Presidents of Azerbaijan and Tajikistan held a meeting in an expanded format

After the one-on-one meeting, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomalii Rahmon held a meeting in an expanded format with the participation of delegations.
Addressing the meeting participants, President Ilham Aliyev said:

- Dear Emomalii Sharifovich!

Distinguished guests!

Please allow me to warmly welcome you to Azerbaijan. Welcome!

Thank you very much for accepting our invitation to pay an official visit to our country. We attach great importance to your visit and to the relations between our two countries in general. They have a good history and excellent prospects. We have exchanged views on important issues of bilateral political and economic relations and outlined ways of resolving specific problems. Specific instructions will be given to relevant bodies today in order to fill your visit with positive content.
I do hope that your visit will be successful. The documents we will sign will create a good foundation for the development of our relations. Our peoples have a history of close and fraternal relations. They are underpinned by mutual interests of our states. We cooperate actively in international affairs and in international institutions, we support each other and will continue to do so. And, of course, we consider your country as a friendly and brotherly state. We hope to continue active cooperation on all fronts. So your visit is particularly important to our relations. I am sure it will give a new impetus to our relations and we will cooperate in the future as two friendly and brotherly states for the benefit of our countries and peoples.

Welcome again!

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Expressing his gratitude for the warm welcome, President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomalii Rahmon said:

- Dear Ilham Heydarovich,

Dear Azerbaijani friends,

First of all, let me once again express our sincere gratitude for the invitation to pay an official visit to your country. We are grateful to you and through you to the Government and people of Azerbaijan for the hospitality.

We attach great importance to this visit and perceive it as a logical extension of our regular contacts which started with high level mutual visits in 2007.

Dear Ilham Heydar oglu, in this context we are very pleased to remember your fruitful visit to Tajikistan, which gave a powerful impetus to the development of mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation in all areas.

Tajikistan cherishes the friendly, meaningful and constructive inter-state relations with the Republic of Azerbaijan and focuses on their further development.

Today, Tajik-Azerbaijani relations are multifaceted and encompass key areas of cooperation. Our countries, being members of the UN, the OSCE, the CIS, ECO, the OIC and other international and regional organizations, have a considerable scope of objectively shared interests, which should translate into specific joint projects and programs in areas where our capabilities complement each other. In this context, these and other universal and regional mechanisms of cooperation serve as a conducive platform for coordination between the two countries and mutual support on global issues of common concern.

Thank you very much.