"Azerbaijan is a social state, and the steps we take prove it," said President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on March 10 at the first session of the 6th Parliament.
"The socially oriented package executed at my initiative last year alone envisages 4.2 million people. The regular increase of minimum salaries, minimum pensions, of course, requires big economic sources, and we create it. The processes taking place in our country in connection with transparency, the processes against the shadow economy strengthen our economic opportunities, expand the tax market, strike a very serious blow to the shadow economy. Therefore, all these issues, surely, should be in focus in the legislation," the President noted.