Press Review 04/15/2016

Financial, social problems, as well as regional relations are the leading themes of today's media.

The Azerbaijan writes about the thirteenth summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, in the work of which Ilham Aliyev is involved.

In his speech, he touched on relations with Islamic countries, which it considers a priority. Ilham Aliyev held about 10 meetings with representatives of member countries of the OIC.

The Azadlig leads conclusion of the international rating agency Fitch, according to which Azerbaijan expects financial instability, as well as the increase in the number of problem loans.

This forecast has caused concern as a starting point for foreign investors, the expert Nemat Aliyev said. According to him, the projections of such authoritative international organizations should be a strong signal to the government of Azerbaijan.

The expert reminded that such predictions were given in the past, but the authorities ignored them, which led to the current situation.

Investors shun Azerbaijan also because there is flourishing corruption and monopoly, and no conditions for entrepreneurship.

The Echo writes about the problem of kindergartens that are lacking. If this question does not find solution, the demographic situation will change for the worse, the article titled Thirteen Thousand Kindergartens says.

The head of Children's Rights League Yusif Bakirov says the reason for this is the decision of the Ministry of Education to allow the privatization of kindergartens. Entrepreneurs, who bought the former kindergartens, demolished them to build various objects in their place. Only a tiny part of the entrepreneurs used the opportunities provided by the destination.

According to Bakirov, now all over the country there are 1,200 kindergartens, which cover only 10% of the child population. To ensure kindergartens for the remaining 90% of the children, still 13,000 kindergartens should be built.

The Novoye Vremya in an article entitled Will the Islamic World Help Resolve the Karabakh Problem? reports the creation of a contact group on the thirteenth summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul.

The article is not optimistic in this regard, because inside the OIC the opinion on this matter is different.

The Bizim Yol writes about the situation with half-demolished houses in the former Soviet Street. The executive power of the Yasamal district requires departure of the residents, threatening to turn off their electricity, water and gas. However, the owners of those small apartments can get only 30-35 thousand mantas for them. It is impossible to buy an apartment for this sum.

In this area there are ​​more than 10 thousand apartments. The compensation for the residents is 1,500 manats per square meter. -0--