Politics
15 November 2006 [11:21]
Five-year Action Plan within European Neighborhood Policy in the sphere of politics, economy and democracy between Azerbaijan and EU was signed yesterday, Foreign Ministry Press and Information Policy Department informed.
14 November 2006 [23:32]
The 4th meeting of the Azerbaijan-Japanese intergovernmental commission will be held in Baku Nov 21-23, Japanese Ambassador to Azerbaijan Tadahiro Abe said.
14 November 2006 [23:28]
Criminal case was launched against former US Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld in the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe, Germany.
14 November 2006 [16:12]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on November 14 received Arvydas Pocius, the General Director of the State Security Department of Lithuania (VSD).
14 November 2006 [14:01]
Turkey Gendarme Forces Commander-in-Chief General Ishik Koshaner's visit to Azerbaijan, planned on November 14 was delayed.
14 November 2006 [13:39]
"The quality of appeals to the European Court of Human Rights has risen," Khanlar Hajiyev, the judge of European Court of Human Rights told the journalists.
14 November 2006 [11:26]
Territorial unity remains the key goal of Georgia, new defense minister David Kezerashvili said in his first televised interview on Sunday.
14 November 2006 [11:21]
Georgia and Moldova have decided to cooperate in settling "frozen" conflicts.
14 November 2006 [11:12]
Ministers of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov of Azerbaijan and Vartan Oskanyan of Armenia told a joint news conference in Brussels on Monday night that they are intent on achieving progress in resolving the Nagorno Karabakh issue at their upcoming talks here.
13 November 2006 [22:08]
Iran must face "economic isolation" if it proceeds with its nuclear uranium enrichment program in defiance of international pressure, President Bush said on Monday.
13 November 2006 [22:02]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Monday defended his decision not to meet Pope Benedict XVI who visits this country later this month, saying he has to attend a NATO summit in Lithuania.
13 November 2006 [18:33]
The two-day international conference on the European convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms organized by the Azerbaijan Supreme Court and Council of Europe commenced November 13 at the Europe Hotel.
13 November 2006 [16:11]
Iran said on Monday it was ready to consider any official U.S. request to hold talks after U.S. allies called on Washington to engage the Islamic Republic.
13 November 2006 [16:09]
Austria called on Monday for a "time-out" in Turkey's membership negotiations with the European Union if Ankara does not move in a stand-off over trade with Cyprus before an EU summit next month.
13 November 2006 [14:40]
On November 13 the Foreign Ministers of the three South Caucasus countries and the representatives of the EU presidium will render a joint press conference in Brussels.
13 November 2006 [14:08]
Google has provoked the wrath of Iran's notoriously suspicious authorities by appearing to question the country's sovereignty over the province of Azerbaijan in an entry on its Google Video website.
13 November 2006 [14:02]
Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a cable of thanks from President Ilham Aliyev of the Republic of Azerbaijan in response to His Majesty's congratulatory cable on the independence anniversary of his country.
13 November 2006 [00:36]
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini made the remark on Sunday, while speaking to domestic and foreign reporters at this week's press conference in Tehran.
12 November 2006 [21:03]
Turkey's parliament on Thursday passed a law allowing properties confiscated by the state to be returned to Christian and Jewish minority foundations, a day after the European Union urged Ankara to do more for non-Muslim minorities.
12 November 2006 [21:01]
Pope Benedict XVI will meet in Turkey later this month with a top Islamic cleric who denounced the pope's remarks on Islam and violence.
12 November 2006 [20:59]
On his return from his three days trip to Moscow, Iran's national security council secretary, Ali Larijani stated that the Russian President, Vladimir Putin had asserted that he would do all he could to resolve Iran's nuclear issue through negotiation.
12 November 2006 [20:58]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday criticized the United Nations Security Council over its efforts to impose sanctions on Iran because of its nuclear program.
12 November 2006 [20:36]
The funeral of former Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit turned into a protest against the Islamic-rooted government on Saturday, when thousands of pro-secular mourners booed the Turkish premier at a mosque and vowed to defend the secular regime against the rising profile of Islam.
12 November 2006 [20:30]
Turkey Gendarme Forces Commander-in-Chief general Ishik Koshaner will visit Azerbaijan on November 14.
