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Azerbaijan and Romania discuss strategic partnership

18 June 2026 09:22 (UTC +04:00)

A productive meeting was held between Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan and Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmat Hajiyev and his Romanian counterpart, Marius Lazurca, who is visiting Azerbaijan, APA reports.

“I had a productive meeting with my Romanian counterpart, Marius Lazurca, who is visiting Azerbaijan. Reaffirming the strategic partnership and traditional friendship between Azerbaijan and Romania, we discussed the broad opportunities for further deepening our cooperation.

As the EU member state geographically closest to the South Caucasus, Romania holds an important place in our cooperation. We exchanged views on prospects for advancing collaboration in the political, economic, energy, defense, cultural, humanitarian, and other fields. We agreed to continue our active political and security dialogue,” Hajiyev noted in a post on X..

Gunay Elshan

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