• Presidential elections in Iran: Who has more chances? 

    17 May 2013, 19:25 (GMT+05:00)

    Registration on May 11 of the сurrent general secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili, advisor for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and father-in-law of his son, Isfandiar Rahim Mashaei and Iran’s former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as candidates for the presidency made the Presidential elections more interesting, but at the same time more complicated

  • Erdogan-Obama Meeting: Israel must be provided with guarantee of safety 

    17 May 2013, 18:41 (GMT+05:00)

    Along with the signing of a free trade agreement, the Syrian issue was discussed at the meeting between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Barack Obama, which is in the world spotlight.

  • Euro is reliable 

    17 May 2013, 14:58 (GMT+05:00)

    Despite the negative dynamics of the GDP in the euro area in the first quarter of 2013, as well as encouraging situation in the U.S. stock markets, for the first time in the past several years, analysts gained some confidence in the stabilisation of the exchange rate of the single European currency

  • Association: Turkish tour packages do not raise prices for Azerbaijanis 

    16 May 2013, 18:19 (GMT+05:00)

    The cost of service packages for those wishing to vacation in Turkey rises only when hotel prices increase, chairman of Azerbaijan Tourism Association Nahid Bagirov told Trend today.

  • Turkey makes its choice in Iraq 

    16 May 2013, 13:15 (GMT+05:00)

    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has recently paid an official visit to the U.S, made an unexpected statement

  • Baku-Novorossiysk is of interest on acceptable terms 

    15 May 2013, 15:41 (GMT+05:00)

    Russia’s termination of the contract on oil transportation via the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline, concluded with Azerbaijan in 1996, will require a new agreement in case of necessity. Some basic conditions of the previous document will be changed.

  • Former parliamentarian: Rafsanjani has ability to gather experienced people to improve situation in Iran 

    15 May 2013, 10:27 (GMT+05:00)

    Ali Akbar Rafsanjani has the ability to gather experienced people around him and improve the situation in Iran, former parliamentarian and reformist politician Ali Mazrooei told Trend.

  • Iran's oil output, 2.7 or 4.2 mbpd? 

    14 May 2013, 13:03 (GMT+05:00)

    Iranian oil Minister Rostam Qasemi rejected the rumors that Iran has dropped to the fifth place as OPEC's biggest oil producer

  • Why Ukraine needs Azerbaijan’s gas?  

    8 May 2013, 20:12 (GMT+05:00)

    Offers by the Ukrainian side on Azeri gas supplies to Ukraine are sounding more insistent each time. This is understandable: the times are changing, no alternatives are expected to hydrocarbons as an energy source in the foreseeable future, the demand for gas promises to grow in the future, and with it, the growth in prices is projected as well. Azerbaijan, once importing gas, now itself is a reliable supplier. The route for supply of Azerbaijani gas to Europe is about to be chosen, while Ukraine is still dependent on energy supplies.

  • Department of State: U.S. tries to resolve on-going political tensions in Iraq 

    8 May 2013, 08:05 (GMT+05:00)

    U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad have been in constant contact with a wide range of senior Iraqi leaders to help resolve on-going political and sectarian tensions, the U.S. Department of State Regional Spokesperson Joshua Baker told Trend

  • "Contract of the Century" signing ceremony participant: Heydar Aliyev was incredibly intelligent man who created modern Azerbaijan 

    6 May 2013, 08:00 (GMT+05:00)

    National leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev was an incredibly intelligent man and clever leader who created the modern Azerbaijan, Nabil Al-Khowaiter said.