Baku, AssA-Irada Kazakhstan has made up its mind about joining the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) main export pipeline to take Caspian oil to world markets. An agreement to that effect will be signed by the presidents of the two countries at a meeting on joint confidence building measures in Asia. The issue was discussed at ...
Baku, AssA-Irada Interior Minister Ramil Usubov has played down the recent media reports concerning a massive migration of Iranian citizens to Azerbaijan. “The number of foreigners coming to the country is increasing year by year. The figure grew 5.4% in 2005 compared to the previous year, which includes Iranian nationals. But this ...
Baku, AssA-Irada The reports submitted by the stakeholders of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) for 2005 will be reviewed by Deloitte & Touche auditing company. The company will collate the reports on payments made to the government by local and foreign companies with the government’s revenue statistics. Invitations have been sent ...
Baku, AssA-Irada A parliament member says work has been tackled to investigate the mass killings of Jews by Armenian Dashnaks [members of the nationalist party] in Azerbaijan’s northern Guba district that took place at the dawn of the last century. The head of the Azerbaijan-Israel parliamentary friendship group, MP of Jewish decent, ...
Baku, AssA-Irada The OSCE mediators brokering settlement to the Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict are due to visit the region May 25-26, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian has told the press. Unlike previous separate visits, all the three co-chairman of the Minsk Group will hold talks in the two countries, he said. ...
Baku, AssA-Irada President Ilham Aliyev received Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov on Tuesday. Aliyev pointed to the developing relations between the two countries, saying he exchanged views on their different aspects with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko during a recent phone conversation. He added that a meeting between the two leaders ...
Baku, AssA-Irada Armenian President Robert Kocharian has refused to attend the session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly due in Paris May 26-30, the Assembly told Armenian media. The source quoted Kocharian’s spokesman Viktor Sogomonian as saying that the decision is explained by the president’s busy work schedule. “During the session, the OSCE ...
Baku, AssA-Irada US secret jails have been set up in Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh, an Azeri region under Armenian occupation, a political analyst has said. “The Russian Federation’s secret service has acquired incontrovertible facts in this regard,” Rovshan Novruzoghlu told a roundtable dedicated to the environmental plight of the occupied territories. He said ...
Baku, AssA-Irada Latvian airline AirBaltic announced the opening of direct flights from Riga to Baku at the official reception at the Excelsior Hotel on Monday. The company will administer flights in both directions twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays. The one-way trip onboard Boeing 737 will take 3 hours and 50 minutes ...
Baku, AssA-Irada President Ilham Aliyev paying his first official visit to Washington addressed a business and investment conference of the US-Azeri Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. Aliyev said the establishment of the Chamber played an exclusive role in the development of bilateral relations that have assumed a scale of strategic partnership. He ...
Baku, AssA-Irada Influential US analytical center Stratfor has said that all the separatist forces in the South Caucasus region are operating on Russia’s behest and Moscow may even sanction terrorist acts on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan main export pipeline that will take Caspian oil to the Mediterranean Sea and further to Europe. The ...
Baku, AssA-Irada The international Freedom House organization has cited problems with democracy and human rights in Azerbaijan. The index on democratic development has worsened to make up 5.93 points compared to the previous 5.60 points, according to the group’s feedback included in its annual report assessing the situation throughout the world. ...
Baku, AssA-Irada The approach toward settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict has somewhat changed, Russian ITAR-TASS news agency quoted the US co-chairman of the mediating OSCE Minsk Group (MG) as saying. Steven Mann said the new approach envisions advancing step by step and putting off certain complex issues until ...
Prev
