BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb. 24
Trend:
The signing of the Declaration between Russia and Azerbaijan is the result of very important work over many years, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Feb. 23 during a meeting with the heads of leading Russian media outlets in TASS news agency, Trend reports.
"This is higher than the agreement, because the agreement, as far as I remember, was about friendship, cooperation and security, but it did not define the format of relations as allies. For many years, the relations between Russia and Azerbaijan were characterized by both me and President Putin as relations of strategic partners. The current format of relations is the highest. In other words, there is practically nothing higher than this. In interstate relations, this is the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. I have given this instruction and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan has posted the full text of the Declaration on the website so that everyone could get acquainted with it. As I noted yesterday, there are 43 provisions in it. Of course, it would take too much time to comment on all the provisions. And there is no need for that, you can look it up. But the very title of this Declaration speaks volumes. This, as I said, is the result of very hard work over many years to increase the level of interaction and the result of specific work by a group of representatives of Russia and Azerbaijan for more than one year – since January last year – on the actual text of this Declaration. It covers almost all areas of life. And, of course, there is also a series of documents being developed that will back up this Declaration with concrete agreements on various fronts," the head of state said.