Politics
23 November 2006 [11:10]
Colonel Eldar Ismayilov has been sent to the US, former chief of Higher Military School, Colonel Tofig Gasimov to Ukraine and lieutenant-colonel Khazar Abbasov to Kazakhstan.
23 November 2006 [11:06]
PACE will hold an international conference in AUL on November 28-29, the rector of the university, parliamentarian, and head of Azerbaijani representative in PACE Samad Seyidov told journalists.
23 November 2006 [10:52]
"Azerbaijan economy and culture is developing rapidly. Baku has changed a lot since I last saw it," Israeli parliamentary Sofa Landver told journalists.
23 November 2006 [10:42]
On Wednesday Baku Executive Power (BEP) responded to appeal of People's Front Party of Azerbaijan.
23 November 2006 [10:39]
Venice Commission and Azerbaijan consider the offers concerning the law "On freedom of the assembly" and will hold discussions soon, Ali Hasanov, President's Office Social-political Department chief told journalists.
23 November 2006 [10:36]
On Wednesday the ruling New Azerbaijani Party (YAP) held a conference on occasion of the fourteenth anniversary of its establishment.
22 November 2006 [22:42]
The Armenian side has agreed to a meeting between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, which is likely to take place in Minsk on November 28.
22 November 2006 [22:40]
Amidst ongoing controversy about government treatment of Azerbaijan's political opposition and independent media, a proposal has been made to extend the Azerbaijani president's term to seven years.
22 November 2006 [22:36]
Turkish National Security Council (MGK) Secretary General Yigit Alpogan met with President Saakashvili in Tbilisi on November 21, according to the Georgian President's Press office.
22 November 2006 [22:30]
The Georgian government must take significant steps to avoid conflict in the country's ethnic Armenian and Azeri areas.
22 November 2006 [22:28]
Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli will hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and Energy Minister Hilmi Guler in Istanbul on November 23, the Georgian PM's press office reported.
22 November 2006 [22:20]
22 November 2006 [22:06]
Armenian Pierre-Henry Godshiyan participates in the 28th plenary session of PABSEC held in Baku.
22 November 2006 [21:44]
"At present I live in Ankara, Turkey and work for a company. I made my mind to live abroad for a certain period of time. I want to return to Azerbaijan after the human rights condition and political situation is normal," said Former Commander of the Special Police Force and ex-prisoner Fahmin Hajiyev.
22 November 2006 [21:29]
"Nationalist Movement Party's Congress showed that the mistakes made before will be eliminated and Nationalist Movement (NMP) will be party in power. We observed its signs at the assembly," NMP deputy chairman, former Sebaheddin Chakmakoglu said that the ruling party made a number of serious mistakes.
22 November 2006 [16:25]
"OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs' efforts will help to achieve improvement in talks. The talks will show if there is a motive for Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents meeting," President's Office International; Relations Department Ali Hasanov told journalists.
22 November 2006 [16:23]
The meeting of the Azeri and Armenian Defense Ministers may be held within the framework of the sitting of the Council of CIS Defense Ministers.
22 November 2006 [16:12]
"The information that Azadliq and Turan Information Agency’s office has been sold is not right. The building wil be returned to its owner," President's Office Social-political Department Chief Ali Hasanov told journalists.
22 November 2006 [16:08]
President of Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev today received participants of the 4th Meeting of Azerbaijan-Japan State Commission.
22 November 2006 [15:59]
Laying false claims of Russian and Azerbaijani territories, organization Sadval holds confidential talks with Wahhabis.
22 November 2006 [15:58]
"As the result of groundless claims against Azerbaijan and Turkey, Armenia faces economic recession," said Mustafa Bash, the head of Turkey delegation participating in 28th plenary session of PABSEC.
22 November 2006 [15:56]
OSCE Minsk group co-chairs will work out communique on the results of their visit to Yerevan and Baku, OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov and Bernard Fassier told the journalists.
22 November 2006 [14:13]
Armenian Armed Forces in occupied Seyid Sulan village of Terter region fired on opposite positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces for 30 minutes.
22 November 2006 [13:56]
The OSCE Minsk Group cochairmen are preparing another meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents.
22 November 2006 [13:46]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message of congratulations to President of Lebanon Emile Lahoud and the people of his country on the occasion of the national holiday, the Independence Day.
22 November 2006 [13:00]
Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov received Israeli members Sofa Landver and Amnon Koen.
