Baku / 21.08.18 / Turan: Over 1.655.000 foreigners and stateless persons visited Azerbaijan from different 191 countries of the world in January-July this year.According to the State Statistics Committee, this indicator is by 9.1% more than in the same period last year. Mostly the citizens of Russia visited Azerbaijan - 31.5%; from Georgia - 19.8%; from Turkey - 10.3%; from Iran -10%; from the UAE - 3.5%; from Iraq - 2.4%; from Ukraine - 2%. The number of arrivals in Azerbaijan increased due to the countries of the Persian Gulf (with the exception of the UAE and Iran.)In comparison with January-July last year, the number of arrivals to Azerbaijan from Kuwait increased by 3.3%, Saudi Arabia - by 3%, Bahrain - 2.7%.
In January-July, the number of visitors from Azerbaijan from the EU countries increased by 7.4%, amounting to 65.9 thousand people. The number of those who visited Azerbaijan from the CIS countries also increased.
During this period, the number of Azerbaijanis visiting foreign countries increased by 9% compared to the same period last year. Their number totaled 2 million 514.2 thousand people. 33.4% Azerbaijanis visited Georgia, 24% - Iran, 22.9% - Russia, and 15.2% - Turkey. Over seven months the number of Azerbaijani citizens visiting Iran increased by 31.2%, and Georgia by 0.9%.The number of visitors to Turkey over this period fell by 5.5%, and Russia by 2.6% .- 0-
Politics
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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