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Azerbaijan

A community portal about Azerbaijan with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a country in the South Caucasus. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and... [more]

A community portal about Azerbaijan with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a country in the South Caucasus. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. The Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic borders Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, and Turkey to the northwest. The Nagorno-Karabakh region in the southwest of Azerbaijan Proper declared itself independent from Azerbaijan in 1991, but it is not recognized by any nation.

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After obtaining the country’s first 3G license, Azerbaijan’s Azerfon has launched its HSPA network in the cities of Baku, Sumgait, Ganja, Shirvan, Nakhchivan, Mingachevir, Tovuz and Shamkir, as well as in the Absheron Peninsula. The company has ...  
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Following a previous post from Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines on European concerns with the situation of freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, and especially following the imprisonment of video blogging youth activists Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, the blog comments on remarks made by the country's Minister of Education. The blog says that accusations of [...]  
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Azerbaijan signed an agreement with Iran to deliver natural gas to the northern Iranian provinces by the beginning of 2010. The State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan Republic and the National Iranian Gas Export Co. signed an ...  
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Evgenia Voyko, an expert of the Russian Center of Political Conjuncture, assures that Azerbaijan has no political and economic resources to launch military activities. In an interview with ArmInfo the expert ...  
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The Government of Azerbaijan and the World Bank have signed a $450 million loan agreement for the Railway Trade and Transport Facilitation Project, said the WB Office in Baku, according to APA. The loan, which has a maturity of 23 years with an 8 ...  
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The Azerbaijan State Oil Company has carried out rehabilitation work on the Baku-Mozdok (Russia) central gas pipeline. In three places in particular on the territory of Azerbaijan segments of the damaged pipeline have been changed, thus increasing ...  
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Azerbaijans state structures, responsible for holding monitoring to reveal the motives of increasing amount of suicide cases, dont study either the social or psychological sides of that problem, Azerbaijani paper ...  
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Azerbaijan signed an agreement with Iran to deliver natural gas to the northern Iranian provinces by the beginning of 2010. The State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan Republic and the National Iranian Gas Export Co. signed an agreement for Azeri gas supplies to ...  
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Former Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis says that deteriorating media freedom in Azerbaijan reminds him of the Soviet period and that it is time for Baku to choose whether it wants to follow the European path, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service ...  
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/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijan’s warlike statements do not inspire any hope that Nagorno Karabakh conflict can be settled by 2010, according to RPA parliamentary group member Gagik Minasyan . “Azerbaijan should put up with the fact that conflict ...  
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TEHRAN (Press TV) -- Iran and Azerbaijan are to increase the volume of their bilateral trade to $1 billion, Iranian Foreign Minister has said after meeting his Azerbaijani counterpart. Iran's Manouchehr Mottaki and Azerbaijan's Elmar Mamedyarov, who ...  
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The financial aid allocated to Nagorno-Karabakh by the US Congress will not be affected by the talks that are under way now, politician Sergey Markedonov said, according to 1News.az. The politician ...  
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Baku lashed out at the Washington, DC-based civil rights watchdog Freedom House for not indicating secessionist Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan in the organization’s annual report, Map of Freedom - 2009. "[T]he map is drawn by some double ...  
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The European Parliament has adopted a resolution critical of what it calls the deterioration of media freedom in Azerbaijan. The vote, by a show of hands, followed a parliamentary debate on freedom of expression in Azerbaijan. The resolution, put ...  
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"Stepan Safaryan: Turkey will not betray Azerbaijan“The time and every single day of having relations with Turkey proves to the Armenian authorities their own problems”, - said Stepan Safaryan touching upon the Armenian Turkish and Armenian – Azerbaijani relations."More:Stepan Safaryan: Turkey will not betray Azerbaijan - aysor.am - Hot news from Armenia  
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Azerbaijan is gravely concerned over US Congress resolution to render financial aid to Karabakh and thus, Azerbaijani Mili Mejlis addressed a message to the US Congress Tuesday. Panorama.am recalls that ...  
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Iran's Parliament Speaker, Ali Larijani TEHRAN (Combined Sources)–Iran’s parliament will support joint investment projects with the Republic of Azerbaijan, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said on Monday in talks with visiting Azeri Foreign ...  
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/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijanis continue protests in connection with a Euronews “Nagorno-Karabakh – the wind of change” TV report, during which the journalist called Karabakh the original Armenian land. The Azerbaijani Press Council joined the ...  
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... representatives of ruling parties from Russia (Yedinaya Rossiya), Kazakhstan (Nur Otan, meaning Fatherland’s Ray of Light), Kyrgyzstan (Ak Jol, meaning Genial Path), and Azerbaijan (Yeni Azerbaijan, meaning New Azerbaijan) have been invited to ...  
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BAKU, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan gas output rose by 1.3 percent in the first eleven months of 2009 year-on-year, to 21.4 billion cubic metres (bcm), the State Statistics Committee said on Wednesday. Azerbaijan hosts Shakh Deniz, one of the world's ...  
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Baku (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Red Crescent Society of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani authorities are redoubling their efforts to collect data on people still missing in connection with the Nagorny-Karabakh ...  
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A European Parliament working group discussed a draft resolution today on the deteriorating situation regarding freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports.  
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Strasbourg. A delegation of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, headed by Gaye Doganoglu (Turkey, EPP-CD), will observe the municipal elections in Azerbaijan, on 23 December 2009, the press office of the Council ...  
