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21 June 2006 [17:18]
On Tuesday, FM Abdullah Gul, currently in Baku attending the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) foreign ministers meeting, paid a visit to the Qafqaz University which is sponsored by Turkish businessmen.
21 June 2006 [17:11]
"There are some forces trying to exert influence on the religion in Azerbaijan. The country should be protected from such influences," UN resident coordinator in Azerbaijan Marco Borzotti said.
21 June 2006 [15:05]
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today received Kazakh prominent poet, scientist, social and political figure Oljas Suleymenov.
21 June 2006 [09:47]
Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU) Students appointed time for the Ministry of Education, finished yesterday.
21 June 2006 [08:52]
The 20 June - previous Africa Refugee Day under the UN General Assembly's December 4, 2004 decision 55/76 is marked as the World Refugee Day now.
21 June 2006 [08:37]
According to UNO General Assembly resolution, 20 June of every year will be marked as World Refugees Day.
21 June 2006 [08:00]
Azerbaijani State Student Admission Commission (SSAC) will start document admission for university entrance exams June 25, the Commission head Ms.Maleyka Abbaszadeh stated.
20 June 2006 [23:00]
"At present events happening in Iran is quite different that it is written in Azerbaijani media." The person resembling Azerbaijanis to animal and making diversion, is not Persian.
20 June 2006 [22:00]
The officers of Kazakhstan's Batis Regional Border Office has detained an Azerbaijani boat for illegal fishing in the Kazakh section of the Caspian Sea.
20 June 2006 [14:34]
President Ilham Aliyev has resolved to send 5 applicants of Group I, who will gain the highest points at the entrance exams, to study at European Universities.
20 June 2006 [13:28]
June 18 the constituent meeting of new structure, which will operate under the name of "Association of friends to the Azerbaijan culture in Germany", took place in headquarters of the Society "Azerbaijan Cultur Ojagi" in Berlin.
20 June 2006 [13:11]
Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) warns the people that most of the beaches in the coastal areas of the Absheron peninsula, which are owned by different juridical and physical persons, lack necessary rescue facilities and rescue teams to provide security of citizens.
20 June 2006 [08:17]
State Land and Cartography Committee has presented package of proposals to parliament on development of agrarian field legislation base.
19 June 2006 [13:24]
The students of the private Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU) have been going on hunger strike demanding restoration of their rights for nineteen days.
19 June 2006 [09:36]
From the 19th-27th of June, a jazz festival will be held in the capital of Azerbaijan Baku which will feature world-famous jazz artists Al Jarreau and Herbie Hancock as well as musicians from many other countries, as well as Azerbaijan's own jazz stars.
19 June 2006 [08:58]
Justice Minister Fikrat Mammadov, Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov and Supreme Court Chairman Ramiz Rzayev visited Ganja two days ago.
18 June 2006 [19:29]
"The Australian" edition on Agalarovs' business
18 June 2006 [15:14]
The Education Ministry will not meet the demands of the protesting students of the Independent Azerbaijan University, within the allotted time until June 20.
18 June 2006 [15:10]
Interior Ministry Main Criminal-Search Office ex-senior operation commissioner Haji Mammadov's detachment's preparatory court process has been delayed to June 4.
17 June 2006 [12:22]
"New places of detention will be built in different regions of Azerbaijan.
17 June 2006 [08:47]
Azerbaijani citizen Polad Sirajov, who has long been held in the Guantanamo detention camp facing the charge of collaborating with al-Gaida terrorist organization, has been moved to the rehabilitation center of the International Committee of The Red Cross (ICRC).
17 June 2006 [02:06]
A remarkable event related to Azerbaijan occurred at the final of the "New Star" song contest held by French M6 TV channel.
16 June 2006 [21:51]
Copies of religious book titled "How I suffer indignity" with unanimous author are distributed in the northern regions of Azerbaijan.
16 June 2006 [16:40]
The Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) officers today disarmed the PM-62 antitank mine that Armenians threw into the Khachin River in Husenly village of Azerbaijan's Terter region.
16 June 2006 [15:04]
The students of the private Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU), who have been going on hunger strike for sixteen days, held a press conference today.
16 June 2006 [11:58]
Hot weather, which is above norm, is forecasted to be in Azerbaijan in the third ten-day of June.
