Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 24
By Anvar Mammadov – Trend:
The EU and Azerbaijan are implementing another statistics project, EU ambassador to Azerbaijan Kestutis Jankauskas told reporters in Baku Nov. 24.
The ambassador, participating in the event dedicated to the completion of the twinning project "Support to the State Statistical Committee in Modernization of the National Statistics System of the Republic of Azerbaijan in line with EU Standards", stressed that the new project is being worked out.
Touching upon the completed twinning project, Jankauskas stressed that this project allowed to bring the national statistics system of Azerbaijan in line with European standards.
“The EU is ready and pleased to support Azerbaijan in achieving a reliable, comprehensive statistics system to diversify economy and implement road maps,” Jankauskas said.
The EU allocated 1.2 million euros for the improvement of the national statistics system of Azerbaijan within the twinning project.
The project consisted of five components, namely, the improvement of management of statistics data and dissemination of statistics information through a geographic information system, as well as statistics data on income and living standards, etc.
The main partners of the project were Germany’s Federal Statistical Office and Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute. Moreover, the project was supported by the Netherlands, Slovenia, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Croatia.