Azerbaijan: number of business inspections cut

As many as 50 inspections of business activities were carried out in Azerbaijan in January-September, while the figure was 50,000 for the first nine months of last year, the country’s Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev reported. “Recently, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has taken very significant steps to promote entrepreneurship, support local production and promote non-oil exports”,…

EU and Azerbaijan to mull bilateral relations

The EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Herbert Salber will visit Azerbaijan in late October, Salber’s press service reported. Salber will hold a number of official meetings, at which the sides will discuss bilateral relations. It is also expected to discuss the situation around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The conflict between the two South Caucasus…