Baku / 15.01.19 / Turan: On January 14, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on additional measures to improve public administration in the country.
It provides for the liquidation or reorganization of a number of departments. In particular, the Science Development Fund under the President of Azerbaijan and the Baku International Center for Multiculturalism are reorganized on the basis of self-financing. Along with this, the State Agency for Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources, the Knowledge Fund under the President of Azerbaijan and the Center for Strategic Studies under the President of Azerbaijan are liquidated.
Also liquidated or reorganized are the Secretariat of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Protection of State Secrets under the President of Azerbaijan, the Working Group of the Azerbaijan State Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs, the Working Group of the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Person of Azerbaijan, and the Secretariat of the Tariff Council of Azerbaijan. -06d--
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