Politics
28 March 2006 [15:20]
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi on Tuesday expressed regret over "anti-Iran remarks" by participants in a seminar in Baku stressing such biased statements, made in presence of Azeri officials, are aimed at damaging the two countries' relations.
28 March 2006 [14:50]
The Prime Minister of Turkey Rajab Tayyip Erdogan will visit Azerbaijan in May this year.
28 March 2006 [14:04]
There is no problem in preparations for by-elections to Milli Majlis, Maurizio Pavesi, the Head of the OSCE Baku Office, told.
28 March 2006 [13:52]
One of the PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) delegation's Azerbaijani members will discuss the situation with the human rights violations at the military bases in the country at the PACE spring session, head of the Parliamentary Delegation, Samed Seyidov stated.
28 March 2006 [10:03]
"Azerbaijani government will hold fair by-elections to Milli Majlis. The US can help Azerbaijan with exit poll and finger inking," the US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish told journalists.
28 March 2006 [09:49]
"We have not been informed about the conclusions of the co-chairs' meeting in Istanbul," Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists.
28 March 2006 [09:04]
Azerbaijani Human Rights Authority (Ombudsman's Office) appealed to the Defense Ministry in order to draw up the list of Azerbaijanis killed by Armenians in cease-fire period.
28 March 2006 [08:54]
Polling station #3 functioned in the Ukrainian Embassy in Azerbaijan related to the parliamentary elections in Ukraine.
27 March 2006 [17:27]
Romanian officials will pay a number of visits to Azerbaijan this year.
27 March 2006 [16:55]
6 documents will be reviewed at the next Milli Mejlis meeting on April 4.
27 March 2006 [16:53]
The visit of Turkish President Ahmad Nejded Sezer to Azerbaijan is planned from 4 to 5 April.
27 March 2006 [16:50]
Nagorno Karabakh conflict resolution talks have to be continued.
27 March 2006 [16:47]
Bernard Fasie, the French co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, is expected to arrive in the South Caucasus region in April.
27 March 2006 [16:44]
Azerbaijan's annual development, the natural resources and strengthening of the positions leads to activization of its enemies.
27 March 2006 [16:37]
Azerbaijan's position on Nagorno Karabakh conflict remains unchanged - territorial integrity of the state has to be restored.
27 March 2006 [14:10]
Armenians violated the ceased-fire in the direction of Azerbaijan’s regions of Gazakh and Tovuz.
27 March 2006 [14:08]
Talks on creation of Turk States' Parliamentary Assembly worries Armenia seriously.
27 March 2006 [14:05]
Madat Guliyev, chairman of Interpol National Bureau on Azerbaijan, was dismissed.
27 March 2006 [13:50]
'Our Ukraine' bloc is leading according to the poll results on Ukrainian parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.
27 March 2006 [13:42]
Azerbaijan and Moldova will sign an agreement for cooperation in youth politics and sport.
27 March 2006 [03:14]
Party changed its name Classic Popular Front Party.
27 March 2006 [02:48]
Two more persons registered to participate in reelections withdrew their candidacy.
27 March 2006 [02:21]
Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) leader Etibar Mammadov will visit Rome to join the congress of European People’s Party on March 29.
27 March 2006 [02:19]
Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP) led by Ayaz Rustamov, continues its conferences in the regional organizations related to preparation to its congress to be held in late April.
26 March 2006 [17:50]
Statement on refugees and IDPs in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia included to PACE's spring session.
26 March 2006 [17:24]
Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia may hold next meeting on regulation of Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict in 2006.
26 March 2006 [17:18]
Araz Azimov starts a regional visit.
26 March 2006 [13:44]
The President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on approval of regulations and image of the battle flag and of the Heydar Aliyev Academy of the Ministry of National Security.
26 March 2006 [13:34]
"Because of a policy of obedience pursued by official Yerevan, Armenia has already turned from a fortpost of Russia into its addition."
