“Although the unemployment rate is only at 5 percent, our demographic growth – over the past 30 years, the population of Azerbaijan has grown from 7 to 10 million – requires active efforts to create new jobs,” said President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev as he addressed an expanded meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Moscow, Report informs via AZERTAC.
“Of course, we look forward to strengthening our interactions with EurAsEC member countries both in bilateral format – which we are successfully doing already – and in the multilateral format,” the head of state added.