Starting from this year Azerbaijan started imports from North Korea, according to the calculations of APA-Economics based on the report of the State Customs Committee.
In January-May of the current year, Azerbaijan imported goods worth USD 28,34 thousand from North Korea. The volume of imports in May alone was USD 7,68 thousand.
Source: Azeri-Press News Agency
The 112 hotline of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) of Azerbaijan has received information about a fire in the Khachmaz region of Azerbaijan, the Ministry told APA.
Measures are being continued by the Ministry of Emergency Situations in order to extinguish the fire that occurred near the Nabran settlement of the Khachmaz region.
The Ministry told APA that the helicopter of the Aviation team of the Ministry has been involved in the extinguishing process in order to accelerate the extinguishing of the fire.
Source: Azeri-Press News Agency
The CEO of one of Wall Street’s top investment banks has a message for employees in its New York offices. You need to come back to work this fall, APA reports citing CNN.
Morgan Stanley (MS) chief James Gorman said at an investing conference earlier this week that it’s time for the bank’s New York workers to head back to the office now that more people are getting vaccinated for Covid-19 and life is slowly returning to normal.
“If you can go to a restaurant in New York City, you can come into the office. And we want you in the office,” Gorman said.
Gorman made the comments Monday at an annual conference about financial payments and commercial real estate. He joked that he was doing so from the company’s New York office — and while wearing a suit and tie to boot.
Gorman said that many Morgan Stanley employees have already started to slowly make their way back to the firm’s headquarters at 1585 Broadway in Times Square a couple of days a week.
But Gorman said that once the summer is over, most of the New York workers will need to be getting off Zoom and taking the subway into the office more regularly.
“By Labor Day, I’ll be very disappointed if people haven’t found their way into the office and then we’ll have a different kind of conversation,” he said, adding that workers can’t expect to get their New York salaries if they continue to work remotely.
“If you want to get paid New York rates, you work in New York,” Gorman said. “None of this ‘I’m in Colorado…and getting paid like I’m sitting in New York City.’ Sorry. That doesn’t work.”
Gorman was quick to note that the company would still be flexible with regards to splitting time between at home and the office. He said the policy would not be “dictatorial,” noting that many working parents still need to be home with kids if they’re not in school or camp.
Gorman also noted that he hopes that most Morgan Stanley workers coming back to the office would be vaccinated, saying that “well over 90%” of employees already had received Covid-19 shots and that he expected that number to eventually reach 98% to 99%.
But Gorman conceded that some employees may not get vaccinated for health or religious reasons and that the company will deal with that.
Gorman was also quick to note that the company’s policy for returning to the office would be looked at on a case-by-case business. The company has offices around the globe and also recently bought online brokerage E-Trade and investment management firm Eaton Vance.
Morgan Stanley has 10,000 employees in India, which has been hit particularly hard by Covid-19 recently.
“They’re not coming back to work,” Gorman said. “That’s not a 2021 issue.”
“I don’t think making a blanket statement to all employees is helpful,” he added. “I don’t think speaking to employees who work at 1585 Broadway in Times Square is the same as speaking to a small office in Topeka.”
Source: Azeri-Press News Agency
Remains of 3 more Armenian servicemen were found in the territory of liberated lands from the occupation, APA reports citing Sputnik Armenia.
According to the information, those whose remains found were participants of combat operations in Karabakh. A forensic examination will be conducted in order to determine their identities.
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The first meeting of the Steering Committee for the implementation of the Framework Document regarding the Sustainable Development Cooperation between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the United Nations has been held under the co-chairmanship of the Minister of the Economy of Azerbaijan Mikayil Jabbarov and UN Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan Gulam Isakzai, the Ministry told APA-Economics.
It has been noted in the meeting that being an important tool in the financing of SDGs in our country, the Framework document will create favorable conditions for the conducted reforms and implementation of the projects in the direction of realizing national priorities.
UN Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan Gulam Isakza has noted that the organization will continue its support to Azerbaijan to eliminate socio-economic difficulties due to pandemics and restoration of the liberated territories from the occupation, the country will continue to contribute to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Source: Azeri-Press News Agency
“We do not consider it right to confuse Azerbaijan’s or Armenia’s bilateral relations with third parties with the Nagorno-Karabakh issue,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova while commenting on the Shusha Declaration on Allied Relations signed between Azerbaijan and Turkey at a briefing today, APA’s Moscow bureau reports.
MFA official emphasized that bilateral relations in the region, including military relations, should not be established against other states: “We support all steps aimed at normalizing the dialogue between Baku and Yerevan, including Yerevan-Ankara. Cooperation in the South Caucasus should develop taking into account the principle of good neighborliness and, of course, the interests of all countries in the region.”
Source: Azeri-Press News Agency
