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The volume of investments in Azerbaijan’s oil and gas sector decreased by 6.2 percent in January-March 2021, the State Statistics Committee has reported. Investments in the non-oil and gas sector also declined by 32.2 percent in the reported period. Some AZN 2.3 billion ($1.3bn) was directed to fixed capital in the …

The Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) and the National Commission for Education, Science, and Culture of Azerbaijan held a meeting to outline the framework and explore the executive plans and the schedule of the programs and activities that the two parties will implement in the upcoming period …

Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company (SOCAR) and Belarus’s State Concern for Oil and Chemistry have signed a memorandum of understanding. The memorandum envisages the expansion of possibilities in the oil and oil products production and sales sectors. The document was signed by SOCAR’s president Rovnag Abdullayev and Belneftekhim’s chairman Andrey Rybakov. …

Iran will soon send trade attachés to Azerbaijan, Russia, Oman, and China, Deputy Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade of Iran, Head of the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) Hamid Zadboum said, Trend reports citing the organization’s website. Zadboum noted that in addition, sending trade attachés to Turkey, Pakistan, …

Any discussion around the Nagorno-Karabakh problem as it was done before the liberation of the territories of Azerbaijan from the Armenian occupation is absolutely meaningless, Head of the Center for Strategic Analysis of the Russian Institute for Innovative Development, well-known Russian political scientist Andrei Ivanov told Trend. Ivanov was commenting …

Azerbaijan and Turkey have praised the bilateral cooperation in the field of customs as chairman of the State Customs Committee Safar Mehdiyev met with the outgoing Turkish Ambassador Erkan Ozoral. Mehdiyev noted the strategic partnership between Azerbaijan and Turkey, saying the purposeful policy pursued by the heads of state of …

A delegation led by President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Emigration of the Italian Senate Vito Petrocelli have visited Azerbaijan’s Aghdam district. The delegation familiarized themselves with Armenia`s war crimes as they saw the ruins of Aghdam’s Juma Mosque and Aghdam State Drama Theater. The visitors, joined by …