"The situation regarding early marriages in the regions is satisfactory."

"The situation regarding early marriages in the regions is satisfactory."

Qazet.az reports that this was said by Afat Mammadova, a doctor-methodologist of the Public Health and Reforms Center, Monitoring and Analysis Department of the Ministry of Health.

He said that marriages at an early age still exist in some regions: "It is more common in the Central Aran, Nagorno-Karabakh Shirvan zone, even in the villages of Baku and Absheron and in the southern zone."