Chairman of Turkish Parliament meets with leadership of Azerbaijan

Baku/29.08.18/Turan: Chairman of the Great National Assembly of Turkey, Binali Yildirim, who arrived in Azerbaijan on a two-day visit on August 28 as the head of the parliamentary delegation, held a number of meetings with the leadership of Azerbaijan. The first official meeting began with talks with President Ilham Aliyev, then there were meetings in the Azerbaijani parliament and further negotiations in the government with Prime Minister Novruz Mamedov. During the meetings, issues of bilateral, regional and international relations were raised. According to Azerbaijani official sources, President Aliyev noted the importance of joint global communication projects, such as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, the TANAP gas pipeline, the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway. He also stressed the contribution of Binali Yildirim to regional projects, when he still held the post of prime minister. Yildirim conveyed the greetings of President Erdogan, expressed his confidence in the further deepening of bilateral relations.

At the meeting in the parliament and the government also spoke about the high relations of the two countries. In this connection, Prime Minister Novruz Mammadov recalled the words of President Heydar Aliyev, who described bilateral relations as follows: "One nation, two states". In turn, Yildirim remembered the words of Kamal Ataturk: "The joy of Azerbaijan is our joy, our sorrow is our grief." These two statements point to the origins of the policy of interaction between the two countries at the international level in various fields and the coincidence of positions on many issues of regional and global politics. Very little is spoken about the specifics of the talks. The Turkish delegation today completes the visit and returns home. Earlier, Binali Yildirim three times visited Azerbaijan as prime minister. In June 2016 and March 2018 he visited Baku, and in December 2017, on his way from Bangladesh, he made a brief stop in Nakhchivan.

According to the Azerbaijani official statistics, the trade turnover between the two countries in 2017 reached 2.6 billion dollars. Recently, bilateral activity at the state level has been rising, and comparable to the first years of Azerbaijan's independence. -0--