"This year's meeting coincides with a painful period for brotherly Türkiye. I remember the victims of the earthquake with a great sense of sadness and inform you that the people and the state of Azerbaijan, as always, stand with brotherly Türkiye in these difficult days like one heart and one fist," President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said in his appeal to the participants of the XXVI Eurasian Economic Summit, APA reports.
According to the head of the state, Azerbaijan mobilized resources at all levels to help Türkiye from the very first day and demonstrated tremendous solidarity and its support in the process of eliminating the consequences of the disaster will be continued: " I am sure that strong and powerful Türkiye will overcome these difficulties with dignity".
President Ilham Aliyev stressed that natural disasters are beyond human control and demonstrate again just how much people, nations and states need each other's support and solidarity: "In this regard, this year's Eurasian Economic Summit being held under the motto of “End hopelessness and start cooperation!” has an important symbolic meaning.
Unfortunately, the mechanisms that should regulate interstate relations in the world have become weaker and confidence in the supremacy of international law has diminished. Wars, geopolitical conflicts and the energy crisis occurring at the same time with them are the results of the decline of the system of international relations. Within this new global configuration, the role of an influential and determined state like Türkiye in ensuring order, maintaining cooperation and a sustainable development environment is of exceptional importance".