Politics

13 June 2006 [13:53]

Bulgarian MPs to visit Baku

Delegation headed by Solomon Isaac Pasi, the Chairman of the foreign policy committee of the Bulgarian Parliament will visit Azerbaijan June 16.
13 June 2006 [13:05]

Parliamentarians visited front line

Today parliamentarians—Sabir Rustemkhanli, Igbal Agazade, and Genire Pashayeva, have visited the front line to investigate the fact of burning the occupied lands of Azerbaijan by Armenians.
13 June 2006 [09:40]

Azerbaijani parliament speaker receives Polish Sejm's European Union Affairs Commission head

Azerbaijan's parliament speaker Ogtay Asadov received Polish Sejm's European Union Affairs Commission head Karol Karski.
13 June 2006 [09:38]

Elmar Mammadyarov: "Azerbaijan gives preference to Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement through peaceful way"

Foreign affairs minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov has received the delegation of South Africa Foreign Ministry Center and South Asia Office associates headed by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of South African Republic to Kazakhstan, Beki Gila.
13 June 2006 [09:33]

Azeri FM received BSEC Organization Secreatry General Leonidas Khrisantopulas

Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov received Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Organization Secretary General Leonidas Khrisantopulas.
13 June 2006 [08:37]

Mahmud Khagani: "Iran is interested in hydrocarbon resources of Caspian moot areas"

Iran is interested in joint operation of hydrocarbon resources, as well as Reservoir Alov (Flame), in moot areas of the Caspian Sea. Mahmud Khagani, Caspian Region officer of the Ministry of Energetics of Iran, stated.
12 June 2006 [22:24]

Iran answer sought on atom offer as UN watchdog meets

Pressure grew on Iran on Monday to reply to a big power offer to defuse a stand-off over its nuclear programme, as Washington hoped a meeting of the U.N. atomic watchdog would garner world support for the initiative.
12 June 2006 [21:55]

Swiss FM Calmy-Rey commemorates "victims of Armenian genocide"

She also laid a wreath at a memorial for the "victims of the genocide" by troops of the former Ottoman Empire 90 years ago.
12 June 2006 [21:34]

Tigran Torosyan: "Ogtay Asadov congratulated me"

"Azerbaijani delegates really read the congratulation addressed to me by speaker Ogtay Asadov," Armenian Parliament speaker Tigran Torosyan told journalists.
12 June 2006 [20:59]

Afshar Suleymani's cousin arrested among Azerbaijani journalists in Iran

Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Afshar Suleymani's cousin, member of "Araz" newspaper, journalist Behzad Khosrovani was detained by Iranian government forces being accused of activity against the state in Aradabil, contributor to the banned newspaper "Shamsi-Tabrizi" in Iran, Ali Suleymani informs.
12 June 2006 [19:21]

NATO and GUAM countries hold firm at CFE treaty review conference

The OSCE's Conference to Review the Operation of the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) ended on June 2 in Vienna with a tactical success for the West.
12 June 2006 [17:05]

EU agrees first step in Turkey membership talks

EU foreign ministers have given a hard-fought green light to the opening of the first chapter in Turkey's accession talks, following hours of last-minute opposition by the Cypriot delegation.
12 June 2006 [16:59]

President receives ex-chief of George Bush Administration

President Ilham Aliyev on 12 June received former New Hampshire governor, ex-chief of the staff of George Bush Administration John Sununu.
12 June 2006 [16:57]

Namig Aliyev: "Georgia has to provide firm guarantees to attract Azeri capital"

The Georgian Times interviews Azeri Ambassador to Georgia Namig Aliyev.
12 June 2006 [16:55]

President receives BSEC Secretary General

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on 12 June at President Palace received Secretary General of the Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos.
12 June 2006 [15:36]

CE Secretary General special representative on Azerbaijan takes up his duty

Special representative of Council of Europe General Secretariat appointed on Azerbaijan, Denis Bribosia, arrives in Baku tonight.
12 June 2006 [15:17]

Leaders of 9 states to take part in CICMA Summit

Heads of nine states will gather at the 2nd Summit of Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building in Asia (CICMA) on June 17 in Almaty, an official spokesperson of Kazakhstan MFA Yerzhan Ashikbayev has briefed today in Astana.
12 June 2006 [14:27]

US company invests $1 500 000 into Azerbaijani territories under Armenian occupation

Foreign companies continue to invest capital to Azerbaijan's territories under Armenian occupation to exploit natural resources there.
12 June 2006 [13:46]

Javad Derachti: "Turkey failed to protect Mahmoudali Chohraganli"

"Turkey is a great and powerful state. Therefore, Turkish authorities should have protected the leader of the South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement, Mahmoudali Chohraganli for the sake of Turk-loving."
12 June 2006 [13:39]

Ynetnews: "Israel-Azerbaijan strategic alliance in cards?"