21 November 2006 [21:12]
President Ilham Aliyev ended his visit to the United Arab Emirates today and headed home.
21 November 2006 [21:10]
Romanian President Traian Basescu bewares of the use of Kosovo experience in the Post Soviet countries.
21 November 2006 [21:01]
All Russian servicemen will leave the Tbilisi garrison by December 25, troops commander of the North Caucasus military district /SKVO/, General of the Army Alexander Baranov said on Tuesday.
21 November 2006 [20:49]
Presently the chances of the South Caucasian states to join the EU are vague, Armenian National Assembly Speaker Tigran Torosian told reporters November 21.
21 November 2006 [20:48]
Britain's "The Economist" weekly has published a new "Democracy Index," in which it ranks 167 countries around the world according to their degree of democracy.
21 November 2006 [20:45]
Although a proposal to establish an economic and energy union was floated at the recent summit of Turkic states, NBCentralAsia analysts say it is unlikely such a grouping could be founded merely on the basis of linguistic similarities. A cultural and political grouping of Turkic countries seems a more realistic prospect.
21 November 2006 [20:22]
"If management board like Central Executive Consul in Musavat needed to be created, this issue should have been discussed in Divan and the decision should have been approved in Assembly.
21 November 2006 [17:25]
"I hope for the amendments to the Election Code in 2007," Maurizio Pavesi OSCE Baku Office chief told journalists.
21 November 2006 [16:52]
Out of 11 Azerbaijani Diaspora organizations in Istanbul 10 agreed to the establishment of unique federation, Azerbaijani head consul to Istanbul Sayyad Aran told.
21 November 2006 [15:39]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on November 21 visited tomb of the Ex-President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan at the Sheikh Zayed Mosque.
21 November 2006 [15:36]
According to the Azerbaijan's embassy to Canada, ambassador Fakhraddin Gurbanov visited the Quebec and met with the executives of the Quebec's Ministries of International Relations, Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade to discuss the prospects for development of relations.
21 November 2006 [14:05]
American co-chair of OSCE Minsk Matthew Bryza will not join the visit of co-chairs to the region, US Embassy Public Relations Department chief Jonathan Henick told.
21 November 2006 [12:51]
New Turkish Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ambassador to Azerbaijan Hussein Avni Karsioglu’s exclusive interview to the APA.
21 November 2006 [12:20]
Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) approved holding its next conference in the Azeri capital, Baku, in September 2008, said Monday the organization's General Director Abdulaziz Al-Tuwaijri.
21 November 2006 [11:45]
The OSCE PA fall session and conference on "Immigration, Integration and Cross-cultural dialogue: the role of OSCE" finishes.
21 November 2006 [11:25]
Azerbaijani Consul General Hasan Zeynalov take part in the holiday ceremony held on the occasion of Salvation Day of Igdir city, Turkey, Azerbaijani Consul in Kars told.
21 November 2006 [11:23]
"The information about "selling" any certificate to Armenians and Alikram Humbatov's relatives in the Azerbaijani embassy consulate in Belgium is an effort to stain Azerbaijani diplomacy," Foreign Ministry Press and Information Policy Department chief Tahir Tagizadeh stated.
21 November 2006 [11:20]
The chief of Agrarian Policy Commission of Parliament Eldar Ibrahimov, parliamentarians Siyavush Novruzov and Fuad Muradov went to Brussels to participate in the Congress XI of the Presidium of South Caucasus Parliamentary Initiative.
20 November 2006 [22:00]
Reports from Iran say prominent union leader Mansur Osanlu was arrested in Tehran on November 19 by plainclothes security agents. Osanlu, who is the president of the Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran Bus Company, was recently released from prison on bail.
20 November 2006 [21:55]
The European Union urged a politically charged meeting of the U.N. nuclear agency on Monday to deny Iran's request for help with a facility that could yield plutonium for atom bombs.
20 November 2006 [21:50]
The European Union warned Turkey on Monday that it must speed up efforts to resolve a stalemate over Cyprus if it wants to continue membership negotiations with the bloc.
20 November 2006 [21:49]
The White House dismissed a classified CIA draft assessment that found no conclusive evidence of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program, the New Yorker reported.
20 November 2006 [21:48]
Riot police stormed the office of the U.S. news agency Associated Press in the Turkish capital on Monday after a leftist association occupied it demanding improved conditions at prisons in Turkey, witnesses said.
