DUSHANBE, October 16, 2014, Asia-Plus — Negotiations between Tajikistan and Azerbaijan at the highest political level that took place in Dushanbe on October 16 resulted in signing of five cooperation documents.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and visiting Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev signed a joint declaration, supporting their individual and joint efforts to counter threats to their countries” sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The declaration, in particular, stresses the “inadmissibility of changing internationally recognized borders.”
The document also recognized “an urgent necessity of peaceful settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh,” a territory Azerbaijan claims as its own, but which is currently occupied by pro-Armenian forces.
In addition, the two presidents expressed their readiness to continue to develop mutual economic, trade, transportation and military cooperation.
Besides, the sides signed government-to-government agreements on cooperation in the fields of health, plant quarantine, civil defense, removal of emergency effects, as well as an agreement between the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan and the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences on scientific cooperation.
