Azerbaijan to make efforts to develop relations with Iran: ambassador

Azerbaijan intends to establish relations with Iran at a higher level.

"We will always make efforts for the development of relations between Iran and Azerbaijan," Azerbaijani Ambassador to Iran Abbasali Hasanov said to press conference dedicated to the Republic Day of Azerbaijan, İRNA news agency reported.

He said that currently the trade turnover between Iran and Azerbaijan is $750 million.

"We are not satisfied with these figures, because both states have enormous potential for expanding trade ties," said Hasanov.

According to him, the private companies of Iran took the third place for investment in Azerbaijan, after Turkey and the United States.