National infrastructure minister hints in speech Israel interested in strategic cooperation with Muslim country that borders with Iran.
12 June 2006 [12:53]

Polish Parliamentary delagation arrives in Baku

The parliamentary delegation of Poland led by Chairman of the Seym’s (Parliament) European Union Affairs Committee Karol Karski, arrived in Azerbaijan on June 11 to discuss prospects of inter-parliamentary links and other areas of bilateral relations, according to press service of the Milli Majlis (Parliament) of Azerbaijan.
12 June 2006 [12:20]

Chohraganli deported to New York

Leader of the South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement (SANAM) Mahmoudali Chohraganli was deported from Baku by the local secret services.
12 June 2006 [12:15]

Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers to meet in Paris

Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers are due to meet in Paris tomorrow, Armenian FM Vardan Oskanyan told journalists.
12 June 2006 [08:33]

Azerbaijani Ombudsman takes part in meeting in Vienna

Elmira Suleymanova, Ombudsman of Azerbaijan, has left for Vienna in order to take part in the meeting of European Ombudsmen in Vienna, the capital of Austria, June 11-13.
12 June 2006 [08:22]

Defense Minister attends NATO meeting

The North Atlantic Council (NAC) at the level of defence ministers met at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.
11 June 2006 [22:29]

Turkish FM threatens boycott of EU meeting

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul says he will not attend a European Union meeting Monday on EU accession, unless the 25-member bloc first resolves the latest dispute over the divided island of Cyprus.
11 June 2006 [22:26]

'Azadlig' to boycott municipal election

'Azadlig bloc' will boycott municipal elections which will be held on October 6 for 1942 places in 604 municipality.
11 June 2006 [19:11]

Ali Larijani: "Iran sees problems in atomic offer from six powers"

Iran on Sunday gave its most negative assessment of proposals offered by six world powers aimed at persuading Tehran to give up sensitive nuclear work that the West fears is being used to make bombs.
11 June 2006 [19:01]

NATO PA President to visit Azerbaijan upcoming autumn

An official visit by the President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) Pierre Lellouche to Azerbaijan was postponed until September or October, said Ziyafat Asgarov, First Deputy Chairman of Parliament of Azerbaijan, head of the Azerbaijani delegation to NATO PA.
11 June 2006 [18:42]

PACE's summer session to start June 26

The summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will kick off June 26 in Strasbourg, according to press service of the Azerbaijani Parliament's standing commission on international relations and inter-parliamentary ties.
11 June 2006 [12:52]

Iran finds some atomic incentives unacceptable

Iran's Foreign Ministry rejected some proposals from six world powers trying to persuade it to stop its atomic fuel work and said Tehran will offer its own amendments, a ministry official said on Sunday.
11 June 2006 [12:39]

President Aliyev congratulates Queen Elizabeth II

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message of felicitations to the Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the people of her country on the occasion of the national holiday, the Queen's Birthday.
11 June 2006 [12:34]

Iran to offer its own terms on uranium

Iran's foreign minister said Saturday that the government would issue a counteroffer to an incentive proposal by Europe, China and the United States to get Iran to give up enriching uranium in the short term.
11 June 2006 [12:27]

4th sitting of Azerbaijan-Pakistan Intergovernmental Commision to be held in Islamabad

The 4th sitting of Azerbaijan-Pakistan intergovernmental commission will be held in September this year in Islamabad and Azerbaijan delegation will be headed by Yagub Eyyubov, the first deputy Prime Minister.
11 June 2006 [12:17]

Fire continues in occupied territories

Fires set on by Armenian armed forces in the occupied territories still continue.
11 June 2006 [12:14]

President Aliyev congratulates President Putin on Russia's Day

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a message of congratulations to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the occasion of the Day of Russia.
11 June 2006 [12:11]

Justice Minister meets Lithuanian State Secretary of Justice

Justice Minister of Azerbaijan Fikrat Mammadov met June 9 with Paulius Koverovas, State Secretary of the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice.
11 June 2006 [12:09]

Security Minister meets Undersecretary of the Lithuanian Security Department

Azerbaijan's Minister of National Security, Lieutenant-General Eldar Mahmudov met with Darius Jurgelevicius, Undersecretary of the Lithuanian State Security Department, to discuss prospects of cooperation between the two countries' security authorities, as well as transnational organized crime, terrorism, migration, and other issues of mutual concern.
10 June 2006 [14:33]

