Politics
30 March 2007 [08:30]
"The reports saying that the national minorities living in the north of Azerbaijan have appealed to president of Dagestan Mukhu Aliyev claiming violation of their rights are groundless," department of President's Office of Dagestan told.
29 March 2007 [22:18]
The composition of the mission from the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) to monitor cultural heritage in the South Caucasus has been partially determined, British parliamentarian, rapporteur of PACE for monitoring of cultural heritage in the South Caucasus Edward O'Hara told.
29 March 2007 [22:09]
The European Parliament will hold a debate on the Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia conflicts soon, member of the Parliament, Bundestag MP Cem Ozdemir's office told.
29 March 2007 [21:59]
"I can not say that the current situation in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict shows weakening role of the OSCE Minsk Group in this process," US Ambassador to OSCE Julie Finley told journalists in Baku.
29 March 2007 [16:06]
Visa regime between Turkey and Azerbaijan is going to be eliminated, said Turkish ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary Husein Avni Karslioglu.
29 March 2007 [15:07]
Azerbaijan's Parliament president Ogtay Asadov has given order to the parliament's disciplinary commission about Fazail Agamali.
29 March 2007 [15:06]
A soldier of Azerbaijani Army was wounded in the ceasefire violation by Armenian forces in Tartar region yesterday.
29 March 2007 [15:00]
President of France Jacques Chirac's scheduled visit to Azerbaijan will not take place.
29 March 2007 [14:29]
Upon completion of his official visit to Azerbaijan, chairman of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of Russia, Sergey Mironov gave an interview to AzTV-1 TV channel.
29 March 2007 [14:27]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received Defense Minister of Kyrgyzstan Ismayil Isakov.
29 March 2007 [14:22]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received the delegation led by U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mrs. Julie Finley.
29 March 2007 [13:20]
Conference dedicated to March 31 – day of Azerbaijanis genocide will be held in Kars, Turkey, Azerbaijani consul general to Kars Hasan Zeynalov told.
29 March 2007 [13:01]
US Senate International Affairs Committee passed a decision condemning Armenian journalist Dink's assassination in Turkey.
29 March 2007 [12:57]
An inquiry on the results of Azerbaijani parliamentarian Huseyn Adullayev's medical examinations was today sent to Justice Ministry's Health Department, Kamandar Nesibli, lawyer for Huseyn Abdullayev told.
29 March 2007 [12:54]
Thursday, Azerbaijani Military Air Forces (MAF) showed the air fighting equipment it has bought recently.
29 March 2007 [08:39]
"If we take into consideration the reports on the commitments Azerbaijan undertook when joining the Council of Europe, we will see that the main demands were related to improvement of Electoral Code, formation of election commissions, amendments to the law on freedom of assembly," said Andres Herkel, co-rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly.
29 March 2007 [08:33]
The pro-opposition Azerbaijani National Independence Party (ANIP) has been removed from its rented headquarters.
29 March 2007 [08:30]
The next meeting of the Assembly of Azadliq alliance was held on Wednesday.
29 March 2007 [08:24]
The pro-opposition Azerbaijani National Independence Party (ANIP) has been removed from its rented headquarters, the party chairman Ayaz Rustamov told.
29 March 2007 [08:22]
The next meeting of the Assembly of Azadliq alliance was held today.
29 March 2007 [08:21]
The body of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia's first post-Soviet president and one of the most controversial figures in the chaos of Georgia's early independent years, was returned Wednesday to the capital for burial more than a decade after it disappeared.
29 March 2007 [08:07]
Ali Ahmedov, vice-chairman & executive secretary of the ruling party met with the head of the OSCE Office in Baku, Ambassador Jose Luis Herrero Ansola.
29 March 2007 [08:06]
The deadline for candidates for 28 vacancies in Musavat Party's Assembly is over.
28 March 2007 [23:27]
Russia and Azerbaijan have strategic, confidential and partnership relations, Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov told, when the parliamentary delegation began its visit to Azerbaijan.
28 March 2007 [23:07]
President of Azerbaijan received delegation headed by Speaker of the Federation Council of Russian Federation Sergey Mironov and his delegation, 28 March.