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The former prime minister flew to Azerbaijan where he met the country's president and visited a methanol factory owned by a multi-millionaire businessman. His visit was a coup for the country's rulers as his well-known grin beamed out on state ...  
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Azadlig commented on the anti-American campaign launched by the representatives of Azerbaijani ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party. According to the paper, any of Azerbaijans measures taken can't anyhow affect the policy ...  
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The European Parliament recently approved a resolution on freedom of expression in Azerbaijan according to 122nd article of its domestic charter. According to the European Parliament resolution on freedom of expression in Azerbaijan the European ...  
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BAKU, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's crude oil production rose by 13.5 percent in January-November year-on-year to 46.36 million tonnes, thanks to rising output from the BP-led ( BP.L ) AIOC group, the State Statistics Committee said on Wednesday ...  
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MEPs remind the Ugandan government of its obligations under international law and the Cotonou Agreement, which calls for universal human rights to be respected. They firmly reject any moves to introduce the death penalty and are ...  
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Trend News AgencyNovruz Mammadov: “The only way of Armenia is to release the occupied ...APAArmenia has isolated itself. Now Armenia needs a ventlight, an opening. This opening would be the opening of the borders between Turkey and Armenia. ...USA not neutral towards Armenia and Azerbaijan - Azerbaijani officialNews.AzSenior Azerbaijani official: US shows no neutral position towards Azerbaijan ...Today.AzUS Congress's decision can cause...  
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Azerbaijani Embassy in Ukraine will initiate a meeting with the management of Inter TV channel to solve the problem with broadcasting biased materials on Nagorno-Karabakh, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Ukraine, Talat Aliyev told Trend News on Dec. 12 ...  
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We assume the Armenian-Turkish protocols without preconditions, but we should take into consideration that the reality is quite different, Badri Gyursel from Turkish Milliyet talking about Armenian-Turkish protocols and Karabakh ...  
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Committee members also expressed concerns about the role of Azerbaijan, underlining that the implementation of the project primarily hinges on the participation of Azerbaijan. “The support of Azerbaijan will play a key role [in the Nabucco project ...  
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"Turkish oil company to continue investing in AzerbaijanWed 16 December 2009 | 08:23 GMT Text size:Turkey's TPAO will continue investing in Azerbaijan, said Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, according to Hurriyet."More:News.Az - Turkish oil company to continue investing in Azerbaijan  
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Shakhdag National Park: ← Previous revision Revision as of 22:33, 16 December 2009 Line 58: Line 58: ===Shakhdag National Park=== ===Shakhdag National Park=== main|Shakhdag National Park main|Shakhdag National Park - The Shakhdag National Park was created in 2008 as the newest national park, and became the largest national park not only Azerbaijan but in the whole...  
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"Turkey believes to agree upon gas prices with Azerbaijan soon: government official14.12.2009 11:32 Turkey believes to agree upon gas prices with Azerbaijan soon: government officialTurkey, Mardin, Dec. 12 / corr Trend Capital U.Sadykhova /The Turkish Foreign Ministry believes Azerbaijan and Turkey will soon achieve agreement on the cost of Azerbaijani gas produced from the Shah Deniz gas field."More:Trend Capital: Turkey believes to agree...  
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The AIOC boosted its output from the Chirag, Azeri and Guneshli oilfields to 304.9 million, up 17% from the level seen in the first 11 months of 2008. The rest was produced by the Azeri state oil company Socar and some of its units. Azerbaijan ...  
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Britain’s former prime minister Tony Blair is coming under pressure to donate to charity a reported payment of 90,000 British pounds (about $146,673) for a controversial speech in Azerbaijan, British news services report. Several opposition British ...  
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Azerbaijan and Iran have set an ambitious goal of expanding bilateral trade to $1 billion from the current $600 million, the countries' foreign ministers said on Monday. According to the Baku-based T...  
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A satirical YouTube video showing a press conference by a blogger in a donkey costume was meant to make a point in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan. Instead, it got the activist and his associate behind bars. Now in jail and convicted of “hooliganism,” youth activists Emin Abdullayev and Adnan Hajizade hope that an appeals court will overturn [...]  
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A late November Euronews report on the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh is prompting Azerbaijan’s broadcasting regulator to threaten to ban "anti-Azerbaijan" cable television stations. The Azerbaijani government claims that Euronews reporter ...  
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Email this article Baku lashed out at the Washington, DC-based civil rights watchdog Freedom House for not indicating secessionist Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan in the organization’s an...  
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Brussels - Turkey, Ukraine, Moldova and Azerbaijan on Tuesday joined the European Union in condemning the weekend's presidential election in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, saying they do not recognize the territory as a country. The move ...  
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There is great potential for investment in oil, gas, energy, and industrial projects, Larijani told visiting Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. The Majlis has been a proponent of strong ties with Azerbaijan and it will support any legislation ...  
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Had Turkey been aware that rapprochement with Armenia would lead to Azerbaijan’s unprecedented counteraction, it would have probably introduced a clause concerning Karabakh,” Milliyet journalist said, adding that Azerbaijan’s pressures on ...  
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/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Analytical Center on Globalization and Regional Cooperation (ACGRC) jointly with German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) conducted the 2nd Security Forum of South Caucasus on December 11 in Tbilisi. “The forum covered a number ...  
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"Turkey, Azerbaijan Re-Synchronize Conflict Resolution and Border Opening December 14, 2009By: Vladimir SocorUnder the protocols signed in Zurich, Switzerland on October 10, Turkey should establish full diplomatic relations with Armenia and re-open the land border between them."More:georgiandaily.com - Turkey, Azerbaijan Re-Synchronize Conflict Resolution and Border Opening  
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What’s in a name? Plenty, and the same goes for a nation’s flag. The national flag remains a very potent emotional symbol, demonstrated this month by intense – and underreported – conflict among Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The flag flap ...  
