• Azerbaijan is a country between Russia to the north and Iran to the south with a population over 8 million and capital city of Baku. (sourcewatch.org)
  • BAKU -- Azerbaijan has tightened restrictions on the transfer of foreign currency abroad as of December 8. (rferl.org)
  • Azerbaijan effectively imposes a blanket ban on protests in the central areas of Baku and instead offers demonstrators a remote location on the outskirts of the city to for rallies. (hrw.org)
  • A number of bp legal entities have registered representative offices in Azerbaijan reflecting the evolution of bp's presence in the country and the region since bp opened its first office in Baku in 1992. (bp.com)
  • Registered address of the representative office of BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Limited is 153 Neftchilar avenue, Nasimi district, Baku, AZ1010, Azerbaijan. (bp.com)
  • Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC) - a 1,768km oil pipeline (443km in Azerbaijan) linking Sangachal terminal to Ceyhan marine terminal in Turkey. (bp.com)
  • bp first arrived in Azerbaijan and opened its first office in Baku in June 1992. (bp.com)
  • Over the past years, in partnership with the Government of Azerbaijan and our co-venturers, bp-operated world-class projects - Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG), Shah Deniz, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) - have contributed to the development of the Caspian Sea as a modern hydrocarbon province. (bp.com)
  • A statement by the Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation said Minister Rania El-Mashat has headed the Egyptian side during the fifth session of the joint Egypt- Azerbaijan committee held in Baku. (egypttoday.com)
  • Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) announced on Saturday the resumption of charter flights from Baku to Cairo starting July 8 and to Sharm El Sheikh starting July 18. (egypttoday.com)
  • Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) announced its intention to resume weekly direct flights between Sharm al-Sheikh and Baku on Nov. 8. (egypttoday.com)
  • Baku, the capital fo Azerbaijan. (worldatlas.com)
  • Due to the over 7-hour delay from Azerbaijan Airlines in providing the flight to Baku, we missed our next flight which was from Baku to London, and their next available flight from Baku to London was in two days. (airlinequality.com)
  • Department of State Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR) Assistant Secretary Geoffrey R. Pyatt will travel to Baku, Azerbaijan, May 30 - June 2. (state.gov)
  • The Foreign Secretary is in the capital of Baku today to sign a deal for the line which will feed into the Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline and transport 16 billion cubic metres a year of offshore gas from Azerbaijan to southern Italy. (independent.co.uk)
  • Baku claims that it is targeting a buildup of the Armenian military in the province, while Yerevan denies deploying units to Nagorno-Karabakh and has accused Azerbaijan of attempting to carry out the "ethnic cleansing" of the Armenian enclave. (rt.com)
  • The US is not a formal ally of either Armenia or Azerbaijan, but has sold weapons to Baku since 2002, in exchange for access to the country as a launchpad for deploying troops to Afghanistan. (rt.com)
  • BAKU - Azerbaijan said Sunday its forces had captured the key town of Shusha from Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh, but Armenia insisted that fighting for the strategically vital area was ongoing. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Chicago Department of Public Health and the Pennsylvania arrived at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, Department of Agriculture investigated potential human expo- from Baku, Azerbaijan, a country designated by CDC as sures to dog A. During June 10-13, dog A traveled by private being at high risk for DMRVV. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2020, Azerbaijan announced a new commission on water resource preservation that is primarily tasked with improving water use in the country's growing agriculture sector. (trade.gov)
  • Likewise, no substantive progress was made in investigating war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law during the 2020 Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict and in its immediate aftermath, or in identifying and bringing to justice suspected perpetrators. (amnesty.org)
  • People continued to be killed and injured by mines which Azerbaijan claimed Armenian forces continued to lay in its internationally recognized territory, retaken in 2020. (amnesty.org)
  • Azerbaijan Airlines responses is "Refund can be processed after the regular flights' resumption" This has been the answer since 2020 and it has been more than 2 years. (airlinequality.com)
  • The region and seven surrounding districts are internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, pending a solution to the status of Nagorno-Karabakh through negotiations facilitated by the OSCE, although it became de facto independent with the end of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994. (wikipedia.org)
  • Long-simmering tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan appear to have flared up in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region , with both sides accusing each other of attacking civilians amid reports of casualties. (cnn.com)
  • Arayik Harutyunyan, leader of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, a de facto independent Armenian state not recognized internationally which controls Nagorno-Karabakh, said the region had lost positions to Azerbaijan. (cnn.com)
  • Azerbaijan waged a lightning military campaign in September in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (yahoo.com)
