Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr I. Khalilova / Next week the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) will begin providing technical assistance to the inter-department group formed at the beginning of 2007 with experts of the Economic Development Ministry, Finance Ministry, and the National Bank of Azerbaijan (NBA), according to the director of the NBA's Statistics and Research Department, Emin Huseynov. The technical assistance is being rendered at the request of the Economic Development Ministry.
"The group was formed to define macroeconomic frames of the 2008 public budget," Huseynov said. SECO consultants will assist in the work organization of the group. Coordinated policy in budget processes was recommended to Azerbaijan by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
According to Huseynov, there are plans to give an official status to this inter-department group, but the issue is not a subject for discussion now.