OREANDA-NEWS  On 17 February was announced, that Chairman of the National Committee on Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a member of the EITI Board and the Executive Director of the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan Shahmar Movsumov participates at the EITI Conference which is held on 16-18 February, 2009 in Doha, Qatar.

EITI Compliant country status of Azerbaijan has been approved at this Conference. Thereby Azerbaijan became the first EITI Compliant country among 25 candidate countries.