  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for "an immediate end to hostilities" by Azerbaijan against the ethnic-Armenian province of Nagorno-Karabakh. (rt.com)
  • Azerbaijan launched what it called "counter-terrorism measures" against the ethnically-Armenian province of Nagorno-Karabakh earlier on Tuesday. (rt.com)
  • Azerbaijan has vowed to keep up the bombardment of Nagorno-Karabakh until Armenian-backed authorities there surrender and dissolve their government. (rt.com)
  • The capture of Shusha would be a major victory for Azerbaijan six weeks after new fighting erupted over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave that broke away from Azerbaijan's control in the 1990s. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan, [ɑːzæɾbɑjˈdʒɑn]), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dozens of Azerbaijani protesters had blocked the road, demanding an end to alleged unlawful mining in the area and that Azerbaijan retake control of the corridor. (amnesty.org)
  • Despite near-total government control over the media, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service has built a high-impact social-media presence in Azerbaijan and a reputation as a leading source of independent news. (rferl.org)
  • Azerbaijani is the official language of Azerbaijan . (worldatlas.com)
  • Azerbaijani, also called the Azeri, is the most widely spoken language in Azerbaijan. (worldatlas.com)
  • Outside Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani is spoken in South Russia and Northern Iran. (worldatlas.com)
  • Despite the number of Azerbaijani speakers in Iran being higher than that in Azerbaijan itself, the language has been discouraged in Iran for decades. (worldatlas.com)
  • In Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani serves as the primary language of education and is used widely in government administration, media channels, and in the daily life of the people of the country. (worldatlas.com)
  • Rhetoric by Azerbaijani officials that he said included referring to Armenia as "Western Azerbaijan' leaves the door open for further "military aggression" against Armenia, the prime minister said. (yahoo.com)
  • Servicemen and volunteers gather in Yerevan, Armenia, on Sunday after the Armenian government imposed martial law and ordered a general military mobilization due to clashes with Azerbaijan. (cnn.com)
  • In response to the alleged firing of projectiles by Azerbaijan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan tweeted that his country had "shot down 2 helicopters & 3 UAVs, destroyed 3 tanks. (cnn.com)
  • YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Saturday that his country and Azerbaijan are speaking "different diplomatic languages" even though they were able to agree on the basic principles for a peace treaty . (yahoo.com)
  • But Armenian state news agency Armenpress quoted Pashinyan as going on to say, "We have good and bad news about the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process. (yahoo.com)
  • Azerbaijan is a developing country and ranks 91st on the Human Development Index. (wikipedia.org)
  • 5 April 2005 -- An Azeri rights activist says that authorities prevented him from leaving Azerbaijan to deliver a report on religious prosecution to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. (rferl.org)
  • Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) is the largest oilfield in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. (bp.com)
  • This encompasses the shaping of interventions within the EU Annual Action Programme 2018 and the provision of insights into human capital development within the EU Multiannual Indicative Programme 2021-2027 for Azerbaijan. (europa.eu)
  • Security along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border remained fragile. (amnesty.org)
  • Accordingly, Innovation in Governance for Urban Nature-based Solutionstargets five former-Soviet states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldavia and Ukraine. (lu.se)
  • However, the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, in power since 1993, has been accused of authoritarian leadership under the leadership of both Heydar Aliyev and his son Ilham Aliyev, and deteriorating the country's human rights record, including increasing restrictions on civil liberties, particularly on press freedom and political repression. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1991, Azerbaijan won its independence from a crumbling Soviet Union and the country's rebirth began. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • In Azerbaijan, we help develop the country's non-oil sector, strengthen local lenders and boost investment in green economy. (ebrd.com)
  • This is a good demonstration of the country's acknowledgement of BP's track record here and trust in our long-term commitment to Azerbaijan. (bp.com)
  • Narrow down your search by using the filter to see the most popular spots in Azerbaijan for activities like kitesurfing, windsurfing, sailing and paragliding. (windfinder.com)
  • On June 16, 2021, rabies virus infection was confirmed in a dog included in a shipment of rescue animals imported into the United States from Azerbaijan. (medscape.com)
  • Addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Pashinyan said it was "good that the basic principles of peace with Azerbaijan have been agreed upon. (yahoo.com)
  • The modern Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed its independence on 30 August 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the same year. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Republic of Azerbaijan gained independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991. (sourcewatch.org)
  • The new policy would allow "the temporary accommodation of foreign military bases" in Azerbaijan under international accords and "in the case of radical changes in Azerbaijan's military-political situation. (sourcewatch.org)
