Armenia should liberate territories surrounding Nagorno Karabakh and Karabakh itself should be given international guarantees of security, Polish senator (member of parliament’s upper chamber), head of the Polish-Armenian friendship group Lukash Abgarovic said.
The Polish senator says the fact that Azerbaijani regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh are controlled by Armenia is unacceptable for international community expressing confidence that the Karabakh issue will be resolved through referendum in 10 years.

(EU) started to negotiate for the signature of an Association Agreement.
In the framework of the Eastern Partnership, launched in May 2009, it will provide a new basis for the relationship between Baku and Brussels. These negotiations will help updating the latter, highlighting both the changes of perceptions of Azerbaijan in Brussels and the new regional role Baku intends to play in the South Caucasus.

Cybercriminals are increasingly focussing on money, a new report suggests, and improved organisation means that “toolkits” have been developed to methodically infect PCs so that illegally obtained information can be bought and sold.

Georgia and Azerbaijan stand shoulder to shoulder in their development and nothing can stop this process, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at a joint press conference with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in Batumi on July 18.

Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Elkhan Polukhov commented on Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s statement that “the parties were presented with new proposals in St. Petersburg and now Azerbaijan should respond to these proposals.”

A new financing mechanism in Azerbaijani education will contribute to a robust competition in higher education, eliminate differences between public and private institutions and improve quality of higher education in general, chairman of the parliamentary committee on science and education Shamsaddin Hajiyev told official website of the ruling New Azerbaijan party.

Azerbaijan agrees with an OSCE Minsk Group proposal on de-occupation of Kalbajar and Lachin regions in the course of five years, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at a press conference in Baku today.
The minister said that Armenia proposed to return Kalbajar and Lachin regions to the administrative control of Azerbaijan in the course of ten years during Robert Kocharian’s presidency. But Baku insisted on one-year term.

Interview with Chief of Azerbaijani Presidential Administration's Department for Social and Political Affairs Ali Hasanov.

How do you assess the past and current state of affairs in the Azerbaijani press?

The Azerbaijani press has made certain achievements during the period of the country's independence. First and foremost, late President, National Leader Heydar Aliyev eliminated all mechanisms of state control over the press including censorship back in in 1998.

NEW YORK – JPMorgan Chase & Co. says its profit soared 77 percent in the second quarter as a slowdown in losses from failed loans helped offset a difficult spring in trading and investment banking.

NEW ORLEANS – BP engineers working to choke the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico found a leak on a line attached to the side of the new well cap and were trying to fix it Thursday before attempting to stop the crude.
BP said Wednesday evening it had isolated the leak and was repairing it before moving forward. It wasn't clear how it would affect the timing of the operation, or whether oil continued to be slowly closed off into the cap.