Baku, Azerbaijan, June 4
Trend:
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received a delegation led by a member of the British Parliament and Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, Charles Hendry.
Expressing his gratitude for the letter from British Prime Minister David Cameron on the occasion of the 21st International Exhibition and Conference, President Aliyev noted the importance of the fact that the letter dwells upon cooperation between the two countries in many spheres, the energy sector in particular.
Stressing that Azerbaijan and the UK have developed a strong partnership in the economic sphere, the president said that energy cooperation had seen many years of success.
Touching upon the development of cooperation in the non-energy sector, the Azerbaijani president pointed to the presence of good opportunities for strengthening of relations in the fields of information and communication technologies, education.
The president also emphasized that economic cooperation between the two countries was also on the agenda during a recent meeting with the British parliamentary delegation.
Hendry thanked President Aliyev for the words about the UK, in particular about bp, spoken at the opening ceremony of the exhibition, and noted that his country was interested in expanding cooperation with Azerbaijan in many areas.