JOHANNES LYNN: “AZERBAIJAN HAS CREATED GOOD GROUND FOR ADVANCE”
As the correspondent of AzerTAj informs, within the framework of the annual gathering, the officials of the World Bank have carried out a briefing on region of the East Europe and Central Asia. The vice-president who has acted at briefing of the World Bank on region Shigeo Katsu and former vice-president Johannes Lynn have noted that in the states of the former USSR, undergone hard transition period, it is observed economic growth.
At the same time, unemployment and poverty in region remain at a high level. Struggle against poverty is the first duty of the governments in republics, which have directly suffered from break of economic relations as a result of disintegration of Soviet Union. In this sense, to Shigeo Katsu has positively estimated position in Azerbaijan.
Johannes Lynn, dwelling in his new book on the economic and social transformations in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia in the transition period, in an interview to correspondent of AzerTAj disclosed his opinion as following: “As the other CIS countries, Azerbaijan also with huge hardships came to the transition period. The heaviest of them was the war with Armenia. Growth of prices of the energy resources and oil, realization of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan MEP and mainly, the reforms, conducted by the Government last years, has created in Azerbaijan excellent ground for systematic advance. Your Country aspires to continuation and henceforth of the economic growth, enhance agrarian sector, ensure the refugees and IDPs with job. The relevant projects should not be considered only for the period after settlement of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict and return of refugees and IDPs to the native lands. Employment of these people should be ensured and in present conditions.”
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