03.09.2011 | Readed: 781
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan issued a statement on so-called presidential elections in Abkhazia held on August 26. The statement reads: "Reiterating its strong support for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Georgia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the......
02.09.2011 | Readed: 750
On September 1st Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Artur Rasizade met Serbia`s Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic. Azerbaijani Premier noted political ties between the two nations are well developed. He pointed out Azerbaijan places a particular emphasis on this cooperation and is interested in its......
02.09.2011 | Readed: 711
Foreign minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov met the foreign minister of Serbia Vuk Jeremic who is on a working visit to Azerbaijan. The sides expressed satisfaction with the current level of relations both on regional level and international arena. According to the sides, there is......
02.09.2011 | Readed: 842
Azerbaijan`s Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov met with visiting chairman of the PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights Christos Pourgourides and committee`s member Elsa Papadimitriou. Garalov stressed integration to Europe is a key priority of the official Baku`s foreign policy......
28.08.2011 | Readed: 783
As earlier reported, within the Days of Armenian Culture in Stuttgart, a concert "20th anniversary of Artsakh" dedicated to the so-called "20th anniversary of independence" of the puppet regime in Nagorno-Karabakh is scheduled for Sept.16-22. The Azerbaijan Embassy in Germany takes certain......
27.08.2011 | Readed: 737
"Armenia must fulfill resolutions of international organizations and leave the occupied territories of Azerbaijan and citizens have to return their lands. It is the only way to solve this problem," said German bishop Dr. Fayge at the meeting with chief of Central Council of the Azerbaijani......
26.08.2011 | Readed: 659
On August 25th Azerbaijani Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov met with visiting permanent representatives of Cambodia, Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Namibia, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sri-Lanka, Jamaica and Zimbabwe to the......
26.08.2011 | Readed: 723
Permanent representatives of 13 countries to the United Nations met with members of Milli Majlis committee on international and interparliamentary relations. Chairman of the committee Samad Seyidov updated the guests on history of Azerbaijan independence, Milli Majlis activity and......
26.08.2011 | Readed: 718
Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mamamdyarov met here with new head of the OSCE Baku Office Koray Targay on Thursday. Targay vowed he would build close and fruitful ties with the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan during his tenure. Mammadyarov congratulated Targay on his new......
26.08.2011 | Readed: 709
Azerbaijan, along with Turkey, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan proposed an observer status for the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States in the UN General Assembly. A draft resolution submitted by four Ambassadors - Agshin Mehdiyev (Azerbaijan), Byrganym Aitimova (Kazakhstan), Talaibek......
25.08.2011 | Readed: 667
On August 24th Azerbaijani Prime Minister Arthur Rasizade met permanent representatives of Cambodia, Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Namibia, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sri-Lanka, Jamaica and Zimbabwe to the UN. Mr. Rasizade stressed the......
25.08.2011 | Readed: 835
On August 23rd the Embassy of France to Azerbaijan issued a statement regarding the visit by French parliamentarians to Nagorno-Karabakh. "Parliamentarians have been duly advised of our position with respect to Nagorno-Karabakh. Consequently, this visit does not in any way reflect or......
24.08.2011 | Readed: 727
The Azerbaijani Embassy in Paris presented a note protesting the French Foreign Ministry in connection with the French MPs` illegal visit to the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia. The Azerbaijani side also appealed to the French Foreign Ministry with a request to seek......
24.08.2011 | Readed: 674
"A visit to Azerbaijan by permanent representatives of several countries to the United Nations will play an important role in developing the bilateral relations with these countries," Azerbajan`s permanent representative to the UN said. "Azerbaijan does not have embassies in some of the......
24.08.2011 | Readed: 689
The French MPs` visit to Nagorno-Karabakh was of a non-official character, and was performed on the personal initiative of a group of MPs, the French Foreign Ministry said in a response to Azerbaijan`s protest note on the French MPs` illegal visit to the Azerbaijani territories occupied by......
20.08.2011 | Readed: 766
The first meeting of the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will be held in New York on September 13. General political discussions as part of the session will start on September 21. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will deliver annual report on the......
19.08.2011 | Readed: 659
Azerbaijani ambassador to Jordan Elman Arasli met with chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of the parliament Faisal Faiz. Arasli said the meeting participants discussed mechanisms of development of cooperation between the parliaments of Azerbaijan and Jordan, mutual visits of the chairmen......
19.08.2011 | Readed: 834
Iran has responded to a note of protest from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan currently studies the response of the Iranian side, press service of the Ministry told. Chief of the general staff of Iranian armed forces, Brigadier General Seyyed Hassan......
19.08.2011 | Readed: 732
Turkish President Abdullah Gul and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev will discuss the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The subject will be part of discussions during the Turkish president`s visit to Russia in September where he will attend the Global Policy Forum in......
18.08.2011 | Readed: 633
Permanent representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations Agshin Mehdiyev has sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. "The increasing number of casualties over the past several months among Azerbaijani civilians residing in the front-line areas represents yet another piece......
17.08.2011 | Readed: 644
Final conference called "UN special mechanisms" as part of twinning project for 2011 between Azerbaijan`s Ombudsman Office and the German Institute for Human Rights has today started in Park INN-Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan`s Commissioner for Human Rights Elmira Suleymanova, German ambassador......
