Politics
26 May 2006 [09:51]
Abbas Abbasov will act as President of Wrestling Federation after his resignation from the post of first deputy Prime Minister.
26 May 2006 [09:36]
Saudi Arabian delegation led by Deputy Chair of Main Office for Youth Care, Prince Navaf bin-Faysal will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan from May 30 to June 2 at the invitation of Azerbaijani Minister for Youth and Sport Azad Rahimov.
26 May 2006 [08:47]
CIS government heads Council held next meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
26 May 2006 [08:25]
The Azerbaijan's Friends Society in the Netherlands made statement denouncing the recent violent suppression of the protest actions held by Iranian Azerbaijanis.
26 May 2006 [08:18]
Musavat has not made a decision on participation of formation process of election commission, party Chairman Isa Gambar stated.
26 May 2006 [08:13]
Heads of parliaments of 40 countries will meet in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, May 30-31.
26 May 2006 [02:05]
May 22, 2006, the officers of Iranian secret service opened gunfire at the participants of the peaceful demonstration and murdered 16 civilians. The names of three of the killed were announced today: Vahid Baverniyah, Jamshid Zanjanli and Halil Ufugi.
25 May 2006 [23:15]
In the fourth day of continuing uprisings all cities of East and West Azerbaijan and Ardabil are engulfed in demonstrations.
25 May 2006 [23:01]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev sent a letter of felicitations to his Georgian counterpart Mikhail Saakashvili on the occasion of the Georgia's Independence Day.
25 May 2006 [22:45]
May 25 President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev gave an interview at the Presidential Palace to Stefan Wagstyl, Central and East Europe editor of one of the Great Britain's most influential newspapers "Financial Times".
25 May 2006 [22:38]
May 25, President of Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev received at the Presidential Palace Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women.
25 May 2006 [18:45]
Having visited Armenia, representatives of co-chair countries of the OSCE Minsk Group for settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict issued a joint statement for the press.
25 May 2006 [15:53]
25 May 2006 [15:51]
Spanish delegation led by Ambassador Carlos Sanchez de Boad, head of Spain's permanent delegation to OSCE, will visit Baku on 31 May within the tour to the South Caucasus states.
25 May 2006 [15:44]
Azerbaijan's state flag has been burnt while two thousand protesters held an action outside the Azerbaijan's Embassy in Tehran in the evening of May 24.
25 May 2006 [15:38]
Co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group have met to discuss the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement.
25 May 2006 [15:31]
Azerbaijani protester Ibrahim Azerpur was killed in the clash with government forces during the rally in Sulduz, Iran on 24 May.
25 May 2006 [14:51]
According to him, unrecognized republics in the former USSR territory, including Abkhazia, Transdnestrovie and Nagorno Karabakh will choose the way of Montenegro.
25 May 2006 [13:07]
Ukrainian and Armenian military officials inked the protocol on bilateral military cooperation.
25 May 2006 [12:50]
Ukraine is a friendly country towards Armenia, Chief of the General Staff of Ukraine, Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief, colonel general Sergey Kirichenko stated at a news conference in Yerevan.
25 May 2006 [12:38]
The Georgian government is examining whether to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Independent States, but has not yet reached a decision, the country's state minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration said Thursday.
25 May 2006 [12:13]
The postponing of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly member Edward O'Hara's visit to Baku scheduled for May 29 was due to his lacking necessary documents and materials to study cultural monuments in Azerbaijan and Armenia.
25 May 2006 [12:10]
AGO Monitoring Group from the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers will visit Azerbaijan from 11 to 14 June.
25 May 2006 [09:31]
The Young Turks Organization today staged a protest outside the Iran's Embassy in Baku demanding Iranian authorities to end repressions against Azerbaijanis.
25 May 2006 [09:24]
Mustafa Mahammad Najjar, Iranian Defense Minister, has invited Safar Abiyev, Azerbaijani Defense Minister, and Yaver Jamalov, Defense Industry Minister, to an official visit to his country. Afshar Suleymani, Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan, has reported the media about.
