President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced the conclusion of six agreements with Azerbaijan during his visit to this country, among which he singled out security agreements. This was reported by “Ukrainian News“, the PromPolitInform portal reports.
“Today we signed six documents. Our teams will definitely share the details later. These are different areas. Today, the number one area is security, this is the defense-industrial complex,” – Zelensky said during a joint statement with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in the city of Gabala on Saturday.
The President of Ukraine also reported on agreements on joint production and the work of Ukrainian experts in Azerbaijan.
“We will definitely develop our cooperation, co-production. These are very important areas that will definitely increase both the security of our countries, our peoples, and the trade turnover, which we really want to increase greatly between our countries,” he said.
Zelensky announced a “very serious step” in the form of signing documents on the joint development of the countries’ defense-industrial complexes.
He also thanked Aliyev for 11 packages of support in the energy sector and assistance to children evacuated from border areas, and also reported on agreements in the field of education, in particular, the study of Azerbaijani students in Ukraine.
Aliyev, in turn, noted that “quite serious cooperation” is currently underway between Ukraine and Azerbaijan, and it was “once again confirmed” during Zelensky’s visit.
“As for military-technical cooperation, we also discussed this issue. This also has quite broad prospects, both in Ukraine and in Azerbaijan. We see the development of military industries, the defense industry, and we can look at joint production. But in general, we have excellent opportunities in production. And today we also had extensive negotiations on this,” he said.
Also, according to the head of state of Azerbaijan, the presidents discussed the need to develop trade turnover between the countries.
“It currently exceeds 500 million US dollars, and I think it will continue to grow. Because we have all the opportunities,” he said.
In addition to political dialogues, the parties also discussed cooperation in the energy sector.
“There are certain achievements that we have achieved. SOCAR has been successfully operating in Ukraine for many years. And now there are very good prospects. We have joint projects, we have joint initiatives, investments. All these issues were widely discussed today,” Aliyev said.
