Politics
21 March 2006 [20:39]
His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam on Monday granted an audience to Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, at Istana Nurul Iman.
21 March 2006 [20:30]
Iran tries to hit back by pro-Iranian NGO's hands.
21 March 2006 [20:17]
Edward Lintner, deputy chief of CE Parliamentary Assembly Commission on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and Werner Munch, European Union expert today separately met with opposition leaders.
21 March 2006 [20:13]
"After the growth of tariffs for Russian gas pragmatic approaches substituted for empiric pro-Russian sentiments," Armenian Vice-Speaker Vahan Hovhannisyan said.
21 March 2006 [16:41]
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs have held regular consultations in Istanbul.
21 March 2006 [14:33]
Tural Morali, ambassador of Turkey to Azerbaijan visited Tovuz's villages on the boarder with Armenia.
21 March 2006 [14:02]
To guarantee its own security, the EU must become more engaged in resolving the conflicts in the South Caucasus lest they ignite into full-fledged wars in Europe's neighbourhood.
21 March 2006 [12:07]
Destiny of the missed Azerbaijanis will be discussed at the meeting of Parliament Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) committee for refugees, population and migration issues of on March 20 in Brussels, Belgium.
20 March 2006 [23:22]
"Georgia sympathizes with the Armenian people who survived the tragedy in 1915 that resulted in such great number of victims," Georgian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia Revaz Gachechiladze said.
20 March 2006 [22:40]
Azerbaijan has submitted seven memoranda of understanding to Malaysia containing its proposals to enhance bilateral cooperation and relationship.
18 March 2006 [21:34]
Foreign Ministry comments Suleymani's statement.
18 March 2006 [21:10]
As a result of counter-intelligence measures, it was proved that junior sergeant of a military unit of Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry, resident of Shamkir region Bakirov Ruslan Khagani, who has been in Armenian captive from February 15 till May 7, 2005, had a secret cooperation with Armenian intelligence services.
18 March 2006 [21:06]
Former head of "Azneft" appointed to a new position.
18 March 2006 [20:52]
A group of classical wing of Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan tried to hold unsanctioned picket opposite embassy of Iran to Azerbaijan.
18 March 2006 [12:18]
President Ilham Aliyev received the delegation headed by Akkan Suver, Chairman of Marmara Group Strategic and Social Research Foundation, Turkey.
18 March 2006 [10:56]
Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia sent a note to Russian Foreign Ministry due to the fact that Nagorno Garabagh was shown as territory of Armenia at Inter RAO EES website.
18 March 2006 [10:16]
Afshar Suleymani is indignant at the World Azerbaijanis Congress Chairman's words.
18 March 2006 [09:13]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov paid and official visit to Malaysia. The Minister had talks with Malaysian officials.
18 March 2006 [08:22]
The next meeting of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population will be held in Brussels March 20-21.
17 March 2006 [23:44]
The Iranian Embassy in Baku sent a note to Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry as a result of "anti-Iranian" statements voiced at the 2nd Congress of World Azerbaijanis.
17 March 2006 [18:10]
Today President of Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev received the delegation headed by Ainars Latkovskis, Minister of Special Assignments of Society Integration Affairs.
17 March 2006 [17:45]
March 17 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received delegation headed by Peter Semnebi, the European Union Special Envoy to South Caucasus.
17 March 2006 [16:12]
"Permanent political instability in Azerbaijan was an important factor in the Karabakh war," said author of "Black Garden" book dedicated to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict Thomas de Waal.
17 March 2006 [15:48]
Azeri presidential administration accused Armenian Foreign Minister of attempting to derail efforts to settle the long-standing Nagorno Karabakh conflict, following the latter's outrageous statement.
17 March 2006 [15:05]
"The talks on settling the long-standing Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict are not stagnant," said the US Department of State Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried as saying.
17 March 2006 [10:22]
Armenians violated the cease-fire at Gazakh and Terter frontlines.
17 March 2006 [10:19]
Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) made several attempts to prevent participation of Armenian representatives in the preparatory conference to the OSCE Economic Forum, but police prevented the attempts.
17 March 2006 [10:05]
Azerbaijani delegation led by first Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ziyafet Asgharov will attend NATO Parliamentary Assembly spring session in Paris this May.
17 March 2006 [09:59]
He thinks there is much likelihood that the conflict will be settled in 2006.
17 March 2006 [09:56]
The composition of the Central Election Commission (CEC) will be fully formed after the Constitutional Court's decision on the re-run of the parliamentary elections.
17 March 2006 [09:38]
He said that OSCE focuses on the settlement of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
17 March 2006 [09:34]
"There is no special meaning in the next meeting of co-chairs of the OSCE MG for settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to be held in Istanbul," OSCE Minsk Group US Ambassador Steven Mann said in Yerevan.
16 March 2006 [19:34]
On Thursday Etibar Mammadov, the leader of the Azerbaijan National Independence Party (ANIP), met with Amy Sultz, the Director of the U.S. National Democratic Institute (NDI).
16 March 2006 [18:54]
Bogdan Borusevich, the chair of the Upper Chamber of the Polish Senate will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan from 6 to 7 April.
16 March 2006 [18:40]
"The implementation of state financing of political parties in Azerbaijan is impossible in 2006," said Ali Ahmadov, the Executive Secretary of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP).
16 March 2006 [18:20]
The efficiency term of the Council of Europe's Action Plan on parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan has been prolonged.
16 March 2006 [17:20]
Asim Mollazade, the chairman of the Democratic Reforms Party (DRP), met with Emi Shultz, the Director of the U.S. National Democratic Institute (NDI) on Azerbaijan.
16 March 2006 [17:00]
"Elmar Mammadyarov, the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, will start his official visit to Malaysia on Thursday evening," said the head of the Media and Information Policy Department of the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister, Tahir Tagizade.
