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 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday his government is determined and patient enough to achieve full membership to the European Union (EU) in spite of the attempts to block its accession process, Turkish media reported. |
 Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had a meeting with the newly elected president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Mevlut Cavusoglu in Strasbourg on Friday, Anadolu Agency reported. |
 The earthquake occurred at 20:33 local time, 25 miles west of the Lankaran region yesterday, the National Seismological Service Center of Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) told Trend News. |
 SOCAR President Rovnag Abdullayev on January 26 issued an order on abolishment of Baku Gas Supply Department (BakGas), SOCAR reported on Thursday. According to this order Baku Gas Supply Department (BakGas) and Absheron Gas Supply office will further function under the subordinate of "Azerigas" Production Unit of State Oil Company of Azerbaijan republic (SOCAR). |
 United States believe that Turkey and Azerbaijan will reach an agreement, so that confidence in the Southern Corridor is not undermined, told US Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard L. Morningstar, answering Trend News's questions. He stressed that, the failure of Turkey and Azerbaijan to conclude an agreement on Shah Deniz gas purchase and transit is somewhat disappointing. |
 Jan.28, the price of AZERI LT CIF Augusta was $73.55 per barrel, or $1.71 per barrel down, compared to the previous day's price, according to the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), which has produced Light Oil since 1997. Azeri Light oil is produced from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli offshore fields, which is developed under BP's operations. It is directly delivered to the Turkish port of Ceyhan via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan main export oil pipeline, to the Georgian port of Supsa via the Baku-Supsa pipeline and to the Georgian port of Batumi by railway. |
 Azerbaijan Interior Ministry held a meeting today discussing the activities of internal affairs authorities regarding combating crime, ensuring public order and public security, as well as standing tasks over the past year. "Azerbaijan is one of the most stable countries, both in the CIS and in Europe. |
 Azerbaijan will continue the tendency to reduce industrial accidents in 2010, Labor and Social Protection Minister Fizuli Alakbarov said. "So far, we have done much to improve working conditions at enterprises with a view to ensuring greater security of the labor force at work," he said. "If in 2007, 128 people died as a result of industrial accidents, in 2008 the figure was- 72 people, and then in 2009 -69 people and this trend will continue," he said. |
 Although the issues on the future of the Nagorno-Karabakh Subcommittee was included in the agenda of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Bureau, the issue on election of its chairman was not discussed, a source in the CE told Trend News. |
 Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers Ahmet Davutoglu and Edward Nalbandian will discuss Turkish-Armenian protocols during a meeting in Munich next week. Davutoglu met with his Armenian counterpart on Jan. 28, the Anadolu Agency reported. |
 Azerbaijan will host a meeting of Council of Europe member-states' sport ministers, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, the director General of Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport at the Council of Europe, told Trend News. |
 The Azerbaijani Military Prosecutor Office issued formal information on the armed incident in one of the Azerbaijani military units. The criminal case was launched under Articles 120.2.1 (deliberate murder committed by a group of individuals, group of persons by prior conspiracy, an organized group or criminal association (criminal organization), 120.2.3 (deliberate murder of the victim or his relatives in connection with the implementation of this person performance or the performance of public debt) and 120.2.7 (deliberate murder of two or more persons), the report says. |
 Azerbaijani Industry and Energy Minister Natik Aliyev and UK Energy and Climate Change Ministry General Director Will Cavendish discussed bilateral cooperation in the energy sphere, the Azerbaijani Embassy to the UK said in a recent statement. |
 The international community's sanctions against Iran demonstrate its effectiveness, said Michael Ratney, the spokesman for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs of the U.S. State Department. "The international community, both through U.N. Security Council resolutions and other measures, has imposed a variety of sanctions on Iran for its failure to meet international obligations," he said in an interview with Trend News. |
 Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met with the Brazilian and French official within the framework of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Brazilian and French officials offered new proposals in connection with fuel for the Tehran Reactor, Mottaki said at the news conference following his meetings. |
 Two soldiers shot deadly four military and injured the other two in one of the military units in Azerbaijan on Jan. 28, Republic's Ministry of Defense told Trend News. The case is under investigation. The public will be informed about the incident. |
 The Kazakh OSCE Chairmanship described today's 9th round of Geneva Discussions as an important step in sustaining stability in the South Caucasus region. "It is crucial for us to help restore people's hope and confidence in their own future," Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Bolat Nurgaliyev said. "We need to be creative and agree on interim steps as a permanent security arrangement may take some time to elaborate." |
 Heads of the Azerbaijani constitutional and supreme courts Farhad Abdullayev and Ramiz Rzayev met with European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) President Jean-Paul Costa in Strasbourg Jan. 28, where they arrived to attend an event dedicated to the opening of the new judicial year in the ECHR. |
 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree to approve a list of positions with higher special ranks in migration agencies, AzerTaj State News Agency reported. |
 Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri is supposed to visit Baku in the first half of this year, honorary consul of Azerbaijan in Beirut Nazih Gassub told Trend News. "According to the official invitation of the Azerbaijani government, Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri will visit Baku this spring, but the exact date has not yet been determined," Gassub said by telephone from Beirut. |
 The Georgian Railway reduced transportation by 19 percent to 17.1 million tons last year compared to 2008. According to the company, liquid cargo transportation - most of which fell to oil and petroleum products - amounted to 9.7 million tons (down 3 percent). The volume of passenger transport decreased by 9 percent to 3.1 million people. |
 The Baku Metro announced two tenders to construct the new M. Mushfiq station. The first tender includes the provision, installation and commissioning of a traction network for drag-lowering substations, of alternating (10 kilovolts, 380/220 volts) and permanent (825 volts, 220 volts) current, ventilation systems, cooling and television management. |
 Jan.27, the price of AZERI LT CIF Augusta was $75.26 per barrel or $0.16 per barrel more, compared to the previous day's price, according to the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), which has produced Light Oil since 1997. |
 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met Thursday with President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the AzerTaj state news agency reported. Successful development of bilateral relations between the two countries was stressed at the meeting. |
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