Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is on the official visit to Azerbaijan held a meeting in an expanded format, with delegations, Trend reports.
“We attach great importance to your visit. I am confident that this visit will be very successful and will give a new impetus to the development of our relations,” said President Aliyev to President Rouhani.
“I am glad that we meet frequently. I paid an official visit to Iran in February 2016 and today, you are on an official visit to Azerbaijan. This itself is an indication,” Azerbaijan’s president said.
President Aliyev further said that the relations between Azerbaijan and Iran are developing rapidly and successfully. He pointed out that he discussed both political, economic and other issues with his Iranian counterpart during the bilateral meeting held August 7. “We see that we have great mutual understanding,” Ilham Aliyev said. “We build our relations based on mutual understanding”.
He expressed satisfaction that the Iranian-Azerbaijani relations have been developing very rapidly in recent years. Perhaps, this is the period of the most rapid development of Azerbaijani and Iranian history over the last 25 years, the president said, Trend writes.
He pointed out that many issues have been resolved in the spheres of economy, transportation and energy over the last several months. “I am confident that your visit will make it possible to further develop our relations,” added President Aliyev.
He noted that today, Iran and Azerbaijan will sign several documents which will open up new opportunities for the future cooperation.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has expressed confidence that the relations between Azerbaijan and Iran are moving towards sincerity. He pointed out that as two friendly, brotherly and neighboring countries, they should bring the relations to the level acceptable for both nations. Rouhani expressed satisfaction with the meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev.
President Aliyev’s visit to Tehran was very successful and significant steps have been taken after this visit for the development of relations between the two countries, he added.
Azerbaijan and Iran reached significant agreements during that visit and today, those agreements will be signed, he added. He noted that the parties have touched upon a number of issues and detailed discussions on those issues were held today. “Our peoples want to have the best relations which would meet the interests of the two countries and would be effective in ensuring stability and peace in the region,” Trend quoted him as saying.
Rouhani expressed hope that new steps will be taken during this visit for development of the two countries’ relations.
