OFFICIAL NEWS
ONE-ON-ONE MEETING OF AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV AND GREEK PRESIDENT KONSTANTINOS STEPHANOUPOLOS
Warmly greeting the high guest, Head of Azerbaijani state Ilham Aliyev said that this visit would be a new phase in development of bilateral relations between the two countries. President Ilham Aliyev stressed that he would continue Heydar Aliyev’s policy in development of the Azerbaijan-Greece relations.
Expressing gratitude for invitation and sincere hospitality to the Head of Azerbaijani state, President of Greece Konstantinos Stephanoupolos said that there are large opportunities for strengthening of the bilateral relations and cooperation between the two states.
Heads of State expressed their satisfaction with the existent level of mutual political relations founded by the national leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, noting that these links successfully develop in numerous fields of social life. Speaking of cooperation in the economic field, the Presidents stressed the necessity of increasing goods turnover between the countries.
In the course of meeting passed in a friendly and warm atmosphere, the heads of state also touched upon the questions of expansion of political-economic and cultural relations, deepening of bilateral cooperation, mutual assistance in the frame of international organizations, as well as international security and other problems.