Russia & CIS

An official seeingoff ceremony has been held for President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev who is in the Italian Republic for a state visit

The aircraft flying en route BakuAlanya and urgently landed in Ankara has been sent off to Alanya Buta Airways told APAEconomics

SecretaryGeneral of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Vladimir Norov has sent a congratulatory letter to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on the occasion of victory of the New Azerbaijan Party in the early parliamentary elections APA reports

An AzerbaijanItaly business forum has been held in Rome AzerTag reports

Japanese automakers on Friday delayed the restart of plants in China near the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in compliance with local directives raising the risk of further supply disruptions that could affect global car production Reuters reports

The OSCE Minsk Group is working on the settlement of the ArmenianAzerbaijani Nagorno Karabakh conflict and we are closely following the developments Director of the Conflict Prevention Center of Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe OSCE Tuula Yrjölä said during a winter meeting of the Organizations Committee on Political Affairs and Security in Vienna APA reports

According to the training plan for 2020 of the Main Department of Logistics of the Ministry of Defense a competition for the title of Best Military Chef was held to test the level of theoretical knowledge and practical skills of military chefs serving in Army Corps formations military units and specialized militaryeducational institutions

Iran confirmed 13 more new coronavirus cases and two deaths among the group of new cases Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said in a tweet on Friday according to Reuters

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic Giuseppe Conte have held a oneonone meeting APA reports

An event dedicated to the poetry of prominent Azerbaijani poet Imadaddin Nasimi has been held at the UCLA Library in Los Angeles one of the worlds top universities AzerTag reports

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has refused to discuss the draft law on the socalled Armenian genocide Azerbaijans Embassy to Ukraine told APA

Over the past month the cost of import export operations between Azerbaijan and Ukraine amounted to about 110 million

4G network LTE of Azerbaijans mobile communication operator Azercell Telecom Company will fully cover Baku metro said President of the Company Vahid Mursaliyev while his speech at the conference dedicated to the results of 2019 APAEconomics reports

Upon the instruction of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev the Cabinet of Ministers issued an order to allocate 50000 for humanitarian aid to Australia to assist the elimination of severe consequences of massive bushfires recorded in Australia in late 2019

BakuAlanya plane has urgently landed in Ankara APA reports

Italian power turbine manufacturer Ansaldo Energia signed two agreements to explore a variety of power generation projects in the Azerbaijani Republic in eastern Europe according to Report

Chinese scientists will be able to prepare the new vaccine against the coronavirus for clinical trials at the end of April at the earliest Chinas Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Xu Nanping said today

The 11th parliamentary elections and the midterm election for the Assembly of Experts began in Iran on Friday according to IRNA news agency

A patient at Kings College Hospital in London played the violin while surgeons operated on her brain to remove a tumor

A concert program on the occasion of the opening of 2020the Year of Azerbaijani Culture in Italy has been held at Quirinale Palace in Rome