Baku lights up Heydar Aliyev Square in colours of Georgian flag
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili thanked her Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Twitter. Photo: David Zalkaliani/Twitter
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The Heydar Aliyev Centre in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku has been lit up with the colours of the Georgian flag as a sign of support and solidarity with its neighbouring country amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili thanked her Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Twitter:
Tonight, the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku is lit up in the colors of the Georgian flag ????????. Thank you, @presidentaz, for this show of support. Great show of solidarity from the people of #Azerbaijan ????????. We are #StrongerTogether. pic.twitter.com/2Seu1UgYXU
— Salome Zourabichvili (@Zourabichvili_S) April 14, 2020
Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani also thanked Azerbaijan for sending Georgia “a powerful message of support”:
Thank you to #Azerbaijan for sending us a powerful message of support by lighting up the Heydar Aliyev Square in the colours of the Georgian flag. There is no better way to victory than by extending helping hands to each other @AzerbaijanMFA pic.twitter.com/kd6zNM4XEU
— David Zalkaliani (@DZalkaliani) April 14, 2020
Earlier, Tbilisi TV tower was also lit up with the colours of the British, Spanish and Italian flags as a sign of support and solidarity with those countries in the fight against the new coronavirus.