Vladimir Putin's visit to Azerbaijan

The President assured that Russia would continue to contribute in every possible way to the normalization of Azerbaijani-Armenian interaction and the signing of a peace treaty based on trilateral agreements reached in 2022

The document was signed by Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Muxtar Babayev

According to the Azerbaijani leader, his Russian counterpart’s current visit was extremely important, as it was for the first time that Vladimir Putin arrived on a state visit

During the talks, special attention was paid to increasing mutually beneficial trade cooperation, the Russian leader added

According to Ilham Aliyev, the two countries are acting as allies, friends, and close partners

"We are proactively working in this direction and I am confident we will coordinate our activities further," the Azerbaijani president stressed

The Azerbaijani president noted that the parties discussed regional security issues in detail at a private meeting

The two presidents agreed in their joint statement that their talks in Baku were productive and substantive and were held in an "atmosphere of complete mutual understanding and deep trust, which are are typical of the close Russian-Azerbaijani partnership"

According to Ilham Aliyev, today, both heads of state praised how relations between the two countries were progressing

Apart from a joint statement, intergovernmental agreements on cooperation in food safety, quarantine and plant protection, healthcare, medical education and science areas were inked