Azerbaijan: How Will Baku Handle the Oil Price Slide?
“Azerbaijan is not afraid of $60 per barrel,” a headline on the pro-government Azerbaijani news site Trend proclaimed recently. But with Brent crude oil, the benchmark for the oil market, now hovering around $60 a barrel, Baku might well have something to fear. Baku’s 2015 state budget was calculated based on an oil price of $90 per barrel. About 53.5 percent of the government’s roughly 19.4-billion-manat ($24.7 billion) budget comes from the Sta...
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In a significant diplomatic move, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan embarked on an official visit to Armenia, marking a pivotal moment in the relationship between the two nations. The meeting between President Tokayev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resulted in the signing of a joint statement aimed at fostering cooperation and easing tensions that had simmered between the two countries.
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