Palmali group of companies has acquired two newlarge-capacity tankers with the deadweight of 105,000tons," Palmali Baku Officereported. The deal cost $160mln. Former Harmony and Champion nowwill be named Azerbaijan and Baku.Tankers with the length of 237.74m andwidth of 43m were

Azerbaijan will give an official start to presidential elections at the end of July. "CentralElection Committee will hold a special meeting in this connection at the end ofJuly to take a decision on official start to elections," chairman of CentralElection

TheState Commission for Work with Azerbaijanis Abroad is working out the Charterof the world Azerbaijanis. "The Charter aims at uniting all Diasporaorganizations of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis living abroad and it will beestablished as an organization," Valeh Hajiyev, deputy chairman of

ccording to Giorgi Baramidze, StateMinister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, the de-facto authoritiesof South Ossetia are angry because of they are losing a peaceful politicalstruggle, reported PNA. Baramidze told journalists on July 04 that Georgia's unification is inevitable as the

he OSCE Chairman-in-Office, FinnishForeign Minister Alexander Stubb, expressed profound concern today over arecent series of incidents resulting in loss of life and serious injuries inthe Georgian conflict areas, reported OSCE.These incidents, and reports of heavyexchange of fire in the Zone

blast interrupted a gala concert held in downtown Minsk late Thursday to celebrate Belarus's independence, injuring 37 people, Russian newsagencies reported early Friday.All of the injured were immediately hospitalized, RIANovosti reported, quoting hospital and city officials, who added that therewere