Azerbaijan, Türkiye discuss prospects for cooperation in textile sector

Baku, September 17, AZERTAC Mikayil Jabbarov, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Economy, met with representatives of the Turkish company Estex İplik ve Kumaş Sanayi Ticaret A.Ş., who are visiting Azerbaijan. The meeting highlighted the company’s current...

Azerbaijan, UAE establish Joint Business Council

Baku, September 17, AZERTAC A Joint Business Council has been established between Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In this context, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Azerbaijan's Agency for Small and Medium Business...

Azerbaijan, Belarus discuss prospects for developing economic ties

Baku, September 17, AZERTAC Elnur Aliyev, First Deputy Minister of Economy of Azerbaijan, met with Denis Bakey, Deputy Minister of Industry of Belarus. During the meeting, the two officials highlighted the flourishing Azerbaijani-Belarusian...

Baku to host 1st Azerbaijan International Investment Forum

Baku, September 17, AZERTAC The 1st Azerbaijan International Investment Forum (“AIIF 2025”) will be held in Baku. The event is co-organized by the Ministry of Economy of Azerbaijan and the Export and Investment Promotion Agency – AZPROMO, in...

“Baku” bus stop in Norway: A memorial to Baku oil – SPECIAL VIDEO

Stockholm, September 17, Nargiz Jafarli, AZERTAC Recently, Shervin Najafpour, President of the “CAN” Norway-Azerbaijan organization and a resident of Norway, shared a peculiar fact with me. In Nærsnes town, Asker municipality near Oslo, there is...

Turan Bank secures $15m financing from ICD to boost SMEs in Azerbaijan

Turan Bank of Azerbaijan has signed a $15 million line of financing agreement with the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the private sector arm of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group. The five-year facility...

Hungarian expert: Zangezur Corridor opens up new economic opportunities for the South Caucasus

Baku, September 17, AZERTAC “The proposed Zangezur Corridor, embedded in the U.S.-backed TRIPP framework, represents a transformative opportunity for the South Caucasus. Economically, it establishes a continuous Türkiye-Nakhchivan-Azerbaijan land...

Speaker of Azerbaijan’s Parliament meets with her Cambodian counterpart

Baku, September 17, AZERTAC Speaker of Azerbaijan’s Parliament Sahiba Gafarova met with Khuon Sudary, President of the National Assembly of Cambodia, during her working visit to Malaysia. The meeting highlighted the significance of the...

‘Phenomenal driver’: The ‘most stressful’ Baku win that predicted Piastri’s stunning 2025 rise

It takes a lot to raise Oscar Piastri’s heart rate, but the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix was quickening the unflappable Melburnian’s pulse. It was lap 20 of 51, and Piastri was staring at the rear wing of Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari after the first...

Kazakhstan Resumes Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Exports After Contamination Issues

Kazakhstan resumed oil supplies via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline on September 13, state energy company Kazmunaygaz said on Wednesday. Supplies via the route were suspended last month amid contamination issues. The BTC pipeline, which runs...

China-linked APT41 targets government, think tanks, and academics tied to US-China trade and policy

China-linked APT41 targets government, think tanks, and academics tied to US-China trade and policy China-linked group APT41 impersonated a U.S. lawmaker in phishing attacks on government, think tanks, and academics tied to US-China trade and...

Kazakhstan Resumes Oil Exports via Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan After Suspension

Kazakhstan has restarted oil shipments through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline after a one-month suspension, restoring a key westward export route that bypasses Russia. State company KazMunayGas confirmed that 8,800 tonnes of crude from the...

Azerbaijan — the new magnet of the Persian Gulf

The recent official visit of Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, to Azerbaijan can rightly be described as a new milestone in relations between Azerbaijan and the UAE, and more broadly, in Baku’s ties with...

Azerbaijan’s 2026 budget prioritises: Stability, social protection, and defence

Ahead of the release of preliminary forecasts for the state budget’s revenues and expenditures for 2026, Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Finance has shared key figures with the public. Alongside the budget parameters, the forecasts include projected...

Azerbaijan and Türkiye explore opportunities for cooperation in textile sector

Mikayil Jabbarov, Azerbaijan's Minister of Economy, held a meeting with representatives from the Turkish company Estex İplik ve Kumaş Sanayi Ticaret A.Ş. during their visit to Azerbaijan. The meeting highlighted the company’s current activities...

Georgian finance ministry announces repayment of debt to Armenia 

ArmInfo. Tbilisi has fully repaid its foreign debt to Yerevan, RIA Novosti reports, citing data from the Georgian Ministry of Finance. According to the information, Georgia has fully repaid its historic debt to Russia. In February, the debt to...

ADQ and Azerbaijan Investment Holding Forge New Financial Services Alliance

ADQ and Azerbaijan Investment Holding have signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue joint projects in the financial services sector, aiming to improve market connectivity and bolster the investment environment for sustainable economic...

MPs’ pension fund must come clean about investments in fossil fuel companies

South African members of Parliament (MPs) are tasked with legislating for a sustainable future. But what if their own pensions are invested in the very fossil fuel companies driving the climate crisis? In November 2024, delegates from around the...

KazMunayGas Resumes Oil Exports Through Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline

ALMATY— KazMunayGas (KMG) resumed oil exports through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline system with a shipment of 8,800 tons of Kashagan crude from the port of Aktau on Sept. 13, reported the company’s press service on Sept. 17. According to...

Bolt Business experiences 25% growth in rides globally in June 2025

Bolt Business has seen a 25% increase in global rides as of June 2025, with over 50,000 companies now using the service across 50+ countries. Bolt has reported a 25% year-on-year increase in Bolt Business rides in June 2025, with over 50,000...