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Azerbaijan’s economy chiefs are considering establishing an agriculture bank to improve the oil-rich country’s food security and help the development of agribusiness, local news services reported. The ministries of finance and agriculture are ...  
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Senior officials from Iran and Azerbaijan rejected Monday the prospect of foreign interference in the region under the pretext of seeking to ensure the security of the Caspian Sea. Speaking during a meeting with visiting Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar ...  
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has offered his condolences to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev over more than 100 deaths being the result of a nightclub fire in the Russian Urals city of Perm, the Azerbaijani presidential press service has said.  
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Azerbaijani musician Mutalim Damirov sings traditional mugham music at a ca... Azerbaijani musician Mutalim Damirov performs traditional mugham music at a... Lifting his daf, a traditional Azerbaijani tambourine, to his ear, Mutalim Damirov begins to ...  
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Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (C) hosts talks between Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev (L) and Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan at Meiendorf Castle outside Moscow November 2, 2008. Azerbaijan has officially protested against the allocation ...  
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BAKU -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has held talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku as part of a private visit, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. Blair was invited by Azerbaijan's Methanol Company (AzMeCo) for a ...  
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/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to Freedom House's annual report Freedom in the World 2009 Armenia is a "partly free" country. The report covers political and civil liberties in 193 countries worldwide. On the world map all countries are roughly divided ...  
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Three years ago, Kosugi began heading overseas, visiting countries such as Bulgaria and Croatia, to spread the culture of Japan's gardens. "Japanese gardens have wonderful craft and culture that express the concentration of nature into a small area ...  
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YEREVAN -- Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov says Baku insists on restoring control over Nagorno-Karabakh despite accepting the right to self-determination as a core principle for resolving the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute over the ...  
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A euronews documentary on the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabkah is stoking acrimony, with Azerbaijani officials accusing the European broadcaster of harboring bias against Baku. The nine-minute November 28 documentary, titled Winds of Change in ...  
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He also called for further cooperation between Iran and Azerbaijan on oil, gas, energy, banking and electricity. Elmar Mammadyarov on his part said the Republic of Azerbaijan is willing to resolve the issue of Karabakh through talks, ISNA reported ...  
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The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) is due to sign an agreement with the National Iranian Gas Company to sell natural gas to Iran, said SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev. According to him, the agreement will be signed in Tehran next week ...  
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... interview with Izvestiya, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov expressed an expectation that Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan would follow a precedent set by Russia and Kazakhstan, two countries that split stakes in disputed Caspian ...  
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Today, Azerbaijan's oil fund stands at $25 billion and by 2016 it is estimated that its foreign exchange reserves (excluding gas sales to Europe) will be $200 billion. Clearly, Washington should keep its eye on Azerbaijan. While Mr. Aliyev sees room ...  
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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe should take note of the UN stance on the Azerbaijani-Armenian territorial dispute and support Baku, Turkey's prime minister has said. "The OSCE...  
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Tony Blair: His visit was a coup for the country's rulers as his well-known grin beamed out on state television from a press conference to homes throughout the small, oil-rich nation Photo: GETTY The former prime minister flew to Azerbaijan where he ...  
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Azerbaijan has emerged as a potential alternative energy supplier, moving on deals with the European Union and Russia. Elshad Nasirov, the investment and marketing vice president at the State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan Republic, said Baku needed to make ...  
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Iran intends to purchase about five billion cubic meters of gas from Azerbaijan, Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohammad-Baqer Bahrami stated in Baku on Monday. “At present, the sides mull the volume of gas to be delivered from Azerbaijan to Iran ...  
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The public broadcasters of Spain, RTVE, and Azerbaijan, Ictimai TV, have been found responsible for breaking the Eurovision Song Contest rules in the broadcast of the past edition of the competition. In the case of Spain, the broadcaster failed to air the second semifinal live and therefore provide a televote window for the Spanish viewers; and Azerbaijani television blurred out the Armenian voting number as well as distorted the TV signal...  
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was allegedly paid an estimated 90,000 British pounds (about $146, 673) for a 1,000-word speech he delivered at a contract signing ceremony with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a ...  
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Ilham Aliyev's statements are addressed not only to Armenia but to the international community as well. The war unleashed by Azerbaijan would be a losing one. Armenian army is much better trained than Azerbaijan’s. Baku won't be ready for a war ...  
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The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil export pipeline, operated by BP, has today started loading the 1000th cargo of oil transported from the Sangachal terminal near Baku across Azerbaijan, Georgia and Tu...  
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Email this article A late November Euronews report on the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh is prompting Azerbaijan’s broadcasting regulator to threaten to ban "anti-Azerbaijan" cab...  
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MOSCOW (RIO Novosti)–The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe should support Azerbaijan over Armenia in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. “The OSCE Minsk Group ...  
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An Azerbaijani couple walking near the monument to Turkish soldiers who died while fighting to defend Azerbaijani independence. Relations between the two states have been undermined by the rapprochement between Ankara and Yerevan On a windswept ...  
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Azerbaijan has emerged as a potential alternative energy supplier, moving on deals with the European Union and Russia. Elshad Nasirov, the investment and marketing vice president at the State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan Republic, said Baku needed to make ...  
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(AP) BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) - President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan said Saturday his nation may resort to military force if talks with Armenia on resolving a long-standing territorial dispute produce no result. Aliyev said he expects to hold talks ...  