  • Currently, the Azerbaijan Army is taking retaliatory actions and our troops fully control the operational situation," Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense said in a statement Sunday. (cnn.com)
  • While Armenia said it was responding to missile attacks launched by its neighbor Sunday, Azerbaijan blamed Armenia for the clashes. (cnn.com)
  • New clashes broke out in late September between Azerbaijan and the Armenia-backed separatists over control of Karabakh, which declared its independence nearly 30 years ago. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Gender and social entrepreneurship in societies in transition: the case of Azerbaijan. (bvsalud.org)
  • Making energy deals with this corrupt dictatorship means that the UK's 'dash for gas' is contributing significantly to the political repression of democracy activists in Azerbaijan. (independent.co.uk)
  • Without a strong-handed referee, Azerbaijan has increasingly moved to resolve its issues by force. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • A requirement for rabies vaccination certificates alone isolate from a dog in Azerbaijan in 2002. (cdc.gov)
  • Hikmet Hajiyev, assistant of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the presidential administration, tweeted Sunday: "There are reports of dead and wounded among civilians and military servicemen. (cnn.com)
  • In 1920, the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan SSR. (wikipedia.org)
  • A language of the Northeast Caucasian family, Avar is spoken in parts of north-western Azerbaijan and Dagestan. (worldatlas.com)
  • South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) - a 691km gas pipeline (443km in Azerbaijan) between Sangachal terminal and the Georgia-Turkey border. (bp.com)
  • Eastern hemisphere: Turkey, Azerbaijan. (medscape.com)
  • The Middle Paleolithic period of Azerbaijan was studied on the basis of Taghlar in Karabakh, Damcıli and Dashsalahli caves in Gazakh region. (wikipedia.org)
  • Activists and individuals with dissenting views over the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict were targeted by an online smear campaign reportedly orchestrated through government-linked social media accounts. (amnesty.org)
  • The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic proclaimed its independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and became the first secular democratic Muslim-majority state. (wikipedia.org)
  • The offensive ended three decades of rule there by ethnic Armenians and resulted in the vast majority of the 120,000 residents fleeing the region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. (yahoo.com)
  • In 2010, the parliament of Azerbaijan approved a policy of allowing foreign military bases in the country. (sourcewatch.org)
  • On May 6, the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan ratified the new production sharing agreement (PSA) between BP and SOCAR on joint exploration and development of the Shafag-Asiman structure in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. (bp.com)
  • Azerbaijan has diplomatic relations with 182 countries and holds membership in 38 international organizations, including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Non-Aligned Movement, the OSCE, and the NATO PfP program. (wikipedia.org)
  • The House of Representatives will discuss Monday a report on exempting diplomatic or special passport holders from entry visa requirements between Egypt and Azerbaijan. (egypttoday.com)
  • President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said that Egypt looks forward to increasing public and private investments with Azerbaijan, citing the business reforms introduced by the Egyptian government to simplify and facilitate investment procedures. (egypttoday.com)
  • All other airlines got back to their normal flights but Azerbaijan Airlines. (airlinequality.com)
  • Azerbaijan Airlines are refusing to refund our tickets and the complaints e-mail is never answered. (airlinequality.com)
  • PwC Azerbaijan and PASHA Bank co-organized a joint business forum on "Corporate Governance: Transparency. (pwc.com)
  • Until then, the designation had been used exclusively to identify the adjacent region of contemporary northwestern Iran, while the area of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was formerly referred to as Arran and Shirvan. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Talysh language, an Iranian language, is spoken in parts of Iran and southern Azerbaijan. (worldatlas.com)
  • Having effectively muzzled most of the independent media in the country, authorities targeted critical outlets reporting on Azerbaijan from abroad. (amnesty.org)
  • Residents and nonresidents of Azerbaijan who do not have bank accounts in the former Soviet republic's banks can now send a maximum of $1,000 abroad per day. (rferl.org)
  • Explore Marinas in Azerbaijan by location. (marinas.com)
  • Explore regions in Azerbaijan, discover interesting spots and locations and be sure to check those wind, weather and wave forecasts for planning your next trip. (windfinder.com)
  • As an English-language private media outlet in Azerbaijan, News.Az Online News Agency aims to raise awareness of the world community about Azerbaijan, its domestic and foreign policy, economy, culture and traditions, as well as about its people. (news.az)
  • Western Route Export Pipeline (WREP) - a 829km pipeline (456km in Azerbaijan) linking Sangachal terminal to Supsa on Georgia's Black Sea coast. (bp.com)
  • William Hague came under fire from a host of human rights campaign groups last night as he prepared to sign a major gas pipeline deal with the controversial regime of Azerbaijan. (independent.co.uk)
