Politics
08 November 2006 [23:04]
The European Commission set Turkey a mid-December deadline on Wednesday to open its ports to shipping from Cyprus or face consequences for its troubled European Union membership bid.
08 November 2006 [22:39]
Talks between the Azerbaijani Government and Venice Commission concerning the law "On the freedom of assembly" scheduled for November 9-10 in Baku were delayed.
08 November 2006 [22:23]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev congratulated his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmonov on re-election as the President of his country.
08 November 2006 [22:13]
The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, visited NATO HQ on 8 November to discuss NATO-Azerbaijan relations as well as regional security issues.
08 November 2006 [22:09]
Before coming to Moscow on November 8, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visited the opposite geopolitical pole, Brussels. He is carrying on his father's policy of balancing and maneuvering.
08 November 2006 [18:04]
Official Minsk realizes the essence of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
08 November 2006 [15:20]
The opposition Democratic Party has won control over the House of Representatives at the elections to the U.S. Congress.
08 November 2006 [13:56]
France Ambassador to Turkey Paul Poudade has been to Isgenderun city of Hatay region.
08 November 2006 [13:52]
"2006 is convenient year for Azerbaijan and Armenia to solve Nagorno Karabakh conflict, because no elections are held during this year," Armenian President Robert Kocharyan said during his meeting with the representatives of Armenian community in Astana.
08 November 2006 [13:50]
"There is stability in Azerbaijan and Armenian front line," special representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk told journalists.
08 November 2006 [13:38]
US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne E. Derse will help Azerbaijan with problems on compulsory insurance of foreigners.
08 November 2006 [12:54]
Defense Ministry Main Inspection Department is abolished.
08 November 2006 [12:42]
Today Milli Majlis started to discuss 2007 Draft State Budget.
08 November 2006 [10:47]
"There has been no discussion on the appointment of Executive Board chief. We can not say who will lead the board," Musavat Deputy Chairman Arif Hajili told the APA. He said that only the chairman has the right to appoint the Management Chief.
07 November 2006 [23:19]
After Azerbaijan's Prime Minister Artur Rasizade and visiting Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Jordan Marouf al-Bakhit met behind closed doors, the meeting continued in the presence of the two countries' delegations.
07 November 2006 [22:24]
On November 7, Chairman of the Polish Senate Bogdan Borusewicz arrived in Baku.
07 November 2006 [22:20]
Several opposition members have criticized the Armenian authorities for continuing to yield the country's economic potential to Russia in a bid to secure its favors during the upcoming elections.
07 November 2006 [22:06]
Being on official visit to Brussels Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev met with EU Secretary General for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana.
07 November 2006 [22:02]
Armenian destructions damage Azerbaijan by AZN 23 249 823 960.
07 November 2006 [22:01]
"The editor-in-chief of the journal Monitor Elmar Huseynov's murder is a great shock for Azerbaijan," the Azerbaijan President said at the press conference held together with the President of European Commission Jose Manuel Barozzo.
07 November 2006 [21:59]
A visit to EU headquarters by a confident Azerbaijani president on November 7 marked a new stage in the relationship between the two sides.
07 November 2006 [21:57]
"We have no agreement on Nagorno Karabakh referendum, we will have discussions on the eve of the Azerbaijani and Armenian ministers' meeting on November 14 in Brussels and determine our position on the referendum," said OSCE Minsk Group co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov.
07 November 2006 [14:53]
Constitutional court together with CE Venice Commission will hold an international conference on the theme "Relations between Constitutional Court and courts of common jurisdiction".
07 November 2006 [13:54]
"The tense of the processes make more probably the war between Iran and USA. But it is not obvious when the operations will begin," South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement leader Mahmudali Chohraganli stated.
07 November 2006 [12:44]
Azerbaijani, Russian and Iranian railway senior officials will meet in Tehran to discuss the Project on North-South transport corridor, Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Transportation Musa Panahov told that the trilateral meeting will take place in late November.
06 November 2006 [23:39]
Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is satisfied with Russia's mediation in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement.
06 November 2006 [23:31]
Chairman of the State Social Protection Fund of Azerbaijan Salim Muslimov met with the Ambassador of the United States to Azerbaijan Anne Derse.
