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By Trend

The Azerbaijani National Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Employers’) Organizations has prepared a big plan of events for 2019, head of the Confederation Mammad Musayev told Trend on Feb. 8.

“The main goal of the organization is to expand the partnership between the country and the private sector,” he added.

"The action plan includes joint work with the Ministry of Economy in the districts and close work with the Agency for the Development of small- and medium-sized businesses,” he said.

He said that a Cooperation Council which serves as a platform for discussions between the Ministry of Taxes and the State Customs Committee operates in the country today.

“Our plans also include the intensification of the Council’s activity and the expansion of international cooperation," Musayev said.

Presently, the Confederation cooperates with similar structures in about 50 countries.

"The Uzbekistan-Azerbaijan Cooperation Council has been recently established and we intend to expand its activity this year,” he said. “Our goal is to support the export of Azerbaijani products to the world market. The plan of measures which we have prepared for the current year will be implemented in stages.”

“Over 900,000 legal entities and individuals involved in the field of entrepreneurship have been registered in Azerbaijan, which testifies that today the procedure of registering entrepreneurs takes minimal time,” he added.

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