Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 16 / Trend N.Ismayilova /
Great Britain continues to keep leading positions on volume of investments to Azerbaijan in January-November 2010. The weight of the country in the volume of foreign investments hit 52.6 percent for the first seven months, the State Statistics Committee said. British investments hit 1.834.77 million manat.
In January-November, roughly 94.5 percent (1.733.2 million manat) of investments of foreign countries and the international organizations to the Azerbaijani economy fall on share of investors from Great Britain, the U.S, Japan, Norway, France, Korea and Turkey.
The U.S investments hit 335.96 million manat (weight 18.3 percent), Japanese - 169.16 million manat (9.2 percent), Norwegian - 104.9 million manat (5.7 percent), Turkish - 89.37 million manat (4.9 percent), French - 29.23 manat (1.6 percent), Korean - 40.23 million manat (2.2 percent), UAE - 390,600 manat, Saudi Arabian - 3.89 million manat (0.2 percent), German - 700,000 manat, Austrian - 551,800 manat, Russian - 1.937 million manat (0.1 percent), Czech - 8.69 million manat (0.5 percent), Italian - 321,500 manat, Swiss - 232,200 manat, and Luxembourgian - 11,100 manat.
The biggest volume of investments was allocated by WB to the amount of 63.6 million manat given weight of 3.5 percent.
Asian Development Bank allocated 17.83 million manat (1 percent) and Islamic Development Bank - 3.42 million manat (0.2 percent) to realize projects in Azerbaijan.
The official exchange rate is 0. 7987 manat to $1 Dec. 16.
