Azerbaijan Among Most-Improved in World Bank’s Annual Ease-of-Doing-Business Report
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The
November 2018 edition
of the Embassy’s digest features news Azerbaijan’s many improvements in the World Bank’s most recent annual ease-of-doing business ranking, the visit of U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton to Baku, Ambassador Suleymanov’s appearance on Hill.TV, U.S. military praise for Azerbaijan’s role in international security, the raising of Azerbaijan’s flag in Chicago and how an observatory in Azerbaijan is helping NASA.
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Oct. 31, 2018
In its influential and closely-watched annual ranking, the World Bank named Azerbaijan as one of the year’s most improved economies for its various reforms to improve ease-of-doing-business. The World Bank cited reforms in protecting minority investors, getting credit, resolving insolvency, paying taxes and trade.
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Oct. 27, 2018
The visit of the US President’s National Security Adviser John Bolton to Azerbaijan opens new opportunities for bilateral cooperation in a number of areas, Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Hikmet Hajiyev said in an interview with the widely syndicated John Batchelor radio show.
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Nov. 10, 2018
During his visit to Baku, U.S. Gen. Stephen R. Lyons, Commander of the U.S. Transportation Command, praised Azerbaijan’s commitment to international security, highlighting the country’s longtime role in peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan.
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Nov. 10, 2018
For the first time, the flag of Azerbaijan was raised at Chicago’s Richard J. Daley Center to commemorate Azerbaijan’s national flag day. The event was sponsored by the Azerbaijani Center of Midwest America and the State Committee on Work with Diaspora of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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Oct. 15, 2018
“This secular Muslim country of 9 million is one of America’s most reliable yet underappreciated allies on the world stage,” writes S. Rob Sobhani, CEO of Caspian Group Holdings.
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Nov. 9, 2018
The Caspian Policy Center, together with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Embassies of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Turkmenistan, organized the U.S.-Caspian Innovation Summit in Boston. The Summit brought together high-level representatives from the government and the private sector.
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Oct. 29, 2018
The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has sent a letter of condolence to U.S. President Donald Trump. “On the occasion of this tragic event, on my own behalf and on behalf of the people of Azerbaijan, I extend my deepest condolences to you, families and loved ones of those who died and all the people of the United States,” President Ilham Aliyev wrote.
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Nov. 28, 2018
Rev. Johnnie Moore, founder of the interdenominational Congress of Christian Leaders, is singing the praises of Azerbaijan after wrapping up a multi-day visit to the Islamic nation. "I met Sunni and Shia young people who pray together, orthodox and evangelical Christians who serve together," he wrote in a statement.
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Oct. 31, 2018
"This fire has burned 4,000 years and never stopped," says Aliyeva Rahila. "Even the rain coming here, snow, wind -- it never stops burning." This is Yanar Dag -- meaning "burning mountainside" – on Azerbaijan’s Absheron Peninsula, where Rahila works as a tour guide.
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Oct. 9, 2018
The data obtained from Azerbaijan’s Shamakhi Observatory are used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study the sun, Natchimuthuk "Nat" Gopalswamy, a staff scientist at NASA said, adding, “Space unites us, and I believe that the initiative of Azerbaijan will be particularly useful.”
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