  • BP, Statoil, Total and others are investing, along with the Azerbaijan government, around $45bn in the new pipeline and expansion of the existing terminal facilities in what will create a fourth major pipeline route into Europe. (independent.co.uk)
  • Azerbaijan may be classed as an "emerging" economy, but in the world of oil and gas it is one of the longest established exporters by pipeline in the world. (independent.co.uk)
  • Tens of thousands of flights as well as around 100,000 U.S.-led forces have passed through Azerbaijan since the Afghan war began in 2001. (sourcewatch.org)
  • Azerbaijan to launch direct flights to Sharm El-Sheikh in Nov. (egypttoday.com)
  • However, Azerbaijan suggested Armenia was accountable for the latest flare-up between the two countries. (cnn.com)
  • Azerbaijan is a unitary semi-presidential republic. (wikipedia.org)
  • The name Azerbaijan was first adopted for the area of the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan by the government of Musavat in 1918, after the collapse of the Russian Empire, when the independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was established. (wikipedia.org)
  • Social Enterprise Policy - a Global Landscape' webinar was held as part of the EU-funded 'Developing innovation-driven and sustainable civil society in Azerbaijan' project. (undp.org)
  • The name Azerbaijan is said by some to derive from the old Persian Atropatene, meaning, loosely, "Land of Fire", a region that was also the birthplace of the fire-worshipping Zoroastrians. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed on Sunday over the disputed region. (egypttoday.com)
  • Egypt has extended sincere condolences to Azerbaijan over a military helicopter crash on Tuesday that caused deaths and injuries. (egypttoday.com)
  • As well as being a country where the EBRD works, Azerbaijan is also an EBRD donor with a total contribution of €3.6 million, of which 50% is for the Eastern Europe Energy Efficiency and Environment Partnership (E5P) Fund and the other 50% are to the Azerbaijan - EBRD Cooperation Account. (ebrd.com)
  • We look forward to working in partnership with the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) to expand our mutual cooperation in exploration and development. (bp.com)
  • In Azerbaijan, bp operates under several production sharing agreements and host government agreements (HGAs) signed with the government of Azerbaijan. (bp.com)
  • The government of Azerbaijan has for many years had a poor human rights record, but the number of arrests, the adoption of harsher laws, and extensive government efforts to stop and prevent peaceful public protests indicate a new concerted government effort to curtail political and civic activism in the country, Human Rights Watch said. (hrw.org)
  • On Thursday, the government of Azerbaijan said it would not participate in normalization talks with Armenia that were planned to take place in the United States later this month. (yahoo.com)
  • The NGO's head of policy and government affairs, Allan Hogarth, said: "Azerbaijan has an appalling human rights record and the country is currently embarked on a particularly aggressive crackdown on freedom of expression. (independent.co.uk)
  • The earliest evidence of human settlement in the territory of Azerbaijan dates back to the late Stone Age and is related to the Guruchay culture of Azykh Cave. (wikipedia.org)
  • A Human Rights Adviser (HRA) is part of the UN Country Team (UNCT) in Azerbaijan. (ohchr.org)
  • In Azerbaijan, the human capital development, vocational education and training (VET) and skills system is undergoing a significant transformation to address the challenges of our fast-changing world. (europa.eu)
  • In Azerbaijan, UNDP brings the best development models of the world in order to maximize the use of "black gold" derived from the oil wealth, to strengthen its "human gold", to enlarge people's choices and reduce inequalities. (undp.org)
  • A Foreign Office spokesman acknowledged concerns about human rights there and said in a statement: "We have a strong and wide-ranging bilateral relationship with Azerbaijan and we discuss human rights along with a broad range of other subjects on a regular basis. (independent.co.uk)
  • President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met on Friday with a number of businessmen and CEOs of major companies in Azerbaijan, said Presidency Spokesman Ambassador Bassam Radi. (egypttoday.com)
  • The webinar intended to kick-off a policy dialogue aimed at advancing social enterprise ecosystem in Azerbaijan. (undp.org)
  • Most commercial lenders in Azerbaijan have halted foreign currency sales in August as demand rose and the manat continued to depreciate. (rferl.org)
  • Azerbaijan has set up the State Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service amid tightening security conditions in the country. (globalsecurity.org)
  • President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi returned home on Sunday evening, after a foreign tour that included India, Azerbaijan and Armenia. (egypttoday.com)
  • The use of English, treated as a foreign language in Azerbaijan, is steadily increasing in the country. (worldatlas.com)
  • Ankara has been a fierce supporter of Azerbaijan, a fellow Muslim and Turkic country, while Moscow has a defence pact with Armenia and a military base on its territory. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The application for participation in the first workshop that qualifies for participation in the two competitions of Mexico and Azerbaijan begins on July 27 and August 10. (egypttoday.com)
  • The World's Cruising Guide for Azerbaijan Marinas. (marinas.com)
  • GDP growth in Azerbaijan averaged over 10% per year for 2001 - 04, and reached an unprecedented 26.4% increase in 2005. (sourcewatch.org)