Politics
31 August 2006 [20:43]
"Azerbaijan's Embassy can be opened in Israel if Azerbaijan offers," Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan Arthur Lenk told journalists.
31 August 2006 [20:41]
French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Bernard Fassier in his telephone talks with Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov offered the foreign ministers (Azerbaijani and Armenian) to meet either in Paris on 12-13 September or in London on 14-15 September.
31 August 2006 [20:39]
Turkey's Foreign Ministry commented on the U.S co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Mathew Bryza's calling for the parties to the Nagorno Karabakh to make a trade-off.
31 August 2006 [20:32]
"The facts on the arsons committed in Azerbaijani occupied territories by Armenians were presented to international organizations, but they are indifferent to these facts.
31 August 2006 [15:00]
"I do not rule out the re-start of hostilities in Nagorno Garabagh. But I think Azerbaijan will not take this step which might lead to its annihilation," said Arkadi Gukasyan, head of the separatist regime functioning in the occupied Azerbaijani territories.
31 August 2006 [14:26]
Azerbaijan will not hold talks with the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno Karabakh at the current stage of conflict settlement.
31 August 2006 [13:30]
Azerbaijan's southern border is violated more often, State Border Service head Elchin Guliyev told journalists.
31 August 2006 [13:23]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan congratulated the president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov on the country's national holiday - Independence Day.
31 August 2006 [13:22]
President Ilham Aliyev congratulated leader of the Libyan Revolution, Head of the People's Socialist Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Muammar Al-Gaddafi, on the national holiday of his country - Day of Revolution.
31 August 2006 [13:21]
President Ilham Aliyev congratulated the president of the Republic of Slovakia Mr. Ivan Gasparovic on the country's Constitution Day.
31 August 2006 [13:19]
President Ilham Aliyev sent a message of congratulations to the President of the Republic of Korea Roh Moo-hyun on his 60th birthday, wishing health, happiness and success in his activity.
31 August 2006 [11:53]
4607 candidates will compete in elections in 603 municipalities on 82 districts for 1931 seats, appointed for October 6, press service of the Central Election Commission said.
31 August 2006 [11:50]
Representatives of the US Department of State, the Marshall Heritage Institute, the International Trust Fund of Slovenia and the Rotary Club International will be in Azerbaijan with a working visit on September 4.
31 August 2006 [11:50]
"It is no matter that EU commissioner is dissatisfied with the increases in defense expenditure in Azerbaijan," stated Azerbaijani Defense Minister, Col.Gen Safar Abiyev.
31 August 2006 [11:41]
"Military relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey are developing, and we are making serious efforts to strengthen this cooperation," Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev told journalists.
31 August 2006 [11:38]
Russia's appearance on the list of threats to U.S. national security is a curious event.
31 August 2006 [11:34]
Interior Minister Ramil Usubov has taken a leave for 12 days.
31 August 2006 [10:16]
The negotiations between Azerbaijan and the European Union on the European Neighborhood Policy action plan have not yet ended.
31 August 2006 [09:40]
A strategic forum "Caspian Outlook 2008" took place on August 27 - 28 in Bled, Slovenia.
30 August 2006 [21:08]
President Ilham Aliyev has sent a message of congratulations to his Kyrgyz counterpart Kurmanbek Bakiyev on the occasion of the Independence Day of Kyrgyzstan.
30 August 2006 [21:05]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent congratulatory messages to Supreme Head Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin and Prime Minister Abdulla bin Ahmad Badawi of Malaysia on the country's Independence Day.
30 August 2006 [20:56]
Armenian President's press secretary Viktor Soghomonian gave a press briefing in Yerevan.
30 August 2006 [20:47]
"It's early to talk about Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents' meeting," Armenian President Robert Kocharyan's press secretary Victor Sogogmonyan told a press conference today in Yerevan.
30 August 2006 [20:41]
Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko will visit Azerbaijan on September 7-8.
30 August 2006 [20:32]
The International Day of the Disappeared, 30 August, is when we remember those who have been abducted, are held in clandestine places of detention, tortured and, in some cases, killed.
