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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 ...

  • Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are very positive – FM

    Moscow and Baku have reviewed the agenda of Russian-Azerbaijani relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - the biggest problem facing Azerbaijan. The statement came from Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov after talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. "Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are very positive from the point of view of different areas. ...

  • Russia Azerbaijan prepare to sign new agreement on Azeri oil transit - Lavrov

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  • China Tajikistan vow deeper strategic partnership

    China and Tajikistan are ready to add substantial content to their strategic partnership, top Chinese leaders said as they met with Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon on Monday.Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), and Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli held separate meetings with Rakhmon in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Monday ...

  • 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 ...


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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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