azadlig” bloc was held in the headquarters of the Musavat Party yesterday.
03 August 2005 [10:19]
Total investment in the Azerbaijani economy will comprise $6 billion in 2006.
03 August 2005 [10:14]
The Musavat Party sent out invitation cards to the parties to participate in the next round of the authority-opposition dialogue yesterday.
03 August 2005 [10:08]
699 people took signing list from the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan to participate at the elections as candidate, the press-service of the CEC told Trend.
03 August 2005 [10:03]
Deputy leader of Musavat, editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Yeni Musavat” Rauf Arifoghlu’s appeal was looked into in the Appeal Court yesterday.
03 August 2005 [10:01]
The foreign affairs minister Elmar Mammadyarov who is on a visit in USA met with the state secretary Condoleeze Rice yesterday.
03 August 2005 [09:56]
The pressures of the USA increased to Azerbaijan regarding the parliamentary elections are related to the intention of Pentagon on getting a positive reply concerning dislocating military base in Azerbaijan.
03 August 2005 [09:33]
The Communications and Information Technologies Ministry holds preparations for the parliamentary elections to be held on 6 November.
03 August 2005 [09:29]
“It is not possible to say whether progress will be observed in the meeting of the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia to be held in Kazan”.
03 August 2005 [08:51]
The World Union of Azerbaijani Political Migrants (WUAPM) appealed to the Foreign Affairs Ministry (FAM) of Greece in connection with the arrest of Mehdi Khalilov who was searched for participation in the events 15-16 October, 2003.
03 August 2005 [08:39]
The president Ilham Aliyev left for Saudi Arabia to participate in the funeral ceremony of the king of Saudi Arabia Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
02 August 2005 [11:28]
Measures on defense of the Azerbaijani military officer Ramil Safarov, charged with the murder of the Armenian officer in Hungary, will be continued.
02 August 2005 [11:26]
President Ilham Aliyev signed a Decree on conferring the title of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Azer Tofig oglu Husseyn and appointing him the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Japan, recalling the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to Turkey Mammad Novruz oglu Aliyev and appointing him Ambassador to Spain.
02 August 2005 [11:13]
A U.S. delegation led by Richard G. Lugar, Senator from Republicans of Indiana St., will arrive in Baku on 30 August.
02 August 2005 [10:43]
The Media Diversity Institute of Great Britain is holding a conference on the subject “Supporters of the Southern Caucasus” in the capital of Austria, Vienna.
02 August 2005 [10:22]
The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Slovakia will establish its diplomatic representation in the Southern Caucasus countries till the end of 2007.
02 August 2005 [10:13]
On 1 August the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, Elmar Mammadyarov, started his first working visit to Washington at the invitation of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.
02 August 2005 [10:10]
Participant of 15-16 October, 2003 events Mehdi Khalilov who has been searched was arrested in Alexandria, Greece on 28 July.
02 August 2005 [09:40]
The research mission of the International Federation on Human Rights central headquarter of which is situated in France declared that rights of the national minorities are violated in Georgia.
02 August 2005 [09:30]
Members of investigation group investigating the murder of the late editopr-in-chief of the magazine “Monitor” Elmar Huseynov are in Georgia at present.
02 August 2005 [08:22]
President Ilham Aliyev signed order on appointment of new ambassadors of Azerbaijan to several countries.
01 August 2005 [10:43]
19 activists of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan Party (PFAP, reformers) were arrested for attempts of staging a rally in front of the private television Lider in Baku on Saturday.
01 August 2005 [10:37]
The National Unity Movement held a rally in the square in front of the “Galaba” cinema last Staurday.
01 August 2005 [10:31]
Two parties are engaged in organizing the meeting between opposition and authority parties at the moment. Musavat Party is going to send the invitation next week and Party of Civil Solidarity is intending to arrange such meeting after two weeks.
01 August 2005 [10:16]
A celebration was held on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of forming of the State Border Service (SBS) on the subject “Heydar Aliyev – is the founder of the State Border Service” on Saturday.
01 August 2005 [10:03]
“The General Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia asked the Azerbaijani side for the criminal case raised against Tahir Khubanov and Teymuraz Aliyev. But the General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan has not responded to us yet”.
