(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb. 19
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
The next meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on
Economic, Trade and Humanitarian Cooperation between Azerbaijan and
Iran will be held in Baku on March 10 and March 11, 2022,
Azerbaijani Ambassador to Iran Ali Alizada said, Trend reports citing Iran's East
Azerbaijan Province Governor Office.
He made the remark during a meeting with Governor of East
Azerbaijan Province Abedin Khorram.
The ambassador noted that the commission will discuss a number
of issues, including the opening of the Khudafarin border
checkpoint, the construction of a new border bridge and other
agreements reached between the two countries.
Alizada also added that 132 kilometers of the joint border
between Azerbaijan and Iran have been liberated from Armenian
occupation. The liberation of the territories has created new
opportunities for the development of cooperation between the two
countries. By activating border connections, the potentials can be
used the best.
'Great opportunities, such as customs and tax benefits, as well
as infrastructure opportunity have been created for companies and
investors in the liberated territories of Azerbaijan from
occupation, and companies from the East Azerbaijan Province are
invited to the territories,' he said.
During the meeting, the Governor of the East Azerbaijan province
Abedin Khorram said that the policy of the current Iranian
government is to create close ties with all countries, especially
neighboring countries. Azerbaijan is a friendly and brotherly
country in Iran's foreign policy, and the existing ties between the
two countries should be strengthened and developed.
Khorram stressed that during the visit of the Iranian Minister
of Roads and Urban Development Rostam Ghasemi to the liberated
territories of Azerbaijan, the Iranian delegation witnessed that
Azerbaijan has begun great work to reconstruction of these
territories.
The governor also pointed out that the establishment of the
Khudafarin border checkpoint will allow create new opportunity for
the development of relations between the two countries.
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