06 November 2006 [23:20]
Azerbaijani Constitution turns 11 years on November 12.
06 November 2006 [23:18]
Georgian citizen Teymuraz Aliyev suspected in the murder of editor-in-chief of the Monitor journal Elmar Huseynov is searched by Interpol in a great number of countries.
06 November 2006 [20:53]
Kyrgyzstan president Kurmanbek Bakiyev considered the opposition's demand and submitted the new variant of Constitution to the parliament's discussion.
06 November 2006 [18:38]
PACE rapporteur Leo Platvoet's report on Missing people in South Caucasus can be discussed in the spring session of the organization.
06 November 2006 [18:02]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on November 6 at President Palace received delegation of the Kingdom of Jordan headed by the Prime Minister of country, the defense minister Maruf al-Bakhit.
06 November 2006 [18:01]
President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Belgium began today.
06 November 2006 [16:55]
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Jordan, the defense minister Maruf al-Bakhit on November 6 at the "Hyatt Park" Hotel has met with the defense minister of Azerbaijan, colonel-general Safar Abiyev.
06 November 2006 [16:33]
Jordan's Prime Minister Maruf al-Bakhit is on visit to Azerbaijan.
06 November 2006 [14:10]
"Death penalty on Saddam Hussain aims to bring additional dividends to President Bush in the US Congress elections," Husnu Mahalli, BBC radio Arabian service chief, political correspondent of the "Evening" newspaper, stated.
06 November 2006 [14:05]
Iran is ready to share its missile systems with friends and neighbours, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards said, after he showed off missiles including some he said had cluster warheads.
06 November 2006 [14:00]
Bulent Ecevit, a five-time Turkish premier and socialist leader who ordered the invasion of Cyprus and in his later years pushed his country towards the West, has died. He was 81.
06 November 2006 [13:01]
Azerbaijanian President Ilham Aliyev is leaving for Brussels on Monday on a two- day visit and afterwards, he will pay a working visit to Moscow.
06 November 2006 [11:55]
Armenian Armed Forces' units in occupied Yusifjanli village of Aghdam region fired on opposite positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces with machine and submachine guns since 01.10 to 01.30 this night.
05 November 2006 [14:53]
Moscow may endorse a UN Security Council resolution on Iran provided a number of conditions are met, the Russian foreign minister said Saturday.
05 November 2006 [14:47]
About 12,000 Turkish secularists marched in the capital on Saturday to protest against what they see as a rising Islamist influence under Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government, Anatolian news agency said.
05 November 2006 [14:34]
Thousands of Iranians, including elementary school students, chanted anti-U.S. and anti-Israel slogans Saturday and burned flags of the two countries to celebrate the 27th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover by militant students.
05 November 2006 [14:32]
Kemal Dervis, the head of the U.N. Development Program, warned the European Union that the bloc should repair its relations with Turkey or else it will face the collapse of strategic ties with unpredictable consequences.
05 November 2006 [14:22]
With the support of the UNDP, the seventh roundtable meeting of ombudspersons of CIS and Central European counries will be held November 19-21 in Czech city of Karlovy Vary, Azerbaijan ombudsman's office said.
05 November 2006 [14:14]
A group of employees of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population will visit France within short time.
04 November 2006 [22:17]
Speaker of the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan Ogtay Asadov met on Saturday with Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of Iraq to Azerbaijan Arshad Omar Ismail.
04 November 2006 [15:33]
Some Azadlig block members continue hunger strike for removing Azadlig paper from the building where it operated. Two members stopped the strike due to health problem.
04 November 2006 [14:57]
The list prepared by the Right Defense Organization Monitoring Group and published in the press caused inconvenience.
04 November 2006 [13:13]
"I do not accept the thought that PACE co-rapporteurs paid great attention to the problem of political prisoners during their visit to Azerbaijan," Ramiz Mehdiyev the head of President Administration told journalists.
04 November 2006 [13:03]
On November 3, President Ilham Aliyev received credentials from newly appointed Ambassador of Latvia to Azerbaijan Mihails Popkovs.
04 November 2006 [12:54]
Amendments to the Azerbaijan's Criminal Code and the Criminal Punishment Code earlier passed by the parliament and aimed at intensifying the fight against corruption have come into force under Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's Friday decree.
