Tag Archives: Azerbaijan

By Laman Ismayilova Azerbaijan’s First International Animation Festival (ANIMAFILM) was held at Yarat Contemporary Art Space on October 19-21. The project aims to develop creative and production activities of filmmakers, film and animation studios of the country, review various genres of professional animation by foreign directors and exchange experience. The festival …

Speaker of Azerbaijan`s Parliament Ogtay Asadov has met with Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus Ambassador Rudolf Michalka to discuss the issues of bilateral cooperation between the country and the organization. Asadov noted that Azerbaijan attaches great importance to the development of relations with leading international …

Azerbaijan`s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has met with a delegation led by Secretary General of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Dr. Hadi Soleimanpour. Underlining the support of Azerbaijan to the regional economic projects implemented in the ECO region, Minister Mammadyarov emphasized that Azerbaijan attaches special importance to the establishment of …

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received President of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay Jorge Gandini. The head of state praised Jorge Gandini`s participation in the 6th Baku International Humanitarian Forum, describing this as a sign of Uruguay`s support for the forum and the country`s interest …

  By Narmina Mammadova There is a great potential for cooperation between Azerbaijan and Estonia, Vice-President of the Estonian Parliament Kalle Laanet said during a meeting with  Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on October 23. Mammadyarov welcomed the Vice-Speaker and said that relations between Azerbaijan and Estonia were successfully developing. …

A meeting with representatives of Chinese companies operating in Azerbaijan has been held at the State Customs Committee (SCC), the committee said in a statement Oct. 25. The meeting has been attended by First Deputy Chairman of the Committee, Major General of the Customs Service Ismayil Huseynov, Deputy Chairman of …

Azerbaijan and Turkey have enough will and resources to implement more than one major project, the President of the Executive Committee of the Economic Research Foundation of Turkey, expert Ahmet Incekara told reporters Oct. 24. The expert recalled that recently the opening ceremony of the Star oil refinery, owned by …

First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva has met with President of the Senate of the Italian Republic Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati. The meeting was held at Azerbaijan`s national pavilion at “Milan Expo-2015” World Exhibition, which was reconstructed in the territory of the Seaside National Park. First Vice-President …

According to the training plan for 2018 approved by the Minister of Defense, the Rocket and Artillery formations are conducting live-fire exercises, Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry said. “In the course of the exercises, artillery units work out actions to make a march, to reach concentration areas, to occupy firing and starting …

At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, bordered by the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, it was an important thoroughfare on the Silk Road, the ancient web of trade routes linking East and West. By the 19th century, Sheki, on the Silk Road path through northwest Azerbaijan, was an …