The staff of the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) will hold seminar for Azeri journalists on11-12 May, 2009.

The purpose of this seminar is:

• To enhance awareness of Azeri mass media about SOFAZ;
• To achieve better information dissemination about SOFAZ;
• To learn proposals of mass media on development of SOFAZ's public relations;
• To cooperate with mass media on providing information to the population about SOFAZ.

At the seminar journalists can get comprehensive information about SOFAZ, as well as about sovereign wealth funds, financial markets. The seminar will cover the following subjects:

• General information about SOFAZ;
• The organizational structure of SOFAZ and Fund's management mechanism;
• SOFAZ's budget as part of consolidated state budget ;
• SOFAZ's role in protecting macroeconomic stability;
• SOFAZ's activity in asset management, Fund's investment policy;
• Azerbaijan and Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI);
• SOFAZ's achievements ("UN Public Service Award").

The participants of the seminar are required to submit the following documents by May 10, 2009 to the Public Relations Division of SOFAZ or send this information by e-mail to jamala.aliyeva@oilfund.az:

• Official application of participants assigned by media organisation;
• Copy of the certificate issued by media organization.

More information about seminar can be obtained from the Public Relations Division of SOFAZ or from SOFAZ's official website www.oilfund.az.

Contact:

Tel: 498 6534 (direct)

498 7753 (internal 132)