Politics
24 July 2006 [08:41]
Minister of Taxes Fazil Mammadov received new US Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Anne Derse, two days ago.
24 July 2006 [08:27]
The 16 October Movement has stopped the work to turn into a foundation to help political prisoners.
23 July 2006 [13:05]
Azeri Intellectual Movement issued a statement in connection with Israeli raids on Lebanon.
23 July 2006 [11:45]
The living conditions are unbearable in Iranian prison in Ardabil, in which, Azerbaijani detainees are being held.
23 July 2006 [11:41]
Leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose confederation of former Soviet republics, concluded discussions on reforming the organization Saturday in Moscow's Kremlin.
22 July 2006 [12:31]
An Armenian has been detained in Boyuk Bahmanli village of the Azerbaijani region of Fuzuli.
22 July 2006 [12:07]
Leaders of countries making up the Commonwealth of Independent States have begun their informal summit with a dinner in a countryside restaurant on the banks of the Moskva River.
22 July 2006 [09:40]
The U.S. Agency for International Development-supported Civil Society Project will hold an inauguration in recognition of new partnerships formed with Azeri Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the Hotel Ambassador on Monday, July 24, 2006.
22 July 2006 [09:35]
The European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby today held a press conference on his visit to Azerbaijan.
22 July 2006 [08:41]
Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Afshar Suleymani while commenting on the reports on Iran's support for Lebanon called these nonsense.
22 July 2006 [03:07]
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili canceled a visit to Moscow on Friday, saying Russian leader Vladimir Putin had refused to meet him to discuss tensions around a rebel Georgian region.
22 July 2006 [03:05]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday forcefully rejected a letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seeking cooperation with Germany, saying it did not even deserve an answer.
22 July 2006 [02:30]
The U.N. Security Council risks committing "a historic act of tyranny" against Iran if it passes a resolution demanding Tehran stop making nuclear fuel, powerful cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Friday.
22 July 2006 [01:50]
In late May, a congress of Azerbaijan's opposition Musavat party reelected Isa Qambar unopposed for a third term as the party's chairman, ignoring the provision in the party's statutes that one person may not serve three consecutive terms in that post.
22 July 2006 [01:49]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visiting Moscow to attend an informal summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) leaders met with his Moldovan counterpart Vladimir Voronin on Friday.
21 July 2006 [23:01]
The Azerbaijan Way Political Movement (AWPM) tomorrow will organize the first protest action in the frames of the Karabakh Worldwide Protest Actions in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.
21 July 2006 [22:44]
Defense Minister Safar Abiyev today received the European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby.
21 July 2006 [22:13]
Foreign Ministry spokesman Tahir Taghizadeh has commented on the report drawn up by Andrzei Kasprzyk, personal representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office.
21 July 2006 [16:37]
Armenian military forces have recently become active in Agdam front in Karabakh province of Azerbaijan.
21 July 2006 [15:58]
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan has come down with a severe cold and will be unable to attend an informal meeting with his CIS counterparts in Moscow this weekend, his press office said Friday.
21 July 2006 [14:50]
"We have plans for every situation in case the UN Security Council adopts a Resolution against Iran," Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Afshar Suleymani said.
21 July 2006 [13:36]
Minister of Justice Fikret Mammadov met on Thursday with Mrs. Mary Werntz, Head of the Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Azerbaijan, Mr. Jean-Paul Corboz, former Protection Coordinator of the Committee and newly appointed Mrs. Susanna Lopes.
21 July 2006 [11:17]
Yesterday EU special representative on Southern Caucasus Peter Semneby has started his meetings in Azerbaijan. He also met with Nizami Bahmanov, head of Nagorno Karabakh Azerbaijani community.
20 July 2006 [21:40]
Minister of Transport Ziya Mammadov met July 20 with US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse.
20 July 2006 [21:35]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent congratulatory messages to the King Albert II of Belgians and Prime Minister of Belgium Guy Verhofstadt on the occasion the King's Oath Taking Day.
20 July 2006 [21:06]
The first Ambassador of the Belarus Republic to Azerbaijan Nikolay Patskevich today presented the copy of his credentials to Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
20 July 2006 [20:46]
"Azerbaijan monitors arsons being committed by Armenians in Azerbaijani lands, and assesses the damages. We believe that the damages will be paid at the decision of any fair international court."
