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11 April 2006 [16:48]
The Azerbaijani delegation will take part at "Bird flu" conference in Ankara, the Health Ministry's press-release says.
11 April 2006 [16:27]
The Court of Appeals will consider the appeal by Musavat Party on restoration of Aynur Jamalgizi in the ranks of the party on Wednesday, Ibrahim Ibrahimli, the chair of the Central Control Inspection Commission (CCIC), stated.
11 April 2006 [14:26]
The Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev has accepted the President of the CIS Jewish communities' federation, Lev Levaev.
11 April 2006 [13:47]
Johan Reshut, President of Austrian Supreme Court of Justice, left for Guba region on Tuesday, Allahverdi Nehramli, the Head of press service of the Azerbaijani Supreme Court, informs.
11 April 2006 [09:50]
The US government stopped receiving Azerbaijani immigrants within the Refugees Program.
11 April 2006 [09:43]
International Migration Organization will hold training for state organizations representatives being busy with migration "Migration Management bases".
11 April 2006 [09:04]
International gymnastics tournament is over in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
11 April 2006 [08:59]
English language library was opened in secondary school #1 in the region of Zagatala by the initiative of US Peace Corps volunteer David Rizinburg.
11 April 2006 [00:06]
A bird flu quarantine is being maintained only in one Azerbaijani district, the press service of state veterinary service at the Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry said.
10 April 2006 [21:11]
The Azerbaijani Health Ministry started renovation at the Clinical Medicine Center, former Semashko hospital.
10 April 2006 [21:02]
The Azerbaijani Prosecutor General's Office addressed to the Georgian Prosecutor General's Office to hand over Azer Samadov, the head of the Center of Defense of Religion and Liberty of Conscience, who was arrested in Tbilisi in early April, to Azerbaijan.
10 April 2006 [16:38]
Farhad Mammadov, a co-constitutor of "Irali" (Forward) all-republican youth movement, will participate in the meeting of the presidium of the Union of Youth and Student Organizations from 12 to 13 April, as well as the first forum of the representatives of the creative intelligentsia of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) from 14 to 15 April.
10 April 2006 [14:21]
The State Veterinary Service (SVS) under the Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry completed disinfection of all territories on the shore of the Caspian Sea.
10 April 2006 [12:56]
Aleksi Aleksishvili, Georgian Finance Minister demands introduction of stricter control at the customs checkpoints.
10 April 2006 [12:50]
The agenda of workshop "Media of Azerbaijan and Turkey: similarity and differences" is divided into 4 items.
10 April 2006 [09:21]
The State Veterinary Service (SVS) under the Ministry of Agriculture spread information on the results of the Bird flu tests conducted in 2005-2006.
10 April 2006 [09:14]
The members of the South Azerbaijan National Movement (SANAM) Mustafa Avazpur and his two brothers were arrested by law-enforcement bodies of Iran in Tebriz city.
09 April 2006 [23:02]
Antalya hosted on Saturday a "general assembly" amid the Dialogue Eurasia Platform’s four-day meeting over "media".
09 April 2006 [21:46]
A scandal broke off in Azerbaijan after the Minister of communications and informational technologies claimed that the local secret services tap every call from the country to the neighboring Armenia, local media reported.
08 April 2006 [18:31]
Two Azerbaijani criminals were killed on Moscow's Leninsky Avenue on Friday evening. The police think that it was a mob war.
08 April 2006 [18:16]
Recently third meeting of steering project group on creation of National Associations of local authorities started.
08 April 2006 [17:46]
Sevindzh Abdullayeva, who had been an Itar-Tass correspondent in Baku for the past 13 years, was put in charge of a leading independent television company of Azerbaijan, Space, on Friday.
08 April 2006 [17:15]
Moscow prosecutors have ordered the arrest of four suspects in an attack on an NTV television producer, the Prosecutor's Office said Saturday.
08 April 2006 [11:04]
Commissioner for Human Rights of Azerbaijan Elmira Suleymanova has received resident–coordinator of UNO, UNO Development Program (DP) Head in our country Marco Barsotti.
08 April 2006 [10:55]
The draft law "On making additions and amendments to some legislative acts to combat corruption" was discussed in the second part of today’s session of Parliament.
08 April 2006 [10:42]
Health Minister Ogtay Shireliyev met with parents of thalassemia patients in the Hematology Institute.
08 April 2006 [10:18]
Court sitting on suit brought by the Barmek Azerbaijan Electricity Network Limited Liability Company (LLC) against the Ministry of Taxes was deferred in the Court of Economy of Azerbaijan because no representative from the Ministry was present at the sitting.
