Azerbaijan, Tajikistan maintain effective cooperation in international organizations
Baku, August 18 (AZERTAC). Development of mutually profitable cooperation with Central Asian countries is among the priority directions of foreign policy of Azerbaijan.
We are bound with strong friendship, common historical and cultural heritage, proximity and natural inclination of our peoples to each other.
The statement came from Azerbaijan’s temporary plenipotentiary in Tajikistan Ilham Zamanov in the interview with Biznes i Politika newspaper.
He said mutual visits of the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Tajikistan Ilham Aliyev and Emomali Rahmon in March and August 2007 attached an additional impulse to dynamic development of bilateral interstate cooperation.
A package of documents that lay stable contractual and legislative basis for cooperation in different fields has been signed during the visits and fruitful talks.
“Additionally, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan maintain effective cooperation in international organizations, as UN, CIS and Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
The example of such interaction can be the resolution of the UN General Assembly ‘International Day of Novruz’ adopted last year at the initiative of Azerbaijan and supported by Tajikistan”, he said.
The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Tajikistan totaled $9.5m in 2010.
Of this amount, $8.1m accounted for exports and $1.4m accounted for imports, charge d'affaires of Azerbaijan in Tajikistan Ilham Zamanov said.
“We believe that potential of our countries allows to achieve even more,” Zamanov added.
“The first session of the Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation is to take place in November 2011.”
In this connection it may also be useful to organize the visit of Azerbaijani businessmen to Tajikistan, he noted.
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