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SOCAR successfully completed its engagement in the management of Antipinskii Refinery and the oil fields, owned by the subsidiary of the refinery – NKNP LLC. Therewith, SOCAR withdraws as equity shareholder from SOCAR Energoresurs, the joint venture established by SOCAR and Sberbank PJSC. SOCAR decided not to participate as a …

Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, Head of Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmat Hajiyev has responded to a question from AZERTAC. -Some international media outlets state that the United States will take steps to recognize the so-called Armenian genocide. What is your take on that? -Everyone is …

Azerbaijan’s Yashat Foundation that was set up to help families of soldiers killed and injured during the 2020 Karabakh War, has collected over AZN 31 million ($18.2M) as of April 20, the foundation has reported. A total of 14,240 people, including 2,881 martyrs’ family members and 2,735 wounded citizens’ needs …

International Mugham Center has launched a scientific-research programme aimed at promoting Azerbaijan’s mugham art. The project coordinator, Doctor of Philology Gulhuseyn Kazimli and the head of the Research Laboratory for the Restoration and Improvement of Ancient Musical Instrument at the Azerbaijan National Conservatory Mammadali Mammadov visited the National History Museum, Trend Life reported. They viewed a number of tar samples, …

Shah Ismail Khatai’s “Dehname” and “Nasiyatname” poems have been published in Baku. The books were published by “Hədəf Nəşrləri” publishing house on the initiative of the relevant commission under the Azerbaijan Writers’ Union, Day.Az reported. The author of the project is chairman of the commission, writer, associate professor Shamil Sadig. Shah Ismail …

The second container block train from Qingdao in the direction of China-Azerbaijan has arrived at Port of Baku. The transportation was carried out within the framework of cooperation between China Railway (CRCT) and members of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Consortium: KTZ Express, ADY Container LLC and GR Logistics and Terminals. …

“As always, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan has expressed his views quite clearly and concretely. If the Armenian Foreign Ministry wants to present what it hears in the way it wants, it is already an indication of their malicious intentions,” said spokesperson for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry Leyla Abdullayeva …