OFFICIAL NEWS
PRESIDENTS OF TAJIKISTAN AND AZERBAIJAN MEET IN PRESENCE OF TWO COUNTRIES’ DELEGATIONS
Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan met August 13 in the presence of the two countries’ delegations at the Presidential Palace.
Opening the meeting, President Ilham Aliyev said:
Dear Emomali Sharifovich!
Dear guests!
I would like to sincerely welcome you here in Azerbaijan. We are very glad that President of Tajikistan is paying an official visit to Azerbaijan. It is your first official visit to our country, and, as far as I am concerned, your first trip to Azerbaijan. I am hopeful that the visit will be very successful in form and in substance.
We place a special emphasis on our bilateral ties. I made an official visit in your country this spring. Today, you are staying in Azerbaijan. It is the manifestation of active political relations between our countries.
Today, we have discussed very important issues of political and economic interaction during our tête-à-tête meeting, and already given concrete instructions to the respective bodies so that we could embark on serious integration-oriented economic projects. And, of course, it will contribute to increasing the trade turnover and further integration between our nations.
We are going to open the embassy of Azerbaijan in your country within short time. It is also a serious indicator of the importance we attach to our relations.
I hope that your stay in our country will remain in your memory, and be fruitful and good. We hope for the further effective interaction in all regional issues, bilateral political and economic relations, and for strengthening of the security system in the region. We have mutual understanding in everything.
Welcome once again.
President Emomali Rahmon said:
Dear Ilham Heydarovich!
Thank you for your invitation to visit friendly Azerbaijan and your warm hospitality. We attach a great importance to the first official visit of the Head of Tajikistan to the Republic of Azerbaijan, and are sure that it will give a huge impetus to the development of Tajikistan-Azerbaijan cooperation. Tajikistan assumes that in the light of intensification of globalization, we must direct our joint efforts to all-round development of ties in all spheres. After your, esteemed Ilham Heydarovich, visit to our country, relationships between our states, which have rich centuries-old traditions, were raised to qualitatively new level.