16 June 2006 [11:57]
"Three old manuscripts preserved at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Science Institute of Manuscripts have been included into the UNESCO's world memory of the world's most precious and rare written monuments," said head of the Institute of Manuscripts translation and information department, president of the Azerbaijan Medical Historians’ Union, Farid Alakbarli.
15 June 2006 [22:44]
Students at private college challenge authorities' bid to squeeze non-state higher education sector.
15 June 2006 [15:50]
On June 15, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva visited Zira and Bina settlements of Azizbeyov district to become familiar with the construction activities and process of implementation of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation's projects in the settlements surrounding Baku city.
15 June 2006 [15:38]
The issue concerning ethnic monitories in Azerbaijan will be on the agenda of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session to be held next month in Brussels.
15 June 2006 [13:36]
The United Nations Population Fund launched its three-year regional project Reproductive Health Initiative for Youth in the South Caucasus (RHIYC), on June 13.
15 June 2006 [02:00]
Former Iranian vice president Masumeh Ebtekar said here on Wednesday that Iran played a leading role in protecting the environment of the Caspian Sea by initiating the Tehran Convention.
15 June 2006 [01:45]
First international conference "Traditional Medicine and Material Medica in Medieval Manuscripts" by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, continues in Yevlakh.
15 June 2006 [01:26]
Within 5 months Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources implemented examinations in Velvelchay, Garachay (Guba-Khachmaz), Behramtepe-1, Behramtepe-2, Imishli, Shemkirchay (Shemkir), Lenkeranchay (Lenkeran), and Aghsu sand-gravel deposits.
15 June 2006 [01:24]
Deadly skirmish occurred between residents outside 'Tourist' canteen in Shamakhi city of Azerbaijan on Tuesday.
15 June 2006 [01:00]
Azerbaijan State Border Service associates discovered rather ammunition behind the fence of Ganja airport, on the side of the road packed in pasteboard, one unit F-1, 1 RGD-5, 1 RG-42 hand grenades, 1 barrel of a rifle for fire, 1517 number bullet of 5,45 mm.
15 June 2006 [00:56]
11 Azerbaijani journalists, who were detained during the recent mass demonstrations in Iran, have not been released from prison yet.
15 June 2006 [00:54]
Not depending on property form illegal establishments built by the citizens and economy subjects are liquidated in Lenkeran.
14 June 2006 [15:48]
"The information on Murad and Rena Shadeddinovs’ taking bribe was given to us from Council of Europe. They are swindler bringing spot to the name of right defenders."
14 June 2006 [09:58]
Yesterday presentation ceremony of the book "Azerbaijan national cuisine blessing" by the chairman of Azerbaijan National Culinary Investigation, Propaganda and Integration Unity to the World, Haji Jabir Khalifezade, was held.
14 June 2006 [08:49]
The trail of Natella Aliyeva and Eduard Yusifov, who are accused of trafficking persons by the Court of Grave Crimes was postponed till June 20.
14 June 2006 [08:34]
Special commission organized with regard to cargo train crash in Mughanli station of Hajigabul region.
14 June 2006 [07:59]
The next troop train of Russian military base 62 in Akhalkalaki left Chalka Railway Station in Georgia for Russia through the area of Azerbaijan as transit.
13 June 2006 [21:40]
Three men struggle to lift a squirming, nearly 2-meter (6.5 foot) gray fish with a pointy nose and distinctive jagged spine and spill it into the green waters of the Caspian Sea.
13 June 2006 [20:57]
The World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for continued support to Azerbaijanis displaced from the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh by the conflict with Armenia, as the United Nations agency launched a new project to help feed more than 143,500 of those affected.
13 June 2006 [14:04]
Delegation of the Justice Ministry of Azerbaijan led by chief of department Azer Jafarov has been visiting Strasbourg to take part at 7th sitting of Azerbaijan-CoE working group on independence, election, appointment and assessment of the work of judges in the country.
13 June 2006 [13:00]
Treatment of Azerbaijani resident Polad Sirajov will be completed in early next week, who has been transferred to one of the rehabilitation centers of Guantanamo prisons. Polad Sirajov is expected to be released at the end of the next week.
13 June 2006 [12:45]
Earthquake happened in north- west of Azerbaijan at a distance of 75 km at 21.21.
