Cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan has huge potential, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, said today, responding to question from Vestnik Kavkaza about significance of President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Russia.
"We look at development of bilateral relations with enthusiam, there's huge potential, a lot of projects are being implemented, we work on many things," she said.
Maria Zakharova also spoke about the inter-regional ties between the two countries, stressing that Azerbaijan cooperates in a lot of areas with many Russian regions on the basis of agreements between Azerbaijani government and governments of Russian regions. Right now there 17 agreements, a number of new similar documents are being prepared for signing, diplomat noted.
"Azerbaijani entrepreneurs have invested in construction of a sanatorium-resort center in the city of Yessentuki, there are also food factories in the Krasnodar Territory, as well as projects with Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan," she stressed.
"Annual Russian-Azerbaijani interregional forum is a platform where we discuss and prepare new cooperation projects. Ninth forum will be held next. We will provide more detailed information later, when it will be prepared, when we are ready to announce it," Maria Zakharova concluded.