Azerbaijan National Front appeals to US President for supporting Azerbaijanis' national struggle

Head of the Azerbaijan National Front (ANF) Ali Nazmi Afshar has written to US President George Bush regarding the Iranian authorities' policy on non-Iranians asking him supporting the national struggle of Azerbaijanis living in that country.
10 June 2006 [14:30]

Araz Alizade: "U.S. has never supported idea of united Azerbaijan"

Co-Chairman of Azerbaijan's Social-Democratic Party (SDPA) Araz Alizade stated that Iranian events are quite different in reality, comparing with their interpretations in Baku.
10 June 2006 [14:21]

Prosecutor General: "No Armenian POWs in Azerbaijan"

Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov received the delegation led by Leo Platvoet, rapporteur of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population of the Council of Europe Parlaimentary Assembly.
10 June 2006 [14:16]

Armenians torching several occupied villages in Karabakh

Armenian armed forces have been torching several occupied villages of Azerbaijan’s region Aghdam in Garabagh for ten days.
10 June 2006 [14:08]

Lithuanian President visits Sangachal Terminal

President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus familiarized himself with the Sangachal Terminal on June 9.
10 June 2006 [09:16]

MPs refutes Ogtay Asadov's congratulating Armenian speaker

Azerbaijani parliamentarians Musa Guliyev and Asef Hajili held a press conference dedicated to their participation in the 27th plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) in Yerevan.
10 June 2006 [08:43]

Azerbaijani delegation to discuss Karabakh issue at OSCE PA session

The 15th session of the OSCE Parlaimentary Assembly will be held in Brussels July 3-4.
10 June 2006 [08:38]

Elmira Akhundova: "Right defenders taking bribe for preparation of political prisoner list, confirmed"

"We have raised a question on right defenders taking bribe for preparing prisoners list. But community and the international organizations suspected this issue then. Now these people convict each other because of not having an accord between them. This proves state to be right in conviction of right defenders taking money. The names of well to do men were not included in the list of political prisoner collaborating with Sadval organization in vain, murdering of 20 persons and convicted in other state accusations."
09 June 2006 [22:41]

List of Azerbaijanis arrested by Iranian government forces

98 Azerbaijanis arrested by Iranian government forces have been identified. APA reports quoting Seyid Naimi, head of Committee of Defense of South Azerbaijani Prisoners. 14 detainees are journalists.
09 June 2006 [22:37]

Ramiz Hasanov: "Azerbaijan must gradually switch to international standards"

Ramiz Hasanov, the Director of State Agency on Standardization, Metrology and Patents (SASMP), held a press-conference devoted to the activities of the Agency.
09 June 2006 [22:27]

Azerbaijani and Russian Emergencies Ministries sign cooperation protocol

Russian Minister of Emergencies Sergei Shoygu is paying an official visit to Baku.
09 June 2006 [22:11]

Leo Platvoet: "Azerbaijani and Armenian State Commissions agreed on cooperation"

The Council of Europe Parlaimentary Assembly (PACE) rapporteur for missing persons Leo Platvoet held a press conference on the talks he had in Baku.
09 June 2006 [21:54]

Mahmoudali Chohraganli arrested in Turkey to be deported

The leader of the South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement (SANAM) Mahmoudali Chohraganli, who has been arrested by Turkey's law enforcement bodies, will be deported from this country.
09 June 2006 [16:15]

Iran enriching more uranium

Work resumed as Tehran received plan to suspend activities.
09 June 2006 [16:11]

Iran cleric says nuclear proposals unacceptable

A powerful Iranian cleric said on Friday a package of incentives offered by six major powers would never stop Iran making nuclear fuel.
09 June 2006 [15:47]

Sergei Lavrov to visit Azerbaijan June 19

Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov will arrive in Baku to attend the 33rd meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Foreign Ministers Board from June 19 to 21.
09 June 2006 [15:46]

OIC head urges Armenia to free Azeri territories

The top official of an influential Islamic organization has urged Armenia to vacate the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
09 June 2006 [15:42]

Report may stir Azeri-Lebanese diplomatic row

A diplomatic row may arise between Azerbaijan and Lebanon after a report was published on the Lebanese President Emile Lahoud's website saying the head of state has recently met with the foreign minister of the self-proclaimed Nagorno Karabakh Republic Georgi Serasian.
09 June 2006 [14:32]

Azerbaijan House possibly to open in Lithuania

"Azerbaijan and Lithuania must come closer in economic relationships like in political cooperation and we will make all attempts to do it," told Heydar Babayev, Economic Development Minister of Azerbaijan, in his interview to journalists in Azerbaijan-Lithuania business forum today in Baku.
09 June 2006 [14:23]