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BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) - President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan says his nation may use military force if talks with Armenia on resolving a long-standing territorial dispute produce no result. Aliyev says he plans talks next week with his Armenian ...  
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BAKU — President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan said his nation may resort to military force if talks with Armenia on resolving a long-standing territorial dispute produce no result. Aliyev said he expects to hold talks next week with his Armenian ...  
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Tehran has announced that citizens of Azerbaijan will no longer need visas for short-term visits to Iran. Starting from 2010, Azerbaijanis will able to stay in Iran visa-free for one month, Azerbaijani news agencies on December 7 reported Iran’s ...  
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Azerbaijan’s economy has weathered the recession better than most frontier markets in the Central Asian region, growing at a modest pace while neighbouring countries struggle to recover. Over the past 10 years the country’s economy has grown by a ...  
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RIA Novosti reported that Azerbaijan state owned oil company GNKAR crude exports through the Baku-Novorossiisk pipeline were up by 110%YoY in November. The company said in a statement that the company pumped 2.341 million tonnes through the pipeline ...  
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BAKU (News.az)–All five Armenians in captivity in Azerbaijani prisons have requested to be released to third countries, the Head of Azerbaijan’s State Commission for Prisoners of War told reporters on Wednesday. Shahin Sailov said the Armenian ...  
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BAKU, Azerbaijan | President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan said Saturday his nation may resort to military force if talks with Armenia on resolving a long-standing territorial dispute produce no result. Aliyev said he expects to hold talks this week with his Armenian counterpart, Serge Sarkisian, on resolving the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.  
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Date: Sun, 15th November Competition: Internationals - Friendly. Watch Live Stream football of Iraq vs Azerbaijan in an important football match of Internationals Friendly Match. Iraq vs Azerbaijan Live Streaming Game Video Online on PC ...Read Full Article  
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BAKU -- Iran plans to unilaterally cancel its visa regime with Azerbaijan, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mammad Bagir Bahrami told a press conference in Baku today that any Azerbaijani citizen will be able to ...  
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BAKU (Reuters) -- Azerbaijan said upcoming talks with Armenia on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict would be "decisive" and warned that its troops were ready to use force to take back the rebel region if they fail, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said ...  
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YEREVAN -- Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has again warned Turkey against delaying the implementation of its agreements with Armenia and vowed a "tough" response to any Azerbaijani attempt to use force to take back Nagorno-Karabakh, RFE/RL's ...  
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"TURKEY, ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJAN WRANGLE OVER KARABAKH12/02/09Despite optimism from international negotiators about a breakthrough on Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations, jostling among Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan persisted during a December 1-2 Ministerial Council session. The session was convened under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe."More:EurasiaNet News Briefs - Turkey, Armenian and Azerbaijan Wrangle...  
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It has been almost 21 years since the Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia engaged in an armed conflict over the 4400-square-kilometer (1,700-square-mile) mountainous Karabakh region. After six years of intensive fighting, about 20 percent of ...  
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Azerbaijan's State Oil Company (SOCAR) guard service workers do not only work for the company. They also guard other important and strategic sites, what is more significant, not in ...  
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As his voice rises to a long ululating lament, Damirov closes his eyes, lost in the ancient poetry that has been sung this way in Azerbaijan for centuries. In the background, two musicians improvise notes on the tar, a long-necked lute, and the ...  
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ASTANA, Dec. 11 (APA) -- The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan issued statement on the appeal of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Agriculture for temporary moratorium on the commercial fishing of sturgeons in the Caspian. Every ...  
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Panah Huseyn, an opposition deputy, said there are some 2 million children in Azerbaijan who are not socially protected. Meanwhile, Siyavush Novruzov of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan (New Azerbaijan) party, told RFE/RL that the state is taking care of ...  
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Baku would benefit substantially from a decision to allow European consumers access to its vast natural gas reserves, a European envoy to Azerbaijan said.  
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Interfax reported that State Oil Company of Azerbaijan exported 1.852 million tonnes of petroleum products to the world markets in January to November 2009 down by 20.7%YoY. A total of 1,336,629 tonnes of diesel fuel was delivered to foreign markets ...  
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Under the protocols signed in Zurich, Switzerland on October 10, Turkey should establish full diplomatic relations with Armenia and re-open the land border between them. The United States, main driver of this initiative, insists that the protocols ...  
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BAKU, December 5 (RIA Novosti) - Azerbaijan's state-owned oil company GNKAR said on Saturday its crude exports via the Baku-Novorossiisk pipeline were up 110% in November, year-on-year. The company pu...  
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YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–President Serzh Sarkisian again warned Turkey against delaying the implementation of its agreements with Armenia and vowed a “tough” response to a possible Azerbaijani attempt to take Nagorno-Karabakh by force as he defended ...  
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Azerbaijan says it has "the full right" to resort to military action in order to liberate the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which it lost to Armenia in the 1990s. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Friday that if an upcoming meeting with his ...  
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London, Dec. 6 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was funded by Azerbaijan-based obscure oligarch with business links to Syria, Iran and Afghanistan. Nizami Piriyev paid Blair to fly to Baku earlier this week to open his new “methanol plant”. The disclosure comes amid growing scrutiny of Blair’s network of private backers, with the [...]  
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The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has concluded the investigation of the scandal over the violation of Eurovision song contest rules by Azerbaijan and officially announced the latter guilty. Panorama.am recalls that ...  