16.08.2011 | Readed: 776
"Azerbaijan`s Nagorno-Karabakh territory has been controlled by Armenian soldiers and ethnic Armenian forces since a 1994 cease-fire ended separatist fighting," a Washington Post article has said. The article, titled "20 years after collapse, former Soviet republics face promising,......
13.08.2011 | Readed: 603
"Statements and opinions made by officials should not harm our relations with the Moslem countries," said Speaker of Iran`s Majlis (Parliament) Ali Larijani, quoting Iran`s "Fars" News Agency, as saying. Stating that the officials should be attentive and refrain from statements able......
12.08.2011 | Readed: 1189
Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan Mammadbagir Bahrami was invited yesterday to the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan over Fars news agency`s quoting Chief of Staff of Iran`s Armed Forces Sayyid Hassan Firouzabadi as making misplaced statements about leadership and people of Azerbaijan.......
12.08.2011 | Readed: 619
The embassy of Iran to Azerbaijan has refuted the statement related to Azerbaijan. The refutation sent by the embassy says, "According to instructions of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, reports related to the statement of the Chief of Staff of Iran`s Armed......
11.08.2011 | Readed: 760
Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica Roosevelt Skerrit visited Milli Majlis (Parliament) of the Azerbaijan Republic. Vice-speaker of Azerbaijan Parliament, chairman of the natural resources, energy and ecology standing committee Valeh Alaskarov welcomed the guest.......
07.08.2011 | Readed: 804
Azerbaijanis living in Magdeburg, the largest city and the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, sent a message to the German Bundestag, the national Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the address, members of the Azerbaijan community draw attention of......
05.08.2011 | Readed: 673
Killing of the 13-year-old Aygun Shahmaliyeva as a resutl of the Armenian provocation was raised at the United Nations. A copy of the letter of the Azerbaijan`s mission to the UN sent to the organization`s secretariat was distributed to UN members. "On 14 July 2011, as a result of......
04.08.2011 | Readed: 631
StatementS on cutting aid package to Armenia were made during hearings on Turkey and South Caucasus held at the US Foreign Relations Comittee. Senators looked at present state of relations with Turkey and South Caucasus, in particular, Azerbaijan. Speakers said the US Administration......
28.07.2011 | Readed: 630
Azerbaijani deputy Prime Minister, chairman of the State Committee on Refugees and IDPs Ali Hasanov has met with a delegation led by chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the Spanish Congress of Deputies, Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida. Hasanov briefed the Spanish delegation on......
27.07.2011 | Readed: 727
On July 26th Speaker of Azerbaijan Parliament, Milli Majlis Ogtay Asadov met a British parliamentary delegation led by a member of the House of Commons of England, deputy chairman of the Group of Azerbaijan`s Friends Christopher Pincher. Speaking in the meeting, Asadov noted the......
27.07.2011 | Readed: 614
Azerbaijan`s Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov met with a delegation of the UK Parliament led by deputy chair of the group of Azerbaijan`s friends Christopher Pincher. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Mammadyarov provided information about the rapid......
26.07.2011 | Readed: 636
On July 25th President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski visited Azerbaijan`s Parliament (Milli Majlis), where he met with speaker Ogtay Asadov. Prior to the meeting, the Polish President familiarized himself with an administrative building and meeting hall of the Parliament. Mr.......
24.07.2011 | Readed: 749
Chief of Political Analysis and Information Provision Department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Elnur Aslanov met Friday a delegation of the Truman National Security Project. Aslanov briefed the delegation on Azerbaijan`s foreign policy priorities, US-Azerbaijan......
23.07.2011 | Readed: 609
Azerbaijan`s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met outgoing ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Carolyn Browne. Mrs. Browne expressed her pleasure to be ambassador of the UK to Azerbaijan. The British ambassador said during her tenure she spared no......
22.07.2011 | Readed: 610
Azerbaijan`s Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov met with a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. According to press service of the Ministry, Mammadyarov spoke of rapid development in Azerbaijan and increasing role of the country in the region.......
21.07.2011 | Readed: 677
Speaker of Azerbaijan Parliament, Milli Majlis Ogtay Asadov met members of the European People`s Party`s group (EPP) at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Asadov said the EPP representatives` visit to Azerbaijan serve deepening cooperation between Milli Majlis and......
21.07.2011 | Readed: 622
Azerbaijan`s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met outgoing Romanian ambassador Nikolae Ureke. Ureke expressed his pleasure to be ambassador of Romania to Azerbaijan. The Romanian ambassador said during his tenure he spared no efforts to contribute to expanding and developing......
20.07.2011 | Readed: 670
The two-day meeting of a Special Working Group for development of a convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea started in Russia`s capital, Moscow at the level of deputies foreign minister. Azerbaijan is represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov. In the opening......
19.07.2011 | Readed: 617
Deputy Chairman of Russia`s Federation Council Svetlana Orlova has praised her country`s relations with Azerbaijan. "Great work has been done to develop the relations between our countries," Orlova told Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mammadyarov who is on a visit to Moscow. She praised a......
19.07.2011 | Readed: 602
Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mammadyarov is visiting Moscow. As part of his visit the Azeri FM met his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. Speaking to a joint news conference following the meeting, Mammadyarov said they discussed a wide range of issues from the bilateral relations to the......
19.07.2011 | Readed: 634
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the Russian Federation have issued a statement on the results of their visits to Moscow, Baku, Vilnus and Yerevan from July 11 to 18. The statement reads:......