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  • Ansari to undertake four-day visit to Uzbekistan

    Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari will undertake an official visit to Uzbekistan from May 21 to 24. He will be accompanied by a high-level delegation. Minister of State for Environment and Forest Jayanti Natarajan and four Members of Parliament are likely to be part of the delegation. Vice-President Ansari will depart from Delhi on May 21 and reach Tashkent on the same day. On ...

  • Statement by Chairman of Assembly of Armenians of Azerbaijan real provocation

    Armenians are characterized by the tendency to turn everything going on around into the myth. Political scientist Fikrat Sadikhov has told this to 1news.az, commenting on the statement of the chairman of so-called "Assembly of Armenians of Azerbaijan" Grigory Ayvazyan that allegedly "at this time, one million Armenian community is given an historic opportunity with its ...

  • No deteriorated relations with Azerbaijan – Russian minister

    "Any deterioration in relations between the two countries is out of the question," Lavrov said. In a joint press conference with Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov answered journalists’ questions as to Russia’s suspension of the use of Gabala radar and export of Azerbaijan’s oil via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline. ...

  • Nabucco-West backerstake pot shot at rival bid

    By Vladimir Socor The governments of transit countries in the Nabucco-West project - Austria, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria - have appealed to the European Union's top executive authorities to support the selection of this pipeline route by the Shah Deniz gas producers in Azerbaijan. The producers' consortium intends to select either the Nabucco-West route to Central Europe, or ...

  • Oil production from Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli will increase - SOCAR

    The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) predicts an increase in oil production from the block of Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea. President of SOCAR Rovnag Abdullayev told reporters that now daily oil production from ACG is 95,000 tonnes. "With such daily volume, annual oil production at ACG is approaching 33m tonnes," said ...


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Ted

Seth MacFarlanes feature film debut Ted delivers pretty much exactly what you would expect from the creator of the animated sitcom Family Guy, and it will no doubt appeal primarily to those who eat up his particular stew of nonsequitor humor, surreal digressions, 70s and 80s pop-culture ad ... ...

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  • Lavrov finds dynamics of Russia-Azerbaijan economic relations positive

    MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - The dynamics of trade and economic relations between Russia and Azerbaijan is positive, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after the negotiations with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov here on ...

  • Qatar Norway Azerbaijan to each get about $500 mln of VTB shares -CEO

    LONDON | Tue May 21, 2013 4:27am EDT LONDON May 21 (Reuters) - The sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, Norway and Azerbaijan will each get about $500 million of the new shares being issued by VTB, the Russian bank's chief executive Andrei Kostin said on Tuesday. The $500 million allocation is the "kind of ticket we are thinking of" Kostin told Reuters in London. The ...

  • Azerbaijan attends 32nd Turkish Day Parade - PHOTOS

    On 18 May, ambassador Elin Suleymanov and Azerbaijani MP Ganira Pashayeva attended 32nd Turkish Day Parade, the greatest cultural event of the Turkish world, that took place in New York. The parade held in downtown New York brought together thousands of people including Turkic-speaking nations living in the U.S. The parade participants watched a concert in Dag Hammarskjold, one of the ...

  • Governor of California congratulates people of Azerbaijan on Republic Day

    The Governor of California Jerry Brown has congratulated the people of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani community in California on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. In his letter sent to the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles, Governor Brown notes that Azerbaijan has a rich history and "the Azerbaijani people in California and throughout ...

  • Azerbaijan`s Minister of Health visits Hungary

    Azerbaijan`s Minister of Health Ogtay Shiraliyev has visited Hungary. During the visit, Ogtay Shiraliyev had a number of meetings with Hungarian dignitaries, including Hungarian Minister of Human Resources Zoltan Balog, State Secretary of the Prime Minister`s Office and co-chair of the Hungary-Azerbaijan joint economic commission Peter Szijjarto, to discuss bilateral cooperation in the health ...

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