Politics
30 January 2007 [17:20]
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan has set the date for parliamentary elections in the country for May 12, the presidential press service said Monday.
30 January 2007 [17:10]
"Armenia is not bazaar for us," Head of Kars Municipality Naif Alibeyoglu said in the meeting with heads of Mass media of Azerbaijan visiting Igdir and Kars.
30 January 2007 [17:07]
Azerbaijani Democrat Party (ADP) appealed to Ilham Aliyev, the President, and the leader of New Azerbaijani Party (YAP) to hold dialogue with YAP.
30 January 2007 [17:05]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev began his visit to France by visiting Paris Mayor's Office on Tuesday.
30 January 2007 [16:47]
Today, the correspondent of "Nota-Bene" newspaper Faramaz Allahverdiyev (Novruzoglu) was sentenced to two years in jail, the founder of the newspaper Ilham Tumas stated.
30 January 2007 [16:41]
The visit of a group of media chiefs to Kars continuess. Media was received by Kars governor-general Mehmet Ufuj Erden yesterday.
30 January 2007 [15:52]
"I have not made any changes to my report on Nagorno Karabakh (NK)," OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) chief, OSCE co-rapporteur on NK Goran Lenmarker told.
30 January 2007 [12:55]
Bilateral economic relations and Nagorno Karabakh conflict were discussed in one-on-one meeting of Azerbaijani and French presidents.
30 January 2007 [01:12]
U.S. President George W. Bush vowed on Monday to respond firmly if Iran foments violence in Iraq, but said he had no intention of invading Iran.
30 January 2007 [00:54]
Divan of Musavat Party has made a decision on holding the next rally as a protest against the rise of prices for energy deliveries on February 18.
30 January 2007 [00:53]
Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) will hold Congress IX in the first half of May.
30 January 2007 [00:52]
"Simplified visa regime between Iran and Azerbaijan in Nakhchvan may be applied soon," said Iranian ambassador Afshar Suleymani.
30 January 2007 [00:46]
The next meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict has not been set yet, stated press secretary Viktor Sogomonian.
30 January 2007 [00:39]
Armenian delegation will not participate in the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Speaker of Armenian parliament, the head of Armenian delegation to PACE Tigran Torosyan said.
30 January 2007 [00:38]
The first sitting of spring session of Milli Majlis (MM) will be held on February 1, the composition of Control and Disciplinary Commission will be considered again.
30 January 2007 [00:37]
Azerbaijani embassy published book in German on the 15th anniversary of Khojali genocide.
30 January 2007 [00:36]
Azerbaijan University of Languages and Siena and Peruca Universities of Italy signed contracts of cooperation in Rome.
30 January 2007 [00:23]
Azadlig bloc is going to sue Baku Mayor's Office.
29 January 2007 [23:49]
"OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs, mediator on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict, are working on organization of a new round of negotiations between Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers," Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Yri Merzlyakov stated.
29 January 2007 [21:35]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's Georgian visit program will be specified in a few days, Azerbaijani Embassy in Georgia reports.
29 January 2007 [16:56]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in France at the invitation of the President of France Jacques Chirac.
29 January 2007 [15:36]
The decision on changing the political course of Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) was made at the recent meeting of the Supreme Assembly of the party.
29 January 2007 [15:31]
Azerbaijan will never agree to the independence of Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who is beginning a visit to Paris on Monday, said in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper.
29 January 2007 [15:27]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs made statement on the results of their visit to the region.
29 January 2007 [14:09]
A military operation against Iran would be "a catastrophe for the whole region," Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said in an interview with the Le Figaro daily at the start of his state visit to France on Monday.
29 January 2007 [12:49]
Eight documents on cooperation in economy, science, culture, tourism and civil defence are to be signed during a beginning three-day visit of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to France.
29 January 2007 [12:43]
Today national seminar has begun on application of Convention on Chemical Weapons in Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry (FM).
28 January 2007 [20:43]
Tensions in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia flared Sunday after separatist officials said three police officers had been wounded in a nighttime attack and blamed the incident on the central government.
28 January 2007 [20:23]
Several hundred Russian ultranationalists rallied in central Moscow Sunday to protest against the detention of 'political prisoners,' including two officers charged with killing civilians in Russia's violence-torn Chechnya province.