20 November 2006 [21:43]
A group of religious figures and theological students of Tabriz staged a protest demonstration against desecration of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) by Baku-based newspaper on Monday.
20 November 2006 [21:30]
Armenian analytics consider that official Yerevan should gain pressure leverage by supporting separatist movements in the territories of Georgia and Azerbaijan.
20 November 2006 [21:25]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on 20 November has met with Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahayan, member of the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi, head of the Abu Dhabi Emirate Governor's Office, son of the UAE President.
20 November 2006 [21:16]
Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan of the United Arab Emirates met face-to-face at Almushrif Palace in Abu Dhabi on November 20.
20 November 2006 [16:00]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov, Matthew Bryza, Bernard Fassier and Special representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Anjey Kasprzyk will visit Armenia today.
20 November 2006 [15:43]
On November 20, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev left Antalya, Turkey for the United Arab Emirates to pay a two-day official visit.
20 November 2006 [15:19]
The law enforcement bodies of Kabardino-Balkaria Republic take serious security measures, Kabardino-Balkaria Interior Ministry told.
20 November 2006 [14:33]
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov will visit Azerbaijan on December 4.
20 November 2006 [14:22]
Armenian delegation participated in the 4th meeting of CIS member states' Interior Ministries Staff Department chiefs in Baku on November 16-17.
20 November 2006 [14:02]
Congress VIII of Nationalist Movement Party (NMP) was held in Ataturk Sport hall on November 19.
20 November 2006 [13:45]
Parliament deputy chairman Bahar Muradova has met with the chairman of the OSCE PA Goran Lennmarker.
20 November 2006 [12:04]
Over 1600 documents were adopted within CIS up to now.
20 November 2006 [11:56]
The 8th Summit of Heads of State of Turkish-Speaking Countries ended in southern city of Antalya on Friday.
20 November 2006 [11:54]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Friday that economic and political cooperation among the Turkish speaking countries must be improved.
19 November 2006 [14:49]
Iran's parliament on Sunday approved a bill requiring immigration officials to fingerprint U.S. passport holders despite President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's opposition to the measure, state-run radio reported.
19 November 2006 [14:39]
In case of any possible aggression on Iran, the country's armed forces "would attack enemies' military bases within a range of 2,000 km," stressed Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Yahya Rahim-Safavi Saturday evening.
19 November 2006 [12:52]
Chairman of the Milli Majlis' commission on agricultural policy Eldar Ibrahimov and parliamentarians Siyavush Novruzov and Fuad Muradov will visit Brussels, Belgium, to participate in the 11th meeting of the Presidium of the South Caucasus Parliamentary Initiative (SCPI) of the British non-governmental organization LINKS (the London Information Network on Conflicts and State-building).
19 November 2006 [12:48]
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan voiced support for Turkey's bid to join the European Union, saying that it would help boost regional development.
19 November 2006 [12:45]
On Saturday, the extraordinary expanded foreign ministers' meeting of the executive committee of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) unanimously adopted a resolution condemning Israeli massacre at Beit Hanoun.
18 November 2006 [20:15]
Iran, facing possible U.N. sanctions for failing to halt sensitive nuclear work, will press on with its Arak heavy water reactor with or without help from the U.N. nuclear watchdog, a top Iranian nuclear official said.
18 November 2006 [18:00]
If the elections in Armenia are not conducted in correspondence with international standards, it will be a reason to strengthen EU relations with Georgia and Azerbaijan, leaving Armenia behind, US political analyst Richard Kirakossian said at a news conference on November 18.
18 November 2006 [16:04]
The leaders of Georgia's two breakaway regions today set conditions for the reopening of talks with Tbilisi.
18 November 2006 [15:59]
Today the Export Control and Related Border Security Assistance Program (EXBS) of the United States of America granted 4 Chevrolet Nivas and 9 Lada Nivas to the Border Guards, National Security Service of Armenia. According to press service of the US Embassy in Armenia.
18 November 2006 [15:50]
The eighth summit meting of Turkic speaking countries, hosted by Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer in Antalya, wrapped up.
18 November 2006 [15:44]
Armenian armed forces held military trainings in occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
18 November 2006 [13:54]
The Bush administration is offering to narrow the scope of proposed U.N. sanctions designed to force Iran to stop enriching uranium, a State Department official said.
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