Russia & CIS

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyevs meeting with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan to discuss the settlement of the ArmeniaAzerbaijan conflict in Vienna continues

Azerbaijan and the European Union EU will discuss the new partnership agreement as well as the aviation agreement next week in Brussels Head of Political Economics and Press and Information Section of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan Denis Daniilidis told Trend

Newly arrived US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Earle Litzenberger was the guest speaker at the March 29 Monthly Members Luncheon of the American Chamber of Commerce in Azerbaijan AmCham Azerbaijan AmCham told NewsAz

The Azerbaijani Army is the strongest army in the South Caucasus according to a new report by the survey center Global Firepower

The delegation of Azerbaijani stateowned SOCAR company headed by the president of the state company Rovnag Abdullayev met with representatives of the Board of the TANAP Consortium on March 27 2019 in Ankara Turkey Trend reports referring to the company

Azerbaijani karate fighter Rafael Aghayev has advanced to the final of the 54th EKF Senior Championships held in Guadalajara Spain

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on March 29 on providing material assistance to entrepreneurs who suffered as a result of a fire in a shopping center in the Nizami district of Baku

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held constructive talks in Beijing he said on Friday concluding the latest round of dialogue aimed at resolving the bitter trade dispute between the worlds two largest economies Reuters reported

Entrepreneurs who suffered losses as a result of the fire that occurred March 26 in the Diglas shopping center in Nizami district in Baku will be able to get financial support from the government through Kapital Bank Deputy Economy Minister Niyazi Safarov said at a meeting with entrepreneurs Trend reports March 29

The US Air Force ordered immediate inspections of its entire fleet of B1 bombers Thursday over safety concerns related to its drogue chute system which is used to right the aircrafts ejection seat prior to the seats main parachute deploying CNN reported

Chairman of the Caucasian Muslims Office Sheikhulislam Allahshukur Pashazade Archbishop of Baku and Azerbaijan Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church Alexander Ischein and Chairman of the Religious Community of Mountain Jews in Baku Milikh Yevdayev sent an appeal to world religious leaders parliaments international organizations in connection with March 31 the Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis Trend reports with reference to the Caucasian Muslims Office

Facebook Inc said on Thursday the company removed 200 pages groups and accounts on Facebook and Instagram in the Philippines citing coordinated inauthentic behaviour Reuters reported

Azerbaijani parliament will consider 25 issues at a regular plenary session March 29 Trend reports

NagornoKarabakh conflict continues to be very strategically dangerous to whole region said Azerbaijans Ambassador to the US Elin Suleymanov

United States President Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jaein are set to meet for a summit next month CNN reported

About 50 people received mild injuries as a result of the collision of two trains in the northern Como province of Italy the countrys fire department said on Thursday Sputnik reported

Over the past 24 hours Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 21 times using heavy machine guns the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said March 29

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with his Armenian counterpart Zohrab Mnatsakanyan on March 28 in Vienna with the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group cochairs the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry told NewsAz

NATO has extended the mandate of its top civilian official SecretaryGeneral Jens Stoltenberg for two years making the former Norwegian premier one of the longestserving heads of the military alliance Washington Post reports

Azerbaijans Embassy in Poland has prevented an Armenian provocation as it forced the removal of an antiAzerbaijani image from an advertising banner installed outside a Poznanbased Armenian restaurant AzerTag reports