BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 30. Pakistani Prime
Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif received Khalaf Khalafov,
Representative of the Azerbaijani President on special assignments,
who is on a visit to the country, Trend reports, citing the Azerbaijani Embassy
in Pakistan.
Khalaf Khalafov also met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Ishaq Dar.
The meetings highlighted the importance of the dynamic
development of relations, which are based on unshakable friendship
and brotherhood between the two countries. The sides noted with
satisfaction that these bilateral ties, which are of a strategic
nature, have reached a new level under the leadership of the
President of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Both sides hailed the fact that the recent intensive reciprocal
visits by the leaders of the brotherly countries and the meetings
held across various platforms have added new content and quality to
the bilateral relations.
The meetings also reviewed prospects for bilateral cooperation,
featuring discussions on deepening bilateral partnership through
expansion of engagement in the political, defense, and security
spheres, as well as through the implementation of joint projects
across diverse fields, including economy, trade, investment,
tourism, and IT, artificial intelligence, agriculture,
communications and culture.
During the meetings, the sides emphasized the active defense of
each other’s legitimate interests by friendly and brotherly
countries across all regional and international platforms. The
discussions also revolved around the agenda of Azerbaijan’s current
chairmanship of the Conference on Interaction and
Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), with a special focus
on the transformation of CICA into a full-scale international
organization.
As part of the trip, Khalaf Khalafov, Representative of the
Azerbaijani President on special assignments, also visited the
Pakistani “ASAN Khidmet” Center, which was established based on the
“ASAN concept”, an intellectual brand of Azerbaijan, and was
inaugurated on January 14 of this year with the participation of
the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and familiarized himself with the
facility.