President receives Russian Emergencies Minister

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today received Russian Minister of Emergencies Sergey Shoygu.
09 June 2006 [13:23]

Armenian FM: "Karabakh issue has limit of compromise Armenia will never go beyond"

There is a limit of compromise in the Nagorno Karabakh problem Armenia will never go beyond, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated in an interview with the Armenian television.
09 June 2006 [09:55]

Moscow Times: "Ex-Azeri leader begged for apartment"

The first president of independent Azerbaijan, Ayaz Mutalibov, had to beg the Kremlin for an apartment after he fled a rebellion in 1992.
09 June 2006 [09:53]

President of National Bank of Georgia meets Azerbaijani Ambassador

Roman Gotsiridze, President of the National Bank of Georgia met with Namig Alyev, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Georgia on Thursday.
09 June 2006 [09:51]

Dozens arrested in Maragheh on charges of participation in uprisings in Azerbaijan Province

Sohrab Eqbali, the prosecutor of Maragheh, admitted in an interview with the state-run daily Resalat the scale of the people's uprisings in the city and said, "Dozens of rioters were arrested in the recent events which came about following the publication of the insulting cartoon in the daily Iran."
09 June 2006 [09:46]

Tahir Taghizadeh: "CIA secret jails reference due to "Azerbaijan's strategic location"

The fact Azerbaijan was included in a report of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) concerning secret jails presumably run by the US Central Intelligence Agency in Europe is due to its strategic geographic location, the Foreign Ministry spokesman Tahir Taghizadeh has said.
09 June 2006 [09:42]

Armenian parliamentry delegation to visit Baku in November

Azeri Parliament Chair congratulated newly-elected Armenian Speaker.
09 June 2006 [09:24]

Polish MPs to visit Azerbaijan June 13

Polish parliamentary delegation will visit Azerbaijan next week at the invitation of Azerbaijani parliament.
09 June 2006 [09:16]

Mahmudali Chohragani asked support from Turkey for South Azerbaijan

South Azerbaijan National Revival Movement (SANRM) Chairman Mahmudali Chohragani held press conference in Istanbul.
09 June 2006 [09:10]

Emergencies Minister received UNO DP resident coordinator

Minister for Emergencies of Azerbaijan, general-colonel Kamaleddin Heydarov has received UNO DP resident coordinator in Azerbaijan, Marco Barsotti.
09 June 2006 [09:05]

Valdas Adamkus: "European Union should mediate in settlement of Karabakh conflict"

"The Nagorno Karabakh problem should be solved peacefully. As the European Union member state, Lithuania thinks the EU should play its role as a mediator in the solution of the Nagorno Karabakh problem," Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus told at briefing following the one-on-one meeting with President Ilham Aliyev.
09 June 2006 [09:00]

Nagorno Karabakh: No longer abstract and distant for EU

A gathering of Black Sea leaders in Bucharest, on June 5, also served as the venue for the latest set of talks between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan about the status of Nagorno Karabakh, legally part of Azerbaijan but controlled by ethnic Armenian separatists since 1994.
09 June 2006 [08:38]

Ardij Durdu: "Caspian Sea oil to make 35% of world oil production in 15 years"

Caspian Sea oil will make 35% of world oil production in next 15 years and Brand oil extracted in Northern Sea will be substituted with Caspian and Russian oil.
09 June 2006 [08:28]

Abbaseli Hasanov: "Regnum and Iran News agencies' reports are false"

"Russian pan-Armenian "Regnum" and Iranian "Iran News" news agencies' 27 and 29 May reports on the recent events in Iran quoting Azerbaijani Ambassador to Iran Abbaseli Hasanov are not true," the letter with signature of Abbaseli Hasanov reads.
08 June 2006 [23:13]

Azerbaijani and Lithuania Presidents signed joint declaration

Today two-day visit of Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus has started to Baku.
08 June 2006 [23:05]

Israel offers cooperation to Azerbaijan's Emergencies Ministry

Minister of Emergencies, Colonel General Kamaladdin Heydarov today received Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.
08 June 2006 [23:01]

Azerbaijani MPs reject Leo Platvoet's proposals

The Council of Europe Parlaimentary Assembly (PACE) rapporteur for missing persons Leo Platvoet and PACE member Mack Nevil had several talks today in Baku. They first visited the International Committee of the Red Cross office in Baku.
08 June 2006 [22:46]

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer: "Iran poses threat to not only BTC oil pipeline but entire world community"

Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer held a press conference on his three-day visit to Baku.