Azerbaijan to host next Turkic Council summit

The next summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States (Turkic Council) will be held in Azerbaijan in 2019.

It was agreed at the meeting of Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and the Secretary General of the Turkic Council, Ambassador Baghdad Amreyev on 6 December on the sidelines of the 25th OSCE Ministerial Council in Milan.

Amreyev highlighted appreciation for Azerbaijan’s constant support to futher development of the Turkic Council. The Secretary Generalstressed the historical significance of the establishment of the Turkic Council as an international body at the Nakhchivan Summit in 2009 and expressed the symbolic nature of the Summit to be held in Azerbaijan in 2019, Trend reported.