20 July 2006 [16:18]
An informal summit of the heads of state of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will be held in Moscow July 21-22 at the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
20 July 2006 [15:42]
"The government of Azerbaijan has not presented the UN the facts on massive fires in the occupied Azerbaijani territories caused by Armenians."
20 July 2006 [15:03]
"Israel is still conducting raids on the Lebanese territories. At least 300 peoples have been killed, more than one thousand injured and 500 thousand became displaced as the result of the bombings. Despite the tense situation, Azerbaijan's honored consulate is still functioning in Lebanon," Azerbaijani honored consul in Lebanon Nazih Gassub told.
20 July 2006 [13:53]
The European Parliament 19 members issued a statement regarding the authorities' increased pressures on Azerbaijanis living in Iran.
20 July 2006 [13:27]
US government is worried about the latest events connected to pressure upon Azerbaijan's press, American Embassy Public Officer Jonathan Henick stated.
20 July 2006 [12:54]
"There is no point in having high expectations for the US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza's visit to the region," the Russian Federation Charge d'Affaires Pyotr Burdikin said.
20 July 2006 [12:50]
Head of former Special Police Unit Rovshan Javadov's brother, former prosecutor of Khatayi district of Baku as well as leader of the Special Police Unit Mahir Javadov was detained in Munich, Germany, at about 12:00 (GMT) yesterday.
20 July 2006 [12:45]
The United States Missile Defense Agency is planning to build a radar facility connected to America's ballistic missile defenses systems somewhere in the Caucasus Mountains, RAW STORY has learned.
20 July 2006 [12:37]
The West will never succeed in pushing Russia out of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement process, Director of the RF Institute of the U.S. and Canada Sergey Rogov considers.
20 July 2006 [08:24]
All the members of the UN Security Council will consider the draft resolution on Iranian nuclear program which would demand Iran suspend uranium enrichment as well as temporarily halt construction on a reactor that can produce plutonium.
19 July 2006 [22:08]
The European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby is paying a two-day visit to the Azerbaijani capital of Baku tomorrow.
19 July 2006 [22:07]
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry today invited extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassadors from nearly ten states to Azerbaijan.
19 July 2006 [15:30]
The next echelon loaded with weapons and military equipment withdrawn from Russian 62nd military base in Akhalkalak in Georgia was delivered to Russia at Yalama station of Azerbaijani at 2:00p.m today.
19 July 2006 [14:40]
US deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, US co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza will pay his first visit to the region as co-chair July 29.
19 July 2006 [14:38]
OSCE Chairman-in-Office Karel De Gucht has presented to Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry 7-paper report on the results of the monitoring of recent massive fires in the occupied Azerbaijani territories caused by Armenians conducted by his personal representative Andrzei Kasprzyk.
19 July 2006 [13:29]
Matthew Bryza, the U.S. Co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, will arrive in Yerevan July 29.
19 July 2006 [13:26]
Israel declared Tuesday it was ready to fight Hezbollah guerrillas for several more weeks, raising doubts about international efforts to broker an immediate cease-fire in the fighting that has killed more than 260 people and displaced 500,000.
19 July 2006 [12:50]
"Israel is still bombing the Lebanese territories at intervals.
19 July 2006 [10:54]
At Orumieh's graveyard, serried ranks of graves containing the bodies of those killed during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war cover an entire hillside over-looking the town.
19 July 2006 [09:42]
Azerbaijani lawyer Saleh Kamrani, who was arrested in Iran for his participation in recent demonstrations, is not allowed meeting with his family.
19 July 2006 [09:13]
Foreign Ministries of Azerbaijan and Peru have signed a protocol on cooperation.
19 July 2006 [09:03]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent letter of condolences to the President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the Java tsunami.
19 July 2006 [08:16]
"I am the President of the ATAA and only I am responsible for speaking on behalf of the Assembly," said Vural Cengiz, president of the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA).
19 July 2006 [08:09]
Only two issues have not been agreed upon fully in the talks between Azerbaijan and the European Union on the Action Plan in the frames of the European Neighborhood Policy.
