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Azerbaijan: Chairman of Executive Committee of Mountain Jews' Religious Community met with President's state adviser.

The ethnic policy state adviser to the President of Azerbaijan, Idayat Orudgev, received the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Mountain Jews' Religious Community, Semen Ikhi'iov. At the meeting, a series of issues of concern to the Jews of Azerbaijan were discussed, such as the creation of new working places, for more than 11,000 Mountain Jews have become guest-workers over recent years. Semen Ikhi'iov informed Idayat Orudgev that the Jews are involved to vote for acting President Geydar Aliyev at the upcoming Presidential elections. However, more than 50,000 Jews in Azerbaijan would like to have their own representative in the Millimajilis (parliament) of the state. Orudgev replied that he supports the idea of having an MP-Jew, but all in all, everything depends on the will of the voters.

Источник: rujen.org