Deputy Prime Minister Abid Sharifov of Azerbaijan

Abid Sharifov said NATO was asked modern equipment for the protection of the pipelines, but the organization rejected.

We don’t need ExImBank’s assistance,” Azerbaijan’s Deputy Prime Minister Abid Sharifov said on July 27.

The event is organized by the OSCE and we take part in it as an organization member, Sharifov is quoted as saying and he has remarked that Azeri and Armenian representatives participate in various international events, either in Baku, Yerevan or other cities of the world.

Deputy Prime Minister in charge of construction.

Speaking in a news conference on the outcomes of the meeting at the Cabinet of Ministers, vice-premier Sharifov said he was content with the negotiations held.

Sharifov is in Japan to attend a bilateral economic meeting.

According to Mr Aliyev, starting from February of the current year according to the president of the country Ilham Aliyev’s relevant decree, a government commission led by the Deputy Prime Minister Abid Sharifov was established for holding negotiations with the government of Kazakhstan.

The project will be financed from various sources, including grants from the European Commission and loans from banks and international financial organisations,” Sharifov was quoted as saying.

Vice premier Abid Sharifov has been appointed its chairman.

Sharifov said the government had already started to pay compensations to 300 families, whose dwelling has been ruined.

Turkish contractors have taken on nearly 75 percent of all construction projects in Azerbaijan, Azeri Deputy Prime Minister Abid Sharifov has said.

At a Turkey-Azerbaijan Joint Economic Commission meeting yesterday in İstanbul, Sharifov said it is the common responsibility of both countries to show commitment to carrying relations to higher levels.