18 July 2006 [22:05]
"One may only welcome the statement of the Great Eight countries on support of mediation efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group and on necessity to coordinate basic principles of peaceful resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," stated Nagorno Karabakh "Foreign Minister" Georgy Petrosyan.
18 July 2006 [18:58]
The US ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse has said settlement to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is a plain issue, but it is complicated by the fact the national interests of the conflicting sides and international norms should be taken into account.
18 July 2006 [18:57]
Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian has said there is no need for a referendum in Nagorno Karabakh to determine the status of the region.
18 July 2006 [15:53]
"There are about 100 Azerbaijanis living in Lebanon. They are mainly women, who married to Lebanese men," Azerbaijani honored consul Nazih Gassub stated.
18 July 2006 [13:22]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received the delegation led by Mr. Fotiadis, Deputy Director of the Directorate General for External Relations' European Commission.
18 July 2006 [08:56]
The Azerbaijan Way Political Movement is going to stage protest actions in 12 foreign countries in commemoration of the 16th anniversary of occupation of the Azerbaijani region of Aghdam by Armenian forces.
18 July 2006 [08:52]
The Ukrainian Azerbaijani Congress (UAC) has been separated.
18 July 2006 [08:33]
Investigation period of Azpetrol Group of Companies President Rafig Aliyev has been prolonged again.
18 July 2006 [08:16]
The preliminary investigation into the case on Azerbaijani former Finance Minister Fikret Yusifov, who is detained in the jail of National Security Ministry, has been completed.
17 July 2006 [21:41]
The G8 Summit of heads of states held in the Russian city of St Petersburg was closed today.
17 July 2006 [21:35]
Eight members of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) branches in Sabirabad and Absheron issued joint statement today.
17 July 2006 [19:43]
The third round of talks between Azerbaijan and the European Union on the Individual Cooperation Plan in the frames of the European New Neighborhood Policy will start on July 17 in Baku, the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan reported.
17 July 2006 [19:40]
The Group of Eight (G8) leaders agreed on joint efforts to ensure global energy security at their summit held on July 15-17, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a news conference following the summit.
17 July 2006 [16:57]
President Ilham Aliyev is expected to attend the unofficial meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States heads of state scheduled for 21-23 July this year in the Russian capital of Moscow.
17 July 2006 [14:58]
"The wordings 'both sides' and 'two sides' that occur in the Vienna statement of the OSCE Minsk Group arouse surprise. Three sides in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict have been recognized in the OSCE documents long ago," says the article received from former OSCE MG Russian Co-chair Vladimir Kazimirov.
17 July 2006 [14:13]
Israeli air strikes killed 23 people in Lebanon on Monday and Israel dismissed as premature a proposal for an international military force to help end Hizbollah rocket attacks into the Jewish state.
17 July 2006 [14:02]
Armenians have set fire to the occupied villages Pirahmadli, Garakhanbayli, Abdurrahmanli, Seyidahmadli of the Azerbaijani region of Fuzuli at the night of July 16 to 17.
17 July 2006 [13:31]
The next meeting of the Azerbaijan-Russia interparliamentary commission will be held in Baku in the frames of the Russian Year in Azerbaijan in autumn this year.
17 July 2006 [13:23]
"The G8 summit will never force the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents to sign any agreement on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement," said head of the International Relations Department at the Institute of the Political and Military Analysis Sergey Markedonov.
17 July 2006 [13:20]
An Azeri official has ruled out the need for the activity of any special monitoring group on Azerbaijan.
17 July 2006 [13:18]
An Azeri political analyst has said NATO generals were aware beforehand that Armenians would set fire to the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
17 July 2006 [13:15]
Armenia is concerned over the commissioning of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) main export pipeline, a pipe to take Caspian oil to world markets, and its estrangement from numerous regional projects, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian told the press Friday.
17 July 2006 [13:08]
The statements on the separation of Iranian districts populated by ethnic Azeris from the country are an outrageous slander against the Azerbaijani people, Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Muhammad Najjar has said.
17 July 2006 [13:00]
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) main export pipeline solved the issue of taking Caspian hydrocarbons to world markets, which plays a special role in the country/s development, an Azeri official has said.
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