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Celebrated every year on 30th September, International Translation Day is an opportunity to remember the importance of translators, interpreters, terminologists and everyone else in the profession. After more than a year of COVID-19 keeping us apart, this year’s theme is “United in translation“. International Translation Day is meant as an …

bp has agreed to sell a 25% participating interest in the Shallow Water Absheron Peninsula (SWAP) exploration project in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea to LUKOIL. Following completion of the sale, bp will remain operator of the SWAP production sharing agreement (PSA) during the exploration period, holding a …

President Ilham Aliyev has described as important the strengthening of Azerbaijani-Georgian political ties not only for the two nations but the whole region with new challenges and opportunities, Azertag has reported. He made the remarks at a meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili in Baku on September 29. “We closely cooperate in issues related to …

According to the order of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev, work on building military camps and other military facilities in the liberated areas and putting them into operation is being continued, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry told AZERTAC. In order to further improve the …

Azerbaijan’s Agency for Development of Small and Medium-sized Businesses and Iraq’s Federation of Chamber of Commerce have signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation. The document was signed by the Agency’s Board Chairman Orkhan Mammadov and the Federation’s President Abdul Razzaq al-Zuhairi during the Azerbaijan-Iraq roundtable on business cooperation held in …

The Brussels-based EU Reporter magazine has published an article headlined “The 44-Day Karabakh War has changed the geopolitical regional landscape”. The article reads: “The Second Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia that occurred on September 27 and ended on November 10, 2020 changed the geopolitical landscape of the South Caucasus. …

Some 58,109 trees of 14 species were planted in Azerbaijan within the tree-planting campaign on the occasion of Remembrance Day on September 27, Azertag has reported. A campaign was held in 76 cities and regions of Azerbaijan. Of the total number of planted trees, 6,950 trees were planted in Baku …