The Latest Breaking News from Azerbaijan

Ilham Aliyev wins expected landslide victory, but OSCE monitors say vote was ‘restrictive’ and ‘not competitive’.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is expected to win another term in a snap election following the country's swift reclaiming of the Karabakh region from ...

Campaigners condemn decision as regressive, saying ‘climate change affects whole world, not half of it’

Azerbaijan warned France Wednesday not to "intervene" in its internal affairs after Baku arrested a Frenchman on espionage charges with tensions running high between the two countries.

Azerbaijan authorities arrested a Frenchman on espionage charges in December, the Azerbaijani ambassador to France said Tuesday. The annoucement comes amid rising tensions between Baku and Paris.

Environmentalists condemn news of higher forecast production which is also seen as a conservative forecast

Azerbaijan's ecology minister and former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev was on Friday appointed to lead the United Nations' annual climate talks in a move that has sparked concern among NGOs and environmentalists who voiced similar worries over last year’s COP28 chair Sultan Al Jaber, chief of the United Arab Emirates’…

Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, has been named as president-designate of the Cop29 climate conference. He will be the second oil executive in a row to head the global environmental summit after UAE's Sultan Al Jaber in 2023.

Mukhtar Babayev, has been named to lead the United Nations' annual climate talks later this year, prompting concern from some climate activists over his former ties to the state oil company.