Baku, Azerbaijan, July 14
Trend:
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko made statements for the press following the ceremony of signing documents in Baku July 14.
“We attach great importance to your visit,” said President Aliyev addressing his Ukrainian counterpart. “This is your first visit to Azerbaijan and I am glad that it is going on successfully. The conducted talks and the signed documents once again prove this.”
“We met with you in Davos in early 2016. That meeting was very significant, because after it, very important steps were taken to develop the Ukraine-Azerbaijan relations,” said Azerbaijani president. “After that, high-level delegations from Ukraine started to visit Azerbaijan.”
“A meeting of the intergovernmental commission was held in early July, and today, we are meeting you in Azerbaijan on an official visit,” said President Aliyev. “I take this opportunity to thank you for accepting our invitation and visiting Azerbaijan.”
He said expansive discussions were held on various aspects of the Ukraine-Azerbaijan relations and further steps were determined for the future joint activities both during the one-on-one meeting and the meeting of the Council of Azerbaijani and Ukrainian Presidents.
“The Council’s agenda was very extensive,” said the president. “Very important issues – our energy, transportation, military and technical cooperation, political relations and activities in international organizations – were discussed.”
“It can be said that very serious instructions were given regarding all the discussed issues,” he added. “I am confident that as a result of fulfilling those instructions, our countries will become even closer to each other and the volume of trade turnover will increase, because currently, the trade turnover is satisfactory neither for us, nor for Ukraine.”
President Aliyev said expansive discussions were held on the development of political relations.
“We successfully cooperate within international organizations, support each other and will further intensify our cooperation in those organizations, especially, in the UN, OSCE, Council of Europe and other international organizations,” he added.
“In general, I highly appreciate the meeting of the Council of Presidents, and I am confident that in the future the Ukraine-Azerbaijan relations will continue in the directions defined in Baku today,” said President Aliyev.
President Aliyev also pointed out that Poroshenko’s official visit to Azerbaijan is a very important and very serious political step in the current stage of bilateral relations.
He expressed confidence that the excellent results of the visit will bring Ukraine and Azerbaijan and the peoples of the two countries even closer to each other.
