Azerbaijan, Baku, 4 September / Trend corr. U.Ismayilova/ "Azerbaijani Government will try to keep average annual inflation in 2008 at current level - 20%," National Bank of Azerbaijan (NBA) Chairman of the Board Elman Rustamov said to Trend on 4 September.
"We try to keep inflation at this level but autumn and winter are coming and they are usually accompanied by rise in consumer prices," said Rustamov.
According to Rustamov, NBA does not rule out that season factors may catalyse inflation in 2008.
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