08 April 2006 [09:11]
Center for Restoration of Wild Nature and Watch for epidemiological Situation has been established, Minister Ecology And Natural resources has told journalists.
08 April 2006 [09:01]
Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management, the office of which is located in Georgia, invites Azerbaijani journalists to participate in the program to get master's degree.
08 April 2006 [08:23]
Additions and amendments to the bill on war veterans were discussed and adopted in the first part of Parliament session yesterday.
08 April 2006 [07:29]
"We are ready to provide all conditions to conduct the meeting against Azerbaijani national football team in Yerevan," said Armenian FM Vardan Oskanian.
08 April 2006 [07:01]
"Some TV channels and newspapers aim at generating public excitement by having recently spread reports that mobilization has been ordered in Azerbaijan, and military units in home front have been dislocated to battle field," Defense Ministry spokesman, major Ilgar Verdiyev, stated.
07 April 2006 [23:52]
The Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree on April 7.
07 April 2006 [23:36]
19 year old Karen Avanesyan can be forcefully deported from the UK to Baku.
07 April 2006 [23:02]
In 2006 serious work will be carried out in the school-construction in Azerbaijan under the decree by President Aliyev.
07 April 2006 [17:47]
The next Azerbaijani-Russian negotiations on cooperation in education will be held at the end of April, the Education ministry's head of the external relations and coordination, Mahir Aliyev stated.
07 April 2006 [17:08]
The Azerbaijani Education Ministry confirmed 33 diplomas of graduates of foreign universities, submitted to the commission on nostification.
07 April 2006 [15:58]
Russian border guards have detained and brought to Mahachkala port the Azerbaijani vessel suspected in poaching.
07 April 2006 [15:03]
Additionally, there are places where pollution depth reaches several meters, the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Huseyn Bagirov stated.
07 April 2006 [14:45]
Destruction of forests at the occupied by Armenian Azerbaijani territory shows real intentions of the Armenian politics, the Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Minister, Huseyn Bagirov told at the press-conference April 7.
07 April 2006 [13:12]
The reforms in the self-government bodies will allow bringing of the Azerbaijani legislative base to conformity with the European Self-government Charter, which was ratified in Baku in 2002, Caroline Martin, the Project Director on the National Association of Minucipalities of Azerbaijan (NAMA), representing the Secretariat of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (CLRA CE), stated.
07 April 2006 [10:54]
Delegation headed by Commander of Internal Forces of Azerbaijan, general-lieutenant Zakir Hassanov will pay visit to Turkey on April 10-14.
07 April 2006 [10:41]
Following special order of the President, the Emergencies Ministry, Civil Defense regiment rescuers took humanitarian aid to Lorestan province of Iran which has suffered devastating earthquake recently.
07 April 2006 [10:38]
The chair of the State Customs Committee (SCC) Aydin Aliyev received the program manager of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property Daniel P. Keller.
07 April 2006 [10:33]
70 Azerbaijani citizens have been deported from Istanbul, Turkey.
07 April 2006 [10:12]
"Military Prosecutor's Office continues investigation into the crimes committed by Armenians. Interpol issued international notice for 72 accused and set card index on 532 suspects over these crimes," Military Prosecutor Khanlar Valiyev told.
07 April 2006 [08:13]
Minister of Labour and Social Protection of Population of the Azerbaijan Republic Mr. Fizuli Alekperov and Ms. Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Director for Azerbaijan have officially opened the Training and Research Center in Population and demography in Baku.
07 April 2006 [00:14]
Reports from Tbilisi and Baku say Georgian security forces have arrested an Azerbaijani religious-freedom campaigner.
06 April 2006 [23:00]
Azerbaijani police today dispersed dozens of students who were picketing the Education Ministry.
06 April 2006 [22:31]
Education is a priority of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the Foundation's President, UNESCO Good Will Ambassador, MP Mehriban Aliyeva told at the roundtable discussions dedicated to the second stage of the "New schools to new Azerbaijan" program.
06 April 2006 [16:40]
The World Health Organization (WHO) General Director, Lee Jong-wook arrives to Baku with work visit, the Health Ministry press service head Samaya Mammedova informs.
06 April 2006 [15:31]
The Azerbaijan National Municipal Association (NMA) might play an important role in social-economic development of regions, therefore, strategy with the regard of each region specifics has to be prepared, the EC consultant on the post-conflict issues, Owen Martins told at the third meeting of the work group for the National Municipal Association (NMA) creation.
