• Turkey and Azerbaijan sign gas contract
    Turkey and Azerbaijan  signed gas contract in Istanbul. The contract was signed by Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız and Azerbaijani Industry and Energy Minister Natig Aliyev. According to Taner Yldiz, the contract covers three basis problems. He says that, the contact covers payment of price difference of previously purchased natural gas from...
    June 7, 2010 17:56
  • STRATFOR president to visit Azerbaijan
    Chief Executive Officer of STRATFOR, a private global intelligence firm in U.S, Prof. George Friedman will visit Azerbaijan on June 9-15 on the invitation of the Strategic Research Center (SRC) under the President of Azerbaijan. Friedman scheduled meetings at the Strategic Research Center, Presidential Administration, State Oil Fund, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State...
    June 7, 2010 17:24
  • Obama’s letter to Aliyev
    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates handed Obama’s letter to President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday during a visit meant to ease strains in relations with the Caspian Sea country, a link in Afghan supply lines and energy export routes. “The United States recognizes Azerbaijan’s important contributions to regional and international security,” Obama wrote in the...
    June 7, 2010 16:56
  • Iran and Georgia to sign visa waiver accord
    Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says Iran and Georgia will soon sign an agreement to eliminate visa requirements, presstv.ir reports. Mehmanparast, who is in Tbilisi to improve media cooperation between the two countries, expressed Iran’s desire to increase relations with Georgia. “A visa elimination agreement will soon be signed between the...
    May 23, 2010 17:17
  • Ilham Aliyev: “We will not allow Armenia to conduct endless negotiations”
    President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Turkish Prime Minister Receb Tayyib Erdogan held a joint press conference in Baku, CNN Türk reports. Answering the question whether borders between the two countries will be opened or not if Armenia accepts updated Madrid proposals, President Aliyev said Azerbaijan had been searching peaceful way during 16 years of fruitless negotiations...
    May 17, 2010 23:43
  • Turkey, Azerbaijan, Italy and Greece to hold gas summit
    Turkish minister of energy and natural resources Taner Yildiz said to journalists that Turkey, Azerbaijan, Italy and Greece will convene a summit on natural gas. “The summit will focus on prospects for constructing a gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Italy via Turkey and Greece,” he stated. Yildiz said the Turkish Premier Erdogan discussed the issue during his visit...
    May 17, 2010 5:53
  • Elmar Mammadyarov: “We are ready to prepare wide peace agreement on the basis of this document”
    “I appreciate the position of Armenians negatively. Because they are impeding the negotiations process”, said Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. The minister said that document was prepared by three co-chair countries and that the sides had already been offered: “Within last two years, very deep, wide negotiations are being conducted. The Co-Chairs visit...
    May 14, 2010 15:08
  • Azerbaijani Foreign Minister to meet OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs on June 5
    Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has given a positive reply to OSCE Minsk co-chairs’ proposal to meet. Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists that he will meet the co-chairs on June 5. According to the minister, the meeting will be held within the framework of the session on the 60th anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission. The...
    May 14, 2010 13:43
  • David Cameron is UK’s new prime minister
    Conservative leader David Cameron is the new UK prime minister after the resignation of Gordon Brown, BBC News reports. Mr Cameron, 43, has left Buckingham Palace after formally accepting the Queen’s request to form a government. Mr Cameron’s Conservative Party won the most seats in the UK general election last week, but not an overall majority and have been in coalition...
    May 12, 2010 4:45
  • Azerbaijan and Iran will produce cars
    Azerbaijan and Iran signed a new agreement on joint production of cars. Azerbaijan Company Evsen signed an agreement with the Iranian Iran Khodro on the joint production of passenger buses and trucks. The accessories for the production will be imported into the country from Iran.
    May 3, 2010 18:20
  • Ahmet Davutoglu: “Turkey is eager to open its borders with Armenia”
    Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday that Turkey was eager to open its borders with Armenia, because it wanted a full integration with its neighbors. Davutoglu delivered a speech at a conference titled “Turkish Foreign Policy in Changing World” held by the South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) and Turkey’s Sabanci University...
    May 2, 2010 23:13
  • Turkey’s MFA on the Obama’s April 24th Statement
    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey made a Press release regarding the statement issued by President Obama. See the full text of the press-release below: “Written statements issued regularly each year on the 24th of April by the Presidents of the United States has been repeated by President Obama this year as well. We deeply regret this statement which reflects...
    April 25, 2010 22:30
  • Obama didn’t utter Genocide
    US President Barack Obama didn’t utter Genocide instead using Armenian phrase Meds Yeghern to mark the 95th anniversary of Armenian Genocide. Below is the full text of the statement of President Obama on Armenian Remembrance Day. “Ninety four years ago, one of the great atrocities of the 20th century began. Each year, we pause to remember the 1.5 million...
    April 24, 2010 22:37
  • Davutoglu to attend Informal Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers
    Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoglu will attend the Informal Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Tallin on 22-23 April 2010, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Press-Release says. Preparations of NATO’s new Strategic Concept, NATO reform, enlargement, Partnerships, missile defense and Afghanistan will be the main agenda items of the Meeting. A session with...
    April 22, 2010 2:46
  • Pakistan-Azerbaijan military cooperation continues
    Pakistan’s Defense Secretary, Lieutenant-General Syed Athar Ali arrived in Azerbaijan on Wednesday. Azerbaijan-Pakistan working group on cooperation will hold its regular meeting during the visit which will last until April 27. Note, that Pakistan does not recognize Republic of Armenia, and has hostile behavior towards Armenia. Pakistan doesn’t recognize also the right...
    April 22, 2010 1:53
  • Defense minister of Azerbaijan about “other methods”
    Yesterday during the meeting with Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy, Safar Abiyev, Azerbaijani Minister of Defense didn’t loose the moment to call Armenia as “aggressor” and repeat the Azeri aggressive thesis on “other methods” of solving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Abiyev noted, ‘if the Co-Chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group don’t increase...
    April 18, 2010 3:29