Azerbaijani envoy appointed to high position at UNDP
Azerbaijani diplomat Sultan Hajiyev has been appointed for one
of the key positions of the United Nations Development Programme -
the Head of the Regional UNDP Office in Kurdistan (Iraq),AzerTag
state news agency reported.
Hajiyev is one of the highest-ranked Azerbaijani staff members
working for the United Nations.
He is known as successful crises manager. His record includes Kyrgyzstan during the revolution of April of 2010 and ethnic clashes in the south of the country during the summer of the same year, Afghanistan, Yemen and South Sudan.
Hajiyev already has experience of having worked in Iraq – he was
assigned to this country earlier from his position of UNDP HQ
Senior Advisor for complex emergency countries. Having started his
career with the UN in Azerbaijan in 1994, Hajiyev has been one of
the founders of the close cooperation between Azerbaijan and UNDP
on e-governance. This partnership is still considered to be one of
the best practices of cooperation between a government and
international organization in this area.
Hajiyev, who has several years’ worth of experience at UNDP HQ in
New York is one of the active supporters of promoting successful
examples of Azerbaijan’s good governance efforts as an example for
countries facing similar development challenges.
The cooperation between Azerbaijan and Afghanistan is one of the
best samples of such a partnership, and Hajiyev has promoted it
actively during his assignment in Afghanistan as Chief Capacity
Development Advisor of UNDP.
The Azerbaijan International Development Agency of the Foreign
Ministry of Azerbaijan and the Communication and High Technologies
Ministry of Azerbaijan have been the driving forces behind this
initiative.
Azerbaijan’s experience in providing services to its population
under ASAN service is yet another major area for cooperation, which
UNDP has expressed its strong interest to replicate abroad.