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Ramiz Mehtiyev: "Azerbaijan is the most stable country in the South Caucasus"

18 September 2008 [11:04] - TODAY.AZ
Azerbaijan is the most stable and dynamically developing country in the South Caucasus, said head of the presidential administration of Azerbaijan Ramiz Mehtiyev, speaking at an international scientific and practical conference "Role and importance of control in raising transparency and combat with corruption.

"Azerbaijan is the most dynamically developing and stable country in the South Caucasus, despite 20% of its lands are occupied and it has 1,000,000 refugees. Through the recent years the economic policy of the government of Azerbaijan allowed to raise GDP by 2.7 times, increase state budget revenues by 10 times, reduce poverty rate from 44% to 15%", said Mehtiyev.

He said the unemployment problem is being eliminated in Azerbaijan, which became possible through creating of over 700,000 new jobs through the past years and this process continues.

Ramiz Mehtiyev noted that Azerbaijan conducts balanced and pragmatic external political course and is an initiator of the large regional oil and transport projects. In particular, these are projects on construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Baku-Supsa pipeline, Baku-Tbilisi-Erzirum gas pipeline, transport TRASECA and Baku-Tbilisi-Kars.

"We are happy with the growth of economic potential and our revenues. At the same time, we are concerned with the control over the growing expenses of the state budget. We need to define problems and prospects of the effective use of financial means, on which effectiveness of combat with corruption depends", said Mehtiyev.

He noted that a legislative and institutional basis for ensuring economic transparency has been formed in the recent years, the state program for combat with corruption was executed and a special structure for combat with corruption was created within the system of the prosecutor general's office.

/Interfax-Azerbaijan/
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