16 March 2006 [16:03]
"By the adoption of the final Communique a meeting of the OIC member-states, which took place in Jeddah on 15 March, ended," said Tahir Tagizade, the head of the Media and Information Department of the Foreign Ministry.
16 March 2006 [15:32]
On Thursday the Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan holds the vote in relation to the elections to Knesset.
16 March 2006 [15:15]
Armenia will never be able rival with Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated on March 16 to an opening ceremony of the 2nd Congress of the World Azerbaijanis.
16 March 2006 [13:44]
Armenian President Robert Kocharian on Thursday met with Ambassador Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
16 March 2006 [10:55]
Russia has come out against the construction of a trunk pipeline along the Caspian seabed, saying the project poses considerable risks to the region.
16 March 2006 [10:50]
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian has made an outrageous statement, alleging that Nagorno Karabakh has never been part of Azerbaijan, which could jeopardize the ongoing talks to settle over a decade-long dispute.
16 March 2006 [10:25]
An MP elected to the Milli Majlis at the 2005 election has declined to meet with the US ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish.
16 March 2006 [09:05]
Armenians violated the cease-fire in Gazakh frontline again.
16 March 2006 [08:57]
The new European Union Special Envoy for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby will visit Baku on Thursday.
16 March 2006 [01:55]
"The information discrediting the Armenian officers, who are taking a course organized by the European Center for Security Issues in Garmisch-Partenkirchner is false from beginning to end," said Armenian Ambassador to Germany Karine Ghazinian.
16 March 2006 [01:24]
On Thursday Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President, received Galina Koveskaite, the adviser to Lithuanian President.
16 March 2006 [01:19]
"5 documents are planned to be signed during the official visit of Victor Ushenko," the Ukrainian President, to Azerbaijan, Abbas Abbasov, the Azerbaijani First Vice-Primer, told journalists on Wednesday.
16 March 2006 [01:15]
On Thursday Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President, received Dastan Sarigulov, the Kyrgyz State Secretary.
15 March 2006 [20:17]
The representatives of ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP) will pay a visit to China in April.
15 March 2006 [20:10]
MP holds a press conference.
15 March 2006 [16:53]
Special working group on defining the legal status of the Caspian sea met in Moscow.
15 March 2006 [15:51]
Pro-Armenian Congressmen appeal to the US Congress.
15 March 2006 [15:13]
"I hope European Parliament will not adopt baseless resolutions unreflecting realties any more," Jan Brezina, a member of the group of the European Popular Party and the European Democrats of the European Parliament, said to journalists on Wednesday.
15 March 2006 [12:36]
On Tuesday Isa Gambar, the chairman of Musavat Party, met with Steven Mann, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair, and Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
15 March 2006 [12:29]
"The US State Department's annual report fully confirms that Nagorno Karabakh and surrounding Azerbaijani districts are occupied by Armenia," said the deputy chairman of the Milli Majlis commission on national security and defense, Aydin Mirzazada.
15 March 2006 [12:18]
"Armenia should maximally keep the distance from the history. Only in this case normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations is possible," expert, political scientist Stepan Grigoryan stated.
14 March 2006 [22:35]
Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense regards visit of Azerbaijan Armed forces representatives to Armenia as impossible.
14 March 2006 [22:24]
"Possible war in the South Caucasus will become disaster for the all region," said Ambassador Daniel Fried, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, at a news conference on Tuesday.
14 March 2006 [22:07]
On Tuesday Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President, received the delegation led by Teodor Atanasiu, the Romanian National Defense Minister.
14 March 2006 [22:04]
A delegation from the Austrian Supreme Court led by chairman Johann Reshutun will pay an official visit to Baku on April 10 at the invitation of Azerbaijan Supreme Court judge Ramiz Rzayev.
14 March 2006 [21:52]
Bilateral agreements on military cooperation were signed during the meeting of Safar Abiyev, the Azerbaijani Defense Minister, with his Rumanian counterpart Teodor Atanasiu on Tuesday.
14 March 2006 [18:00]
Tuesday sitting of the Milli Majlis heard a report by the Cabinet of Ministers on its activities in 2005.
14 March 2006 [17:41]
On Tuesday the "Azadlig" (Freedom) block Council of Chairs held a meeting.
14 March 2006 [17:14]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today called for a ban on any outside military presence in the Caspian Sea, which Russia shares with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran.
14 March 2006 [15:46]
Chairman of Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic (Azerbaijan Parliament) Ogtay Asadov on March 14 met with the Minister of National Defense of Romania Teodor Atanasiu.
14 March 2006 [15:18]
Victor Yushenko, the Ukrainian President, signed the Law on ratification of agreement between the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers and the Azerbaijani government on labor activities and social security of the Ukrainian citizens temporarily working in Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani citizens temporarily working in Ukraine.
14 March 2006 [10:06]
Robert Simmons, NATO Secretary General's Special Envoy for the Caucasus and Central Asia will visit the Southern Caucasus region in April this year.
14 March 2006 [09:33]
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will visit Jeddah today.
14 March 2006 [09:16]
An autopsy of Slobodan Milosevich's body was conducted March 12.
14 March 2006 [09:07]
"Armenia has made its part of concessions in the settlement of the conflict. We are anticipating Azerbaijan to make concessions now," Armenian FM Vardan Oskanian stated.
14 March 2006 [08:28]
Investigation on Khojali Genocide initiated by the Republic Military Prosecutor's Office in 1992 is underway.
13 March 2006 [23:30]
"NATO Rescuer 2006 exercises will be held in late June in Yerevan," Armenian Deputy MOD Head, lieutenant general Artur Aghabekyan said.
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