Azerbaijani Presidential Administration senior official comments on reports about ban on azan in Baku

"This is normal legal process regulated by law in all secular countries”, chief of the public policy department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Ali Hasanov said.

“Norms of vibration and noise pollution that negatively impact  environment” was approved by the decree signed by the President of Azerbaijan on July 8, 2008. The norms were elaborated on the basis of laws about the environmental, sanitary and epidemiological security," Hasanov said.

He added that these norms set requirements for the level of allowed noises and vibrations in the residential and public buildings, residential areas, as well as other places crowded areas.

Hasanov said these laws and presidential decree were regulating the special noisy events.

“These events include the azan sounded by loud-speakers in the mosques. Using of loud speakers in azan should meet existent requirements. Parties in the wedding houses, as well as salutation should be regulated within these norms as well. Normalizing of the loud-sounded azan in the mosques also is carried out under these requirements”.

/APA/