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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev holds meeting at the disaster area
12.05.10 The head of state examined the disaster area together with related bodies by helicopter.
Azerbaijani parliament adopts bill on renaming Azizbayov district to Khazar
Azerbaijani parliament has adopted the bill on renaming Azizbayov district of Baku to Khazar.
12.05.10 Chairman of the parliament’s committee for regional issues Arif Rahimzadeh said the parliament had been offered to rename Azizbayov district to Khazar.
Analyst Thomas de Waal: The international community needs to invest more resources into the resolution of Nagorno Karabakh conflict
“Turkey and Armenia can’t open the border between them, because we’re still stuck in negative regional dynamics such as the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict”
12.05.10 “Turkey and Armenia can’t open the border between them, because we’re still stuck in negative regional dynamics such as the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict”, - stated Thomas de Waal, senior associate of the Eurasian program of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in US capital, in an organization’s last report, APA’s Washington correspondent reports.
Swiss Parliamentary Delegation is on a visit to Azerbaijan
11.05.10 Swiss Parliamentary Delegation arrived in Azerbaijan. Delegation led by the head of Switzerland-Azerbaijan friendship group of the Swiss Parliament, Christine Egerszegi-Obrist visited Heydar Aliyev’s tomb and the monument of Academician Zarifa Aliyeva in the Alley of Honor on May 11.
Baku hosts 7th Azerbaijan International Conference on Geophysics
The 7th Azerbaijan International Conference on Geophysics started in Baku, today.
11.05.10 According to the first vice-president of SOCAR, Khoshbakht Yusifzadeh, the oil production reached 50 mln tonnes and the gas production reached 23.5 bln cubic meters in 2009.
Driver kills the officer of the State Traffic Police Office
Tonight officer of the State Traffic Police Office, Sergeant Mehman Mammadov was killed in Mukhtariyya village of Shamkir region at about 02.00, Shamkir Region Prosecutor’s Office reported.
11.05.10 Konullu village resident of Shamkir region, Kazimov Elchin Shubatay, 24, killed by blunt knife the sergeant of the 9th battalion of the Interior Ministry’s Main Traffic Police Office, Mehman Mammadov Tapdig.
Russia coal mine blasts kill 32, 58 still trapped
11.05.10 Death toll from weekend coal mine blast rises.
Rescue workers raced to save 58 people trapped inside Russia’s largest coal mine on Monday as the death toll from twin underground explosions rose to 32.
