In terms of the growth of non-oil sector (+11.7%), Azerbaijan's economy may be the fastest growing in the world, President Ilham Aliyev said at a government meeting on the socio-economic situation of the country during the first quarter of 2013, thus outlined the objectives and the government to deepen reforms in the coming period.
The Head of State said that if "we fully ensure free competition and will take more serious steps in the direction of anti-monopolization, we will achieve the best results." "We need to increase the production of competitive products, both to reduce the volume of imports and to meet domestic needs and for export," the president said. In his opinion, this goal is the State investment program aimed at improving the infrastructure in the regions, as well as preferential government loans.
To exit to global markets with new products requires the use of modern equipment and facilities under construction should be applied advanced technology to 100%, Aliyev said.
Among the urgent tasks of the president called the expansion of mortgage lending to housing for young families, improving its mechanism.
Ensuring food security through the development of intensive crop and livestock production, as well as the creation of large-scale farming, the use of 10 hectares of free public land, improve drainage systems are priorities of the Government and the private sector to meet the needs of 100% of basic food products from domestic resources . This will be set up a professional training school personnel agrarian middle managers, said the head of state.
Referring to increase wages and pensions, the President said that it planned to, but it may adversely affect the macroeconomic performance of the country.
The head of state called four centers of technological industrial development in the coming years: Baku, Sumgait, Ganja and Mingachevir, where the planned creation of technology parks.
Completion of the program of development of the capital towns, gasification, repair of rural roads, reconstruction of water supply and sanitation, etc. are also the priorities of the government for the next period.
By the end of this year will be ready the third one state program of development of the regions, and in 2014 we will take it, said Ilham Aliyev, the second term of the presidency which ends in October this year. - 08D-
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