Politics
11 April 2007 [16:31]
Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov visiting Syria met with Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shaara.
11 April 2007 [16:30]
The session of the Working Group on Human Rights composed of representatives of authorities and rights activists discussed questions of granting amnesty act, pardon decree and other issues.
11 April 2007 [16:24]
Internews-Azerbaijan Public Union provided training for journalists, operators, editors working in the regions through financial support of the US Embassy in Azerbaijan.
11 April 2007 [16:22]
The US embassy has not yet received the letter of Public Union "Nagorno Karabakh's Azerbaijani community," the US Embassy public affairs officer Jonathan Henick told journalists.
11 April 2007 [16:21]
As usual, we do not recognize the results of elections, referendum, and such events held in Nagorno Karabakh in the current situation, US Embassy public affairs officer Jonathan Henick said when commenting on so-called "presidential elections" to be held in Nagorno Karabakh by separatist regime on July 19.
11 April 2007 [14:38]
Georgian Parliamentary Chairperson Nino Burjanadze called on political forces to refrain from making such statements that will artificially aggravate the relations with a strategic partner, Azerbaijan regarding the border delimitation issues.
11 April 2007 [14:15]
Azerbaijani Embassy in India is organizing different events to publicize the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and expose genocide of Azerbaijanis committed by Armenians.
11 April 2007 [14:04]
Armenian Armed Forces fired on the positions of Azerbaijani Army Gapanli village from the occupied Shotlandli and Namirli villages of Aghdam and Seysulan village of Tartar for two hours from 23.00 yesterday by machine and submachine guns, local residents told.
11 April 2007 [13:26]
Alexander Chepurin, head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department for ties with Russians living abroad will arrive in Azerbaijan.
11 April 2007 [13:16]
Chief of the State Committee on Azerbaijanis Living Abroad Nazim Ibrahimov held several meetings in Jerusalem.
11 April 2007 [13:15]
Representatives of Council of Europe Venice Commission arrived in Azerbaijan.
11 April 2007 [12:40]
Though Baku Executive Power provided Rasul Guliyev's Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) Rasulzadah Settlement Oilmen's Culture Palace to hold conference the leadership of palace rejected party's conference arrangement.
11 April 2007 [12:08]
The next sitting of the parliament will be held on April 13.
11 April 2007 [12:07]
Azerbaijani Ombudsperson Elmira Suleymanova will attend the 10th roundtable of European ombudsmen in Athens.
11 April 2007 [11:25]
Azerbaijani ambassador to the US Yashar Aliyev made speech in George Mason University.
11 April 2007 [10:22]
Is Iran bluffing about the progress of its nuclear program? Experts and some world powers are expressing doubt that the country has been able to assemble the complicated system it needs to enrich uranium — a potential pathway to nuclear arms.
11 April 2007 [10:20]
Serbia can never agree to let go of Kosovo, the president said, but also warned that the troubled nation will avoid isolation reminiscent of the Milosevic era only if it keeps pushing toward mainstream Europe.
11 April 2007 [09:25]
Imprisoned leader of Yeni Fikir Youth Organization Ruslan Bashirli's lawyer will apply to the European Court of Human Rights.
11 April 2007 [09:19]
Rights defenders will take united stance on Azerbaijan in the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
11 April 2007 [09:13]
Azerbaijani parliament passed a decision on changing the composition of the parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE).
11 April 2007 [09:12]
Morocco parliament speaker is to visit Azerbaijan at the invitation of his counterpart from Azerbaijan Ogtay Asadov.
11 April 2007 [09:09]
The statute on the establishment of GUAM peacekeeping forces have not been prepared yet.
11 April 2007 [09:05]
The co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group, which is mediating in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, are analyzing the working schedules of Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers, OSCE Minsk co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov stated.
11 April 2007 [09:03]
Azadliq alliance will start discussions on organizing rallies after the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
11 April 2007 [09:02]
The report on the implementation of commitments assumed by Azerbaijan drawn up by Andres Herkel and Tony Lloyd, co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) can be amended.
11 April 2007 [08:58]
15 issues have been submitted for approval at the sitting of Azerbaijani parliament.
