Politics
17 March 2009 [15:09]
No one has been arrested in connection with the murder of Commander of Azerbaijani Military Air Forces and Air Defense Troops, Lieutenant-General Rail Rzayev, spokesman for Defense Ministry, Lieutenant-Colonel Eldar Sabiroglu told APA.
17 March 2009 [14:16]
Ali Bilge Jankorel was appointed a new head to the OSCE Baku office, the OSCE Vienna Secretary told Trend News.
17 March 2009 [13:43]
It is most important for Armenia to remain on the occupied lands of Azerbaijan as long as possible, said Russian political scientist Alexander Karavayev, chief of the service of political forecast of the Center of studying post-Soviet area.
17 March 2009 [13:16]
Each adopted act of amnesty is a victory of humanistic principles and ideas, said deputy, president of Heydar Aliyev's foundation Mehriban Aliyeva at the next plenary session of the spring session of Milli Medjlis Tuesday.
17 March 2009 [12:02]
New Russian ambassador to Azerbaijan will arrive in Baku tomorrow, said the press service for the Russian embassy to Azerbaijan.
17 March 2009 [11:05]
The political situation in Georgia depends on President Mikheil Saakashvili's actions rather than on the opposition, Georgia's former President Eduard Shevardnadze said.
17 March 2009 [10:31]
17 March 2009 [10:24]
Armenian armed forces locating in the occupied lands of Azerbaijan violated ceasefire in Fizuli and Khojavend directions.
17 March 2009 [10:10]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received members of the Ad hoc Committee to observe the referendum on the constitutional reforms headed by Paul Wille, representative of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.
17 March 2009 [10:08]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said at a press conference that Turkey-Armenia ties are improving, Turkey's Zaman newspaper reported.
17 March 2009 [09:55]
Abducted in Somalia UN staff, among whom was a citizen of Azerbaijan, have been released.
16 March 2009 [18:45]
Representatives of the work group "For Karabakh and Republic" held a meeting with British diplomat Simon Tiller, according to the press service for the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, represented in the movement.
16 March 2009 [18:30]
Through the past years Azerbaijan reached significant progress in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict, said head of the center for political innovations and technologies Mubariz Ahmedoghlu at a press conference.
16 March 2009 [17:48]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received former chairman of the French senate, senator Christian Ponsele, according to the official website of the President of Azerbaijan.
16 March 2009 [17:14]
Azerbaijan is enhancing its position as the geopolitical leader in the South Caucasus, Azerbaijani Strategic Study Center head Elkhan Nuriyev said.
16 March 2009 [16:48]
Working President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev can preserve the succession of powers without amendments to the Azerbaijani Constitution in the country", said head of the Center of political innovations and technologies Mubariz Ahmedoghlu at a press conference Monday.
16 March 2009 [15:52]
US assistant secretary of state, OSCE MG co-chair Matthew Bryza announced that he will remain in the new Washington administration and take the position of US assistant secretary of state on the Caucasus issues.
16 March 2009 [15:41]
OSCE MG co-chairs are planning to visit the region before the upcoming meeting of presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, said co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group of France Bernard Fassier.
16 March 2009 [15:11]
According to the official website of the President of Azerbaijan, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the opening of the radio installation unit of Jihaz production unit under the Defense Ministry after its major repair.
16 March 2009 [14:12]
The preparation of the visit of Ukrainian president Viktor Yuschenko to Azerbaijan planned for April 9-10 of this year is underway, according to sources in the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan, Novosti-Azerbaijan reports.
16 March 2009 [13:43]
The Azerbaijani presidential administration believes so far some opposition parties' boycott calls have not seriously influenced on voter turn out.
16 March 2009 [13:08]
Azerbaijani presidential administration says the referendum vote will see a high voter turnout.
16 March 2009 [12:12]
PACE observation mission to observe referendum in Azerbaijan on March 18, has arrived in Baku.
