To find necessary funding for healthcare, Latvia’s Finance Minister Janis Reirs proposes creating “a fair system” in the context of the expected tax reform in which all employed taxpayers will be able to participate. On November 20 the minister mentioned that 600,000 taxpayers paid social tax in full, which was used to finance healthcare. 250,000…
G7 Ambassadors have welcomed the adoption at first reading of the bill lifting a moratorium on farmland sales in Ukraine, they said in a joint statement posted on the Twitter account of the French Presidency of the G7 Ambassadors’ Support Group in Kyiv. “G7 Ambassadors welcome the launch of a legislative process to end the…
Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Dmytro Razumkov says the national budget for 2020, which has recently been passed by the parliament, is not final and will be amended. “Parliamentarians also spoke about this, addressing the government. They said that not all proposals from representatives of various political forces had been taken into account. There will…
During the first 10 months of 2019 Azerbaijan exported 65,794 tons of cotton fiber and 10,309 tons of cotton yarn, the State Customs Committee (SCC) reported. According to the committee, over the reporting period the value of the exported cotton fiber exceeded $91.8 million, while the value of cotton yarn exports amounted to over $24.5…
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,…
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…
Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population Sahil Babayev has said that average monthly wages will be increased by 14% in 2019. “We expect that the average monthly wage growth in 2019 will be 14%. There are good prerequisites for this. The salary fund grew by 34% over 10 months, and the median…