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BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan said Saturday ... concerned that Turkey's move last month to normalize ties with Armenia could ruin hopes for regaining control over Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkey has assured its ally ...  
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A map of Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh and the liberated territories. YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–Azerbaijan insists on the restoration of its control over Nagorno-Karabakh despite accepting peoples’ right to self-determination as one of the core principles ...  
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TASHKENT, Dec. 10 (Trend News) - A trial began in Azerbaijan over citizens of Uzbekistan and Pakistan, accused of selling drugs. At the Court on Heinous Crimes, the prosecutor asked the court to appoint a penalty of 13 years imprisonment for each of ...  
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BAKU (Reuters) – Azerbaijan said talks with Armenia on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on Sunday would be "decisive" and warned Azeri troops were ready to use force to take back the rebel region if they fail, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said. Aliyev ...  
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London, Dec. 6 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was funded by Azerbaijan-based obscure oligarch with business links to Syria, Iran and Afghanistan. Nizami Piriyev paid Blair to fly to Baku earlier this week to open his new "methanol ...  
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Despite optimism from international negotiators about a breakthrough on Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations, jostling among Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan persisted during a December 1-2 Ministerial Council session. The session was convened under the ...  
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BAKU (AFP)–On a windswept hilltop looking down at the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Turkish flags flutter over a monument that testifies to decades of close ties between the two nations. Surrounding an obelisk bearing the Turkish crescent and star ...  
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Baku. Azerbaijan's state-owned oil company GNKAR said on Saturday its crude exports via the Baku-Novorossiisk pipeline were up 110% in November, year-on-year, RIA Novosti reported. The company pumped 2.341 million metric tons through the pipeline ...  
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Ukrainian embassy in Azerbaijan states that Ukraine’s position on Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains unchanged in the context of the video report on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict aired by Ukraine-based Inter private TV channel ...  
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BAKU -- Campaigning for municipal elections in Azerbaijan has officially begun, with 18 parties and some 31,000 candidates registered to compete, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. The Central Election Commission (CEC) said that campaigning for ...  
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Armenian Presidents Spokesman Samvel Farmanyan referred to the recent bellicose statement of the Azerbaijani President, assessed as bellicose rhetoric by the experts. The growth of tension around the Karabakh conflict would ...  
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The pressure recently put on Armenia and Turkey to sign protocols ... has been made on rapprochement between Armenia and Turkey than with the Karabakh peace process, now in its 15th year, could be driving Baku’s criticism of the West, believes ...  
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"Azerbaijan's deoccupation will aid Armenian-Turkish relations: Turkish PM08 December 2009 [12:43] - Today.AzDuring his official visit to Washington upon U.S. President Barack Obama's invitation, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan made a speech titled 'Turkey in the 21st Century: Building Peace Through Diplomacy' at Johns Hopkins University."More:Today.Az - Azerbaijan's deoccupation will aid Armenian-Turkish relations: Turkish PM  
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Studies of the possible application of CNG technology to trans-Caspian transport of Turkmenistan's gas to Azerbaijan, for example, evaluate it as being 1.6 times as expensive as an undersea pipeline but only two-thirds as expensive as LNG.  
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BAKU, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan said talks with Armenia on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on Sunday would be "decisive" and warned Azeri troops were ready to use force to take back the rebel region if they fail, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said ...  
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Azerbaijani lawmakers are considering a proposal to ban prenatal gender testing to prevent selective abortions of female babies. Selective abortions in Azerbaijan have led to a disproportionately heavy male birthrate; male babies have outnumbered ...  
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Azerbaijani Deputy General Prosecutor Namik Askerov told MPs on December 2 that violence against women is pervasive in Azerbaijan. Askerov reported that 1,657 cases of violence against women were registered during 2008. The trend is holding steady ...  
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Azerbaijani Presidents bellicose mood is not justified and demonstrates Bakus nervousness, Vremya Novostey international commentator Arkady Dubnov said. According to him, no progress should be expected from the Armenian and ...  
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan said that Azerbaijan’s share in the much-anticipated Nabucco natural gas pipeline project may increase from 10 percent to 25 percent, the News.az news agency reported on December 8. With other supplies ...  
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LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Azerbaijan's economy is likely to grow by 6.8% next year, while inflation is forecast at a "manageable level", the country's deputy minister for economic development said Tuesday. Speaking at Adam Smith Conferences' Azerbaijan ...  
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Azerbaijans Ilham Aliyev will pay a visit to Russia on November 24, Aliyev said during the meeting with chief of Russias presidential administration in Baku Monday. Kremlin press service reports ...  
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Nizami Piriyev paid Blair to fly to Baku earlier this week to open his new 'methanol plant'. The disclosure comes amid growing scrutiny of Blair's network of private backers, with the Kuwaiti government understood to be one of his biggest financial ...  
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BAKU, Azerbaijani: On a windswept hilltop looking down at the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Turkish flags flutter over a monument that testifies to decades of close ties between the two nations. Surrounding an obelisk bearing the Turkish crescent and ...  
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ATHENS (RFE/RL)–The United States, Russia and France on Tuesday renewed their calls for Armenia and Azerbaijan to iron out their remaining disagreements over a framework agreement to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The three nations ...  
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France said on Tuesday it hoped the years-long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway mountain region of Nagorno-Karabakh would be resolved "in months". French Foreign Minister Ber...  
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Urged by Azeri ally Turkey, arch foes Armenia and Azerbaijan hold talks Sunday on the rebel region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The stakes are high, with oil-rich Azerbaijan threatening to use military force if the talks fail.  
