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 The incident occurred during OSCE’s monitoring in the line of contact of Azerbaijani and Armenian troops will be discussed at the meeting of OSCE Permanent Council on March 5, Russian co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov said, APA reports quoting Novosti-Armenia. |
 The US greenback has strengthened against the euro by 9% and the yen by 7% since early this year. Experts think the strong dollar is a sign of belief that the US economy and financial markets recovery will happen sooner than other economies. |
 - How is military cooperation between Azerbaijan and Estonia? Are you satisfied with the current level of cooperation?. - Our defence related contacts with Azerbaijan have been good and open-minded, however not many defence related co-operation projects have taken place after signing our Memorandum of Understanding in 2008. |
 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received today Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Ambassadors Matthew Bryza of the U.S., Bernard Fassier of France and Yury Merzlyakov of Russia - as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk of Poland. |
 The Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) and the Italian University of Trento will cooperate in the education sphere. ADA Rector Hafiz Pashayev and Trento University Rector Ton Notermans signed a memorandum on the mutual understanding. |
 Web cameras will be installed at 15 polling stations in the Shaki Constituency on referendum day, or over 50 percent of the city's polling stations. "These Web cameras will allow the election process to be observed live. |
 The second conference of Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) health ministers opened in Tehran on March 3, Iranian television media reported. A statement by the OIC secretary general was read at the opening ceremony. |
 The Azerbaijani opposition National Independence Party (NIP) proposed launching a new format of opposition-government dialogue. "The dialogue between the opposition and government, which vowed to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict peacefully to the Council of Europe, must take on a new format," NIP spokesman Ali Orujov told Trend News. |
 The Azerbaijani opposition Muasir Musavat Party chairman intends to buy air time by own funds to express his position on the radical opposition's opinion on referendum. The party's Chairman Hafiz Hajiyev wants to reply to the opposition Movement for Karabakh and Republic agitation group's biased statement during this air time. |
 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev became acquainted with the construction of the Kur Olympic Training and Sports Center in Mingachevir, the Azertaj news agency reported. Youth and Sports Minister Azad Rahimov told Aliyev that the Serbian-Azerbaijani joint venture Serbaz lahiya Ve Tikinti is conducting the construction after an order from the ministry. |
 Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population plans to implement new project within the framework of European Union’s “European Neighborhood Policy”, director of the ministry’s international cooperation department Elnur Sultanov told APA. He said the new project envisaged assessment, forecasting of social-oriented projects, forecasting of social allowance and allowance for social assistance. |
 The Secretary of the Council on State Support to NGOs under the President of the Azerbaijani Republic announced quotation inquiring for purchase of stationery, preparation of printed matter, computer maintenance and rendering services on renewal of the Council’s Internet site. |
 The center of Italian language has been opened at Azerbaijan State University of Languages, APA reports. Deputy Foreign Minister of Italy Alfredo Mantica, Italian ambassador to Azerbaijan Gian Luigi Masha and rector of the university Samad Seyidov participated in the opening ceremony. Alfredo Mantica said he was pleased to participate in the event. |
 Heads of political parties represented in Azerbaijani parliament will invite the parliamentarians representing parties in Turkish parliament to Baku, chairman of Motherland Party Fazail Agamali told APA. He said that the steps taken to improve the relations between Turkey and Armenia raised concern and there was a need to clarify the situation. |
 State Student Admission Commission (SSAC) has today awarded 91 attendants, who fulfilled their duty perfectly in the entrance examinations, APA reports. Chairperson of State Student Admission Commission Maleyka Abbaszadeh said at the event that the work of attendants had been assessed within 10 years. |
 On Wednesday, OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs Matthew Bryza (USA), Bernard Fassier (France) and Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) held press conference in Baku on the results of their visit to the region. According to APA, Bryza said they had interesting and constructive, but not easy discussions during the visit. It was decided in the discussions to develop the process because there were very difficult issues on the table of negotiations, the diplomat said. |
 “We didn’t say that Nagorno-Karabakh would participate in the negotiation process as a third part”, OSCE Minsk Group French co-chair Bernard Fassier said, APA reports. The French diplomat said they announced that people lived in Nagorno-Karabakh before the conflict would participate in certain phase of the negotiations. |
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