“Azerbaijan has great opportunities to achieve its goals. Our opportunities are in full view.
Every region of Azerbaijan is developing, new enterprises, buildings, social and industrial facilities are constructed everywhere. A great work is done for the development of the transport sector in Azerbaijan. It is enough to enumerate new airports built in the country to see rate of development of the air transport”, said President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at the inauguration of Lankaran Airport during his visit to the southern region.
The president said Baku International Airport was reconstructed in 1999 after the long break and new airports were handed over for the exploitation in 2004 in Nakhchivan, in 2006 in Ganja and this year in Zagatala and Lankaran. Presidnet Aliyev said Lankaran Airport, which would carry out the international flights, met all modern standards and would promote the development of southern region. The president underlined this giant facility as an important event in the country’s life.
The head of state named Azerbaijan as an irreplaceable country for the transport and energy corridor. “We achieved it with our purposeful and practice work. Roads are rapidly reconstructed in the country. The roads united Azerbaijan’s capital with all borders, as well as Baku-Astara road are constructed now. A part of this road is ready and construction of other part will be completed in the next tow years. All projects, including transport projects are implemented at the level of world standards. All these measures seek only one goal: establishing the modern transport infrastructure in Azerbaijan. And this will first of all extend Azerbaijan’s economic growth, give impetus to the development of the regions and serve the people’s welfare,” he said.
Touching upon the implementation of “State Program on Socio-Economic Development of Regions” the President underlined that the country’s economy grew 2.7 times and that indicator had no analogue in the world.
“Successful implementation of the state program both revived the regions and gave impetus to the development of non-oil sector. Reconstruction works, new facilities, schools, medical centers, infrastructural projects, new jobs – all this increases the power of the country. We do not carry out reforms not satisfy somebody. All our reforms have concrete meaning, the aim of these reforms is to improve people’s welfare, strengthen economic potential and increase the role of our state in the region and the world,” the President said.
“We are successfully realizing oil strategy initiated by national leader Heydar Aliyev,” the president said and added that Azerbaijan was not dependent on anybody, the country’s future development strategy based on domestic resources and economic reforms would be continuous.
“It is quite wrong to link all achievements of Azerbaijan to oil. Actually, our achievements are based on serious economic reforms,” he said.
The head of state expressed his confidence that Azerbaijan would continue to develop in future.
The President participated in the inauguration of some more facilities in Lankaran and ended his visit to the southern region. /APA/