Politics
19 September 2006 [12:29]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will leave for New York on September 23 to attend the 61st session of the UN General Assembly.
19 September 2006 [11:35]
Official Baku released its opinion on the illegal referendum in so-called "Transdnester Republic" of Moldova.
19 September 2006 [09:55]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received Mary Vernts, former head of the International Committee of the Red Cress (ICRC) representative office in Azerbaijan and newly appointed head Martin Amaher.
19 September 2006 [09:38]
French President Jacques Chirac plans to visit a monument to the victims of Turkish "genocide" on a trip to Armenia.
19 September 2006 [09:28]
The vast majority of voters in Moldova's separatist province of Transdnestr on Sunday backed independence and eventual unification with Russia.
18 September 2006 [22:29]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought backing for more concrete supports for the solidarity among the Turkish speaking countries and communities.
18 September 2006 [21:37]
In compliance with annual plan of the GUAM Working Group on combat against terrorism, drug trafficking and other kinds of dangerous threats of organized crimes, the first meeting of the law-enforcement and special service experts passed in Baku to discuss combat against terrorism, September 15-16.
18 September 2006 [20:52]
The 10th Congress of Friendship, Brotherhood, Cooperation Congress of Turkish-speaking Countries and Communities has started in Antalya, Turkey, September 18.
18 September 2006 [20:37]
President Ilham Aliyev in Antalya's "Sungate Port Royal" hotel has received the State Secretary of Kazakhstan Oralbay Abdikarimov.
18 September 2006 [20:34]
Azerbaijani Defense Minister, colonel-general Safar Abiyev met September 18 with Mrs. Mary Wernts, who completed her mission as the head of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Azerbaijan and with the newly appointed head Martin Amacher.
18 September 2006 [20:30]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on 18 September in Antalya's "Sungate Port Royal" hotel has met with Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
18 September 2006 [19:40]
Members of the California Air National Guard are participating in a disaster response exercise here with civilian and military personnel from Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Moldova.
18 September 2006 [19:38]
Russia's military said Monday its plans for 2006 on withdrawing military hardware from bases in Georgia will be completed Tuesday.
18 September 2006 [19:01]
"Northern Iran" magazine laid claim to Azerbaijani territory and also insulted Azerbaijani historic figure Mammad Emin Rasulzadeh.
18 September 2006 [18:50]
Pope Benedict should use a planned trip to Turkey in November to rebuild ties with the Muslim world, badly strained by his comments that portrayed Islam as a religion tainted by violence, analysts say.
18 September 2006 [18:44]
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today expressed deep concern about the death in custody of Radio Free Europe reporter and human rights activist Ogulsapar Muradova.
18 September 2006 [18:18]
The first meeting of GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) law enforcement and intelligence bodies experts to fight terrorism was held in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku from September 15 to 16.
18 September 2006 [17:12]
The conference of Caucasus Intercultural Festival in the Turkish city of Kars has ended.
18 September 2006 [16:07]
September 17 Al-Jazeera broadcasted an interview of President of Armenia Robert Kocharian to the channel's correspondent Zavyr Shevji.
18 September 2006 [15:09]
"There exist great political, economic and cultural potential in Turkish-speaking countries. We become more powerful when all these potentials are united," Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at the 10th Congress of Friendship, Brotherhood, Cooperation Congress of Turkish-speaking Countries and Communities in Antalya, Turkey.
18 September 2006 [14:45]
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) rapporteur on missing persons, Dutch parliamentarian Leo Platvoet today started his visit to Nagorno Karabakh and Abkhazia.
18 September 2006 [14:29]
"Official Yerevan's stance on the Nagorno Karabakh problem is expected. Armenia thinks it has won the war, and Azerbaijan should make a trade-off. But, official Baku will not award Armenia," said Azerbaijani political scientist Rasim Musabeyov while commenting on official Yerevan's statement on deviation from the negotiating and inefficient results.
18 September 2006 [14:14]
Musavat party's Supreme Assembly former member Nesib Nesibli nominated his candidacy to Musavat Party chairman post.
18 September 2006 [12:37]
The European Parliament will bring five issues on Turkey to a vote at the meeting from September 25 to 28.