16 March 2009 [11:46]
Courses of fire support coordination and planning will be held in the framework of bilateral military cooperation between Azerbaijan and Turkey in Ankara on March 16-April 10, according to the press service for the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan.
16 March 2009 [11:20]
Military-civil courses on tactics will be held in the framework of the individual program of "Partnership for Peace" reached between Azerbaijan and NATO in Ankara on March 23-April 3, according to the press service for the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan.
16 March 2009 [11:07]
Armenian armed forces locating in the occupied lands of Azerbaijan violated ceasefire in Fizuli and Khojavend directions.
16 March 2009 [10:53]
Publications in press about the soonest opening of the Turkish-Armenian border is an attempt to cause sensation, said Azerbaijani ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Turkey Zakir Hashimov.
16 March 2009 [10:33]
In Vienna at the OPEC headquarters members of cartel and non-member countries Azerbaijan and Russia came together on 152th OPEC conference to discuss instabilities in the oil markets and whether to reduce oil production for cartel countries.
16 March 2009 [10:06]
Chairman of Azerbaijan Parliament, the Milli Majlis, Ogtay Asadov met today with first deputy chair of Kyrgyz Parliament Cholpon Baekova.
16 March 2009 [09:56]
U.S Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza stressed progress in interrelations between the President of Azerbaijan and the President of Armenia.
14 March 2009 [13:46]
The Els independent research center and Association of support of civil society development in Azerbaijan will hold an exit-poll during a referendum on amendments to the Constitution, said head of the research center Irada Yagubova.
14 March 2009 [12:43]
The CIS observation mission for the referendum positively assesses the preparation for the elections in the regions of Azerbaijan.
14 March 2009 [11:45]
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has always supported efforts for a peaceful and equitable solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, together with the OSCE Minsk Group, OSCE PA President Joao Soares said.
14 March 2009 [10:17]
Armenian armed forces locating in the occupied lands of Azerbaijan violated ceasefire in Fizuli and Khojavend directions.
14 March 2009 [10:08]
President of Azerbaijan extends condolences to President of Federative Republic of Germany Horst Kohler, according to AzerTac.
14 March 2009 [10:02]
The personal representative of Azerbaijani President on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Araz Azimov, hopes the global economic crisis would force Armenia to give up demands for independence for the territories occupied by it and "the time has come to think realistically for them."
14 March 2009 [09:54]
The session of the PACE bureau decided to send a mission to Azerbaijan due to conduction of a referendum on amendments to the Constitution, said chairman of the Azerbaijani delegation Samed Seidov.
14 March 2009 [09:48]
President Ilham Aliyev received the First Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan Cholpon Baekova.
13 March 2009 [18:46]
Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev received Friday the newly appointed ambassador of Hungary to Azerbaijan Jeno Borosh, according to the press service for the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan.
13 March 2009 [18:33]
Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mamedyarov received again the newly appointed ambassador of Bulgaria to our country Vasil Kalinov, according to the press service for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.
13 March 2009 [18:03]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Russian ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov due to completion of his diplomatic activity, according to AzerTac.
13 March 2009 [17:30]
Armenia can not join the Geneva convention on mines prohibition unless the Karabakh conflict is resolved, considers chief of department of engineering troops of the Armenian Defense Ministry Vostanik Adoyan.
13 March 2009 [16:54]
13 March 2009 [16:28]
Famous magazine The Economist evaluated the Turkish-American relations, according to Turkish Cihan news agency.
13 March 2009 [15:30]
Intensification of contacts between the leadership of Azerbaijan and Russia proves "the stable positive dynamics of development of relations", said chief of sector of the presidential administration of Azerbaijan Fuad Akhundov.
13 March 2009 [14:01]
Iranian FM Manuchokhr Mottaki told a press conference in Yerevan about Tehran's readiness to promote the resolution of the Karabakh conflict.
13 March 2009 [13:48]
Russian ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov states the greater improvement of bilateral relations in period of his work in the country.
13 March 2009 [13:27]
The communist party of Azerbaijan has confirmed the list of observers for participation in a referendum on amendments to the Constitution, according to the press service for the party.
