Azerbaijan’s Prime Minister meets top Georgian officials in Tbilisi

Prime Minister of Azerbaijani Artur Rasizade is in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi today to meet with high officials and discuss the close partnership the two nations enjoy.

Earlier today Rasizade met Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili and President Giorgi Margvelashvili and stressed the importance of joint projects and friendly relations.

Rasizade, who came to Georgia to mark the 20th anniversary of the Baku-Supsa pipeline which transports oil from Azerbaijan to coastal Georgia, said joint projects were essential for the two countries’ economic advancement. 

Azerbaijan’s Prime Minister Artur Rasizade met his Georgian counterpart Giorgi Kvirikashvili to mark the 20th anniversary of the Baku-Supsa pipeline. Photo by the Prime Minister’s webpage. 

President Margvelashvili told Rasizade that agreeing to open the pipeline 20 years ago played a big role in Georgia and Azerbaijan’s development. 

Meanwhile Georgia’s Prime Minister and Rasizade agreed the two nations still had "big potential” to forge a closer partnership especially in the fields of trade and economy, energy and transport. 

The two leaders also emphasised Georgia and Azerbaijan played significant roles in international transit and were important players in the energy sector.

The  Georgian and Azerbaijani officials signed a deal to launch the Baku-Supsa pipeline  project in 1996. The pipeline has a total length of 830km and it transits about 7 million tonnes of oil annually (about 140,000 barrels per day).