Azerbaijan

2 Mar 2023; MEMO: Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliyev, on Thursday said that a "new world order is taking shape" as he addressed the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Contact Group meeting in the capital, Baku, Anadolu News Agency reports.

09 Feb 2023; AA: A 33-year-old Azerbaijani citizen, whose photo showing him driving a car with a Turkish flag on the top of the vehicle overloaded with assistance for the people affected by the earthquake in Türkiye went viral on the social media, told Anadolu that he feels it as his duty to support the earthquake victims of the "brotherly" country.

BAKU, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan will evacuate embassy staff and family members from Iran on Sunday, the foreign ministry said, two days after a gunman shot dead a security guard and wounded two other people in an attack Baku branded an "act of terrorism".

Police in Tehran have said they had arrested a suspect and Iranian authorities condemned Friday's incident, but said the gunman appeared to have had a personal, not a political, motive.

29 Jan 2023; AA: The composition of the UN Security Council should be expanded for it to respond to today's changes to achieve a "fairer" world, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said Saturday.

"Issues related to the UN have been discussed worldwide for many years. Opinions are being exchanged about reforms in the UN. I stated in one of my speeches that there is a great need for these reforms.

BAKU, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Azerbaijan on Friday said it was evacuating staff from its embassy in Tehran, blaming Iran for a “terrorist” attack in which the head of security was killed and two guards wounded.

Tehran’s police chief said the man who carried out the attack was motivated by “personal” reasons.

“All responsibility for the attack lies with Iran,” Azerbaijani foreign ministry spokesman Ayxan Hacizada told local media.

He said a recent anti-Azerbaijani campaign in Iranian media had “encouraged the attack.”

BAKU, January 27. /TASS/: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has condemned Friday’s attack on the country’s embassy in the Iranian capital of Tehran as a "terrorist act."

"I fiercely condemn the terrorist attack perpetrated against our embassy in Tehran today," Aliyev wrote on Twitter.

"We demand that this terrorist act be swiftly investigated and the terrorists be punished. Terror against diplomatic missions is unacceptable," the Azerbaijani president added.

BAKU, January 20. /TASS/: Azerbaijan is ready to hold the postponed trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia as soon as possible, Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov told reporters on Friday.

"We are ready to hold the postponed trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia as soon as possible. Now everything depends on the other party," the foreign minister said, as quoted by the Baku-based news agency Report.

21 Nov 2022; MEMO: The Republic of Azerbaijan has announced that it is to open a representative office in the State of Palestine, Wafa news agency has reported. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, the Azerbaijani parliament approved the move as a step that reflects the solidarity of the republic with Palestine and the rights of the Palestinian people.

BAKU, November 17. /TASS/: Russia is interested in cooperating with Azerbaijan in the shipbuilding sphere, Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov said at the plenary session of the 11th Russia-Azerbaijan Interregional Forum.

BAKU, October 27. /TASS/: Russia’s economy will demonstrate growth in quarterly terms as early as at the end of 2022, Economic Development Minister Maksim Reshetnikov said at the 15th Verona Eurasian Economic Forum in Baku on Thursday.