On September 17, 2021, the Center for International Relations Analysis (CIRA) organized a webinar entitled "Overcoming the problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and the South Caucasus."

In her opening remarks, CIRA Board member Esmira Jafarova noted that the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2019 and spread in Azerbaijan since March 2020, has led to socio-economic problems around the world, and spoke about Azerbaijan's work both in the country and in the global arena.

Jordanian political expert Mohammad Bin Sari Al-Zoubi, director of the Caucasus Center for Political Analysis Ahmed Alili, editor-in-chief of the Baku Tribune news agency, political analyst Seymur Mammadov and others delivered speeches at the webinar.

Farid Guliyev, Head of the Department of Political Science and Philosophy at Khazar University made a presentation on the impact of the pandemic on the energy market. According to him, the agreement reached by the OPEC+ countries in April last year failed to fully stabilize the energy market. Farid Guliyev added that countries whose economies are completely dependent on energy revenues have been hit hardest by the fall in oil prices.

The webinar ended with a question and answer session.

AZERTAC published news about the event:

https://azertag.az/xeber/Yaxin_Serq_ve_Cenubi_Qafqazda_
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