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Iran, Azerbaijan Republic discuss closer ties on all fronts
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has sat down with his opposite number from the Azerbaijan Republic Jeyhun Bayramov.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian has sat down with his opposite number from the Azerbaijan Republic Jeyhun Bayramov. In the meeting held in the Azeri Capital, Baku, on Wednesday, the two sides discussed areas and ways of boosting mutual cooperation.The top Iranian diplomat touched upon a meeting of the two countries’ presidents on the margins of a summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Ashgabat.He said both countries’ leaders are determined to further enhance bilateral ties.He said the two countries’ foreign ministries should always have on their agenda topics for Iranian-Azeri cooperation as well as ways of boosting it.Amir Abdollahian recalled the importance of collaboration in the fields of transportation and energy while underlining the continuation of the cooperation in other economic fronts, namely encouraging and boosting interactions between the private sectors of both countries.The Iranian foreign minister noted that Iran stands ready to export technical and engineering services and to tap into other potentialities of the country in required areas in order to help reconstruct liberated regions in the Azerbaijan Republic.He also stressed the importance of taking action in that regard to expedite the development of those regions.The two foreign ministers also highlighted the importance of the joint committee on media cooperation to keep working together.In the meeting, the Azeri foreign minister described as very important the meeting between the two countries’ presidents on the fringes of the OIC summit in Ashgabat.The top Azeri diplomat said the agreements reached by the two presidents will serve as a road map for new relations between the two countries.Bayramov said cooperation between Iran and the Azerbaijan Republic in transportation and energy are significant and strategic, and described cooperation at the level of international organizations and institutions, including the Economic Cooperation Organization, as fruitful and progressive.In the meeting, Amir Abdollahian invited his counterpart to travel to Iran. The Azeri foreign minister welcomed the invitation and said he would travel to Tehran in the near future.The two sides also agreed that both countries’ deputy foreign ministers for political affairs meet in order to examine and evaluate issues related to the enhancement of Tehran-Baku relations.
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