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State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan posts 19% surge in assets

20 October 2009 15:13 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Vahab Rzayev â€“ APA-Economics. As of October 1, State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) posted its assets at 10 716.2 mln. manats (USD 13 337.5 mln.).

Shahmar Movsumov, Executive Director of SOFAZ, told a press conference the Fundâ€™s budget revenues for January-September, 2009 reached 5 465.2 million manats, while budget expenditures made 3 954.1 mln. manats.

Revenue of 5 191.6 mln. manats was received from implementation of oil and gas agreements, including 5 107.2 mln. manats from the sale of profit oil and gas, 6.8 mln. manats as transit payments, 75.6 mln. manats from State share in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Main Export Pipeline, 1.1 mln. manats as acreage payments, 0.8 million manats as bonus payments and 0.1 mln. manats from sale of assets received from foreign companies.
The revenues from managing assets of the Fund for the reporting period amounted to 273.6 mln. manats.
The Fund’s extra-budgetary revenues related to the revaluation of foreign exchange totalled 218.4 million manats.
As per 2009 budget of the Fund, 3 685.0 mln. manats were transferred to the state budget. The expenditures in the amount of 69.6 mln. manats were directed to financing of improvement of social condition of refugees and internally displaced persons, 92.4 mln. manats and 94.1 mln. manats were accordingly used for financing the reconstruction of the Samur-Absheron irrigation system and financing construction of the Oghuz-Gabala-Baku water supply system. 4.1 mln. manats were directed to financing Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway and 3.2 mln. manats to financing "The state program on the education of Azerbaijan youth abroad in the years 2007-2015". The Fund’s administrative and operational expenses in this period were 5.7 mln. manats.
32% of the investment portfolio is in sovereign bonds, 40% in agencies and international institutionsâ€™ bonds, and 20% in financial bonds.

99% of the bonds SOFAZ holds carry A, AA and AAA ratings.