POLITICS
President Bounnhang Vorachith thanks Azerbaijani Government for education provided to Laotian specialists
Baku, September 15, AZERTAC
President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic Bounnhang Vorachith thanked the Government of Azerbaijan for the education provided to Laotian specialists as he met visiting Azerbaijan`s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
Minister Elmar Mammadyarov conveyed greetings of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to President Bounnhang Vorachith. In his turn, President of Laos Bounnhang Vorachith thanked for the sincere greetings and asked the FM to deliver his most sincere greetings and the best wishes to President Ilham Aliyev.
President Bounnhang Vorachith noted that the reciprocal official visits at the level of foreign ministers have great importance for the development of relations between the two countries.
Touching upon traditional friendship between Azerbaijan and Laos, President Bounnhang Vorachith mentioned that number of Laotian students studied in Azerbaijan in various disciplines.
Recalling the first official visit of his Laotian counterpart in June 2017 to Azerbaijan, Minister Mammadyarov noted the importance of political consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs as well as development of expansion of the legal-treaty base. In this context, Elmar Mammadyarov informed that an Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Lao People`s Democratic Republic on Exemption from visa requirement for holders of diplomatic passports was signed and Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation between Foreign Ministries of both countries will be signed during this visit.
The Minister stressed the significance of cooperation in education field and reiterated Azerbaijan's readiness to continue the cooperation in this area. He also talked about growing potential of higher education institutions as well as ADA University of Azerbaijan.
Briefing about the development and achievements of the country as well as the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Elmar Mammadyarov noted the perspective opportunities of North-South transport corridor and added that transport corridors can also used for export of Laotian products.
They noted that there was broad potential for the development of cooperation in the fields of agriculture, energy and tourism.