11 April 2007 [08:32]
The meeting of the working group on human rights, composed of members of the government and rights defenders will be held tomorrow, Chingiz Ganizade, member of the working group, chief of Committee for Democracy and Human Rights stated.
11 April 2007 [08:30]
A U.S. diplomat has denied rumors that the United States has been conducting talks on the possible placement of a U.S. missile shield in the South Caucasus.
11 April 2007 [08:28]
"That Sardar Jalaloghlu instituted a suit against Baku executive power makes no sense."
10 April 2007 [16:44]
Soon the Venice Commission and Azerbaijani government will discuss the country's Electoral Code in Baku, the Commission told.
10 April 2007 [15:46]
"Azerbaijani community of Nagorno Karabakh" Public Union sent a protest letter to the embassies of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries in Azerbaijan and OSCE Office in Baku in protest against US company SEMA preparing general plan of Shusha, Public Union chief Nizami Bahmanov told.
10 April 2007 [15:35]
After the amendments to the migration legislation of Russia, there was not any problem in Russian markets.
10 April 2007 [15:18]
Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is visiting Jordan. Azerbaijani honorary consul to Lebanon Nazih Gassub told that Foreign Minister will meet with Jordanian media representatives and talk with business circles of the state.
10 April 2007 [13:41]
"The United States has not changed position on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. We support Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and as the co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, we continue to make efforts for a peaceful settlement of the conflict," US Embassy public affairs officer Jonathan Henick told.
10 April 2007 [13:23]
After Kurdish region President Masud Barzani's statements against Turkey's territorial integrity and latest PKK terror actions when 10 Turkish soldiers died official Ankara protested Iraq government with diplomatic note, Turkish media appreciated this diplomatic note as ultimatum.
10 April 2007 [13:03]
Azerbaijani Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the United States Yashar Aliyev addressed the conference in the US Congress on the theme "Who derives benefit from international conflicts?".
10 April 2007 [12:55]
Chief of State Committee for Azerbaijanis Living Abroad Nazim Ibrahimov has met with Jews who moved from Azerbaijan in Haifa, Israel.
10 April 2007 [09:12]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) Chairman Zahid Akman and an accompanying delegation in Baku on Friday.
10 April 2007 [09:00]
Azerbaijan National Independence party (ANIP) intends to appeal to president for provision with office.
10 April 2007 [08:49]
Azerbaijan Prosecutor's Office did not allow Jamil Hasanov, the head of Rights Defense Committee for Farhad and Rafig Aliyev brothers to meet with them in the prison.
10 April 2007 [08:46]
"Several parties will sign cooperation agreement one of these days," the chairman of Classic Popular Front Party Mirmahmud Miralioghlu (CPFP) said.
10 April 2007 [08:45]
Soon the gathering of the Working Group on Human Rights composed of government representatives and rights defenders is expected to be held.
10 April 2007 [08:36]
Mayor of Amman Omar Al Ma'ani affirmed that Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) was keen to develop the capital city and to achieve further accomplishments throughout the comprehensive planning process, whose results were announced last month.
10 April 2007 [08:34]
The delegation from Vietnam's Foreign Ministry pays an official visit to Azerbaijan, press secretary of Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry Khazar Ibrahim informs.
10 April 2007 [08:33]
"Potable water resources are very important in regard to the future of the world," said Turkish Environment & Forestry Minister Osman Pepe in a meeting with Azerbaijani Ecology & Natural Resources Minister Huseyngulu Bagirov in Baku.
10 April 2007 [08:30]
Karabagh Liberation Organization (KLO) Youth Union conducted a poll on Karabakh options in different places of Baku in early April.
10 April 2007 [08:24]
In a timely decision, Azerbaijan recently granted NATO the permission to use two of its military bases and an airport to "back up its peace-keeping operation in Afghanistan" including support for NATO's "supply route to Afghanistan".
10 April 2007 [08:21]
Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Naser Hamidi on Monday held talks with Azeri Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov on issues of mutual interest.
09 April 2007 [23:47]
Jordan's Foreign Minister Abdel Elah Al-Khatib and his Azeri counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed to improve bilateral cooperation and exchanging viewpoints on issues of mutual concern.