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President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has warned Armenia that he will use force to regain control of the disputed enclave of Nagorno Karabakh, if internationally mediated talks on Sunday fail to produce results. He said the talks were the last chance ...  
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... least a formal apology; and second, neither Obama nor Medvedev and Sarkozy have realized (or are unwilling to realize) that Turkish intervention into the resolution of the Karabakh conflict can have an opposite result - Armenia may simply take ...  
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev (left) and Armenian President Serge Sarkisian (right), pictured with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2008, made 'substantial progress' in talks over Nagorno-Karabakh in Germany on 22 November. (PA) According to ...  
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A senior Azerbaijani official said that Russia’s invasion of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) aspirant Georgia means that Azerbaijan needs security guarantees from NATO in exchange for its partnership with the Alliance. "A new bilateral ...  
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YEREVAN (News.am)—Armenia and Azerbaijan are not in discussions about the return of Azeri refugees to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian told reporters Friday. “The Azerbaijani side has claimed that the ...  
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that a prudent strategy of oil sales has helped Azerbaijan avoid getting caught up in the global economic crisis. "Even in the crisis year of 2009 we are not facing financial difficulties," Aliyev was ...  
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A governing party politician’s proposal to postpone Azerbaijan’s 2010 parliamentary elections "until the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is resolved" has met with both support and censure from President Ilham Aliyev’s Yeni Azerbaijan Party. While ...  
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[...] who reside or specialize in the countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Recent posts include reaction to the verdict of Azerbaijani bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade as well as a Georgian scandal involving the [...]  
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MUNICH -- International mediators gave a mixed assessment of the Munich talks between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying there was progress on some issues but a failure to agree on others, RFE/RL's ...  
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"Angry at Turkey, energy-rich Azerbaijan may spurn WestMichael MainvilleBAKU - Agence France-PresseOn a windswept hilltop looking down at the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Turkish flags flutter over a monument that testifies to decades of close ties between the two nations. Surrounding an obelisk bearing the Turkish crescent and star, stone blocks carry the names of dozens of Turkish soldiers who died while fighting for Azerbaijan's independence...  
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Armenia should," the prime minister said. "When we talk about settling the conflict, we mean an agreement on the seven districts" belonging to Azerbaijan and occupied by Armenia, he said. If an agreement is not reached, "Turkey will take no positive ...  
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is linking a railway explosion that took place on November 30 in Russia’s North Caucasian republic of Dagestan to a blast that derailed the Nevskiy Express train en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg three ...  
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has signed a $120 million credit agreement that is meant to finance the energy-rich Caucasus country’s plans to convert natural gas into methanol for export. In its largest investment to date in ...  
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ULYANOVSK, November 24 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian and Azerbaijani presidents met in the Volga city of Ulyanovsk on Tuesday for talks expected to focus on bilateral trade and the Nagorny Karabakh conflict. Dmitry Medvedev and Ilham Aliyev laid ...  
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Lake Urmia is a salt lake in northwestern Iran near Turkey. The lake is between the provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan. The lake is divided into north and south parts separated by a causeway, visible here as a line across ...  
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Azerbaijan and Armenia held a presidential summit on Sunday amid warnings that a full blown war is brewing over a festering territorial dispute. Azerbaijan and Armenia held a presidential summit yesterday amid warnings that war was brewing between the countries over a festering territorial dispute. Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, said the negotiations in Munich were a final attempt to avert a military confrontation. They were...  
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First came oil. Now comes space. Flush with energy revenues, Officials in Baku are intent on launching Azerbaijan’s first satellite by 2011. The government sees getting into the satellite communications sector as a way to diversify Azerbaijan’s ...  
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Leyla's Room interviews Farida Sadikhova Buyuran, the blogger behind AZ Cookbook. Posting recipes, backgrounds and photographs of traditional Azeri cuisine, as well as other dishes, the interview details Farida's passion for food and cooking and says a book is on the horizon.  
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Email this article Azerbaijan’s economy chiefs are considering establishing an agriculture bank to improve the oil-rich country’s food security and help the development of agribusiness, loc...  
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Sofia. When we supply Bulgaria with Azerbaijani gas, we actually become an energy partner of the European Union, said Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, who is paying a visit to Bulgaria at the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart Georgi ...  
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MINSK. Nov 12 (Interfax) - Azerbaijan could supply its oil to Belarus, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev told the alumni of the Belarusian State University in Minsk on Thursday. "Our talks today with President Alexander Lukashenko also focused on ...  
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BAKU -- The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has accused Germany and Norway of interference in Baku's internal affairs, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. The charge d'affaires at the Norwegian and German embassies in Baku, Lars Hansen and Peter ...  
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The rising profile of AySel, the representative for Azerbaijan in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest has increaced once more as she features in a high profile television commercial for Danone Activa. The commercial produced by Cinealliance and shot on location in Heydar Aliyev Palace Central entertainment venue in Azerbaijan, has recently been broadcasted in her native Azerbaijan and neighbouring Georgia. (http://www.esctoday.com/news/read...  
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... Mr Blair received around £90,000 for visiting Azerbaijan's methanol company, AzMeCo, which is owned by Nizami Piriyev, a multi-millionaire with business links to Afghanistan, Syria and Iran. After attending the signing of a loan agreement ...  
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Western diplomats attended the talks, the latest in a round of internationally mediated meetings on the dispute, have said they hope the situation will not reach that point. Some 30,000 people died in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, which erupted ...  
