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Gudrat Hasanguliyev: â€œAZAL blockades Nakhchivan from airâ€

11 November 2009 12:16 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Elbrus Seyfullayev â€“ APA. Azerbaijani parliament continues discussion on state budget bill for 2010 and lawmakers make their proposals, APA reports. MP Igbal Aghazadeh said the budget bill was rated at the political processes, but not economic development.

MP Ali Ahmadov mentioned the global financial crisisâ€™ impact on Azerbaijanâ€™s economy and said it din not cause unemployment in Azerbaijan. The lawmaker said the budget bill created basis for socio-economic development. He proposed to elaborate program for use of potential of the people educated abroad. He also proposed to give more attention to fate of children living in orphanages and to build small town to solve housing problem when they grow up.

MP Gudrat Hasanguliyev said if the world processes were analyzed, it would become clear that the government had no correct attitude to the budget. â€œThe budget expenditure shouldnâ€™t be reduced, but part of Azerbaijanâ€™s resources in foreign banks should be brought to the countryâ€. The lawmaker said 44 million AZN of budget resources were not enough for the development of ownership and generally it was cowardly budget bill. He also proposed to increase defense expenditures. Hasanguliyev said airports constructed in Zagatala and Lankaran didnâ€™t operate and were closed now. He said not the government, but owners should fund the construction of diagnostic centers, Olympic complexes and other buildings. It would be more usefulâ€.

Hasanguliyev criticized Azerbaijan Air Lines president Jahangir Asgarovâ€™s activity. â€œArmenians blockade Nakhchivan on ground, but AZAL from airâ€, said the lawmaker. He protested raise of air ticket price and reducing of flights to Nakhchivan. â€œWhy Jahangir Asgarov has personal plane? Who is he? He is not the President, Prime Minister or Speaker. Why he doesnâ€™t fly with common flights? Resources spent to his personal plane can be used for solution of problem in Nakhchivanâ€.

Lawmaker Fazail Ibrahimli talked about the problems in Jalilabad region. He asked to take urgent measures to solve this situation.

The discussions are continued.