04 November 2006 [12:48]
"Azerbaijan and Armenia haven't replied our suggestion about presidents' next meeting yet," Yuri Merzlyakov, OSCE Minsk Group Russian co-chair, stated.
04 November 2006 [11:34]
"The opposition wants to organize rally in the center of the city in Azadliq square. But there is a law about it and it does not allow organizing rally in the center of the city," Ramiz Mehdiyev, the head of President Administration told journalists.
03 November 2006 [17:02]
In accordance with mandate of the special envoy of the OSCE Chairman-In-Office, on November 3, a monitoring was conducted near the Fizuli-Horadiz highway in the Fizuli region of Azerbaijan, on the contact line of troops.
03 November 2006 [16:58]
The Polish Senate speaker Bogdan Borusewicz will be on official visit to Azerbaijan on November 7, Polish ambassador to Azerbaijan Krzysztof Krajewski told journalists.
03 November 2006 [16:30]
Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov met November 2 with newly appointed ambassador of Latvia Mihails Popkovs.
03 November 2006 [16:26]
On November 3, President Ilham Aliyev received credentials from Javid Gureysh, the newly appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of Pakistan to Azerbaijan.
03 November 2006 [16:23]
"The solution of the Nagorno Karabakh issue does not depend on other countries but is the own business of Azerbaijan, which has to solve it on its own," Azeri Deputy FM, former Ambassador to the US Hafiz Pashayev stated November 2.
03 November 2006 [16:21]
Experts of Jane's Research Center consider settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict before 2009 utterly unlikely.
03 November 2006 [15:57]
Iran is ready to share expertise with Azerbaijan in campaign against narcotic drugs, said Secretary general of Iran's Drugs Campaign Headquarters (IDCH) Fada Hossein Maleki here on Friday.
03 November 2006 [15:31]
There is no consensus on the next meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijan Military Ministers, National Security Council chief and Military Minister Serge Sarkisian stated.
03 November 2006 [15:28]
Scandal happened at the meeting of Staff Generals chiefs of Collective Security Treaty Organisation member countries in Moscow.
03 November 2006 [15:04]
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovich said that Kosovo may be an example for Nagorno Karabakh.
03 November 2006 [14:13]
"We wish to improve fraternal relations between Azerbaijan and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The main target in our relations with Azerbaijan is to establish cultural and social relations," Mehmed Ali Talat, the President of TRNC, stated at the briefing held for foreign media in Istanbul.
03 November 2006 [13:05]
"Iran's support for such actions is not innovation," Israel Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan Arthur Lenk told while showing his attitude to Iranian Hemshehri newspaper's caricature competition on Holocaust.
03 November 2006 [10:25]
In accordance with the mandate of personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-office, a monitoring will be held in Fizuli, near Fizuli-Horadiz road, in the contact line of troops.
03 November 2006 [10:24]
Court of Appeal headed by Judge Rasim Isgenderov considered the appeal against the decision of Nasimi District Court on prolonging former Health Minister Ali Insanov's detention for six months.
03 November 2006 [10:00]
Beginning from 16.59 divisions of Armenian Armed Forces violated ceasefire in the direction of Aghdam region, at the same time explosions were heard from the occupied territories of the region.
02 November 2006 [22:56]
President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree on appointment of Rovshan Jamshidov as Azerbaijan's Ambassador to Korea.
02 November 2006 [22:44]
Andres Herkel and Tony Lloyd, PACE Monitoring Committee co-rapporteurs for Azerbaijan held press conference on the results of their visit to the country.
02 November 2006 [21:58]
British Petroleum's gleaming, ultramodern Sangachal oil terminal is the face of Azerbaijan that President Ilham Aliyev wants the world to see.
02 November 2006 [21:39]
Tony Llyod and Anders Herkel, PACE co-rapporteurs met with members of working group on the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
02 November 2006 [20:38]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a congratulatory message to President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus on his 80th birthday.
02 November 2006 [20:24]
Police in Azerbaijan Wednesday dispersed some 500 unsanctioned opposition demonstrators campaigning for a free press, who were protesting the eviction of their newspaper from its current offices.
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