The United Kingdom continues to keep leading positions on volume of investments in Azerbaijan in January-October 2010.

The share of the country in foreign investments is 52.2% for the
first seven months, the State Statistics Committee said. British
investments hit 886,5 million manat.
In January-October, roughly 94.1% (1597,8 million manat) of
investments of foreign countries and the international organizations to
the Azerbaijani economy fall on share of investors from Great Britain,
the U.S, Japan, Norway, France, Korea and Turkey.
The U.S investments hit 302,076 million manat (weight 17.8%),
Japanese - 157,96 million manat (9.3%), Norwegian - 97,96
million manat (5.8%), Turkish - 83,85 million manat (4.9%), French - 29,16 manat (1.7%), Korean - 40,23 million
manat (2.4%), UAE - 390,600 manat, Saudi Arabian - 3,359 million
manat (0.2%), German - 700,000 manat, Austrian - 551,800 manat,
Russian - 1,937 million manat (0.1%), Czech - 8,69 million manat
(0.5%), Italian - 241,1 manat, Swiss - 232,200 manat, and
Luxembourgian - 9,200 manat.
The biggest volume of investments was allocated by WB to the amount of 63,381 million manat given weight of 3.8%.
Asian Development Bank allocated 17.47 million manat (1%) and
Islamic Development Bank - 3,039 million manat (0.2%) to realize
projects in Azerbaijan.
/Trend/