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An Azerbaijani Government assessment states that the shadow economy accounts for 10.2% of GDP. From January-September 2009 Azerbaijan's GDP was USD 29.3 billion. This would make the shadow economy worth around USD 3 billion. Independent Azeri analyst ...  
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After a series of diplomatic talks, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev says he will pursue the military option against Armenia if a long-running border dispute is not resolved in Munich this week. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev has threatened ...  
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Mediators said "important progress" was made at talks on Sunday between the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but that difficulties were also identified. The media...  
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Last Updated: November 23. 2009 12:37AM UAE / November 22. 2009 8:37PM GMT MOSCOW // The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan met yesterday for talks over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory, one ...  
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Azerbaijan will compete in a final tournament for the first time when they face hosts Hungary in the opening game of the 2010 UEFA European Futsal Championship on 19 January in Budapest and coach Alesio knows they have a chance of a decent run. The ...  
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The company Marriott will construct a 20-storey hotel Abshreon in Baku. 228 rooms will be located on four storeys, while others will include apartments, offices, restaurants, a conference-hall, and a shopping area. The group ReardonSmith Architects ...  
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[...] July 8, 2009, OL! co-founders Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada were beaten by strangers in a downtown Baku restaurant. When they went to the police department to report the incident, they were instead detained and [...]  
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BAKU (Trend)—Opening the Turkey-Armenia border will weaken Azerbaijan’s position on the international stage and diminish Turkey’s role in regional and world politics, according to the Chairman of Azerbaijan’s Diaspora Activities Committee ...  
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Baku would benefit substantially from a decision to allow European consumers access to its vast natural gas reserves, a European envoy to Azerbaijan said. Europe through a network of pipelines called the Southern Corridor aims to diversify its ...  
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The memorandum, signed by Van Governor Münir Karaloğlu and Iranian West Azerbaijan Province Governor-General Jelal Zade, included new provisions that would open the door to flights between Urmia, a city in Iran’s West Azerbaijan province, and Van ...  
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The Energy Ministers of Azerbaijan and Bulgaria shake hands as the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev (back left) and his Bulgarian counterpart Giorgi Purvanov (back right) look on. On November 13 in Sofia, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and ...  
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MUNICH, Germany, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan and Armenia hold talks on Sunday on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, with Azeri ally Turkey pressing for progress before it seals an historic rapprochement with neighbouring Armenia. Oil-producing ...  
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The meeting between Armenian-Azerbaijani leaders was the first since Armenia and Turkey - an ally of Azerbaijan - normalised diplomatic relations after a century of hostility, BBC's Tom Esslemont ...  
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Armenia has complained to Europe’s top security and human rights watchdog that Azerbaijan’s military buildup is violating the ceiling set by the 1990 Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe. Addressing a December 2 meeting of ministers from ...  
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Iranmobin, reportedly the largest stakeholder in Iran’s Telecommunication Infrastructure Company (TIC, a unit of fixed line monopoly Telecommunication Company of Iran), has formed a 50/50 equity joint venture with C-Ring Telecom, a subsidiary of Russian long-distance operator Synterra, reports Islamic News (cnobbi.com). The new venture has forged an agreement with Azerbaijan’s AzTelekom to work towards collaborating on the rollout of a new...  
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"Azerbaijan seeks to derail Turkey-Armenia dealTuesday, October 20, 2009BAKU: Azerbaijan is stepping up efforts to derail reconciliation between ally Turkey and arch-foe Armenia after threatening to reroute gas supplies to Europe running through Turkey.Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Friday said Turkish terms for buying Azerbaijani gas were unacceptable and that Baku is considering other routes for shipping its gas to Europe."More...  
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Azerbaijan's President has warned neighboring Armenia that his country is ready to resort to military force to resolve their territorial dispute if talks over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh fail. The two countries' leaders, Armenian President Serzh ...  
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President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan said Saturday, "We have the full right to liberate our land by military means "iIf that meeting ends without result, then our hopes in negotiations will be exhaust...  
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BAKU -- The first swine flu case has been officially confirmed in Azerbaijan, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. A representative of Azerbaijan's Health Care Ministry told RFE/RL that a woman from Azerbaijan's Kurdamir district who had returned ...  
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YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–The U.S. State Department flatly denied on Wednesday an Azerbaijani press report alleging that Washington has threatened to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state unless Baku commits to a peaceful resolution of the ...  
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The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold talks on Sunday on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, France said on Thursday, with Turkey pressing for progress before it seals a rapprochement with Arm...  
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WASHINGTON (News.az)– The White House is considering nominees for the vacant post of US ambassador to Azerbaijan, Terry Davidson, the spokesperson for the US embassy in Baku, told journalists on Tuesday. “We are also looking forward to the moment ...  
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­Azerbaijan's Azerfon has been awarded the country's first 3G license, reports local media. According to Azerfon General Director Guido Helbich the company is planning to launch 3G services on the 2.1 Ghz frequency within the next few days. Azerfon ...  
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Tehran and Baku have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Azerbaijani gas supplies to Iran beginning from 2010. "More than 500 million cubic meters of gas per year are planned to be supplied within the memorandum with an opportunity to ...  
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According to the head of Azerbaijan's state oil company, the contract to supply gas to Iran is expected to be signed by late 2009. Tehran and Baku have signed a memorandum of mutual understanding on Azerbaijani gas supplies to Iran beginning from ...  
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Eduard Abrahamyan: The policy of systematic settlement of all 7 regions will not only resolve security issue in NKR and subdue Baku’s arrogance, but will also make world community face the irreversible fact.  