12 November 2006 [20:13]
On November 10, the deputy minister of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan Khalaf Khalafov received the delegation led by Speaker of the Senate of Poland Bogdan Borusevich, the press-service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
12 November 2006 [20:12]
On November 10, The meeting with delegation led by President of the Constitutional Court Franco Bile of the Italian Republic took place in the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan.
12 November 2006 [20:03]
Chairman of the Milli Majlis' (the Parliament of Azerbaijan) Social Policy Commission Hadi Rajabli and MP Arastun Javadov left for the Iranian capital, Tehran, to attend the 7th meeting of the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace, and participate in the Iranian Parliament's 100th anniversary celebrations, press service of the Milli Majlis said.
12 November 2006 [19:56]
Azerbaijani parliamentarian Asef Hajiyev will visit Moscow November 13-15 to participate in the Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities' meeting, press service of the Parliament said.
12 November 2006 [11:29]
Public Movement Multinational Georgia non-governmental organization will observe independence referendum in South Ossetia tomorrow, Organization chairman Arnold Stepanyan told.
12 November 2006 [11:18]
Rasul Guliyev put forward the idea of creation of Azerbaijan International Society for Democracy and joined the establishment meeting by phone.
12 November 2006 [11:07]
"Azerbaijani and Armenian Defense Ministers' next meeting is expected to be held in January," Special representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Anjey Kasprzyk said.
12 November 2006 [10:57]
Understanding memorandum on "Cooperation in Emergencies" was signed between EM and Azerbaijan Red Crescent.
10 November 2006 [23:05]
Fence Me In: An "independent" Armenian's view through the wire.
10 November 2006 [22:30]
Speaker of Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic Ogtay Asadov November 10 met with the delegation led by President of the Constitutional Court of Italy Franco Bile visiting the country to take part at the international conference held at Constitutional Court of Azerbaijan in Baku.
10 November 2006 [21:21]
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday called U.S. President George W. Bush's defeat in congressional elections a victory for Iran.
10 November 2006 [21:20]
The deputy defense minister suggested Friday that Israel might be forced to launch a military strike against Iran's disputed nuclear program - the clearest statement yet of such a possibility from a high-ranking official.
10 November 2006 [21:18]
Iran will review relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if the U.N. Security Council presses ahead with a European draft resolution imposing sanctions, Iran's nuclear negotiator said on Friday.
10 November 2006 [20:22]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev now visiting Moscow on 10 November has met with the Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov.
10 November 2006 [20:17]
Azerbaijan's Ambassador to Canada Fakhraddin Qurbanov met with members of the Canadian Parliament Patrick Brown and Borys Wrzesnewskyj, press service of the Embassy said.
10 November 2006 [20:12]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message of congratulations to President of Angola Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the people of his country on the occasion of the national holiday, the Independence Day.
10 November 2006 [20:06]
"Though Ojalan took asylum in Moscow then, the US made us deport PKK leader from the country. If Ojalan hadn't been arrested, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan wouldn't have been constructed," said Vladimir Jirinovski, the leader of Russian Liberal-Democrat Party.
10 November 2006 [19:59]
There will be fundamental personnel changes in the Georgian Government.
10 November 2006 [17:22]
"Hunger strike is an abnormal way. But if the editors who form public opinion see no way out, it means that there are great problems in the sphere of freedom of press," said Andres Herkel, PACE Monitoring Committee co-rapporteur for Azerbaijan.
10 November 2006 [16:43]
"Age and sex are not important factors in politics. Nancy Pelosi has been elected the first woman speaker of the lower house of the US Congress. It means that the thought "politics is the arena of men and the youth" is not true."
10 November 2006 [12:55]
"Kazakhstan's position on Nagorno Karabakh conflict is clear. We support Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity," ambassador of Kazakhstan in Azerbaijan Andar Shukputov said.
10 November 2006 [10:59]
"We can expand military – technical cooperation with Poland in future," Azerbaijani Ambassador to Poland told the journalists.
10 November 2006 [10:49]
"There is strategical alliance between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan," Deputy Foreign Minister told journalists.
10 November 2006 [09:00]
Six opposition media editors in the ex-Soviet nation of Azerbaijan began a hunger strike on Thursday to protest government pressure, including the threatened expulsion of an opposition newspaper from its offices.
10 November 2006 [00:25]
An Argentine judge ordered international arrest warrants on Thursday for former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight other over the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center.
