DMITRIY MEDVEDEV: “RUSSIAN-AZERBAIJANI RELATIONS ARE DEVELOPING DYNAMICALLY AND WE SATISFY WITH THIS PARTNERSHIP”
DMITRIY MEDVEDEV: “RUSSIAN-AZERBAIJANI RELATIONS ARE DEVELOPING DYNAMICALLY AND WE SATISFY WITH THIS PARTNERSHIP”
President of Russia Dmitriy Medvedev and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev meet in Moscow. In the part of meeting attended by the journalists, the Russian president said it was important to discuss the situation in the South Caucasus with his Azerbaijani counterpart, APA quotes ITAR-TASS agency. “We need to specify again our positions on the problems created in the Caucasus after the Georgia’s aggression. It is important in terms of our coincided interests in the stability in the Caucasus”, said Medvedev.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev emphasized that our countries needed to unite the efforts for peace and stability in the region. The presidents held discussions on the economic cooperation between Azerbaijan and Russia as well. The Russian president said goals determined during his official visit to Azerbaijan for the improvement of economic cooperation started to be realized. “I am hopeful that trade turnover between our countries will reach two billion USD before the end of year, it is our target. Current situation of the world economy is not easy, but development of economic cooperation between our countries even under such circumstances shows that our relations have no conjunctural character. Russian-Azerbaijani relations are developing dynamically and we satisfy with this partnership”.
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev also positively valued the level of bilateral economic-trade relations. “Development of trade turnover between our countries has a rapid rate and it is gratifying case that structure of goods turnover is also extending”. The Azerbaijani president said humanitarian relations between the countries were also developing and reminded about the opening of Moscow State University’s branch in Baku. “It shows that we are promptly solving the issues put before us”. Then the meeting was continued without participation of media representatives.