25 March 2006 [16:31]
Turkish General says that Azerbaijan should solve the Nagorno Karabakh conflict by itself.
25 March 2006 [16:24]
Ballot papers for the rerun of parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan will be ready several days before the Election Day.
25 March 2006 [16:13]
Protesters against the results of presidential elections in Belarus were arrested by the law enforcement bodies.
25 March 2006 [16:11]
EU special representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby made a statement.
25 March 2006 [15:51]
OSCE Fact Investigation mission will arrive to Karabakh in June to investigate hostage issue.
25 March 2006 [10:19]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev congratulated Alexander Lukashenko on his re-election to the post of the President of Belarus.
25 March 2006 [10:10]
Deputy Premier, Chairman of the Republic Committee for International Humanitarian Aid, the State Committee on work with Refugees and IDPs, Ali Hasanov, met with Mr. Gian Luigi Masha, Italian Ambassador to Azerbaijan.
25 March 2006 [09:59]
"The Minsk Group co-chairs usually exchange views on the negotiating process over the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, and inform the conflicting sides about their conclusions only in the meeting with either FM or with President," the Head of the President's Office Department of International Relations, Novruz Mammadov stated.
25 March 2006 [00:21]
No talks are planned on the regulation of the Nagorno Karabakh problem in US March 2006, Tahir Karimov, Councellor on political issues of the Azerbaijani Embassy in US, stated.
24 March 2006 [23:43]
Azerbaijan has repatriated POW Vartan Saakyan to the Armenian side.
24 March 2006 [23:17]
Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Afshar Suleymani shall be expelled from the country, National Front of the Single Azerbaijan party chairman, MP Gudrat Hasanguliyev told at the parliamentary meeting March 24.
24 March 2006 [23:02]
The state of Anar Husseynov, the resident of the Aghdam region, who was wounded as a result of violation of the cease-fire by Armenians on March 22-23, is satisfactory.
24 March 2006 [14:52]
Azerbaijani parliamentarians arrived at Ukraine to observe upcoming elections on March 26.
24 March 2006 [14:27]
Declaration on "Refugees and Displaced Persons in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia" was included into Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) spring preliminary session agenda. Project of the given document was prepared by the Latvian reporter of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population, Boriss Cilevics.
24 March 2006 [13:49]
March 23 the units of the Armenian armed forces dislocated in 0.4km south of Mazamli village of Gazakh District fired from 18:20pm to 18:25pm the positions of the Azerbaijan National Army in the opposite.
24 March 2006 [13:28]
The Azerbaijan Central Elections Commission (CEC) will invite representatives of CEC from other countries to observe the re-run parliamentary elections on May 13, CEC Vice-Chairman, Swetlana Gasimova stated.
24 March 2006 [11:56]
"The Al Qaeda terror cell is trying to recruit Azeri girls to carry out suicide attacks," the National Security Minister Eldar Mahmudov has said.
24 March 2006 [11:45]
The opposition has accused the West of a “double standard” against Azerbaijan.
24 March 2006 [11:27]
"Reckless statements cannot harm relations, relations between the two countries will expand and deepen, planned projects will be implemented," Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Afshar Suleymani, said.
24 March 2006 [11:08]
"OSCE MG co-chairs consider peace agreement on Nagorno Karabakh conflict in this year in any version as desirable. But in the conclusion, this agreement depends on the conflicting parties," American co-chair Steven Mann told.
24 March 2006 [09:25]
"After the Istanbul meeting on March 20 the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have not informed of their coming steps yet," Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian said.
24 March 2006 [09:20]
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev made traditional appeal to people on March 1.
23 March 2006 [23:48]
"The C? Venice Commission supposes to organize roundtable in Baku soon in relation to the by-elections to the Milli Majlis in Azerbaijan May 13, 2006," Tatyana Myshelova, representative of the Venice Commission Secretariat stated.