25 May 2006 [09:18]
IRI Ambassador to Baku said at a press conference that the IAEA Chief Muhammad ElBaradei, as well as that agency's inspectors, confirmed in their latest visits of Iran that Tehran has not breached any of the related nuclear international laws, including NPT articles.
25 May 2006 [09:18]
Council of Europe Parlaimentary Assembly Standing Committee will meet in Moscow May 29.
25 May 2006 [08:40]
The sides exchanged views on the negotiating process for the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.
25 May 2006 [08:27]
The International Republican Institute (IRI) has sent letter of appreciation to the Central Election Commission (CEC) related to the 13 May by-elections.
25 May 2006 [08:22]
The forum of Azerbaijani students in Europe will be held in the European Parliament building May 29-30.
25 May 2006 [08:18]
The National Assembly of Georgian Azerbaijanis (NAGA) is demanding Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili's resignation.
25 May 2006 [08:04]
Romania President Trayan Basescu will pay an official visit to Azerbaijan in autumn of this year, Romania Ambassador to Baku has told yesterday.
24 May 2006 [22:38]
Major powers have made progress on a package of incentives and disincentives aimed at resolving the Iran nuclear crisis but have not reached final agreement and more meetings are likely, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Wednesday.
24 May 2006 [22:29]
Iranian intelligence officials have linked a riot in Tabriz by thousands of ethnic Azeri Turks with "issues in Khuzestan".
24 May 2006 [21:03]
Azerbaijani Prime Minister Arthur Rasizadeh today left for the Tajikistani capital, Dushanbe, to attend the meeting of CIS Board of Heads of Government.
24 May 2006 [20:49]
"The newspaper 'Iran' wrote a story and published a caricature which caused dissatisfaction of Iranian Azerbaijanis and they reacted to this naturally. I must say this caricature was a mistake.
24 May 2006 [20:43]
"We are again surprised by the fact that Azerbaijan tries to put forth an approach not corresponding to the contents of the current talks on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," Acting Spokesman of the Armenian Foreign Ministry Vladimir Karapetyan said when commenting on the statement by Azeri FM Elmar Mammadyarov who said that "the stepwise resolution of the conflict is the best one."
24 May 2006 [20:42]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, being on a visit in Azerbaijan, issued joint statement.
24 May 2006 [20:24]
Demonstrations erupted in Orumieh yesterday afternoon and continued until late hours on Wednesday evening.
24 May 2006 [19:09]
Romania plans to join the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development, GUAM, said Romanian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Nicolae Ureche.
24 May 2006 [16:34]
President Ilham Aliyev congratulated His Majesty King Abdullah II on the national holiday of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan - Independence Day.
24 May 2006 [15:30]
Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Hasanov met May 24 with the delegation of Fuji Optical Co. Ltd (Japan) led by its president Dr. Akio Kanai.
24 May 2006 [15:18]
The USA should officially recognize Iran as a nuclear power and stop threatening the country, former CIA agent Robert Baer is quoted as saying by ATV TV-channel (Azerbaijani) citing Iranian sources.
24 May 2006 [15:11]
Pentagon requested the U.S. Congress for $43 million for the reconstruction of four military airfields in Azerbaijan and organization of anti-missile defense and radio-electronic intelligence, reported Express Baku-based newspaper citing sources within Pentagon.
24 May 2006 [14:13]
Iran's president accused the United States and its allies on Wednesday of "hatching plots" to provoke ethnic tensions and destabilize Iran, a day after the government closed a state-run newspaper for publishing a cartoon that sparked riots by ethnic Azeris.
24 May 2006 [10:44]
Azerbaijani National Security Minister Eldar Mahmudov was on an official visit to Austria from May 15 to 19 at the invitation of Austrian Interior Minister.
24 May 2006 [10:41]
Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) issued statement denouncing Minsk Group co-chairs' next visit to the region.
24 May 2006 [10:18]
Musavat deputy group acting in Parliament has prepared draft law "On status of ex-presidents".
24 May 2006 [09:26]
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate Richard E. Hoagland to serve in his Administration.