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Here is what is happening between Turkey and Azerbaijan in regard to Nagorno Karabakh. Azerbaijan in late 1990s started war against the civilian population of the Nagorno Karabakh Armenians, who voted to be independent from Azerbaijan due to cultural and human rights related oppression. Armenia supported the move and Turkey blockaded Turkish-Armenian border showing solidarity with Azerbaijan. The later holds Turkey hostage to relations with...  
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The Karabakh dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia has strained ties between the two countries. At the invitation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair countries, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and President Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia will meet for ...  
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Flydubai, Dubai's first low cost airline, will expand its network into the former Soviet Union for the first time on Friday, November 20, when it commences flights to the Azeri capital, Baku. The flight, FZ705, will leave Dubai at 1935hrs arriving in Baku after a flight of 2hrs 55 minutes at 2230hrs local time.  
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(SkyNewswire.com)--- Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new market reportThe report “Cosmetics and Toiletries - Azerbaijan” available at http://www.reportbuyer.com/go/EUR01837 offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data (2003-2008), allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It...  
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"Baku's frustrations with Ankara may give Russia new opening in AzerbaijanFri 13 November 2009 | 13:06 GMT Text size:2919Sabina FreizerNews.Az interviews Sabina Freizer, director of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group's Europe programme."More:News.Az - Baku's frustrations with Ankara may give Russia new opening in Azerbaijan  
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BAKU -- Azerbaijan's budget deficit for next year is predicted to reach 1.25 billion manats, or $1.56 billion, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. Ziyad Samadzadeh, head of the parliament's Economic Policy Committee, also told parliament that ...  
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Azerbaijani paper Azadlig writes referring to its sources, that Azerbaijani Minister of Education Misir Mardanov warned ministerial officials not to read Azadlig. He declared if he found any official reading ...  
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The removal of Turkish flags from a Baku cemetery for victims of the 1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has touched off a fresh bout of diplomatic bickering between Turkey and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani leaders were reportedly irked by reports that ...  
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Amid a diplomatic chill, Azerbaijan and Turkey opened a new round of talks November 16 on an energy export price. Recent agreements on gas supplies to Bulgaria, Iran and Russia suggest that Baku is exploring alternative export routes as a means to ...  
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/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Turkish-Azerbaijani ties are quite close and serious. Never believe any statement saying there is certain coolness between two states,” said Vladimir Zakharov , deputy director of the Caucasus Research Center at MSUIR ...  
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Offshore oil fields in the Caspian Sea, along the coast of Baku. BAKU (Today.az)–The U.S. company Devon Energy is selling its share in the development of the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) offshore Caspian drilling project, hoping to focus on mining ...  
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Although it is just the beginning of June, the sun has instantly warmed the old Soviet buildings of Patamdart, a quarter of Baku located in the city's southern hills. Around noon staying inside becomes unbearable, and there has been no running water ...  
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Azerbaijan ← Previous revision Revision as of 03:35, 16 November 2009 Line 72: Line 72: ===Azerbaijan=== ===Azerbaijan=== Main|History of Azerbaijan|Azerbaijan during World War II Main|History of Azerbaijan|Azerbaijan during World War II - [[Image:AziAslanovBaku.jpg|thumb|The monument to Azeri Major-General [[Azi Aslanov]] in [[Baku]], who was awarded twice Hero of the...  
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A Baku court this week sentenced two young Azerbaijani bloggers, Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli, to two and 2 1/2 years in prison on hooliganism charges, in a case that has brought international attent...  
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Azerbaijan’s government earlier in 2009 took action to restrain the reach of foreign broadcasters, in particular radio outlets like the British Broadcasting Corp. and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Now, a key member of President Ilham Aliyev’s ...  
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Washingtons relations with Baku are getting spoiled every time and reached their top. Yeni Musavat reports that the US stopped its traditional democratic and human rights discussions in Azerbaijan. The ...  
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With no firm kick-off in sight for the Nabucco gas pipeline project, Azerbaijan is looking into the option of transporting its natural gas to Europe via tankers. "Transportation of compressed gas by special tankers across the Black Sea is something ...  
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PR Log (Press Release) – Nov 30, 2009 – Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new market report The report “Cosmetics and Toiletries - Azerbaijan” available at http://www ...  
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[...] until 2018) and restricted media freedom. Voice of America, the BBC, and Radio Liberty were all banned from broadcasting on national frequencies, leaving Azeris only state-controlled media to stay informed. Most recently, Azeri bloggers believe [...]  
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BAKU -- Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev says Turkey pays too little for natural gas and Baku will seek other routes to deliver its gas to Europe, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reports. Aliyev said at a cabinet meeting in Baku on October 16 that ...  
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Baku has demanded an explanation from the Norwegian and German embassies in Baku after diplomats from the two European states criticized the recent sentencing of two youth activists to prison, the APA news agency reported on November 17. In a move ...  
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BAKU (Azerbaijan) - A COURT in Azerbaijan sentenced two opposition bloggers to jail terms on Wednesday in a case that has stirred international concern over freedom of expression in the oil-producing Caspian Sea state. Adnan Hajizade, 26, was ...  
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The following is a guest post from Ali S. Novruzov, an Azerbaijani who blogs over at "In Mutatione Fortitudo." He describes how the arrests and convictions of Azerbaijan's "donkey bloggers" have pushed the country's youth activists into finding ...  
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The United States "regrets" the jailing of two Azerbaijan bloggers who were critical of their country in online postings, the State Department said Wednesday. "The United States regrets today's court decision in Azerbaijan to imprison Azerbaijani ...  
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