01 August 2005 [09:57]
“Georgian Prosecutor-General’s Office wanted the criminal case raised about Tahir Khubanov and Teymuraz Aliyev from Azerbaijani side. We have not received any reply from Prosecutor-General’s Office of Azerbaijan Republic”.
30 July 2005 [11:29]
Deputies leader of Musavat Rauf Arifoglu’s and Arif Hajili’s complaints have been looked into in the Appeal Court.
30 July 2005 [11:27]
The OSCE Baku office will hold workshops, during which issues of setting up the dialogue between the pro-governmental and oppositional parties of Azerbaijan will be discussed, leader of the OSCE Baku office Mauricio Pavesi told Trend.
30 July 2005 [11:19]
Democratic Azerbaijan Bloc announced the list of unique candidates to participate in the elections.
30 July 2005 [11:06]
Yesterday in the International Press Center (IPC) members of “Yox”, “Megam”, and “Dalgha” movement holding press conference informed that they will function after that under the name “Ari”.
30 July 2005 [09:37]
Meeting was held between the authority and opposition parties in the headquarters of Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) yesterday.
30 July 2005 [08:58]
President of the Cyprus Republic Tasos Papadopulos sent a letter to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in regard to the launching of the direct air communication between Baku and the capital of the Turkish Republic of the Northern Cyprus, Lefkosha.
30 July 2005 [08:48]
OSCE voiced its concerns in connection with insufficient participation of women in the work of parliaments and national delegation of the OSCE member-countries, including the South Caucasus countries, according to a report ‘Gender Balance 2005’prepared by a special representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE on gender issue, Tone Tingsgård, publicized by PA OSCE.
30 July 2005 [08:31]
The Public Union of Preserve of Monuments of Azerbaijan Organization held a measure on realizing the international conference on the subject “Holding monitoring on the historical and cultural monuments in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan with participation of international organizations” in the International Press Center yesterday.
30 July 2005 [08:26]
“I was forced to appeal to the European Court on Human Rights as my process was not fairly reviewed by the courts of Azerbaijan”.
29 July 2005 [09:52]
587 citizens willing to participate in the parliamentary elections have taken signature forms from 121 constituencies so far.
29 July 2005 [09:44]
The Greek Cyprus government will appeal to Azerbaijan and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an official of the Cyprus Republic, Kipros Khrisostomides, told the Turkish television NTV.
29 July 2005 [09:32]
Yesterday agreement was signed between “Yeni Siyaset” (“YeS”) bloc and Democratic Azerbaijan bloc.
29 July 2005 [09:27]
The Azadlig block will hold on 30 and 31 July actions in a number of regions of Azerbaijan, chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA – reformists).
29 July 2005 [09:25]
Yesterday state head Ilham Aliyev in the building of Gusar region executive power of Gusar with participation of south region executive power leaders and members of cabinet held briefing.
29 July 2005 [09:22]
Executive Power of Baku responded to the appeal of APFP(r) on placing pickets in front of “Lider” TV channel negatively.
29 July 2005 [09:16]
Sitting of Coordination Council of “Yeni Siyaset” bloc was held yesterday.
29 July 2005 [09:08]
Prosecutor-Generals’s Office of Georgia wanted the materials of criminal case on the murder of editor-in-chief of the magazine “Monitor” Elmar Huseynov from Azerbaijani side.
29 July 2005 [09:05]
The next meeting between the pro-governmental and opposition parties will be held at the New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) headquarters on Friday.
29 July 2005 [09:02]
The chairman of the Karabakh Freedom Organization (KFO) Akif Naghi appealed to the embassies of France, Italy, Ukraine and Uzbekistan in Azerbaijan with a letter.
29 July 2005 [08:37]
The American senator Richard Lugar is expected to visit Azerbaijan in these days.
29 July 2005 [08:25]
As chairman of “Umid” party Igbal Agazade’s attempts to participate in the parliamentary elections together with “Azadlig” bloc did not succeed he had to take a step independently.
29 July 2005 [08:11]
Armenians violated the ceasefire in several directions last day.
28 July 2005 [09:58]
Deputy USA State Secretary for global Affairs Paula Dobrianski today held press conference dedicated to the results of her visit to Azerbaijan.
