Azerbaijan developing new state program on youth policy

"Azerbaijan is carrying out work on the preparation of a new state program in the sphere of youth policy, which will cover 2011-2015," Azerbaijani Deputy Youth and Sports Minister Intigam Babayev told Trend.

In 1997, Azerbaijani national leader Heydar Aliyev signed a decree declaring Feb. 2 the Day of Azerbaijani Youth.

"The state program on youth policy was designed until 2010, and we have started to create a new program to increase the achievements that we made over the past years. The program will be submitted for public discussion," Babayev said.

Babayev added that there is also a need to improve the legislative framework in youth policy, and work is underway.

In 2002, Azerbaijan adopted a law on youth. It was amended in 2007. Babayev considers the preservation of youth achievements as the ministry's main task.

"It is necessary to create conditions for the comprehensive development of youth to help them attain an education at the highest qualitative level," Babayev said.


/Trend/