06 April 2006 [11:36]
The International Committee of the Red Cross will thoroughly address the plight of Azerbaijani captives and missing persons, its president Jacob Kellenberger said during his recent meeting with refugees in the country's Sabirabad and Bilasuvar districts.
06 April 2006 [10:25]
The meeting of the taskforce on political prisoners set up jointly by the authorities and human rights campaigners concluded on Wednesday without achieving major results.
06 April 2006 [10:20]
Armenian separatists are trying to turn Azerbaijan's ancient town of Shusha into their own "cultural center" and plan to carry out this outrageous plan by holding an electronic referendum.
06 April 2006 [09:52]
A delegation of Hungarian media representatives have arrived in Azerbaijan to familiarize with the country.
06 April 2006 [09:12]
On April 6, 2006, Mr.Fizuli Alekperov, Minister of Labour and Social Protection of Population, and Ms.Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Director for Azerbaijan will officially open the Training and Research Center in Population and demography in Baku.
06 April 2006 [09:06]
Azerbaijan's Education Ministry will launch attestation of school teachers soon, Education Minister Misir Mardanov told journalists.
06 April 2006 [08:49]
Moscow police is searching for two men and a woman related to assaulting of Azerbaijani journalist working for Russia's NTV channel Elkhan Mirzoyev.
06 April 2006 [08:46]
The World Health Organization (WHO) experts recommended Azerbaijan to keep epidemiological surveillance for three or four more months for precautions against bird flu outbreak.
06 April 2006 [08:34]
Trial of Azerbaijani Army officer Ramil Safarov, who is indicted for murder of Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan, in Budapest brought together Azerbaijani students, Turks living in Hungary as well as many media representatives.
06 April 2006 [08:24]
Azercell Telecom Joint Enterprise donated Azerbaijani famous composer Gara Garayev's piano to the National Conservatoire of Azerbaijan.
05 April 2006 [20:38]
Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President, has been announced the Grand-Prix laureate of the Caspian Energy Integration Award – 2006 in the main nomination "The Politician of the Year in CIS and Baltic Countries".
05 April 2006 [20:34]
The complex work aimed at the struggle with bird flu continues in Azerbaijan.
05 April 2006 [17:07]
Iran protests to Azerbaijan's "claim" to introduce "Sharyar" and "Nizami Ganjavi" as Azerbaijani poets.
05 April 2006 [15:25]
The Turkish students at the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University (ASPU) will be transferred to other universities.
05 April 2006 [15:16]
A forum of Azerbaijani students of Europe will be held in the building of the European Parliament in Brussels on 29 May.
05 April 2006 [15:09]
The Azerbaijani Health Ministry has sent tests of 43 people with bird flu suspicion to the London laboratory for more exact diagnosis.
05 April 2006 [10:27]
Process of Azerbaijani Army Officer Ramil Safarov's trial, who was accused in killing Armenian officer Gurgen Margarian, was continued.
05 April 2006 [10:12]
Workshop on studying Korean experience in the field of information technologies started in the Baku Regional Training Centre of the World Customs Organization (WCO) yesterday.
05 April 2006 [08:24]
Religious Belief and Freedom of Conscience Defense Center (RBFCDC) Caucasus Department leader Azer Ramizoghlu has been imprisoned in Tbilisi, the organization Chairman Ilgar Ibrahimoghlu informs.
05 April 2006 [07:53]
Eight video cameras have been installed in central streets of Baku to prevent traffic jams and road accidents.
05 April 2006 [07:46]
The delegates of Greek State Building Company visited Azerbaijani region of Zagatala today.
05 April 2006 [07:33]
The local departments of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population in Baku, Ganja, Sumgait, Naftalan, Mingechevir, Ali Bayramli cities will receive appeals by citizens wishing to obtain targeted social assistance from April 15.
04 April 2006 [21:26]
UEFA has offered to help settle a dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which have unable to agree on a match venue for their Euro 2008 qualifiers.
CBA forges strategic partnership with VISA to drive payment sector innovation
Azerbaijan congratulates Algeria on 30th anniversary of relations
Poland to host event to investigate possibilities of exporting Polish agricultural products to Azerbaijan
President Ilham Aliyev holds one-on-one meeting with President Vladimir Putin [PHOTOS/VIDEO]
Cargo, passenger transportation increases in Azerbaijan
SOCAR and bp host field visits under global methane emission reduction initiative
Kremlin: Russia, Azerbaijan encouraged to enhance trade relations