28 March 2007 [23:06]
At the invitation of the New Azerbaijan Party, the delegation of the Chinese Communist Party arrived March 27 for a two-day official visit to Azerbaijan.
28 March 2007 [23:04]
President Ilham Aliyev received Belarus' Prime Minister Sergey Sidorski.
28 March 2007 [23:03]
Azerbaijani and Russian state commissions on delimitation and demarcation ended their meeting.
28 March 2007 [23:00]
The report on Azerbaijan's commitments was debated at the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), head of the Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation to PACE Samad Seyidov said.
28 March 2007 [22:53]
"Amended Russian migration legislation will come into force on April 1. It will not have any influence on relations between Azerbaijan and Russia," Russia's Federation Council chief Sergey Mironov said in a press conference in Baku.
28 March 2007 [22:51]
On March 21, the representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited Azerbaijani soldier Samir Mammadov, who was captured by Armenian Armed Forces on December 24, 2006.
28 March 2007 [22:46]
Armenia's Armed Forces violated the ceasefire again.
28 March 2007 [22:40]
"Amended Russian migration legislation will come into force on April 1. It will not have any influence on relations between Azerbaijan and Russia," Russia's Federation Council chief Sergey Mironov said in a press conference in Baku.
28 March 2007 [22:39]
Trial on case of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants accused of embezzlement, abuse of power and bribery continued at Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes.
28 March 2007 [22:36]
Sergey Mironov, chief of the Russia's Federation Council had a meeting in Baku Slavic University.
28 March 2007 [22:33]
Kazakhstan's Prime Minister Karim Masimov will pay an official visit to Baku on April 3 at invitation of his Azerbaijani counterpart.
28 March 2007 [22:29]
Azerbaijan's Supreme Court has again postponed the legal proceeding on case of leader of Yeni Fikir Youth Movement Ruslan Bashirli.
28 March 2007 [22:27]
"This is my first visit to Azerbaijan and aims to be familiar with the country," US Ambassador to OSCE Julie Finley said.
28 March 2007 [22:25]
The date of the court proceeding on the appeal filed against the court decision on Azerbaijani parliamentarian Huseyn Abdullayev has been fixed.
28 March 2007 [22:24]
OSCE monitoring mission has made some recommendations related to the fires in Nagorno Karabakh in the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, Coordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities Bernard Snoy said.
28 March 2007 [22:21]
A report on Azerbaijan has been submitted to the fourth session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
28 March 2007 [22:14]
Iran's new Ambassador to Baku Nasser Hamidi Zare on Wednesday reiterated the need for cooperation between Iran and Azerbaijan in exchange of information and media relations.
28 March 2007 [22:10]
The monitoring group was not able to review firefighting equipment in the eastern part of the contact line.
28 March 2007 [22:06]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Julie Finley, the US ambassador to OSCE.
28 March 2007 [22:05]
The co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlaykov (Russia), Matthew Bryza (US), Bernard Fassier (France) and Andrzej Kasprzyk, personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office will meet in the Austrian capital, Vienna this week.
28 March 2007 [22:01]
UNESCO is making more efforts to negotiate with the Azerbaijani and Armenian governments to send a mission to the occupied Azerbaijani territories.
28 March 2007 [21:53]
Regional meeting was held in Israel for the preparation of the congress of Israeli Association of Mountain Jews from Azerbaijan.
28 March 2007 [16:06]
Ambassador in Canada Fakhraddin Qurbanov met with Chairman of the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade Leon Benoit.
28 March 2007 [16:01]
Sergey Mironov, Chairman of the Russian Federation Council states that Armenian and Azerbaijanian Speakers would assemble in Tbilisi in May.
28 March 2007 [14:01]
First Deputy Chairman of the Milli Majlis (the Azerbaijan Parliament) Ziyafat Asgarov met with visiting deputy chief of foreign affairs department at the Central Committee of China's Communist Party Ma Venpu and his accompanying delegation.
28 March 2007 [13:38]
A branch of the International Institute for the Monitoring of the Development of Democracy, of the Parliamentary System and of the Observance of Electoral Rights of CIS Citizens, the first in CIS, will be created in Baku.