30 August 2006 [20:22]
The Council of Europe Venice Commission expects the Azerbaijani government to present a project compiled on the basis of its recommendations on the Electoral Code.
30 August 2006 [19:55]
"Azerbaijan's deploying peacekeeping forces to Lebanon inside international peacekeeping contingent is not topic of discussion," Azerbaijan's Defense Minister Safar Abiyev told journalists.
30 August 2006 [16:52]
"Though 2006 is the promising year for the resolution of the Nagorno Garabagh conflict, Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents failed to reach an agreement in Paris and Bucharest," OSCE Chairman, Belgium Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht told Russian media.
30 August 2006 [13:45]
New German Ambassador to Azerbaijan Per Christopher Stanchina, who presented his credentials to President Ilham Aliyev on 3 August, held a press conference today.
30 August 2006 [10:18]
"We'll never cosent to the attempts to consolidate some part of Azerbaijani territories with Armenia," leader of Turkey's Working Party & chief coordinator of Talat Pasha Movement Dogu Perincek told.
30 August 2006 [09:56]
The Karabakh Liberation Organization's Elderly Council appealed to Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member states presidents for holding a high level conference on the Karabakh conflict.
30 August 2006 [09:49]
Fires in territories, bordering to Nagorno Karabakh, have been lasting for about two months.
30 August 2006 [09:47]
Office of Caucasian Muslims chief Sheykhulislam Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh received new Belarus Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikolay Patskevich.
30 August 2006 [09:11]
New German Ambassador to Azerbaijan Pyer K. Stankina accepted Azerbaijan Women's Rights Defense Society chairwoman Novella Jafaroghlu, Oilman’s Rights Defense Committee chairwoman Mirvari Gahramanli and Development Fund chairman Murad Sadeddinov.
30 August 2006 [08:59]
One more echelon loaded with weapons, military supplies and equipment withdrawn from Russian 62nd military base in Akhalkalak, Georgia started off from Chalka railway station of Georgia at 9:00a.m today.
30 August 2006 [08:54]
Central Election Commission Training Group specialists held trainings in six more constituencies due to repeat, additional, new and first time local elections today, Azer Sariyev, CEC press service officer informs.
29 August 2006 [21:21]
Ilham Aliyev states the negotiation process is a primary option.
29 August 2006 [21:17]
Representatives from 36 countries are scheduled to attend September 9 in Baku, the 5th conference of Tourism Ministers of the Organization for Islamic Conference (OIC) member states, Aydin Ismiyev, head of tourism department of the Ministry of Culture & Tourism said.
29 August 2006 [21:13]
In the framework of his official trip to Slovenia, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First lady Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva today visited National Assembly, the lower house of the country's parliament.
29 August 2006 [20:49]
Brussels has voiced alarm at the mounting risk of open warfare in the EU's southeast neighbours - Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - amid European plans to sign new cooperation pacts and build new pipelines in the region.
29 August 2006 [16:44]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced defiance on Tuesday as a deadline neared for Iran to halt work the West fears is a step toward building nuclear bombs, and challenged President Bush to televised debate.
29 August 2006 [15:50]
Next round of talks on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict will take place in mid-September.
29 August 2006 [14:02]
Armed Forces peacekeeping party started trainings related to deploying peacekeepers to Lebanon.
29 August 2006 [13:40]
"The Karabakh peace talks are at a critical point, and the international community must do its best to bring Azerbaijan back into constructive course for serious discussion of the principles that are currently on the negotiating table," Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said while speaking at the Caspian Prospects 2008 congress in Bled, Slovenia.
29 August 2006 [09:38]
China's and Kazakhstan's participation in the construction of Kars-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Baku railway is another failure of Armenia's Foreign Ministry.
29 August 2006 [09:13]
Azerbaijan's patience is wearing thin over the lack of movement toward Nagorno Karabakh peace settlement, and officials in Baku are taking out their frustration on the OSCE's trouble-shooter responsible for monitoring the cease-fire.
29 August 2006 [09:09]
The Association of the European and Mediterranean Police Forces and Gendarmeries with Military Status (FIEP) approves the cooperation between Azerbaijani Interior Forces and the FIEP.
