Russia & CIS

The UEFA Europa League final match between the English clubs Arsenal and Chelsea was held at a high level speaker of Azerbaijani Parliament Ogtay Asadov said

Wednesdays Europa League final saw each of Chelseas three goalscorers set or equal records according to Goal

The Armenian armed foces grossly violating the ceasefire on the front line once again carried out a provocation the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on Thursday

Polish national Piotr Leoniak has sent a letter to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry asking to exclude him from the List of foreign citizens who illegally visited the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan the Foreign Ministry told NewsAz

A vote calling for Mark Zuckerberg to stand down as Facebooks chairman is expected to take place at the companys annual general meeting on Thursday BBC reports

A new agreement on defense cooperation between the governments of Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia has been approved Trend reports May 30

Azerbaijans position on the settlement of the NagornoKarabakh conflict remains unchanged from the very beginning of the negotiations the spokesperson for the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs Leyla Abdullayeva said at an international forum on regional threats from Armenia Trend reports May 30

The General Motors Uzbekistan has resumed car sales in Azerbaijan Trend reports with reference to the press service of the company

Azerbaijan has around 1000 billion cubic meters bcm of yet to find gas resources Secretary General of Gas Exporting Countries Forum GECF Yury Sentyurin said during the 26th International Caspian Oil Gas Conference in Baku May 30 Trend reports

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received the OSCE Minsk Group cochairs Stephane Visconti of France Igor Popov of Russia Andrew Schofer of the US as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE ChairpersoninOffice Andrzej Kasprzyk

First Vice Speaker of the Parliament of Azerbaijan Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense Security and AntiCorruption Ziyafat Asgarov Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Public Associations and Religious Structures Siyavush Novruzov and MP Malahat Ibrahimgizi will participate in the spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Bratislava

To date 485 million tons of oil and 158 billion cubic meters of natural gas have been extracted from the AzeriChiragGunashli field ACG of Azerbaijan Azerbaijani Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov said at the Caspian Oil and Gas Conference in Baku on May 30 Trend reports

At least seven tourists have died and another 19 remain missing after a tour boat sank on the Danube River in Budapest according to the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs CNN reports

Ambassador of Azerbaijan in the UK Tahir Taghizade sent an open letter to the editorinchief of The Independent in response to the article Henrikh Mkhitaryan Baku and why sport and politics cannot be separated published by Jonathan Liew on May 25 2019 the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry told NewsAz

Over the past 24 hours Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire along the line of contact between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops 23 times the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on May 30

UEFA Europa League Final 2018 season was held at the Baku Olympic Stadium

The owner of the English club Chelsea Roman Abramovich arrived in Baku ONA reports

The UN resolutions directly testify that the Azerbaijani territories are under occupation Samad Seyidov head of the Azerbaijani parliamentary committee on international relations and interparliamentary ties head of the permanent delegation of Azerbaijan to PACE said

First VicePresident of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva and VicePresident of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva has met with Chairman of the Rothschild Global Financial Advisory David de Rothschild AzerTag reports