President Spoke on Global Crisis Again
The difficult economic situation has led to a new conference, in which the President took part.
At today's event on the second year of implementation of the State Program on Socio-economic Development of Regions in 2014-2018, Ilham Aliyev again blamed the global economic crisis, recalling the ten years of "oil prosperity." "There is a decline in the world economy due to circumstances beyond our control now. We did not separate ourselves from the world community, we integrated in it and conducted open market policies and liberal economic policies, so it affects us," he said.
However, the head of state did not disclose the reasons for which there has been done almost nothing for the real sector development, and the economy is still at three quarters dependent on hydrocarbon exports.
The conference was attended by Ministers of Finance, Taxes and Economy, the Chairman of the Central Bank, state and government officials, as well as entrepreneurs. --17D-
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