28 August 2006 [22:23]
The Israeli soldier, who was captured by Palestinian militants in Gaza and triggered Israel's massive offensive in the region, was in "good condition," a spokesman for the Hamas-led Palestinian government said Monday.
28 August 2006 [20:23]
Umid (Hope) party Chairman Iqbal Agazade said that "if events unfold normally," he will run for president in the ballot due in late 2008.
28 August 2006 [20:18]
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian held a meeting with OSCE Minsk Group cochairman from the United States Matthew Bryza on Monday on the sidelines of the two-day international forum "Caspian Outlook 2008" in the Slovenian town of Bled.
28 August 2006 [20:07]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received the OSCE American co-chair, ambassador Matthew Bryza.
28 August 2006 [20:05]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on 28 August at his residence in received special envoy of OSCE Chairman-In-Office Pierre Chevalier.
28 August 2006 [20:03]
President Ilham Aliyev on August 27 at the Golf Hotel of the Bled city of Slovenia met with EU Special Representative on South Caucasus Peter Semnebey.
28 August 2006 [20:01]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on 27 August at the Golf Hotel of the Bled city of Slovenia received Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia, state minister on affairs of integration to Europe and Euro-Atlantic structures Georgi Baramidze.
28 August 2006 [19:58]
Political developments in Turkey have the West concerned about the country's possible actions in northern Iraq and its role as an oil and gas facilitator.
28 August 2006 [19:49]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev visiting Slovenia today had a one-on-one meeting with Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek.
28 August 2006 [19:44]
Azerbaijan's Emergencies Minister, Col. Gen. Kamaladin Heydarov received the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne E.Derse.
28 August 2006 [19:35]
The managing director of an Iranian daily has been acquitted of insulting Iran's Azeri minority after the newspaper was banned for a cartoon that sparked protests, an official said on Monday.
28 August 2006 [19:07]
At least three people were killed and 15 injured in a suspected bomb attack in Turkey's Antalya.
28 August 2006 [15:28]
Azerbaijan's State Committee for Religious Communities (SCRC) today held a large meeting with representatives of religious communities.
28 August 2006 [14:34]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who is attending in "Caspian prospect-2008" international forum in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, is expected to have bilateral meetings, Tahir Taghizadeh, FM Press and Information Policy Department chief told.
28 August 2006 [14:22]
The status of the Caspian Sea should be determined by international agreement in order to achieve regional stability and the economic development of three former Soviet Union states - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
28 August 2006 [13:10]
The inauguration of a heavy-water plant in Iran could bring closer a military action against Teheran by the United States and Israel.
28 August 2006 [12:59]
28 August 2006 [12:25]
President Ilham Aliyev is on the visit to Slovenia.
28 August 2006 [12:08]
Armenia on Sunday broke its ceasefire with Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Monday.
28 August 2006 [09:49]
Four separate bombs at a popular Turkish coastal resort and in the country's commercial hub Istanbul wounded at least 27 people, including 10 British tourists, authorities said on Monday.
27 August 2006 [22:13]
Hezbollah head says he did not think capturing Israeli soldiers would lead to war.
27 August 2006 [17:48]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian will meet in Slovenia, Ljubljana within the framework of the international conference "Caspian-2008."
27 August 2006 [15:41]
Iran insisted on Sunday it would never stop uranium enrichment despite a looming U.N. deadline to halt the sensitive atomic work, which the West says is part of an effort to build atomic bombs.
27 August 2006 [13:40]
An Iranian MP called on the Foreign Ministry officials to show a decisive reaction to the "interventionist measures", as he calls, taken by the Republic of Azerbaijan.
27 August 2006 [13:36]
On August 27 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visits Slovenia.
27 August 2006 [13:14]
"I work on the basis of OSCE's mandate, agreed on with the sides. I am not going to resign"
27 August 2006 [13:11]
27 August 2006 [13:10]
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has sent a message to his Moldavian counterpart Vladimir Voronin to congratulate him on the Independence Day.
Income of Azerbaijani banking sector reaches significant milestone
Gas deal between Armenia, Azerbaijan to speed up signing peace
Production from Deepwater Gunashli platform suspended for 15 days
Gazprom Neft does not see need to lift ban on gasoline exports
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