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       Prime Minister Surat HUSEYNOV (since 30 June 1993)

       cabinet:

       Council of Ministers; appointed by the president and confirmed by the

       Mejlas

       Legislative branch:

       unicameral

       National Assembly (Milli Mejlis):

       elections last held 30 September and 14 October 1990 for the Supreme

       Soviet (next expected to be held NA 1994 for the National Assembly);

       seats for Supreme Soviet - (360 total) Communists 280, Democratic Bloc

       45 (grouping of opposition parties), other 15, vacant 20; note - on 19

       May 1992 the Supreme Soviet was prorogued in favor of a Popular

       Front-dominated National Council; seats - (50 total) Popular Front 25,

       opposition elements 25

       Judicial branch:

       Supreme Court

       Political parties and leaders:

       Azerbaijan Popular Front (APF), Ebulfez ELCIBEY, chairman; Musavat

       Party, Isa GAMBAR, chairman; National Independence Party, Etibar

       MAMEDOV, chairman; Social Democratic Party (SDP), Araz ALIZADE,

       chairman; Communist Party, Ramiz AKHMEDOV, chairman; People's Freedom

       Party, Yunus OGUZ, chairman; Independent Social Democratic Party, Arif

       YUNUSOV and Leila YUNOSOVA, cochairmen; New Azerbaijan Party, Heydar

       ALIYEV, chairman; Boz Gurd Party, Iskander HAMIDOV, chairman;

       Azerbaijan Democratic Party, Sardar MAMEDOV, chairman; Azerbaijan

       Democratic Independence Party, Qabil HUSELNLI, chairman; Islamic Party

       of Azerbaijan, Ali Akram, chairman

       Other political or pressure groups:

       self-proclaimed Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh Republic; Talysh

       independence movement

       Member of:

       BSEC, CCC, CIS, CSCE, EBRD, ECE, ECO, ESCAP, IBRD, ICAO, IDB, ILO,

       IMF, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ITU, NACC, OIC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UPU,

       WHO

       Diplomatic representation in US:

       chief of mission:

       Ambassador Hafiz Mir Jalal Ogly PASHAYEV

       chancery:

       Suite 700, 927 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005

       telephone:

       (202) 842–0001

       FAX:

       (202) 842–0004

       US diplomatic representation:

       chief of mission:

       Ambassador Richard KAZLAURICH

       embassy:

       Hotel Intourist, Baku

       mailing address:

       use embassy street address

       telephone:

       7–8922-92–63-06 through 09, extension 441, 442, 446, 447, 448, 450

       FAX:

       Telex 142110 AMEMB SU

       Flag:

       three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), red, and green; a crescent

       and eight-pointed star in white are centered in red band

      @Azerbaijan, Economy

      Overview:

       Azerbaijan is less developed industrially than either Armenia or

       Georgia, the other Transcaucasian states. It resembles the Central

       Asian states in its majority Muslim population, high structural

       unemployment, and low standard of living. The economy's most prominent

       products are oil, cotton, and gas. Production from the Caspian oil and

       gas field has been in decline for several years. With foreign

       assistance, the oil industry might generate the funds needed to spur

       industrial development. However, civil unrest, marked by armed

       conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region between Muslim Azeris and

       Christian Armenians, makes foreign investors wary. Azerbaijan

       accounted for 1.5% to 2% of the capital stock and output of the former

       Soviet Union. Azerbaijan shares all the formidable problems of the

       ex-Soviet republics in making the transition from a command to a

       market economy, but its considerable energy resources brighten its

       prospects somewhat. Old economic ties and structures have yet to be

       replaced. A particularly galling constraint on economic revival is the

       Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said to consume 25% of Azerbaijan's

       economic resources.

       National product:

       GDP - purchasing power equivalent - $15.5 billion (1993 estimate from

       the UN International Comparison Program, as extended to 1991 and

       published in the World Bank's World Development Report 1993; and as

       extrapolated to 1993 using official Azerbaijani statistics, which are

       very uncertain because of major economic changes since 1990)

       National product real growth rate:

       −13.3% (1993 est.)

       National product per capita:

       $2,040 (1993 est.)

       Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       20% per month (average 1993); above 50% per month (February 1994)

       Unemployment rate:

       0.7% includes officially registered unemployed; also large numbers of

       underemployed workers (December 1993)

       Budget:

       revenues:

       $NA

       expenditures:

       $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

       Exports:

       $355 million to outside the FSU countries (f.o.b., 1993)

       commodities:

       oil and gas, chemicals, oilfield equipment, textiles, cotton (1991)

       partners:

       mostly CIS and European countries

       Imports:

       $240 million from outside the FSU countries (c.i.f., 1993)

       commodities:

       machinery and parts, consumer durables, foodstuffs, textiles (1991)

       partners:

       European countries

       External debt:

       $NA

       Industrial production:

       growth rate −7% (1993)

       Electricity:

       capacity:

       6,025,000 kW

       production:

       22,300 kWh

       consumption per capita:

       2,990 kWh (1992)

       Industries:

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