Author: Steven Sahiounie

Azerbaijan wants to borrow $5 billion from international credit institutions in the coming years for large infrastructure projects, including in territories secured in a lightning military offensive in September, the finance minister told Reuters. Azerbaijani forces regained control of the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, where ethnic Armenians had enjoyed de facto independence for decades, prompting at least 100,000 ethnic Armenians to flee. “Very big tasks stand before us,” Finance Minister Samir Sharifov said in an interview. He said the tasks in question were linked with the reconstruction and restoration of land now under Azerbaijan’s control, something that would also boost the country’s economic…

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Redirecting the money to Kiev still poses a slew of technical and legal problems, Italy says The G7 has not reached a consensus on how to use the revenue generated by Russian central bank assets frozen abroad to help Ukraine, Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti announced on Saturday. Italy holds the group’s presidency this year, and hosted this week’s two-day meeting of the G7 finance ministers in the town of Stresa. At a press conference at the end of the summit, Giorgetti said the group made progress on the Russian assets issue, but “has yet to finalize” the process because it still “presents…

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The Russian ruble continued to strengthen against major currencies on Monday, jumping to its highest level against the dollar since late January, trading data from the Moscow Exchange (MOEX) shows.

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AMMAN — HRH Crown Prince Hussein expressed his confidence in Jordan’s future and its youth’s ability and intelligence to build on past achievements. In an interview with Al Arabiya’s Taher Baraka on the occasion of His Majesty King Abdullah’s Silver Jubilee, the Crown Prince discussed the challenges that Jordan has faced and surmounted over the past 25 years. Prince Hussein said that despite instability in the region and its economic repercussions on Jordan, the country has emerged safely from regional turmoil. The Crown Prince added that the more imperative question today is what the next 25 years will look like,…

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