On June 25th Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Lankaran region.
The President started his visit by laying a wreath at a monument to the national leader in the Heydar Aliyev park.
Large-scaled construction and land improvement work is underway in Lankaran like in Azerbaijan's other regions. The region's Gross Domestic Product saw a 2.9-fold increase in comparison with 2003 to have made over AZN175 million. The agricultural production increased 2.5-fold to have reached AZN77.1 million, while the industrial output doubled. Lankaran`s fixed capital investment saw a 3.1-fold rise.
Nearly 26,000 jobs, of them 14,451 permanent, have been created in the region since 2003.

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