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 Suggestions of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan (SCC) on the transition from the multistage system of customs duties to a three-stage system within Azerbaijan's entrance to the World Trade Organization (WTO) are still under consideration of the Cabinet of Ministers, the head of the SCC Aydin Aliyev said on Nov. 11. |
 The sum for used gas collected from non-welfare recipients in Sumgait will hit 278,000 manat in October or 29.5 percent more compared to the planned figure, Sumgait executive power reported today. The sum worth 3.8 million cubic meters of gas has been paid for use of gas by non-welfare recipients. |
 OPEC forecasts an increase in world oil demand in 2010 at 0.75 million barrels per day up to 85.07 million barrels per day. Last month, OPEC predicted growth in world oil demand at 0.7 million barrels per day. The OPEC November report on the oil market says the weak recovery of the world economy equally with high oil prices can cause weakening of growth in world oil demand in 2010. |
 An Azerbaijani parliamentary committee may begin discussing a defamation bill next week. "It is high time to adopt the bill 'On Defamation,'" Parliamentary Committee on Culture Chairman Nizami Jafarov told Trend news today."Our committee has submitted two drafts and it is possible to develop one perfect document on their basis." |
 Public control over the Azerbaijani army leads to increased public interest in the military, Milli Majlis Security and Defense Committee Deputy Chairman Aydin Mirzazade told Trend News today. A public control group over the army was established after revealing widespread hazing in October 2008. The group included NGO representatives, the Defense Ministry and MPs. |
 Azerbaijani National NGO Forum (NNGOF) President Rauf Zeyni will attend a meeting of the Civil Society Forum in Kazakhstan Nov. 23-24, an NNGOF source told Trend News. The NNGOF decided to prepare proposals for the CSF during its meeting. |
 Azerbaijan is considering annulling the visa regime for Turkish citizens, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Elkhan Polukhov told Trend News today. The issue was included on the agenda of Azerbaijan-Turkey inter-ministerial consultations in Baku during summer 2009, Polukhov said. Turkey wants to strengthen cooperation with Azerbaijan, Turkish officials note. |
 As part of the Big Easy Film Festivals, the United States will be show a documentary on the Azerbaijani Mugham - "Mugham in Montana" on Nov. 14, the festival released. The film was directed by Professor University of Montana (USA), a famous American political scientist and journalist Thomas Goltz. |
 OPEC forecasted an increase by 0.12 million barrel in Azerbaijan's oil production in 2009 to 1.03 million barrels per day. This growth will be the highest among the former Soviet countries. In the fourth quarter of 2009, OPEC expects the country's oil production to be 1.07 million barrels per day. |
 Preliminary funds have been allocated to build the Genocide Museum in the northern Azerbaijani region of Guba 160 kilometers outside Baku. "Arrangements are underway to construct the museum to remember the genocide committed by Armenians against the local population in Guba in 1918," MP Yevda Abramov told Trend News today. |
 The Azerbaijani Environmental and Natural Resources Ministry held regular monitoring of pollution in the transboundary Kur and Araz Rivers during the first week of October, the ministry told Trend News today. During the first week of November, water consumption in the Kur River increased by 41 cubic meters per second to 242 cubic meters per second compared to the third decade of October. |
 The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) believes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will be resolved peacefully, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told Trend News. "We believe eventually this problem will be resolved peacefully, because it is the right of the Azerbaijani people," said Ihsanoglu, who is attending the Baku conference on dialogue among civilizations. "All the OIC's resolutions were adopted in this direction." |
 "Wearing the hijab in public and educational institutions in Turkey is not a topic for discussion in the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC)," OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told Trend News. "Because it is Turkey's domestic politics." |
 Serious traffic accident in the Azerbaijani Terter region killed 4 and injured one soldier of the Armed Forces. The Defense Ministry's military truck of ZIL brand clashed with a car of Mercedes brand in crossroad of the Jamilli village at the 41st kilometer of the Borsunlu-Hindarkh road on Nov. 11. |
 The Constitution was adopted in 1995 - the first such document for independent Azerbaijan. The first independent Azerbaijan - the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic - existed only 23 months from 1918 to 1920 and had no such sweeping legislative document. As a result, the history of Azerbaijan's Constitution dates mainly to the country's time as a Soviet republic. |
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