18 September 2006 [12:33]
"Nagorno Karabakh's people has determined its fortune and is establishing its independent state now," Armenian president Robert Kocharian said in his speech at the Armenia-Diaspora Armenian Forum.
18 September 2006 [11:06]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev arrived September 17 in the Turkish city of Antalya to participate in the tenth friendship, fraternity and cooperation congress of Turkish-speaking countries and communities.
17 September 2006 [18:39]
A referendum is under way in the breakaway Moldovan region of Trans-Dniestr where voters are expected to back independence and an eventual union with Russia.
17 September 2006 [02:34]
Iran said on Saturday a U.S. report on religious freedoms that criticised the Islamic Republic was politically motivated and ignored Washington's own record of rights abuses, state radio reported.
17 September 2006 [02:29]
With 13 votes for and 5 against the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has put an end to sharp dispute over Richard Hogland's candidacy as new US ambassador to Armenia.
17 September 2006 [02:20]
United States President George W. Bush ruled out meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York where world leaders will gather next week.
17 September 2006 [02:05]
The group of employees of the Azerbaijan Ministry of National Security (MNB) conducts external surveillance and analyses - where and when members of family of the leader of a party of the Popular Front Ali Kerimli buy foodstuff.
17 September 2006 [02:03]
Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) concluded a five-item cooperation agreement with the South Azerbaijan Independence Party (SAIP).
17 September 2006 [01:59]
"Kosovo is the Balkans' Nagorno Karabakh," former Bulgarian President & Balkan Political Club president Zhelyu Zhelev said during his visit to Yerevan.
17 September 2006 [01:50]
In the near future no meetings between Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers are planned, Armenian Minister Vartan Oskanian told journalists on Saturday.
16 September 2006 [14:46]
The Second forum of young leaders of the CIS countries and the Baltic States will pass in Sochi, September 16-19.
16 September 2006 [14:44]
Ombudswoman Elmira Suleymanova has visited Georgia.
16 September 2006 [14:42]
A ceremony on 15th anniversary of independence of Ukraine took place in Kyiv, September 15, organized at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
16 September 2006 [14:31]
On September 15, Chairman of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Azerbaijan (ACTU) Sattar Mehbaliyev met with the visiting delegation of Turkey led by Minister of labor and social security Murat Bashesgioglu.
16 September 2006 [14:22]
Azerbaijan Defense Minister Safar Abiyev is expected to visit Turkey soon.
16 September 2006 [14:14]
Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received the US Deputy Defense Ministry Jim MacDougall.
16 September 2006 [10:35]
The date of Iran's Parliament Speaker Gulamali Haddad Adelin's visit to Azerbaijan has not been specified, Mohammadrza Rashad, Iranian deputy ambassador told.
16 September 2006 [10:31]
Azerbaijani ambassador to Georgia Namig Aliyev visited Lagodekhi and Telavi regions in Kakhetia to get closely acquainted with the living conditions of Azerbaijanis there.
16 September 2006 [09:59]
Russia and Azerbaijan intends to expand military technical cooperation. A special program has been prepared for this, Vasili Istratov, Russian ambassador to Azerbaijan told the journalists.
16 September 2006 [09:49]
The meeting of the Azerbaijan-France intergovernmental commission will be held in Paris from October 30 till 3 November.
15 September 2006 [23:24]
Iran, Venezuela and other states opposed to U.S. policy sought to forge a common front on Friday at a Non-Aligned summit that Cuban leader Fidel Castro was declared too ill to chair.
15 September 2006 [20:16]
A delegation of the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan led by Lieutenant-General Eldar Mahmudov was from 11 to 13 September in Istanbul, Turkey to participate in the ninth Session of the Conference of the heads of security bodies of Turkish speaking nations including Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
15 September 2006 [20:14]
Chairman of the Nakhchivan Supreme Majlis (Parliament) Vasif Talibov met with the ambassador of India to Azerbaijan Jyoti Svarup Pande.
15 September 2006 [20:11]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on September 15 at Presidential Palace received the delegation led by the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Jim MacDougall.
15 September 2006 [20:08]
Member of Azerbaijan Parliament Rafael Huseynov on 15 September will take part at meeting of the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in the city of Nafplion, Greece.
