The staff of the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) held a seminar for mass media representatives on 4 July, 2012.

The purpose of the seminar was to enhance the awareness of mass media about the Oil Fund who carefully deals with transparency issues and highly valued by numerous authoritative international organizations for its achievements, to disseminate professional information about the Fund and to cooperate with mass media on providing information to the population about SOFAZ.

During the seminar journalists were informed about SOFAZ, the organizational structure of SOFAZ and Fund's management mechanism, SOFAZ’s budget and projects financed by the Fund, new investment policy of SOFAZ, transparency activities, information about sovereign wealth funds and financial markets.

All participants were awarded with a certificate after the seminar.