23 March 2006 [23:16]
Meeting of the South Caucasus Parliamentary Assembly originally scheduled for late March has been postponed, a member of the South Caucasus parliamentary assembly (PA) from Azerbaijan, MP Zahid Oruj informed.
23 March 2006 [23:02]
The Azerbaijani Ombudsman, Elmira Suleymanova took part in the international symposium on "The Role of Women in the Religious World" that was recently held in Bucharest.
23 March 2006 [22:56]
The US International Republican Institute (IRI) will participate in the re-run parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan scheduled for May 13, 2006.
23 March 2006 [16:56]
Armenians, from their positions in the occupied village Yusifjanli of Aghdam region of Azerbaijan, fired on the Afatli village, Aghdam, at about 12.30 today.
23 March 2006 [16:18]
Danial Ahmetov, the Kazakh Premier, will pay a visit to Azerbaijan, Andar Shukputov, the Kazakh Ambassador to Azerbaijan, informed.
23 March 2006 [15:43]
India will to purchase Azerbaijani oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Trend reports quoting Jyoti Svarup Pande, the Indian Ambassador to Azerbaijan, as saying at a news conference in Baku on Thursday.
23 March 2006 [15:29]
Talks on Karabakh conflict settlement continue, and they have not still reached a deadlock, stated Armenian Prime Minister, leader of the Republican Party Andranik Margaryan, speaking with the press.
23 March 2006 [15:15]
Kazakhstan waits for Azerbaijan's reply due to signing of agreement on oil transit through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Andar Shukputov, the Kazakh Ambassador to Azerbaijan, told press on Thursday.
23 March 2006 [10:53]
The mediation on settling the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict should be undertaken by "a force that is accepted both in Azerbaijan and Armenian as an impartial party" instead, a Russian MP has said.
23 March 2006 [10:44]
An Azeri political analyst has warned against a possible US attack on Iran.
23 March 2006 [10:32]
Resolution on the Nagorno Karabakh settlement will be adopted at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Summer Session, Armenian Parliament's vice-speaker, Head of the Armenian delegation to the OSCE PA Vaan Ovannisian stated.
23 March 2006 [09:19]
The President Ilham Aliyev has sent a congratulation letter to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the national holiday of Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Day of Pakistan.
23 March 2006 [08:43]
"The European Union has a wish to take an active part in the conflict settlement in the South Caucasus," EU Special Envoy for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby stated in Georgia.
23 March 2006 [08:39]
The World Azerbaijanis Congress (WAC) today issued a statement denouncing the Iranian Ambassador to Baku Afshar Suleymanis' recent statements related to the 2nd Congress of World Azerbaijanis.
23 March 2006 [01:09]
In the process of solving Nagorno Karabakh conflict initially IDPs should return to their places said Edward Lintner, deputy chief of CE Parliamentary Assembly Commission on Legal Affairs and Human Rights after the meeting with Elmar Mammadyarov, minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan.
23 March 2006 [00:59]
"The activities for the conflict settlement will be continued this year," he added.
23 March 2006 [00:55]
Co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group in Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement still do not comment to the press on the agenda of their negotiations in Istanbul of March 20.
23 March 2006 [00:45]
A meeting of the Central Electoral Commission of Azerbaijan (CEC) took place on March 22.
23 March 2006 [00:39]
US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish's completes his duties.
22 March 2006 [23:54]
Problem caused by the flight from Azerbaijan to Northern Cyprus on June 27 last year has remained unsolved.
22 March 2006 [18:04]
The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, received delegation headed by the Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on human rights, member of PACE monitoring group, Edward Linthner March 22.
22 March 2006 [17:54]
Some thoughts voiced during the 2nd congress of World Azerbaijanis in relation to Iran can not be the official position of Azerbaijan, Nazim Ibrahimov, the Chair of the State Committee on Azerbaijanis Living Abroad, stated.
22 March 2006 [12:56]
The resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno Karabakh passes through the rehabilitation of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and repatriation of refugees, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated in his appeal to nation at the ceremonial celebration of Novruz Bayram.
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