13 June 2006 [09:43]
The population of the former USSR territory will decrease 13 million in number in near 20 years.
13 June 2006 [09:41]
"The Culture and Tourism Ministry officials have analyzed the situation in all of the tourism zones in the republic and notified me about that. The notification contains both positive nuances and serious shortfalls," Minister Abulfas Garayev told journalists.
13 June 2006 [09:31]
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev today issued an executive order on increasing salaries of workers of several state-financed music groups.
13 June 2006 [09:27]
Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry has found out after investigations that Armenians are purposely cutting and burning forests in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
13 June 2006 [08:18]
World Press Council Association yearly meeting held in Turkey, Azerbaijan Press Council chairman Aflatun Amashov participated in the meeting.
12 June 2006 [16:23]
"Court will make final decision on the private Independent Azerbaijan University," Education Minister Misir Mardanov told journalists.
12 June 2006 [15:02]
Today 1st international conference "Traditional Medicine and Material Medica in Medival Manuscripts" organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and Washington Academy of Sciences, has started in Baku.
12 June 2006 [13:17]
Though 109 prisoners imprisoned for life time sentence informed on their starting hunger strike from today this action has been delayed.
12 June 2006 [12:24]
Armenians began torching one more Azerbaijan's occupied region Khojavend.
12 June 2006 [08:44]
The next round of project on electrification of Icheri Sheher (Inner City) monuments implemented by Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction (AUAC) and Minnesota University, USA, has started.
12 June 2006 [08:37]
US Embassy officials visited Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU) students on hunger-strike.
11 June 2006 [18:59]
Azerbaijan's national volleyball team will leave on June 14 for Belarussian capital of Minsk to attend the second round of the European championship's qualifying games.
11 June 2006 [12:37]
Representative of the Azerbaijan Ombudsman office Aydin Safikhanli will attend the 17th International Summer School on Human Rights, which will be held in Warsaw-Miedzeszyn, Poland, between 24 June and 1 July 2006.
11 June 2006 [12:19]
Works on the results of the railway accident, happened on Mugan-Garasu railway line on June 5, finished.
10 June 2006 [08:48]
After discussions held in Justice Ministry it was decided to establish Supreme Justice School to serve more than 10 mln personnel working in court-right field.
09 June 2006 [22:19]
Georgia's Tetsikharo district court finished the court proceedings against sixteen Azerbaijani local residents of Damya Gorarkhi village of Marneuli region.
09 June 2006 [15:59]
Head of the Caucasian Muslims Office (OCM), Sheikulislam Haji Allahshukur Pashazadeh addressed to Azerbaijani press.
09 June 2006 [14:55]
The students of the Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU), who have been going on hunger strike for several days protesting against the Education Ministry's decision, began to felt worse this morning.
09 June 2006 [14:47]
On June 9, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received at the Presidential Palace Arkadiy Nesterov and Alevtina Brovkina, the famous Russian ophthalmologists, full members of the Russian Medical Academy.
09 June 2006 [14:02]
National flags of Azerbaijan sold in commerce sector do not meet required standards. The fact was discovered by Standardizing Metrology and Patent Agency raids in stores.
09 June 2006 [13:44]
President of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Mahmud Kerimov met with Professor Vladimir Larin, head of department at the Institute of Mechanics after Timoshenko of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine to discuss implementation of joint projects on information technologies funded by International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union, INTAS.
09 June 2006 [09:42]
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has signed order on conscription from June 1 to 20, and termed military service military servicemen releasing to reserve.
09 June 2006 [08:41]
1.981.895 sq. meters of Azerbaijan's territories were cleared from mines and unexploded ordnances (UXO) last month. 1,400 UXO and mines were disarmed in this period.
09 June 2006 [08:03]
The delegation from Azerbaijani State Border Service (SBS) headed by headquarters chief Inayet Khalilov is visiting Rostov, Russia.
08 June 2006 [22:35]
The private Independent Azerbaijan University (IAU) students going on hunger strike held a press conference today.
08 June 2006 [14:05]
World skeet shooting Cup kicked off in the German city of Suhl.
08 June 2006 [09:45]
The list of Azerbaijani journalists in Iran, arrested for unbiased covering of the recent demonstrations, has been made public.
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