In celebration of the 10^th Anniversary of the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan SOFAZ announces the best analytic article competition for journalists for the purpose of increasing public awareness on the Fund's activities in Azerbaijan.

Awards:

1^st place -1000 manat

2^nd place - 800 manat

3^rd place - 500 manat

Terms of the competition:

Subject of the article may cover any of the Fund's activities.

The participant of the competition should have minimum two years of experience in journalism and must be contributor to local or foreign media. The participants of the competition are required to submit the following documents by December 1, 2009 to the Public Relations Office of SOFAZ:

1. Filled and printed out APPLICATION FORM available at www.oilfund.az

2. Document confirming the journalist as contributor to the media

3. Copy of the issue of the article as published in local or international media from June 15, 2009 to November 20, 2009

The article should bear following sentence on top of it: "This material is prepared for the best analytic article competition announced by the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan in celebration of the 10^th Anniversary of the Fund for the purpose of increasing public awareness on SOFAZ in Azerbaijan"

The results of the competition will be announced after December 1, 2009.

Board of experts:

Jahangir Mammadli - Head of the journalism department of Baku State University, the chairman of

the Public Television Broadcasting Company

Sabit Baghirov - President of Economical and Political Research Centre, member of the Coalition

for Improving Transparency in Extractive Industries

Rahim Huseyzadeh - Executive Secretary of Press Council of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Honoured

Journalist of Azerbaijan

Any information on the Oil Fund can be obtained from the Public Relations Office of SOFAZ.

Contact:

Tel: 498 6534 (direct)

498 7753 (internal 132)

e-mail: jamala.aliyeva@oilfund.az