Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov received State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, Mrs. Olga Algayerova. The State Secretary said she visited Baku to learn the opportunities for extension of cooperation, the press service of the AR Ministry of Foreign Affairs told APA. The guest said she hoped that opening of Azerbaijan’s honorable consulate in Bratislava, development of normative and legal basis between the two states, determination of the opportunities for the extension of cooperation in the energy and other sectors would contribute to the development of relations.

She said the number of Slovakian companies is involved in the transport-infrastructure projects in Azerbaijan and the business forum would be useful for further development of economic relations. She said Slovakia intended to develop the relations with Azerbaijan within the Eastern Partnership Program and proposals of Azerbaijan on this issue were interesting for them.

Mammadyarov highly appreciated the interest of Slovakia in Azerbaijan and said it was mutual. The minister shared the opinion of Slovakian State Secretary on the extension of relations and stressed the importance of cooperation between the diplomatic academies of the two countries and exchange of culture Days. Mammadyarov said Azerbaijan was interested in the Eastern Partnership Programtowards closer cooperation in the security, economic and humanitarian fields.

He emphasized that the settlement of Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorny-Karabakh, as the main issue of security, and said the regional stability and security was impossible without the settlement of this conflict. He said the settlement of the conflict would open the new opportunities for the region and informed the guest about the Azerbaijani position in the conflict settlement in detail.