Azerbaijani, Turkish and Turkmen energy ministers to meet early 2017
Meeting of energy ministers of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Turkmenistan is planned for early 2017, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Cavusoglu made the remarks during a joint briefing with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov in Baku Dec. 3. “Azerbaijan and Turkey also intend to develop cooperation within trilateral formats with the participation of the region’s […]
“Multiculturalism is a state policy for Azerbaijan”
Azerbaijan celebrates the 25th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union. Mr. Ramzi Teymurov, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to South Korea has answered our questions regarding the independence anniversary of Azerbaijan. He pointed out historical facts and contemporary state policy of Azerbaijan exclusively for The AsiaN readers. Mr. Ambassador, would you please inform Korean public on […]
Moscow and Baku are linked by mutual arms supply
The volume of Russian-Azerbaijani mutual supplies of military-industrial complex products over the past seven years has quadrupled, the director general of the production association ‘Sharq’ of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence Industry, Ilgar Nazarov, said at the ADEX-2016 exhibition. “The figure is growing rapidly for the last three or four years. In comparison with 2009, […]
Trade turnover of Iran and Azerbaijan may surpass $300 million
The volume of trade turnover between Iran and Azerbaijan currently stands at about $100 million but it must increase considerably, the Iranian deputy minister of industry, mine and trade, Hossin Esfahbodi, said on the sidelines of the ongoing Iran Project 2016 in Baku, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. Elaborating on existing trade capacities between the two countries, […]
Kazakh president to visit Azerbaijan and Armenia
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev will visit Azerbaijan, Serbia, Armenia and a number of other countries in 2016, Kazakh Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov said at a briefing Aug. 17, Trend reports. In June, Idrissov said Nazarbayev will visit Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Jordan in 2016. The Kazakh president also plans to visit Kyrgyzstan […]
Azerbaijan, Turkey and Russia to create trilateral co-op
Azerbaijan, Turkey and Russia will create a trilateral format of cooperation, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in St. Petersburg during a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trend Agency reports. Baku hosted a trilateral summit of the presidents of Azerbaijan, Russia and Iran – Ilham Aliyev, Vladimir Putin and Hassan Rouhani […]
Captives of a patriarchal mentality: domestic violence in the South Caucasus
When we see women on the street with mutilated faces, with bruised and swollen lips, hands and feet…all ‘dressed’ up in dark purple spots, many of us would probably like to approach these women and ask, ‘What happened?” and talk to them, try and help if we can. We want to find out: who did […]
Azerbaijan allocates $850M for refinery construction in Turkey
Azerbaijani State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) has allocated $844 million as of July 1, 2016, as part of the country’s financing the project of construction of a new oil refinery of Azerbaijan’s SOCAR in Turkey, SOFAZ told Trend. In accordance with the decree of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on additional measures to support the participation of […]
Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia presidents to discuss north-south corridor
Presidents of Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia are scheduled to discuss the completion of north-south corridor in an upcoming tripartite meeting, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said on July 12. He made the remarks in a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, IRNA reports. Mammadyarov said that the north-south corridor is of special significance to […]
Enemies in love
When two people love each other, usually neither of them think about the other’s nationality. They focus on the chemistry between them – not on nationalism or patriotism. But people can’t live separated from their own surroundings or environment, and often don’t want to, either. Couples from nations in conflict with one another find themselves […]
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