24 May 2006 [09:20]
PACE rapporteur on monitoring of cultural monuments, Edward O’Hara, British MP, visit to Azerbaijan and Armenia postponed, Azerbaijani delegation member to PACE, Rafael Huseynov stated.
24 May 2006 [09:10]
On May 24, Russian, French and US OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Yuri Merzlyakov, Bernard Fassier and Steven Mann, as well as Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin will visit Baku.
24 May 2006 [08:58]
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that his country's relations with Russia have been developing constructive for the last time.
24 May 2006 [08:33]
The High Level Group of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) met in Moscow yesterday.
24 May 2006 [08:11]
The International Center for Prison Studies (ICPS) has announced the latest world prison population list.
23 May 2006 [22:09]
The members of the South Azerbaijan National Revival Movement (SANRM) and the United Azerbaijan Union (UAU) staged a protest action outside Iran's Embassy in Baku with regard to the killing of Azerbaijani protesters and detaining of more than 100 of them in Tabriz, Iran, on May 22.
23 May 2006 [21:48]
NATO has nothing against the Armenian wish to have a Russian military base on its territory, special representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons said on Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [21:28]
Government buildings torched, many arrested during uprisings in three northwestern Iranian provinces.
23 May 2006 [21:20]
A second train, loaded with military hardware and property withdrawn from the Russian military base Akhalkalaki in Georgia, left for Russia from the railway terminal of Palka in Georgia at 9.00 a.m. Moscow time Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [21:18]
The activities of the GUAM alliance of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova are not aimed against anybody, but expected to solve problems the four countries face, Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin said after the GUAM summit on Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [21:15]
Armenian President Robert Kocharian and the NATO Secretary-General's Representative for the North Caucasus and Central Asia, Robert Simmons, have discussed Armenia-NATO cooperation, the Armenian presidential press service told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [20:53]
Victor Yushchenko has met with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, according to the Ukranian President's press-office.
23 May 2006 [19:36]
Visiting Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov conferred with the Iranian first Vice-President Parviz Dawoodi here on Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [19:31]
Azeri Embassy in Tehran does not respond.
23 May 2006 [15:26]
A Russian deputy foreign minister said Tuesday Russia saw no anti-Russian sentiment in GUAM, a regional organization uniting four of its former fellow Soviet republics.
23 May 2006 [15:23]
Energy security of GUAM, a regional organization of four former Soviet republics, is vital for the independence of its member countries, Azerbaijan's president said Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [14:53]
GUAM, a regional organization of four former Soviet republics, should focus on cooperation with the European Union and NATO, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday.
23 May 2006 [14:47]
Leaders of GUAM, a regional organization of four former Soviet republics, adopted Tuesday a charter changing the group's status and renaming it the GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development.
23 May 2006 [13:45]
Speaker of Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic (Azerbaijan Parliament) met with the State Secretary of Vatican for Relations with States archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, 22 May.
23 May 2006 [13:36]
Some 340 parliamentarians from North America and Europe are expected to attend the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's Spring session which will be held in Paris, France from Friday May 26 to Tuesday May 30.
23 May 2006 [12:34]
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's chairman-in-office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, is in Prague for the OSCE's 14th Economic Forum on May 22-23.
23 May 2006 [12:31]
With energy security quickly moving up on its agenda, the US administration is putting pressure on oil- and gas-rich countries to open up their economies and initiate political reforms.
23 May 2006 [11:03]
Georgian President regretted on Tuesday that Georgia may be forced out of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
23 May 2006 [10:38]
The Bush administration's new strategy on the Caspian region is known, said US Senator Sam Brownback, who authored the draft law on supporting the South Caucasus and Central Asian states in the US Senate.
23 May 2006 [09:18]
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Steven Mann (US) and Bernard Fassier (France), deputy Russian Foreign Minister Grigori Karasin, US Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried as well as French Foreign Ministry director for political affairs Stanislas D’Labule will have talks on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, on May 24.
23 May 2006 [09:16]
US Congress House of Representatives committee for military aids adopted a decision to preserve parity in rendering military assistance to Azerbaijan and Armenia.
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