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Azerbaijani President, Hungarian PM hold expanded meeting

11 November 2014 15:33 (UTC +04:00)

Baku – APA. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán held an expanded meeting on November 11 in Budapest.

The Hungarian prime minister welcomed the Azerbaijani president outside the parliament’s building, APA reports.

Members of the Hungarian government were introduced to President Ilham Aliyev and members of the Azerbaijani delegation to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

In his speech at the expanded meeting, Mr Orbán praised the importance of President Ilham Aliyev’s visit, stressing the existence of great interest of the country’s parliament as well as its social life in Azerbaijan.

“We are all following the ongoing progress in your country with huge admiration”, said the prime minister.

He also said Azerbaijan’s economic progress as well as its successful development in the non-oil sector is observed with huge interest in Hungary. The Hungarian PM and President Ilham Aliyev emphasized the role of friendly relations in the development of bilateral cooperation, emphasizing the existence of a good potential for the further development of relations.

Then President Ilham Aliyev made a speech. The Azerbaijani president said bilateral relations between the two countries that are based on mutual trust are successfully developing.

President Ilham Aliyev stressed that along with the strong political ties between the two countries, economic relations are successfully developing, the trade turnover is increasing and there are great prospects for enhancing economic cooperation. Speaking about the importance of the documents to be signed, the head of state said these documents will be a good legal framework for strengthening bilateral cooperation.

The sides emphasized the importance of considering new opportunities for relations, noting the significance of activities of the joint intergovernmental commission in this regard.

They noted the importance of determining the prospects for cooperation in the fields of energy, education, medicine, investment and humanitarian field between Azerbaijan and Hungary.

The sides also exchanged views on the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, cooperation within the European Union, regional and other issues of mutual interest.