10 November 2006 [00:24]
Turkey, one of Israel's few allies in the Muslim world, on Thursday strongly condemned Israeli army strikes in Gaza that killed 18 Palestinian civilians, and it appealed for an end to the "disproportionate" violence.
10 November 2006 [00:13]
Three of the individuals are said to have traveled to Azerbaijan where they undertook terrorist training.
10 November 2006 [00:03]
First Deputy Chairman of Azerbaijan's Parliament and head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Ziyafat Asgarov, and MP Siyavush Novruzov will visit Quebec, Canada, to participate in the NATO PA's 52nd annual session bringing together some 340 parliamentarians from North America and Europe, from November 13-17.
09 November 2006 [23:59]
A 2-day international conference of the Justice and Interior ministers of the European countries on the topic "Improvement of the European cooperation in the field of justice" has opened in Moscow.
09 November 2006 [23:54]
If Russia were to vote in favor of a draft UN Security Council resolution on sanctions against Iran, in its current form, it would be backing sanctions against itself, Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Thursday.
09 November 2006 [23:48]
The Foreign Minister of so-called "NKR" Georgi Petrosyan visited Greece to participate in the ceremony held on the occasion of 10th anniversary recognition of Armenian "genocide" by Greek Parliament.
09 November 2006 [23:43]
"Some new departments and offices were established in Musavat Central Executive Board and some structural changes have been made. I will be at the head of the departments and offices," said Arif Hajili.
09 November 2006 [23:40]
Today, Azizbayov Court considered the former Finance Minister Fikret Yusifov's appeal.
09 November 2006 [23:36]
Swiss Parliament will discuss the resolution proposed by Azerbaijan youth federation in that country.
09 November 2006 [23:32]
A report published by Germany's Der Spiegel journal on Monday linked the Azerbaijani embassy in this country to cases of bribery.
09 November 2006 [18:34]
Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, in the Kremlin on Thursday.
09 November 2006 [18:20]
Group of parliamentarians from Musavat left the parliament sitting unfinished during the discussion of 2007 Draft State Budget.
09 November 2006 [18:18]
09 November 2006 [18:11]
A meeting on the improvement of the Election Code will be held between EU Venice Commission and Azerbaijani representatives in Strasbourg, APA reports.
09 November 2006 [16:13]
"US does not recognize election, referendum or any other event held in Nagorno Karabakh," U.S. Embassy Public Relations Officer Jonathan Henick told the APA.
09 November 2006 [15:22]
The head of Pentagon Donald Rumsfeld resigned. The president held a press conference and announced that Donald Rumsfeld resigns and nominated the former chief of Central Intelligence Agency, Sovietologist Robert Gates to the post.
09 November 2006 [14:27]
"Because of forthcoming winter the probability of bird flu virus in Azerbaijan increases In connection with it an agreement will be signed between Azerbaijan and Japan. According to the agreement Japan will help Azerbaijan to prevent from bird flu virus," said Ambassador of Japan to Azerbaijan Tadahiro Abe.
09 November 2006 [14:24]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will meet within the framework of his visit to Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.
09 November 2006 [14:22]
Armenian Armed Forces' units in occupied Gulchuluk Sovkhozu, Bash Gervend and Gulluje village of Aghdam region fired on opposite positions of Azerbaijani Armed Forces with machine and submachine guns for 15 minutes since 23.40 on Wednesday.
09 November 2006 [13:48]
I hope that PACE co-rapporteurs Lloyd and Herkel's report will be objective, the head of Azerbaijani delegation to PACE Samed Seyidov told the journalists.
09 November 2006 [09:57]
"Georgia bewares of Russian attack," Gela Bejuashvili Georgian Foreign Minister said during his visit to France.
08 November 2006 [23:09]
Iran's top nuclear negotiator will hold talks on the country's nuclear problem in Moscow on November 10, Iranian news agency ISNA said Wednesday.
08 November 2006 [23:04]
The European Commission set Turkey a mid-December deadline on Wednesday to open its ports to shipping from Cyprus or face consequences for its troubled European Union membership bid.
08 November 2006 [22:39]
Talks between the Azerbaijani Government and Venice Commission concerning the law "On the freedom of assembly" scheduled for November 9-10 in Baku were delayed.
08 November 2006 [22:23]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev congratulated his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmonov on re-election as the President of his country.
08 November 2006 [22:13]
The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, visited NATO HQ on 8 November to discuss NATO-Azerbaijan relations as well as regional security issues.
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