On the sidelines of his official visit to Bulgaria Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria Ekaterina Zakharieva, Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry told Trend Nov. 1.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Denmark's envoy in Teheran, who lodged a formal protest regarding announcements about an Iranian Secret Service operation in the Nordic state, the ministry's official representative Bahram Ghasemi said.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday announced the appointment of Geir Pedersen of Norway as his new special envoy for Syria to succeed Staffan de Mistura, who steps down in November, according to Xinhua.

Seven Azerbaijani universities entered the ranking of the best universities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia for 2018-2019, according to the British company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

Doing Business 2019: Training for Reform, a World Bank Group flagship publication, has ranked Azerbaijan one of the 10 economies with the most notable improvement in the world, said official at the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Vusal Shikhaliyev at a press conference.

The permanent population of Armenia has dropped by 10,400 people in October 2018 compared to the corresponding period of 2017, Report informs citing the Armenian press.

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) has lowered inflation forecast for 2018 from 6-8 percent to 2-3 percent, Head of the CBA Elman Rustamov said at a meeting organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Azerbaijan (AmCham).

Repair works carried out in Baku Funicular have been concluded.

MoU on cooperation in the field of education between Azerbaijan and Bulgaria was signed during the meeting