28 January 2007 [20:20]
Around 1,500 opposition supporters rallied in the Azerbaijani capital Sunday to protest against recent sharp hikes in domestic utility rates.
27 January 2007 [15:39]
The United States on Friday called "outrageous" Iran's demand for the ouster of a U.N. official in charge of nuclear inspections and said a plan by Tehran to speed up nuclear research was a big mistake.
27 January 2007 [15:24]
210 were dismissed form interior bodies last year, Interior Minister, Colonel-General Ramil Usubov said.
27 January 2007 [15:19]
"I think that the results of the activity of the Azerbaijani delegation are positive. The achieved results serve the interests of Azerbaijan," said Samad Seyidov, the Head of the Azerbaijani delegation to Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
27 January 2007 [15:17]
"We take necessary steps to restore our relations with Armenia, but we do not get expected signals from Armenia. When we speak about normal relations and peace, Armenia Diaspora tries to do its best to tense the situations.
27 January 2007 [15:15]
In the Board meeting on overall results of Ministry of Internal Affairs, Interior Minister, Colonel-General Ramil Usubov criticized the work of some police departments.
27 January 2007 [14:58]
Hrant Dink is the first and the only Armenian victim murdered by a politically-motivated Turk in the history of the Turkish Republic. We hope it's the last.
27 January 2007 [14:54]
"The European Union can help the process of settlement of Nagorno Karabakh within New Neighborhood Policy. But this can not be process of negotiations," OSCE Mink Group co-chair Bernard Fassier (France) said, taking a stance on the possibility of the European Union's direct participation in the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh.
27 January 2007 [14:51]
The statement on overall results of the most recent visit of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, mediating in the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be made public on January 29.
27 January 2007 [14:42]
Broad board meeting on overall results of fight against delinquency, measures taken for ensuring public security was held in the Interior Ministry.
27 January 2007 [14:27]
Ankara has said recent remarks made by an Armenian government official expressing his country's readiness to establish diplomatic ties with Turkey without conditions does not amount to a new expansion in bilateral ties.
27 January 2007 [02:30]
Chairman of the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan Ramiz Rzayev in the frame of his working visit to Strasbourg has met with the Chairman of the European Court for Human Rights Mr Jean-Paul Costa.
27 January 2007 [02:28]
Ogtay Asadov, speaker of the Milli Majlis, met January 26 with Huseyn Avni Karslyoglu, Turkish ambassador in Azerbaijan.
27 January 2007 [02:22]
27 January 2007 [02:06]
Armenian Armed Forces continues to violate the ceasefire.
27 January 2007 [01:49]
14 were detained in the unsanctioned picket of the Azadliq bloc outside the State Committee for Management of Public Property, 10 of them were released after being warned by 37th police station.
27 January 2007 [01:48]
"Arkady Gukasyan and others should understand that Azerbaijan is developing and better life, the protection of rights of Armenians can only be ensured in being in the composite of Azerbaijan. To come to joint opinion with Mr. Merzlyakov and with some others does not mean that the positions of the sides in the settlement of the conflict are the same," Deputy Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said when commenting on the issue whether Kosovo variant is precedent for Azerbaijan.
27 January 2007 [01:45]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has meet with the President of the Swiss Confederation Micheline Calmy-Rey in Davos, Jan. 26.
26 January 2007 [22:07]
US Navy nuclear submarines maintaining vigil off the coast of Iran indicate that the Pentagon's military plans include not only control over navigation in the Persian Gulf but also strikes against Iranian targets, a former commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Eduard Baltin has told the Interfax news agency.
26 January 2007 [21:53]
International mediators discussed efforts to resolve the Nagorno Karabakh conflict with President Robert Kocharian in Yerevan on Friday, ending their latest round of regional shuttle diplomacy without making any public statements.
26 January 2007 [18:50]
Azerbaijani and Armanian delegations to PACE made a decision at the meeting held within plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to begin direct dialogues on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
26 January 2007 [18:24]
Police in Azerbaijan broke up a demonstration organized by opposition activists on Friday, hitting protesters with truncheons and detaining more than 10 people.
