Politics

President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order on the appointment of Kanan Najafov and Zaur Gurbanov as Vice Presidents of Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company (SOCAR), Azertag reported on August 11. On the same day, Aliyev signed a decree “On improving the structure of the State Oil Company of the Republic …

An event under the slogan “Promoting friendly relations between Finland and Azerbaijan” has been held in the city of Helsinki. Finnish MP Veronika Honkasalo, renowned writer Aulikki Oksanen, theater director Juha Kukkonen, representatives of the Turkish-Finnish society and the Azerbaijani Diaspora in Finland, as well as local businessmen and representatives …

Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has said that there is broad agenda of cooperation between Azerbaijan and Belgium and that bilateral relations are developing successfully, the ministry’s press service reported. At the same time, he spoke about mutually beneficial partnership of Azerbaijan with the European Union. Bayramov made the remarks while …

Cooperation in the field of labor, employment and social protection between Azerbaijan and Turkey were discussed during the videoconference meeting of two counties’ Labor and Social Protection Ministers Sahil Babayev and Vedat Bilgin. Baku and Ankara have discussed cooperation in the field of labor, employment during the meeting held between …

IOM-supported project for the restoration of ancient irrigation systems – kahrizes in regions of Azerbaijan will contribute to Azerbaijan’s efforts to fulfill three Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the IOM official told Trend. The IOM official noted that the project is among the most crucial and timely activity undertaken by the IOM …

Azerbaijan will send another group of firefighters to help extinguish massive forest fires across Turkey, Minister of Emergency Situations Kamaladdin Heydarov told APA on August 6. Heydarov said that 200 employees of the Special Risk Rescue Service will be sent to Turkey, reminding that 510 employees of the ministry, Be-200 …

Azerbaijani President İlham Aliyev and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have discussed the deadly wildfires in Turkey and the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Azertag reported on 6 August. In a telephone conversation that took place at Aliyev’s initiative on August 6, the Azerbaijani leader once again expressed his …

The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Iraq increased by more than 35 percent year-on-year in the first six months of 2021, after a decrease of 30 percent in 2020, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Economy Minister Sevinj Hasanova has said. She made this remark during the second meeting of the Joint Commission on Trade, …

Director General of Trend News Agency Ilgar Huseynov and the agency’s Editor-in-Chief Rufiz Hafizoglu held meeting with the Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Cahit Bagci in Baku on August 5, Trend reports. The agency’s leadership expressed condolences due to victims of forest fires in Turkey and regrets for this disaster. During the talk, …

Azerbaijan has undergone significant economic transformation and development since the country’s independence in 1991. The country has implemented ambitious economic reforms due to startling policies adopted by His Excellency, President Ilham Aliyev. The structural reforms and open policy have paved the way for stable micro and macroeconomic conditions, a drastic …