On June 29, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev arrived in Turkmenistan to attend the 6th Summit of the Heads of State of the Caspian Sea Littoral States, the Press Office of the Azerbaijani President reported. Aliyev was welcomed by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and other officials.

Meeting with Iranian President

On the same day, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan met with the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, in Ashgabat.

Ilham Aliyev said: “I am very pleased to see you. Last time we also met here in Turkmenistan, and we are meeting here again. After the last meeting, our relations received a wonderful impetus and began to develop even faster. We organized reciprocal visits of government members. There has been excellent progress on a number of issues, especially in transport, energy, and other areas. Therefore, I am confident that we will give further impetus to developing our relations and ensuring a common future for our fraternal peoples after today's meeting. The common history of our peoples is a wonderful foundation for our relations.”

"I think one of the important issues related to the Caspian Sea is that the heads of state of Caspian littoral states meet regularly. However, our meetings on such platforms also contribute to the development of our relations. The potential of relations between our two countries is greater than what we currently have. I think we have not been able to use the full potential of our relations. I believe we can further develop political and economic relations, trade and cultural ties between our two countries," Ebrahim Raisi flagged.

Meeting with Russian President

On June 29, Ilham Aliyev met with the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, in Ashgabat.

President Vladimir Putin recalled Aliyev's visit to Russia and stressed the importance of celebrating the 30th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between the countries. Noting that the relations have expanded, and the current level is very good, the Russian leader stressed that the parties had implemented all the agreed issues. President Vladimir Putin noted that trade turnover is growing. This increase was more than 16 percent last year and 5.5 percent in the first three months of this year. Thus, there is a confident increase in trade turnover.

Touching upon political relations, President Vladimir Putin recalled the visit of the Russian Foreign Minister to Baku, noting that the visits of the Russian Prime Minister and the Speaker of the State Duma to Baku are also planned. The Russian leader said the most important thing is implementing the joint Russian-Azerbaijani cooperation plan until 2024.

President Putin noted that he discussed with the Azerbaijani leader the regional security issues, including the Karabakh conflict settlement.

Ilham Aliyev expressed satisfaction with the meeting with the Russian President and said that the meetings with President Vladimir Putin have always been very important. The President expressed confidence that this meeting would also contribute to developing friendly and good-neighborly relations between the countries.

The President of Azerbaijan expressed satisfaction with the increase in trade turnover between the two countries and the expansion of the cooperation in industrial cooperation, transport, and energy. The head of state said the meeting also provided good opportunities to discuss regional issues.

President Ilham Aliyev stressed the importance of the recent visit of the Russian Foreign Minister to Azerbaijan. He expressed confidence that the bilateral relations would continue to develop successfully for the sake of the nations.