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119 DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION through physical centres and mobile buses, ASAN Service has created a system, which averts corruption, red tape and impropriety, resulting in very high customer satisfaction. Winning first place in the United Nations Public Service Award, in the category: Improving the Delivery of Public Services, ASAN Service enjoys worldwide recognition, and has become a brand through which Azerbaijan promotes the principles of efficiency, transparency, accessibility and citizen’s comfort in public service delivery based on inno- vation and modernisation, and building solid partnerships with like-minded countries. Following the adoption of the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, the importance of international cooperation in replicating best practice by other countries has risen greatly. In pursuit of this goal, the Azerbaijan State Agency is constantly establishing new ties with like-minded nations and is ready to transfer its expertise and know-how in the field of public service delivery to partner countries. For example, the State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations, under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, together with the Ministry of Finance of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on July 12, 2016 in Kabul, on coop- eration to establish an advanced public service delivery mechanism based on the ASAN service model. The signing ceremony, held in the Afghanistan President’s palace, was attended by Afghan ministers, members of parliament and other senior officials. At the press confer- ence, Mr. Inam Karimov, Chairman of the Azerbaijan State Agency, spoke about the friendly relations and partnership between the two countries in all areas. He also provided detailed information about the recent reforms initiated by the Azerbaijan president, Ilham Aliyev, in the field of public administration and public service delivery and highlighted the activities of the ASAN Service establishment as part of these reforms. Mr. Eklil Hakimi, Afghanistan’s Minister of Finance, expressed his satisfaction with his country’s choice of Azerbaijan’s model for modernising public service The new ASAN Khedmat building in Afghanistan Image: ASAN