Presidents Nechirvan Barzani and Ilham Aliyev stress the importance of opening an Azerbaijani Consulate General in the Kurdistan Region
ARK News… After his arrival on an official visit to the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, His Excellency the President of the Kurdistan Region, Mr. Nechirvan Barzani, today, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, was received with a warm welcome by His Excellency the President of Azerbaijan, Mr. Ilham Aliyev, in the Republican Palace.
In a friendly bilateral meeting, the two sides stressed the strengthening of Azerbaijan's relations with Iraq and the Kurdistan Region in all fields, especially in the fields of economy, trade, tourism and energy. The two sides discussed investment opportunities and operating the capitals of Azerbaijani companies in the Kurdistan Region and the whole of Iraq.
In this context, the importance of opening an Azerbaijani Consulate General in the Kurdistan Region, which had been decided to open earlier, was emphasized. Procedures for opening it in the near future and work to strengthen relations and joint cooperation between the two sides were discussed.
It also discussed the latest procedures and steps to operate direct flights between Erbil and Baku and between Baku and Baghdad and other regions of Iraq and to provide facilities for granting travel visas and exchanging visits and delegations between the two sides.
After that, in another meeting attended by the delegations of the two sides and in which the Chargé affairs of the Iraqi Embassy in Baku participated, channels of communication and follow-up procedures for the axes addressed in the meeting of the two presidents were discussed in order to consolidate relations, and the necessary decisions were taken in this regard.
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