13 March 2009 [12:56]
13 March 2009 [11:51]
Chairman of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan Rauf Gurbanov is invited to Moscow by the Central Bureau of the communist party of Russia, according to the press service for the party.
13 March 2009 [11:31]
13 March 2009 [11:04]
In the coming months the Azerbaijan National Independence Party will conduct its activity for the settlement of the sociopolitical problems, according to the press service for the party.
13 March 2009 [10:39]
13 March 2009 [10:25]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev here today received Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov and his accompanying delegation.
13 March 2009 [10:18]
U.S. is against of Iran's participation in implementing Nabucco project on natural gas deliveries from the Caspian region to Europe bypassing Russia, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza said in Ankara on March 12, RIA Novosti reported.
13 March 2009 [10:04]
Normalization of Turkey-Armenia relations is impossible until Azerbaijan's occupied lands are returned.
12 March 2009 [18:26]
Officials, representing railway companies of Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan, met in Saint-Petersburg, Russia on March 11.
12 March 2009 [18:14]
12 March 2009 [17:25]
The agenda of the plenary session of the CE Venice Commission includes conduction of a referendum on amendments to the Constitution of the country on March 18, according to the press service for the CE Baku office.
12 March 2009 [16:55]
12 March 2009 [15:36]
Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Russia Elmar Mamedyarov and Sergey Lavrov discussed a wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation in Baku Thursday.
12 March 2009 [15:25]
The Yeni Azerbaijan party in the framework of the agitation campaign due to conduction of a referendum on amendments to the Constitution held meetings with voters in Shamkir, according to the press service for the party.
12 March 2009 [14:58]
Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan may meet in Prague as part of an EU summit, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister and Azerbaijani President's Special Envoy on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Araz Azimov told Trend News on March 12.
12 March 2009 [14:50]
"The decision of a part of opposition to boycott the upcoming referendum on amendments to the Constitution of Azerbaijan on March 18 should not raise concerns", considers chairman of the Central Election Commission Mazahir Panakhov.
12 March 2009 [14:19]
The document, containing information about the alleged supply of arms to Armenia by Russia in 2008 is falsified, said Russian FM Sergey Lavrov during a joint briefing with Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mamedyarov by results of a bilateral meeting held between them Thursday.
12 March 2009 [13:56]
The agitation groups of the movement "For Karabakh and Republic" and "Republicans" held a meeting with voters in Beylagan, said head of the central office of the Musavat party Arif Hajili.
12 March 2009 [13:40]
The Karabakh conflict can be settled only in the framework of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, said Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mamedyarov during a joint briefing with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov by results of their bilateral meeting.
12 March 2009 [13:03]
The combat readiness and military activity of Azerbaijan meets the level of the military structures of the leading countries, said Armed Forces Commander Zakir Hasanov at the event on the 17th anniversary of the establishment of interior troops Thursday.
12 March 2009 [12:50]
The Yurddash party has appointed observers for the process of a referendum in Azerbaijan due to introduction of amendments to the Constitution, accoridng to party chairman Mais Safarli.
12 March 2009 [12:05]
Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov has arrived in Baku on Wednesday.
12 March 2009 [11:37]
An appeal with a request to hold a dialogue between powers and opposition will be sent to separate political parties, according to spokesman for the party Ali Orucev.
12 March 2009 [11:25]
Any amendments to the Constitution of Azerbaijan can be adopted only by the will of Azerbaijani citizens, said US ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse Thursday.
12 March 2009 [11:01]
Armenian soldier Paruyr Stepanyan who fled Armenia last year in protest of widespread violence and tyranny in the Armenian Army has gained 24 kg weight, according to ANS Press.
12 March 2009 [10:46]
Armenian armed forces locating in the occupied lands of Azerbaijan violated ceasefire in Aghdam, Agstafa, Tovuz and Fizuli directions.
12 March 2009 [10:13]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met Wednesday with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul in Tehran.