Azerbaijan citizens living and working in Russia have not been deported to the motherland from Russia, said Shakir Salimov, Chief of the first Territorial Department of the State Committee for Affairs with Azerbaijanis Living Abroad, informed Trend.
The Russian Government decided to deport all illegal migrants from the country, as well as restricting possibilities to be engaged in commercial activity starting on January 15, 2007. On November 22, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev signed Decree On Solving Problems of Azerbaijan Citizens Engaged in Commercial Activity on the Territory of Russian Federation.
In order to fulfill measures coming from this Presidential decree, an operative staff consisting of seven Ministries and three department of the Presidential Administration has been founded in Baku today.
Shakir Salimov, a member of the working group of the staff, Chief of a Department of the State Committee, said that a meeting of the working group has been held on December 14.He said that operative offices have been established in seven Russian Federal Regions. This process is becoming possible with the participation of the State Committee and the All-Russian Congress of Azerbaijanis. Mr. Salimov said that in order to solve problems of Azerbaijanis living and working in Russia, operative offices are expected to be established in 89 Russian regions.
The Baku office envisages rendering assistance in solving problems Azerbaijanis face during registration in Russia. The offices will also do all possible to employ those compatriots who made their decision to return to the motherland. We are working jointly with the Azerbaijan Agriculture Ministry for this aim. If our compatriots like, they could create favorable conditions for their returning to the motherland and employ them, he said.
He also said that Azerbaijanis by origin being deported from Russia are only Georgian citizens. That is the result of the recent Russian-Georgian relations.