| The State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) forecasts its total assets by the end of 2013 will remain at the level of last year, CEO of the Fund, Shahmar Movsumov, told journalists on Tuesday. "If oil prices on the world markets remain unchanged, we can keep the assets at the level of the beginning of the year, although the budget has been prepared with a deficit," Movsumov said.
In 2012, the revenues of SOFAZ amounted to about 13.674 billion manat with expenses at 10.574 billion manat. SOFAZ budget revenues were approved for 2013 to the sum of more than 11.482 billion manat and expenditure more than 13.403 million manat. In the first quarter, the revenues comprised over 3.523 million manat, and expenditure about 2.930 billion manat...............................................Full Article: Source
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