Russia & CIS

The price of the AZERI LT CIF oil produced at the AzeriChiragGunashli block of oil and gas fields amounted to 6850 per barrel at the Italian port of Augusta on March 18 or 032 more than on March 15 a source in Azerbaijans oil and gas market told Trend on March 19

The death toll in Mozambique from Cyclone Idai could be as high as 1000 President Filipe Nyusi has said BBC reported

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with his Chilean counterpart Roberto Ampuero as part of his official visit to Chile the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry told NewsAz

As part of his visit to Germany head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Hikmat Hajiyev has met with Director for Eastern Europe Caucasus and Central Asia at the German Federal Foreign Office Michael Siebert AZERTAC reported

Over the past 24 hours Armenian armed forces have 21 times violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said March 19

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday while meeting with his Brazilian counterpart that he was looking into Brazil joining NATO or other alliances Trend reported citing Sputnik

The measles incidence has declined in Georgia in the last three weeks Director General of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health NCDC Dr Amiran Gamkrelidze said

Representatives of Armenian companies that are engaged in the production of soft drinks staged a protest outside the government building in Yerevan today

Azerbaijans Deputy Minister of Energy Samir Valiyev and Director of Saudi Arabias ACWA Power Company Ayad Al Amri have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation on the margins of the 27th meeting of the Joint Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC and nonOPEC Joint Technical Commission JTC and the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee JMMC in Baku

A feed processing plant has started operating in Azerbaijan as part of a project jointly being implemented by the countrys government and the US Agency for International Development USAID Trend reports with reference to the Agency for the Development of Small and Mediumsized Enterprises SMEs of Azerbaijan

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Next month the indicators of Azerbaijans compliance with the OPEC agreement to reduce oil production will be even better the Azerbaijani Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov said at a press conference following the meeting of the OPECnonOPEC Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee JMMC in Baku Trend reports

The Ministerial Meeting of OPEC countries scheduled for April may be canceled Minister of Energy Industry and Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Khalid Abdulaziz AlFalih said at a press conference on the results of the 13th meeting of the OPECnonOPEC JMMC in Baku Trend reports

The European Union has welcomed the decree to pardon more than 400 people in Azerbaijan Trend reports citing the website of the organization

Holding a meeting in the format of OPEC in Baku is a significant event as part of cooperation between Azerbaijan and members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC Azerbaijani MP member of the parliamentary commission on economic issues industry and entrepreneurship expert economist Rufat Guliyev told Trend

Dutch police said several people had been injured on Monday in a shooting that took place in a tram in the central city of Utrecht Reuters reported

United States Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov are due to meet in Rome this week to discuss the situation in Venezuela diplomats from the two countries said Reuters reported

A 33yearold Armenian citizen has been detained in Ukraine following the murder of a senior consultant with the information policy department at the Presidential Administration of Ukraine according to newsam

The Commissioner for Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Azerbaijan Elmira Suleymanova has issued a statement on the occasion of March 31 Day of the Genocide of Azerbaijanis

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received Minister of Energy and Industry of the United Arab Emirates Suhail Mohammed Al Mazrouei