BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 13. A Competition Forum of the Heads of Competition Authorities of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) was held in Shusha, with the participation of the heads of competition authorities from OTS member states, Trend's correspondent from the event reports.
The forum was organized by the State Agency for Antimonopoly Control and Consumer Market Supervision under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The event was attended by heads and high-ranking representatives of competition authorities from Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Hungary, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization of Turkic States, as well as representatives of relevant government agencies and the private sector.
Speakers at the forum’s opening ceremony included Elnur Baghirov, Head of the State Agency for Antimonopoly Control and Consumer Market Supervision; Samad Bashirli, Deputy Minister of Economy of Azerbaijan; and Merey Mukazhan, Deputy Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States.
The speeches emphasized the importance of deepening economic integration among the member countries of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), particularly by strengthening cooperation in the area of competition policy. It was noted that the main objective of the forum is to harmonize the participating countries’ approaches to competition policy and to expand the exchange of legal and institutional expertise.
As part of the event, moderated by Jafar Babayev, First Deputy Head of the State Service, a panel discussion was held on the topic “Formation of competition policy as one of the driving forces of the OTS: regional cooperation.”
The panel featured Elnur Baghirov, Head of the Turkish Competition Authority; Birol Küle, Chairman of the Committee on Competition Development and Consumer Protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan; Khalilillo Turakhuzhaev, Nurzhan Kadirbekova, Deputy Chair of the Antimonopoly Regulation Service under the Ministry of Economy and Commerce of the Kyrgyz Republic; and Bolat Sambetov, Deputy Chair of the Agency for the Protection and Development of Competition of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The discussions included an exchange of views on the development of competition policy within the framework of regional cooperation, strengthening coordination among competition authorities, and the creation of a single competitive economic space within the territory of the OTS.
