On July 21, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev had a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria Kiril Petkov.

APA reports that President Ilham Aliyev, speaking at the meeting, said:

- Honorable Prime Minister and members of the delegation.

Welcome again.

We just had a very good discussion with Mr. Prime Minister on many issues of mutual interest and identified many opportunities for strengthening our partnership.

As we discussed earlier today, the strategic partnership between Bulgaria and Azerbaijan is a really good basis for the development of our cooperation.

We signed the Declaration on Strategic Partnership several years ago.

I believe that the time has come to turn this document into very practical results of our cooperation in economic, industrial development, trade, energy, transportation, tourism, high technologies and other fields.

Of course, we mainly discussed energy security issues and will continue this discussion.

However, at the same time, the geographical location,

Considering the projects we have implemented with our neighbors to connect the railway system of Europe and Azerbaijan, and the increasing volume of cargo passing through Azerbaijan, there is a great potential in the field of transportation.

Transit from Azerbaijan has increased by more than 30 percent in five months of this year alone.

We believe this is just the beginning because there is potential here.

In short, wide-ranging issues were discussed.

Mr. Prime Minister and I have known each other by phone for a long time.

Now we have met in person.

I am very glad to see you and I wish you a pleasant visit to Baku.

Transit from Azerbaijan has increased by more than 30 percent in five months of this year alone.

We believe this is just the beginning because there is potential here.

In short, wide-ranging issues were discussed.

Mr. Prime Minister and I have known each other by phone for a long time.

Now we have met in person.

I am very glad to see you and I wish you a pleasant visit to Baku.

Transit from Azerbaijan has increased by more than 30 percent in five months of this year alone.

We believe this is just the beginning because there is potential here.

In short, wide-ranging issues were discussed.

Mr. Prime Minister and I have known each other by phone for a long time.

Now we have met in person.

I am very glad to see you and I wish you a pleasant visit to Baku.

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Prime Minister of Bulgaria Kiril Petkov said:

- Thank you, Mr. President.

I am very pleased that we meet each other in person.

I already mentioned and I want to say again that friends become friends when they solve problems.

Everyone is a friend at the table.

But when it comes to solving a problem together, friends should still stand by each other.

I want to note that you stood by Bulgaria when the need arose.

Bulgaria will be by your side.

We discussed many opportunities in the energy sector and beyond.

I support your approach that we have signed the Strategic Partnership document, held discussions, and now we need to turn them into reality.

Our government will probably remain in its current composition for the next few weeks.

But there are decisions and we are sure that the next government will be our government.

We have come to the conclusion that many things can be done in areas such as technology, logistics, export to Europe, distribution of energy carriers.

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On July 21, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev had a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria Kiril Petkov.

APA reports that the Press Service of the President released information about this.

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On July 21, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria Kiril Petkov.

APA reports that the Press Service of the President released information about this.