15 September 2006 [20:04]
President Ilham Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Republic congratulated the President of the United States of Mexico Vicente Fox Quesada on Independence Day.
15 September 2006 [14:51]
"Any unsanctioned opposition rallies will be prevented by police forces," chief of Baku Main Police Department, Lt. Gen. Maharram Aliyev told journalists.
15 September 2006 [14:49]
Azerbaijani parliament is not going to discuss Electoral Code at the autumn session.
15 September 2006 [14:12]
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense James C. MacDougall is visiting Azerbaijan from September 14 to 16 for meetings and discussions with at the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs.
15 September 2006 [13:57]
Honorary consul in Lebanon Nazih Gassoub is due to visit Baku in late September, the honorary consul told.
15 September 2006 [13:55]
Azerbaijani public representatives expressed their discontent with the invitation to the Congress of Turkish-speaking States in Antalya on September 18.
15 September 2006 [09:57]
Azerbaijan Defense Industry Ministry (DIM) considers joint projects with Ukraine's relevant bodies.
15 September 2006 [09:21]
Armenia is ready to establish diplomatic relations with Turkey without any preconditions, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakosyan said Thursday at his meeting with schoolchildren.
14 September 2006 [21:30]
"EU is concerned over developments in the South Caucasus and considers necessary to prevent escalation of tension in the region," EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby said at a news conference in Moscow Wednesday.
14 September 2006 [21:18]
Almost all the unsuccessful politicians in many of the EU countries have recently been talking about the issue of Turkey's full membership to the EU.
14 September 2006 [21:09]
Most Armenians are against having an open border with Turkey as long as the latter refuses to recognize the 1915 Armenian "genocide," according to a new U.S.-funded opinion poll.
14 September 2006 [21:07]
Official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Mikhail Kamynin commented on the outcomes of discussion in UN General Assembly the issue of introducing a new agenda item in the UN GA 61 session on delayed conflicts on GUAM space (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova).
14 September 2006 [20:58]
"Azerbaijani and Armenian state commissions for prisoners of war, missing persons and hostages will cooperate more closely after I present my report to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly," said Leo Platvoet, rapporteur of PACE for prisoners of war and missing persons in the South Caucasus.
14 September 2006 [16:30]
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has protested to the U.S. government over what it says is false information about Iran's nuclear program.
14 September 2006 [15:11]
The European Union has, since 1992 up to today, implemented programmes and projects in Azerbaijan worth more than 400 million euros. Aid was focused on different topics over time.
14 September 2006 [14:51]
The Diplomatic Academy under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan will organize lectures on "Diplomacy of Regional Countries: View from Washington."
14 September 2006 [14:30]
President Ilham Aliyev received the delegation led by Turkish Minister of Labor and Social Security Murat Bashesgioglu.
14 September 2006 [14:27]
NATO considers the increase of defense expenditure in Azerbaijan as political issue.
14 September 2006 [14:24]
The UN General Assembly decided on September 13 to include a new item on conflicts in the Black Sea-South Caucasus region in the work programme of its sixty-first session.
14 September 2006 [14:15]
President Ilham Aliyev received the delegation of the Washington-based Central Asia-Caucasus Institute led by its Chairman Frederick Starr.
14 September 2006 [14:13]
The Azeri and Armenian foreign ministers will hold a meeting on the Karabakh settlement on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York City on September 25-26.
14 September 2006 [11:39]
On birth of the first grandson of Emperor of Japan Akihito, in the Imperial Palace was arranged ceremony of records in the book of congratulations.
14 September 2006 [11:33]
Turkish Minister of Labor and Social Security Murat Basesgioglu and his accompanying delegation arrived September 13 in Azerbaijan.
14 September 2006 [11:29]
Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Ukraine Talat Aliyev has visited the Diplomatic Academy under the MFA of Ukraine.
14 September 2006 [09:21]
The Georgian Times interviewed Azerbaijan's ambassador to Georgia Namig Aliyev.
14 September 2006 [08:46]
Newly appointed Pakistani aAmbassador to Azerbaijan Javid Gureyshi has arrived in Baku.
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