Azerbaijan, Ukraine to eye cooperation in social sector
By Kamila Aliyeva
Azerbaijan and Ukraine will exchange experience in the sphere of social policy as Ukrainian delegation led by Social Policy Minister Andrey Reva will pay an official visit to Baku.
During the visit scheduled for January 26-28, Reva will meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Salim Muslimov.
New areas of cooperation in the field of labor and social protection will be determined during the talks.
The two sides also will exchange experience in the sphere simplification of the provision of targeted social assistance, as well as a system for determining and confirming the disability.
The Ukrainian side is willing to benefit from experience of Azerbaijan in the sphere of accommodation of refugees and internally displaced persons.
Moreover, a cooperation program between the Social Policy Ministry of Ukraine and the Labor and Social Protection Ministry of Azerbaijan is planned to be signed.
In general, Azerbaijan and Ukraine have sustainable prospects of bilateral relations in political, economic, energy, transport and humanitarian fields. That is evidenced by $137.68-million trade turnover in January-May 2016, according to the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan.
In 2016, President Ilham Aliyev welcomed Ukrainian delegation headed by President Petro Poroshenko. During the visit, a number of bilateral agreements were signed between two nations.
Additionally, they discussed implementation of joint projects in energy, transport and agricultural spheres.
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