Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan commit to expanding strategic partnership

Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Aghalar Atamoghlanov, and the country's Deputy Foreign Minister, Yermukhambet Konuspayev, have discussed the deepening of bilateral relations between the two nations.

During the meeting, the sides highlighted the steady progress in political dialogue, the growing collaboration between governmental bodies, parliaments, and business communities of both nations, as well as the expansion of humanitarian exchanges, Caliber.Az reports citing Kazakh Foreign Ministry.

Special emphasis was placed on the implementation of agreements made at the highest levels and the forthcoming official events on the agenda.

At the conclusion of the discussions, both sides reaffirmed their shared commitment to further expanding bilateral cooperation. The importance of aligning joint efforts to ensure the successful execution of planned initiatives and the deepening of the strategic partnership between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan was underscored.

Baku and Astana, which have long enjoyed successful cooperation in transport and oil, have recently set the goal of boosting trade and diversifying business relations by expanding non-oil joint ventures. Over the past two years, these priority trends were addressed in numerous governmental and head-of-state forums and negotiations.

Business relations between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, which have been actively growing throughout the years of independence, reached a qualitatively new level in August 2022, after the signing of the Statement "On Deepening of Cooperation and Strategic Partnership" and the adoption of the Comprehensive Development Program of Cooperation for 2022-2026. Since then, trade and economic cooperation between the two countries has gained further momentum and projects in various areas of the non-oil sector have been carried out.

By Vafa Guliyeva