28 March 2007 [12:39]
Prime Minister of Belarus Sergey Sidorsky will come to Baku Wednesday with a two-day official visit.
28 March 2007 [12:35]
Speaker of the Federation Council of Russia, Sergey Mironov, has arrived in Baku Tuesday.
28 March 2007 [09:23]
Chief of the Committee Against Torture Elcin Behbudov will meet with Interior Minister Ramil Usubov on Wednesday.
28 March 2007 [09:18]
Musavat leader Isa Gambar ended his visit to Belarus.
28 March 2007 [09:17]
Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg congratulated the Azerbaijan Society of America (ASA) on the occasion of Novruz holiday.
28 March 2007 [09:15]
The chief of Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan Mazahir Panahov visits the U.S. at the invitation of Richard W. Soudriette, president of the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) on the behalf of the World Election Organization.
28 March 2007 [09:14]
"We have normal relations with Turkmenistan, and there are great opportunities for the development of our relations. Both sides have political will for that. The only uncoordinated issue is the status of the Caspian Sea, and the issue will be discussed soon," Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov told journalists.
28 March 2007 [08:51]
Legal proceeding on the appeal against the court decision on former police chief of Ganja Natig Efendiyev has been fixed.
28 March 2007 [08:49]
The presentation of a book "International Visions: The Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict over Karabakh – from history to future peace prospects" was held in London's Royal Institute of International Affairs.
28 March 2007 [08:35]
Azerbaijan's Defense Minister Safar Abiyev received the delegation led by Kyrgyzstan's Defense Minister, Lieutenant General Ismayil Isakov.
28 March 2007 [08:32]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will sign some commercial treaties during his visit to the Middle East countries.
27 March 2007 [23:45]
Azerbaijani citizens will be able to get visas for Austria in Germany's Embassy in Azerbaijan from April 15.
27 March 2007 [23:10]
President Vladimir Putin has invited the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to St. Petersburg's 11th International Economic Forum and an informal CIS summit in June 2007 during a Kremlin meeting Tuesday.
27 March 2007 [19:47]
The U.S. Navy on Tuesday began its largest demonstration of force in the Gulf since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, deploying two aircraft carriers and conducting simulated aerial attacks.
27 March 2007 [19:39]
Parliament's Toponymy Commission appealed to region administrations, chief of the commission, academician Budag Budagov said.
27 March 2007 [19:36]
Georgia's Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli will pay a day-visit to Baku.
27 March 2007 [19:35]
Today trial on case of former Health Minister Ali Insanov and ten more defendants accused of embezzlement, abuse of power and bribery continued in the second part of the day at Azerbaijan's Court of Grave Crimes.
27 March 2007 [19:30]
Monitoring was today held in Borsunlu village, territory of Azerbaijani region of Geranboy, in the contact line of troops in accordance with the mandate of personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-office.
27 March 2007 [19:20]
Deputy chairman of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) Sirus Tabrizli has been dismissed from the party.
27 March 2007 [19:15]
"Technical report drawn up by experts provides little information on the frequency and results of the fires in the South Caucasus.
27 March 2007 [19:08]
Poland's President Lech Kaczynski will tomorrow start his official visit to Kazakhstan.
27 March 2007 [19:07]
The Azerbaijan Federation for Human Rights Organizations appealed to Andres Herkel and Tony Lloyd, co-rapporteurs of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) for appointing special rapporteur on the problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
27 March 2007 [19:04]
The fires occurred along the contact line around Nagorno Karabakh and other regions from June till September of 2006. Heavy rainfalls in winter followed by dry and hot weather caused fires.
27 March 2007 [18:54]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has issued a decree on conferring high military ranks on officers of National Security Ministry.
Azerbaijani companies forge economic ties with Latvia, Estonia, and Finland in trade mission
Deputy Minister unveils bilateral investment figures between Azerbaijan, Latvia
Azerbaijani servicemen accomplish tasks of next stage of Anatolian Phoenix - 2024 exercise [VIDEO]
Training on "Climate Changes and COP" holds for 100 NGOs
Armenian churches substitute political will of country's faded opposition
AFSA head says export procedures of food products to China, EU simplified
ICESCO Director-General draws attention to digital literacy promotion