Press Review 02/03/2017

Evaluation of the thirteenth summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization in Islamabad, a look at the internal politics, "dead souls" in the labor market and the increase in the retirement age are the leading topics of today's press.

The newspaper Azerbaijan writes about the Islamabad summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization. The author writes that to meet the challenges that threaten the Islamic World, the solidarity of these countries is required.

Further, the author recalls the summits of the organization in previous years, which President Aliyev attended.

ECO was founded in 1985 on the initiative of Pakistan, Iran and Turkey. Then in 1992 it was joined by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.

The website Azadliq.info writes that the parliament amended the law "About the victims of political repression." This comes against the background of the current increase in the number of political prisoners, whose number has already exceeded 100 and continues to grow.

Echo has published an article entitled Dead Souls on the labor market of Azerbaijan. Among the officially employed persons in Azerbaijan, there are many people who are actually unemployed. In view of these persons, the number of unemployed in the country is twice the official figures.

However, no one has accurate information about the number of unemployed, how many people lost their jobs in banking, construction and other sectors.

Where the state money is regarded, "dead souls" automatically appear. The amount of stolen public funds is large and it is hard to imagine the figures.

Novoye Vremya criticizes MP Hadi Rajabli, who sees no problem in increasing the retirement age. “People's lives become longer, and their health allows it. Teachers and doctors are at war with us. They say they are still fresh and can work, so we should not make them retire,” he said.