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 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has today attended groundbreaking ceremony for a new administrative building of the State Oil Fund, the AzerTaj state news agency reported. The Head of State was warmly welcomed by the Fund`s staff and constructors. |
 Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu congratulated Uzbekistan on successfully conducting parliamentary elections Sunday. Earlier the OIC observer mission arrived in Uzbekistan upon invitation from the government. |
 A resident of Azerbaijan's Tovuz region, missed on the contact line of Armenian and Azerbaijani troops, is likely to be captured by Armenian side, the State Committee for Prisoners of War, Missing Persons, and Hostages Affairs Secretary Shahin Sayilov told Trend News. |
 Direct flights between Moscow and Tbilisi will recommence Jan. 6. According to Airzena-Georgian Airways Press Service head Nino Giorgobiani, flights will run from Jan. 6-25. She said the airline also received permission from the Transport Ministry to fly Dec. 29-30. |
 Iran is closely observing the actions of several countries in regards to the Iranian people, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying by the Isna news agency. The country has already launched an investigation into this matter, he said. |
 Gaza must no longer be an open air prison or a kind of a ghetto, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at the Palestinian Embassy in Ankara on Monday, the Journal of Turkish Weekly reported. Davutoglu paid a visit to the Palestinian Embassy in Ankara on the first anniversary of Israel's attack on Gaza. |
 Two explosions occurred on Monday evening in the Turkish city of Adana, CNN Turk reported. According to a preliminary investigation, both were stun bombs. No causalities were reported. |
 Trend News conducted an exclusive interview with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov |
 Dec.25, the price of AZERI LT CIF Augusta was $76.32 per barrel. The price did not changed compared to the previous day's price due to lack of trades in connection with the Christmas holidays, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), which has produced Light Oil since 1997, reported. |
 SOCAR (State Oil Compnay of Azerbaijan) plans to put into operation 30 more filling stations under its brand in 2010, SOCAR Energy Georgia (subsidiary of SOCAR in Georgia) said today. "There are many great plans concerning filling stations. About 30 new stations are planned to be opened next year," the source said. |
 According to the payment balance published by the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA), as of Jan.- Sep. 2009 the surplus of the current transactions of the Azerbaijani payment balance hits $7.1 billion, including surpluses of current transactions in oil and gas sector worth $10.2 billion. This fully covers shortage of current transaction in non-oil sector worth $3.1 billion, the CBA reported today. |
 Amir Kabir University and Iran's Aerospace Industries Organization signed a production agreement on AUT SAT satellites, said Shahruh Mahdavi, a contract expert at the university. He said design works have ended and production has begun, the Mehr news agency reported. |
 The country will construct a new stadium with a capacity of 60,000 seats in the Boyuk Shor settlement of Baku, Youth and Sports Minister Azad Rahimov told journalists today. The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) will finance the construction of the stadium. |
 The Azerbaijani and Georgian interior ministers discussed combating transnational crime at a meeting today. Azerbaijani Interior Minister, Colonel-General Ramil Usubov received his Georgian colleague Vano Merabishvili in his offices, the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry's press service said. |
 The total amount of foreign capital in Azerbaijan Economy totaled $4.1 billion during January-September 2009, the CBA payment balance reported. The basis of this indicator fell on direct investment and external loans, attracted in the country's economy. |
 At present, the average gas supply of Bakgaz (distribution and sale of gas to Baku), under the Azerigas Production Unity (PU), to the Baku gas supply system is 10.6 million cubic meters compared to 10.4 as of Dec.21, a source in the company said. Earlier, Azerigas JSC was attached to the structure of SOCAR (Sate Oil Company of the Azerbaijan) as PU. |
 The State Supervision Service on Consumer market at the Azerbaijani Economic Development Ministry removed over 2.7 tons of the expired products from retail sale points during the monitoring, the ministry said today. |
 Several member countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have committed to prioritizing Indonesia as a crude oil receiver, the detikcom online news quoted an official as saying on Monday, Xinhua reported. "We have talked bilaterally with several oil ministers. We want Indonesia to be prioritized to get crude oil supply," said the Upstream Regulating Agency's Director General of Oil and Gas Evita Herawati Legowo here. |
 Cuba's Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan Marcelo Caballero Torres spoke in an interview with Trend News on the eve of Liberation Day and the anniversary of the victory of the revolution - January 1. |
 The State Support for Media Development Fund under the President of Azerbaijan awarded the winners of the competition of individual journalistic work as a result of 2009. The Executive Director of the Fund Vugar Safarli said in his speech that, the organization he leads has realized several projects so far. |
 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev approved the 2010 budget of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan Republic (SOFAZ) and signed a decree on budget-related activities, the presidential press service reported. The president's decree dated Dec. 25 confirmed the basic directions of spending SOFAZ funds in 2010 and estimates for management of SOFAZ asset for 2010. |
 The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) will continue all necessary actions to support financial stability in the country, CBA General Director Khaqani Abdullayev said at the conference "Global financial crisis: the Azerbaijani safety effectiveness model and world experience International" held in Baku. |
 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday termed European politicians "one more stupid than the other", dpa reported. "These (European) politicians neither know anything about politics nor about history," Fars news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in a speech at at Arak mosque in Tehran. |
 The grant agreements on ecology and education financed by the Japanese government were signed by Japanese ambassador to Azerbaijan Masamitsu Oki and representatives of Azerbaijani NGOs today. The Japanese side has allocated $763,982 for eight projects within the "Grass Roots Human Security" grant program. The projects aim to improve waste governance, water supplies, river purification and school construction in Azerbaijani regions. |
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