Argentine senator passes document welcoming embassy opening in Azerbaijan
Baku, March 19 (AZERTAC). The Higher chamber of the National congress of Argentine, Senate has passed a document ‘Declaration on satisfaction with establishment of the Embassy of Argentina in the fraternal country of Azerbaijan’.
The author of the document is chairman of the group of friendship with Azerbaijan in Senate Pablo Verani.
The document says that Argentina was one of the first countries which recognized the independence of Azerbaijan on 9 March 1992 and since that period the two countries have maintained friendly relations and cooperation. The two countries signed a number of documents in different fields. The group of friendship with Azerbaijan was set in the Argentine senate on 23 August 2011.
The document says that Azerbaijan and Argentina have mutually supplementary capacities, especially broad potential of cooperation in the sphere of scientific technologies, agriculture. The significant development in economic relations of the two countries is observed and in 2010 alone the trade between the two countries has increased by 44%.
The document also says that the promising Azerbaijani-Argentine cooperation created the ground for establishing of diplomatic offices in both countries. For this purpose, the embassy of Azerbaijan started functioning in Buenos Aires in 2010 and finally this year the government of Azerbaijan also passed a decision to open an embassy in Baku.
The document welcomes decree No 273/2012 signed by the president of Argentine which is related to opening of the Argentine embassy in Azerbaijan.
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