Azerbaijan: cooperation in maritime sector mulled with Mexico

In order to review prospects of bilateral cooperation in maritime sector, Ambassador of Mexico Rodrigo Labardini has met with Director of Azerbaijan’s State Maritime Agency Gudrat Gurbanov. Welcoming the ambassador, the director spoke about agency’s functions, its bilateral and multilateral links. Also, he underlined agency’s activity within the International Maritime Organization (IMO). In this regard,…

Armenia: military industry budget to grow in 2020

Budgetary allocations in the military industry will grow by 122% in 2020, Hakob Arshakyan, Minister of High-tech Industry, declared. “Out of the AMD 12.5 billion ($26.3 million) to be allocated to the Ministry of High-tech Industry, AMD 6.3 billion ($13.3 million) will be spent on military industry,” Arshakyan said. Some of the expenses, the minister…

Georgia: external trade up in January-October 2019

Georgia’s external trade turnover amounted to $10.37 billion in January-October, up by 0.5% YoY, according to preliminary data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat). The value of exports increased by 10.4% and reached $3.04 billion, while imports decreased by 3.1%, amounting to $7.33 billion. The trade deficit of Georgia in January-October amounted to…

Azerbaijan: $350 million invested in UAE

Azerbaijan has invested about $350 million in the UAE economy, Azerbaijani Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov said. Jabbarov made the remark at the fourth meeting of the Azerbaijan-UAE Joint Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Trade and Technical Cooperation in Baku. “Some $2.2 billion were invested in the Azerbaijani economy by the UAE, of which $900 million…