Politics

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 …

Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan are working on a new draft intergovernmental agreement in the field of international road transport, the head of the department for the development of transport corridors, logistics and transit at the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan Bekzod Kholmatov told Trend. According to Kholmatov, there is an intergovernmental agreement …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan thanked Azerbaijan for supporting Turkey in the fight against the wildfires that have swept across the country. “On behalf of my country, I express my gratitude to my dear friend, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev for the support from the very first days,” the Turkish …

Head of the Permanent Representative Office of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in Baku Bakhtiyar Asgarov has met with Ukrainian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vladislav Kanevsky. The sides discussed a wide range of issues, including political, economic and cultural relations between the two friendly countries, the development of cooperation with the Nakhchivan …

Azerbaijan’s Transport, Communications and High Technologies Minister Rashad Nabiyev and Chinese Ambassador Guo Min have discussed ways of improving the regulatory framework in the field of transport. During the meeting held last week, the parties discussed increasing the attractiveness of transport corridors through Azerbaijan and improving the efficiency of the …

“On August 2 from 13:55 to 17:00 the Armenian armed forces units from the positions in the village of Zarkand in Basarkechar region and the village of Arazdeyen in Vedi region using small arms periodically subjected to fire the positions of the Azerbaijan Army in the direction of the village …

The first group of firefighters of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Emergency Situations, sent to Turkey upon the instructions of the Azerbaijani president to extinguish and prevent the spread of forest fires, is extinguishing fires 11 kilometers from Turkey’s Marmaris city, Mugla province, Trend  reports. An Azerbaijani team of firefighters began …

The Russian Charge d’Affaires in Azerbaijan was summoned to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry on August 1, 2021,  the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported. During the meeting, great concern and protest was expressed to the Charge d’Affaires in connection with the biased and offensive statement of the Russian State Duma member, chairman …