28 July 2005 [09:50]
“Azadlig” bloc announced the list of candidates’ names to participate in the parliamentary elections today.
28 July 2005 [09:14]
The president of the “bp-Azerbaijan” company David Woodward conducted a meeting with the representatives of mass media in connection with the results of 6 months of the current year.
28 July 2005 [09:12]
“The situation on internal and external security of Armenia is non-stable. There a lot of unresolved problems in this field”.
28 July 2005 [09:09]
Garadagh Cement Joint Stock Company of open type (JSCOT) has partly repaid debts to the Taxes Ministry. The enterprise covered the major debt in the amount of 13bn manats.
28 July 2005 [09:07]
“More than 35 thousand of illegal weapons were gathered from citizens during the last 10 years. But we can not say that no illegal weapon exists in Azerbaijan today”.
28 July 2005 [09:03]
President Ilham Aliyev yesterday received deputy of the USA State Secretary for Global Affairs Ms Paula Dobrianski.
28 July 2005 [08:49]
Polish newly appointed ambassador to Azerbaijan Kshishtov Krayevski will come to Baku on 15 August.
28 July 2005 [08:47]
The Democratic Reforms Party (DRP) stated its support to the cooperation with the elections blocs.
28 July 2005 [08:41]
Minister for Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammedyarov will visit the USA at the invitation of the USA State Secretary Condoleezza Rice next week.
28 July 2005 [08:38]
Deputy USA State Secretary Paula Dobrianski who is on a visit to our country met with opposition leaders yesterday.
27 July 2005 [12:06]
«A historic event will take place on Wednesday at 21.30 when after 31 years Azerbaijani airliner will land in Lefkoshe, the capital of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Ahmet Erentok, the chairman of the Azerbaijani-Turkish Union of Entrepreneurs, said prior to his tour of the TRNC.
27 July 2005 [10:09]
On 26 July chairman of the Party of Democratic Reforms (PDR), member of the Azerbaijan’s Parliamentary delegation to PACE Asim Mollazade held a news conference on the results of his visit to the USA.
27 July 2005 [10:07]
“Azerbaijan is located in the most important strategically region, it shouldn’t be forgotten how much Azerbaijan is an important country from the point of view of concerns of the USA in the region.”
27 July 2005 [09:55]
An international symposium on ecology on Caspian ecology, originally scheduled for early September 2005, has been postponed to later date in connection with busy schedule of delegates from the Caspian countries, in particular Turkmenistan.
27 July 2005 [09:49]
The candidates’ list on the constituencies of the “Yeni Siyaset” election bloc will be announced during this week.
27 July 2005 [09:08]
The stability is a security of economic growth of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in his address to the public of Khachmaz District on Tuesday.
27 July 2005 [08:37]
The ceasefire was violated in the front line again.
27 July 2005 [08:36]
A two-day conference of the South Caucasus group of the Parliament initiative, staged by the LINKS non-governmental organization completed its work on 26 July in the Irish capital city of Dublin.
27 July 2005 [08:35]
The deputy on the global questions of the USA state secretary Paula Dobrianski is coming to Baku.
26 July 2005 [13:52]
Conventional wisdom assumes that a covert struggle is under way between "conservatives" and "liberals" within the Azerbaijani leadership.
26 July 2005 [10:56]
«A new decree on pardoning by the President of Azerbaijan is expected in the second half of September».
26 July 2005 [10:53]
“We have the photos of the persons considered suspicious in the murder of Elmar Huseynov. However, we need permission of the National Security Ministry in order to spread those photos in the press. If the ministry permits, we shall present these photos to the society”.
26 July 2005 [10:40]
Meeting of the delegation of 15 members of the Turkish Business People Union (TUSIAB), being on a business trip in the Turkish Republic of the Northern Cyprus (TRNC) with the first and the present Presidents –Rauf Denktash and Mehmet Ali Talat is scheduled for 25 July.
26 July 2005 [10:33]
The NIPA leader Etibar Mammadov who participated in the meeting of the International Democrat Union in the United States of America held a press-conference in the headquarters of the “Yeni siyaset” bloc today in connection with the results of his visit.
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