New York Senate adopts resolution on anniversary of Black January

On January 24, 2012, the New York Senate adopted a resolution commemorating the Black January tragedy ...Read more

Peres thanks Azerbaijan for foiling terror attack

President Shimon Peres thanked his Azerbaijani counterpart on Wednesday for the country's success in foiling a terrorist attack aimed at Israeli and Jewish targets in Baku ...Read more

US Congressman remembers Black January

Republican Congressman Bill Shuster, co-chairman of the Congressional Azerbaijan Caucaus, has remembered the 20 January 1990 tragedy in Baku ...Read more

'Terror attack' thwarted in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan's National Security Ministry has detained members of a gang which it says was planning to assassinate foreigners in Baku ...Read more

Cyber attacks on Azerbaijani sites were from Iran and Netherlands - minister

Azerbaijani Minister of Communication and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov has sent a letter to his Iranian counterpart ..Read more

Black January tragedy remembered

Azerbaijanis pause today to pay tribute to their fellow citizens who were killed in one of the most brutal acts in the last moments of the Soviet Empire, an event known around the world as the Black January ...Read more

Ambassador Suleymanov presents his letter of credence to President Obama

Today, on January 18 the newly appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan Elin Suleymanov presented his letter of credence to President Barack Obama of the United States of America in an official ceremony held in the Oval Office of the White House ...Read more

A decade of increasingly successful Azerbaijan- U.S. defense & security cooperation

This month, a delegation of the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan led by Major-General Ramiz Najafov, Head of the Ministry’s International Military Cooperation Department, visited Washington, D.C. to participate in the Bilateral Defense Consultations, a crucial element of the Azerbaijan-U.S. strategic partnership. The objective of the Consultations held annually, alternating between Baku and Washington, D.C., is to review a full range of bilateral defense cooperation and to define future plans with American counterparts ...Read more

Address of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Azerbaijanis of the world

Dear compatriots!

Dear countrymen!

I would like to heartily congratulate you on the occasion of 31 December, the Day of Solidarity of Azerbaijanis of the world, a symbol of unity and cohesion of our people, national sympathy and loyalty to the Motherland. This remarkable holiday, established 20 years ago on the initiative of our nationwide leader Heydar Aliyev, warms the hearts of all our compatriots around the world with the warmth of the Motherland and inculcates love of the independent Azerbaijan ...Read more

Barack Obama congratulates Ilham Aliyev on his birthday

President of the United States Barack Obama congratulated President of Azerbaijan on his fiftieth birthday...Read more

Ambassador Suleymanov presents copy of his credentials to Deputy Secretary Burns

Azerbaijan`s new ambassador to the United States Elin Suleymanov presented on Monday the copy of his credentials to Deputy Secretary of State William Burns...Read more

Perry tweets of a meeting with Azerbaijan delegation

Gov. Rick Perry got a little foreign flair into Monday when he tweeted this photo “with Azerbaijan delegation lead by Rovnag Abdullayev, Pres. of State Oil Company. Welcome to Texas!”...Read more