26 January 2007 [18:14]
Armenia repeated an earlier offer. The atmosphere generated during Hrant Dink's funeral allowed the offer from Armenia to bring about a new point of view. The Armenians are saying, "Let's start a dialogue without any prerequisites so that we can establish a diplomatic relationship." Turkey has insistently rejected the same offer before.
26 January 2007 [16:45]
Hundreds of people, including Greece's former Foreign Minister George Papandreou, crammed to the courtyard of a mosque Friday for the funeral of Ismail Cem, a charismatic former foreign minister who died after a battle with lung cancer, aged 67.
26 January 2007 [16:30]
"The negotiations will be effective when agreement will be achieved on conception that is clear for Azerbaijani side. Only in that case we can achieve progress in the settlement of the conflict in the framework of this process," Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said when expressing his stance on the negotiations on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
26 January 2007 [16:29]
"Armenian's unconstructive position impedes the influence of any effort on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict," head of the Azerbaijani delegation to OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, vice-speaker Bahar Muradova said.
26 January 2007 [16:26]
The leadership of Milli Majlis (MM) will protest to PACE for not being given floor in the discussions of Armenian commitments during the last session of PACE, Parliamentarian Bahar Muradova told the journalists.
26 January 2007 [16:25]
It was defined that the soldier of Azerbaijani Army Tofig Hajibabayev who was missing during Dashalti operation in 1992 is in Yerevan for 15 years.
26 January 2007 [16:17]
The next assembly of CIS Foreign Ministers Council will be held in the capital of Kazakhstan Astana on April 25.
26 January 2007 [16:16]
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Ren? van der Linden interviewed by the APA European bureau.
26 January 2007 [12:15]
The member of the Azerbaijani delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, parliamentarian Rafael Huseynov gave a written question to the CE Committee of Ministers.
26 January 2007 [12:09]
"OSCE supports the attempts of power and opposition to come to joint opinion," said acting head of OSCE Baku Office Robin Seaward.
26 January 2007 [10:58]
Armenia is not nervous for Azerbaijan's active arming, stated Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia colonel-general Mikayel Harutyunyan.
26 January 2007 [01:49]
Foreign mediators trying to resolve a long-standing territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan voiced optimism, but appeared to diverge Thursday on whether the resolution of Kosovo's final status would be a firm precedent.
26 January 2007 [01:20]
Speaker of Milli Majlis Ogtay Asadov received the members of Azerbaijani-Greek Friendship Group led by Maximos Harakopoulos.
26 January 2007 [01:00]
Azerbaijan Path Political Movement chairman Ilgar Gasimov had an operation again.
26 January 2007 [00:56]
Leadership of the Azerbaijan Democrat Party (ADP) has decided to participate in the rally to be held by Musavat Party on January 28.
26 January 2007 [00:39]
Azadiq bloc made changes in its decision on rally.
26 January 2007 [00:29]
"Establishing Association of Israelis of Azeri origin is a good idea," said Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan Arthur Lenk.
25 January 2007 [20:59]
The meeting of the Subcommittee on Nagorno Karabakh was held on Thursday within the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
25 January 2007 [20:55]
Less than a year ago, in February 2006, Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Baku to launch the Year of Russia in Azerbaijan. Now, not even one year after the conclusion of this official celebration of Russian culture, both Azerbaijan and Russia find themselves in a bitter dispute over energy, labor migration, and other issues.
25 January 2007 [19:25]
Azerbaijan's integration into Euro-Atlantic structures is going much slower than in Georgia's case, mainly due to fear of Russia and Iran.
25 January 2007 [19:04]
"The meeting between OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs with Arkady Ghukasian was constructive," stated Russian co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov.
25 January 2007 [18:52]
"The Nagorno Karabakh negotiation process continues constructively and thoroughly. We are happy to notice that both sides make very constructive contributions to our efforts," stated OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Bernard Fassier of France.
25 January 2007 [18:50]
During consultations with Azeri authorities the main principles of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement were discussed, as well as energy issues, stated American Co-Chair Matthew Bryza in the airport of Baku.
25 January 2007 [18:43]
"As a co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group, Russia considers that the Azerbaijani and Armenian should meet. It is difficult to say when the meeting will be held. But Russia considers that the meeting should take place as soon as possible," said Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vasili Istratov.
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