09 April 2007 [23:28]
"I am leaving Azerbaijan with a mixed picture," said Walter K?lin, the UN Secretary-General's Representative for the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons at the end of his mission to Azerbaijan.
09 April 2007 [23:14]
President of National NGO Forum (NNGOF), parliamentarian Azay Guliyev has appealed to OSCE Chairman-in-Office Miguel Anhel Moratinos for release of the captured Azerbaijani soldier Samir Mammadov, the forum told.
09 April 2007 [22:25]
"The aim of my government is to reach peace agreement with Azerbaijan on the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict," the new Prime Minister of Armenia Serge Sarkisian told "The Financial Times".
09 April 2007 [16:15]
Jordan's Senate President Zeid Rifai received on Monday the Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
09 April 2007 [16:10]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, visiting Jordan met with Prime Minister Maaruf al-Bakht.
09 April 2007 [14:40]
"I am leaving Azerbaijan with a mixed picture," said Walter Kallin, the UN Secretary-General’s Representative for the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons at the end of his mission to Azerbaijan.
09 April 2007 [13:42]
An International Conference on the Role of Media in the Development of Tolerance and Mutual Understanding will be held in Baku on April 26-28 the framework of Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
09 April 2007 [13:19]
The Terror Free Tomorrow held public opinion survey in Turkey.
09 April 2007 [11:52]
09 April 2007 [11:36]
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov is visiting Middle East.
09 April 2007 [11:20]
The delegation led by Nazim Ibrahimov, chief of the State Committee for Azerbaijanis Living Abroad left for Israel to participate in the constituent conference of Israel-Azerbaijan International Association scheduled for April 12 in Tel Aviv.
08 April 2007 [11:30]
The chairman of Azerbaijan Committee against Tortures Elchin Behbudov met the prisoner of detention isolator ? 1 in Bayil of Penitentiary Service of Justice Ministry, former chief of Interior Ministry's Main Criminal Investigation Department.
08 April 2007 [11:28]
Defense ministry is making investigations concerning it.
08 April 2007 [11:27]
Divisions of Armenian Armed Forces from their positions in the occupied village of Talish of Terter region fired on the opposite positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces by machine and sub-machine guns beginning from Friday evening till morning.
08 April 2007 [11:26]
The negotiations on the amendments to the election legislation between Venice Commission of Council of Europe and Azerbaijani government continue.
08 April 2007 [11:16]
The agenda of the spring session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly has been publicized, member of Azerbaijani delegation to NATO PA Siyavush Novruzov told journalists.
08 April 2007 [11:15]
Efforts of several opposition parties and newspapers in defending former ministers Ali Insanov and Farhad Aliyev can seem successfully from the tactical aspect, but it is wrong step from strategic aspect.
08 April 2007 [11:14]
"The reports about placing military equipment and forces on Azerbaijani border with Iran are not true, and the reports about problems in the activity of border check-points are exaggerated," Elchin Guliyev, chief State Border Service said.
07 April 2007 [11:29]
The newly appointed Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian indicated on Friday that he will make no changes in Armenia's interim government and will let it operate until next month's parliamentary elections.
07 April 2007 [11:22]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received Walter Kalin, UN Secretary General's Representative on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, the Ministry's press and information policy department informs.
07 April 2007 [11:05]
The petition submitted to the investigation for creating conditions for detained parliamentarian Huseyn Abdullayev's medical examination has been satisfied, Kamandar Nasibov.
07 April 2007 [11:00]
The delegation from the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) will visit Armenia before the parliamentary elections in the country.
07 April 2007 [10:58]
Baku Mayors' Office allowed a proper place for Azerbaijan Democratic Party's wing (ADP) led by Rasul Guliyev to hold a congress.
07 April 2007 [10:55]
Meeting discussed issues on amendments to the law "On territorial structure and administrative-territorial division."
07 April 2007 [10:53]
Azerbaijan parliament is to pass a law "On Geographical names", said MP Fazail Ibrahimli, the head of the Working Group on draft resolution.
07 April 2007 [10:50]
Peter Semneby, European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus is visiting the U.S.