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Ensuring economic growth in Karabakh, the attitude towards the construction of a new expensive building of the Central Bank, the possibility of creating a Turkish base in Azerbaijan, the likelihood of easing the strict quarantine, and Turkish participation in the Karabakh issue are the topics of today's media.
The newspaper Azerbaijan cites the results of the poll by Gallup International. According to the index of economic optimism in the world, Azerbaijan is one of the three leaders.
Negative trends in the financial and banking sector in the first half of 2020, changed to positive ones in the second. Financial support for 2.3 billion manats was created in the state budget. Victory in the Patriotic War will make it possible to develop green energy, mining, metallurgical and processing industries in Karabakh in the next 10 years. At the same time, the agrarian sector and tourism will develop at the expense of public and private and foreign investments.
The Yenisabah.az website discusses the construction of a new building for the Central Bank, which will cost 450 million manats. Experts say that 15,000 houses can be built in Karabakh for this amount. It is not clear why an administrative building with 32 floors is needed, when there are so many problems in the country. The article provides examples of buildings of the Central Bank of the CIS countries that do not exceed five floors.
The website Metbuat.az discusses the creation of a Turkish base in Azerbaijan and the attitude of the Kremlin to this. At the Moscow meeting, fundamental issues were not resolved, but they can be resolved in the future jointly by Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Russia intends to reach Armenia through Azerbaijan, and reach the Middle East and Syria via Turkey. The opening of communications will help in the transportation of goods to Tartus and to the Hmeymim military base.
The economic sanctions of the USA and Europe, as well as the confrontation with NATO, are forcing Moscow to engage in political and economic cooperation with Turkey.
Military-technical cooperation between Azerbaijan and Turkey is currently actively developing and the creation of a Turkish military base in Azerbaijan is possible, and Russia will not be able to oppose it.
Yeniavaz.com is discussing the possibility of eliminating the strict quarantine after January 18. There are sufficient grounds for this. The continued quarantine had an effect. However, the easing of quarantine should be carried out in stages.
The website Müsavat.com believes that Turkey should also be present at the negotiating table on Karabakh. However, its absence did not prevent the provision of military-political, technical, moral and informational support to Azerbaijan.
Intensive flights of Turkish military aviation to Azerbaijan continues, but is not advertised by both sides.
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