Azerbaijan is ready to invest in joint production of helicopters in Ukraine, Ukrainian prime-minister Mykola Azarov said in his interview to the "Inter" TV channel while commenting his meeting with Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev in Kiev on October 28.

Oct. 29, the Armenian Armed Forces opened fire from positions in the Shavashavan village in the Noenberyan region of Armenia at the Azerbaijani troops in the nameless heights in the Gazakh region at 18:00-18:05, from positions in the Azatamut and Berkaber villages in the Idjevan region at the Azerbaijani troops in the Jafarli and Gizil Hajili villages in the Gazakh region at 8:00-18:05 and 19:40-20:25, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported.

A Boeing-757 200 aircraft, flying from Istanbul to Baku, which urgently returned to the Ataturk International Airport last night, again flew to Baku this morning at 05:25 (on Istanbul time), a representative of the Ataturk International Airport told Trend over telephone. The flight number is J2-078.

Azerbaijan’s Defense Minister, Colonel-General Safar Abiyev, who is visiting the People’s Republic of China, met with vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission Xu Caihou, APA reports. The prospects of the military cooperation between Azerbaijan and China were discussed during the meeting. Xu Caihou said Azerbaijan and China have traditional friendship relations and underlined that official Beijing is interested in developing this cooperation.

Armenia must reconsider its position on settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict before the OSCE summit in Astana, Novruz Mammadov, the head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, said. "I think that the whole negotiation process, participation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen and the active mediation of President Medvedev create a situation in which Armenia must take certain actions and hold a constructive position by reconsidering its position.

The work under the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, which will connect the railway systems of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, is expected to be completed in the first half of 2012, Azerbaijani Transport Minister Ziya Mammadov has told Trend on Friday.

Oct. 28, the price of AZERI LT CIF Augusta was $84,33 per barrel or $1,68 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. Azeri Light oil is produced from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli offshore fields, which is developed under BP's operations.

In January-August of 2010, the U.S. imported about 15.5 million barrels of oil from Azerbaijan compared to about 13.6 million barrels in January-August of 2009, the report of the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said. In August, the U.S. imported more than 2.5 million barrels of Azerbaijani oil compared to more than 1.24 million in August last year.

Turkish Republic marks its 87th anniversary on October 29. After the defeat of Ottoman Empire in the World War One, winner-countries – Britain, France, Italy and Greece occupied large part of Turkey. Officer of Ottoman Army Mustafa Kemal didn’t accept this defeat and started national freedom movement in Samsun on May 19, 1919.

Draft resolution on Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be discussed at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s session that will be held in Warsaw from 12 November to 16 November, APA reports quoting the website of NATO PA. The draft resolution prepared by Canadian reporter Raynell Andreychuk and appendixes to the document will be put to the vote on November 14.

17 years have passed since Azerbaijan’s Zangilan region was occupied by Armenian Armed Forces. APA reports that on October 29, the Armenian military units finished the occupation of the last region adjacent to Azerbaijan’s Nagorno Karabakh region - Zangilan. Zangilan is situated on Baku-Julfa-Nakhchivan railway and is of great strategic importance.

Talks on Nagorno-Karabakh resolution in Astrakhan yesterday [Oct. 27], like other similar meetings on this conflict, hardly can be called a step forward, but most importantly, they prevent backward steps, member of the Russian State Duma, Sergei Markov, believes.