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FIRST SITTING OF AZERBAIJAN-GEORGIA INTER-PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION HELD
Addressing the participants, Prime Minister of Georgia Zurab Zhvania emphasized that conducting of the first joint arrangement on the eve of upcoming official visit of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to Georgia has special significance. He noted that trade turnover between the two countries made up 108,8 mln dollars last year.
The Prime Minister stressed that Azerbaijan and Georgia are both the neighbor and fraternal countries, and in future, as independent friendly states to be integrated with each other by the example of European countries”.
The first Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, Co-chairman of the commission Abbas Abbasov conveyed warm greetings of President Ilham Aliyev to the sitting participants and noted that head of state attaches high significance to further development of Azerbaijan-Georgia cooperation. He expressed gratitude to the government of Georgia for giving the state status to Azerbaijan Theater, as well as place for construction of the new building of Azerbaijan Embassy to Georgia, adding the same conditions would be created for Georgian theater in Azerbaijan.
Zurab Zhvaniya and Abbas Abbasov signed protocol of the first commission sitting.
Ambassador of Azerbaijan in Tbilisi Ramiz Hasanov and Ambassador of Georgia in Baku Zurab Gumberidze attended the sitting.