Azerbaijan, Baku, September 12 / Trend A.Huseynbala /
Azerbaijan will raise the global problem of migration before the European countries.
"During the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, at tha Committee of Migration, I will make a report on "Tendencies of migration in Europe" a member of the Azerbaijani delegation to PACE, MP Gultekin Hajibeyli, told Trend on September 12.
According to the information provided by the public union Center for Migration of Azerbaijan, in the world every 35 and in Azerbaijan every eight people are migrants. According to the statistics of the center, currently the number of migrants worldwide is 200 million people, and in Azerbaijan - about one million. Azerbaijan ranks the first in the world for the number of internal migrants. Approximately 48 percent of the world's migrants and 53 percent of Azerbaijan are women. Despite that in the world 97-98 percent of the migrants are citizens of other countries, in Azerbaijan 70 percent of migrants are internally displaced persons as a result of the occupation of territories. If the migrants who have settled in other countries do not belong to the local nation, in Azerbaijan more than 90 percent of migrants are Azerbaijanis.
According to Hajibeyli, the main reason for the flow of migrants into Azerbaijan is improvement in the economic indicators of the country. "The solution of social problems, as well as the implementation of infrastructure projects directly affect the migration. While ten years ago, because of problems with unemployment, people migrated from Azerbaijan to Europe, mainly to Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, now the process is going on vise-verse. Above-mentioned countries faced with problems associated with the economic crisis, while Azerbaijan did not particularly feel its impact and the country continues to grow steadily," said Azerbaijani MP.
Azerbaijan is an attractive country for migrants from Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq, said Hajibeyli. "The number of cases of migration of citizens of these countries to Azerbaijan both legally and illegally has increased. I emphasize again that this is due to the economic successes of the country," said Hajibeyli.
She said that if ten years ago Azerbaijan was considered a source of migration to Europe, now it has become a country to which migrants come increasingly. "Undoubtedly, this indicator provides a basis to say that Azerbaijan is a leader in the region," said Hajibeyli.
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