The Azerbaijani parliament approved the draft forecasts on 2010 public budget, the consolidated budget and socio-economic concept for 2010 and subsequent three year by 101 votes in favor and 8 against. Under the law "On 2010 public budget", in 2010 forecasts on the public budget revenues will amount to 10.015 billion manat (31.5 percent of GDP), including centralized income - 9.552 billion manat and local revenue - 462.98 million manat, and expenses - 11.264 billion manat (35.4 percent of GDP), including centralized expenditures - 10.069 billion manat and local expenditures - 1.194 billion manat.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed the decree to call up for active service from Jan. 1 to 30 and to transfer military men of urgent active service to the reserve, the AzerTaj state news agency said. All Azerbaijani citizens born from 1975 to 1991 and aged under 35 years, without a right for draft deferment in the armed forces and other armed units envisaged by the legislation are called up for active service from Jan. 1 to 30, 2009 upon the decree in accordance with the law 'Foundations of call-up for military service in the Azerbaijani Republic' to recruit armed forces and other armed units envisaged by the legislation.

No Azerbaijani pilgrims have been injured due to the heavy rains in Saudi Arabia this week. "The Azerbaijani pilgrims have not suffered from the heavy rains and floods. Azerbaijani pilgrims traveling to Mecca have not had any health problems," Akhund of the Taza Pir Mosque Haji Faiz Nagizade told Trend News today over the telephone.

The A/H1N1 virus killed 40 people and the number of the swine flu victims reached 140 in Iran, Member of the Iranian National Committee on Infection Deceases Masoud Mardani reported. The number of swine flu cases has risen from 3,128 to 3,672.

BP Azerbaijan, as the operator of the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) fields, will issue a report assessing the environmental and social impacts of the project, the company reported. The project will be discussed Dec. 2 from 2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. at the Hyatt in Shusha.

Azerbaijani delegation deputy head in PACE accuses OSCE Minsk Group of imitating talks to solve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. "Minsk Group has been operating for 15 years. It has failed to contribute in solving the conflict within this period. It was busy with making tourist visits to the region. By exerting constant pressure on Azerbaijan, the international community insists on the need to solve the conflict within Minsk Group.

Monitoring was held on the contact line between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces on Nov.25, after a mandate by the special envoy of the OSCE chairman. The monitoring near the Yusifjanli village in Azerbaijan's Agdam region region proceeded without incident on Nov.25, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported.

The roundtable regarding to the project on “Anticorruption enlightenment and legislative assistance in regions” was carried out in Gabala by the Foundation on the Fight against Corruption with the financial support of Council of State Support to NGOs under the President of the Azerbaijan Republic.

According to the Committee on State and Cartography, 16 auctions and 60 competitions were conducted since April till today over the republic. 406 soil areas of different measure were put on the market and about 400 of them were sold.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived to Ulyanovsk today. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met the head of state at the airport, RIA Novosti reported. Both presidents will hold a short round of talks in Ulyanovsk and discuss urgent issues of mutual cooperation, as well as international problems, including the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The presidents will also lay a wreath on a monument to Azerbaijani ex-President Heydar Aliyev in a city square of the same name.

Association for Civil Society Development in Azerbaijan carried out its next seminar in Lankaran city for the observers to conduct the monitoring of the municipality elections. First of all, the seminar participants were informed on local and international experience in the sphere of local self-governing and the work of ACSDA done on the municipality elections.

On Nov. 23 the price of AZERI LT CIF Augusta was $79.76 per barrel or $2.26 per barrel up, compared to the previous day's price, according to the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), which has produced Light Oil since 1997. Azeri Light oil is produced from the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli offshore fields, which is developed under BP's operations. It is directly delivered to the Turkish port of Ceyhan via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan main export oil pipeline, to the Georgian port of Supsa via the Baku-Supsa pipeline and to the Georgian port of Batumi by railway.