Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev is expected to arrive in Dushanbe on a short state visit tomorrow morning, according to the Tajik president’s official website.
Azerbaijan president is scheduled to hold talks with his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon to discuss state and prospects of further expansion of bilateral cooperation between their countries.
Their meeting will be followed by a meeting in an expanded format with participation of the delegations of the two countries.
A number of cooperation documents is expected to be signed following the meeting.
At the conclusion of the negotiations, the president will give a statement to the media, according to the source,
In the evening of the same day, the Azerbaijan president will fly home.
Meanwhile, a Tajikistan-Azerbaijan Investment Forum is taking place in Dushanbe today. An official source within the State Committee on Investment and State-owned Property Management (GosKomInvest) says more than 150 people from both sides, including senior representatives of relevant ministries and agencies as well as entrepreneurs are participating in the forum, which is aimed at promoting search for investment opportunities in sectors like industry, energy, tourism and transportation.
A number of cooperation documents are expected to be signed between public and private sector entities of the two countries on the margins of the forum.
According to data from the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan, a two-way trade between Tajikistan and Azerbaijan last year valued at 6.2 million US dollars, which is only 0.008 percent of Tajikistan’s foreign trade turnover in 2022.
This consisted of Tajikistan’s exports to Azerbaijan estimated at only 401.2 US dollars and Tajikistan’s imports from Azerbaijan worth 5.814.7 million US dollars.
Diplomatic relations between Tajikistan and Azerbaijan were established on May 29, 1992 by the exchange of notes on the establishment of diplomatic relations. Azerbaijan’s Embassy has functioned in Dushanbe since September 22, 2007 and the Embassy of Tajikistan has functioned in Baku since March 23, 2008.
Since the establishment of diplomatic relations, relations between Tajikistan with Azerbaijan have been developing in the spirit of mutual respect. Tajikistan and Azerbaijan are partners at the international level in the framework of such organizations such UN, OSCE and CIS.
Currently Tajik-Azerbaijani legal foundation includes more than 30 agreements and treaties, including the Agreement on Friendship and Cooperation between Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Azerbaijan dated March 16, 2007.
