Georgian PM congratulates Azerbaijani president on ruling party’s victory
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia phoned the Azerbaijani president to congratulate Ilham Aliyev on the victory. Photo: Prime Minister’s press office.
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Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has congratulated Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on the New Azerbaijan Party’s win in snap parliamentary elections yesterday, Azerbaijani media reports.
Gakharia has made a phone call and congratulated Aliyev on the landslide victory of the New Azerbaijan Party, headed by the president, in the parliamentary elections. President Aliyev thanked him for the attention and congratulations,” News.az reports.
The media outlet also said that Gakharia and Aliyev expressed readiness for further strengthening of ties.
President Aliyev, who has been in power for 17 years, proposed snap elections back in December 2019, nine months before they were due.
Ruling party top figures stated that the move was to support the president's policy on reforms.
The New Azerbaijan Party won about 65 of 125 seats in the single-chamber parliament.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has met with Azerbaijani Economy Minister Mikayil Jabbarov earlier today to strengthen economic ties and to discuss the strategic partnership between Georgia and Azerbaijan.
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Georgian, Turkish and Azerbaijani foreign ministers have signed a new, 2020-2022 action plan for sectoral cooperation during the eighth meeting of the trilateral format held in Tbilisi earlier today. The action plan provides steps and actions in all the fields of cooperation between the countries which will benefit the interests of Georgia, Turkey and Azerbaijan, the Georgian Foreign Ministry reports.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia says that the Udabno and Chichkhituri monasteries in Georgia’s 6th Century David Gareji monastery complex, which have been closed by Azerbaijani border guards since the beginning of the year, will reopen to Georgian clerics starting tomorrow.
Georgian Defence Minister Irakli Garibashvili met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev earlier today in Baku, to discuss strategic cooperation and joint projects, the Defence Ministry press office reports.“Garibashvili thanked Azerbaijan for supporting Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and stated that the relationship between the two countries is based on trust and strategic cooperation,” the press office said.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry has dismissed the information spread by Azerbaijani media outlets on the transportation of mortars from Serbia to Armenia via Georgia.
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President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has claimed Georgia has prevented transit for arms shipments to Armenia and said he "highly appreciates actions of the Georgian government" in the events, in an interview for a ceremony of offshore operations of the Absheron field at the Heydar Aliyev Baku Deep Water Jackets Plant.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has expressed concern over the 12-13 July armed confrontation on the border of neighbouring states Azerbaijan and Armenia, with both sides using artillery, mortar, and tanks in the northern area of their borders.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku earlier today. Both officials praised ‘centuries-long brotherly relations’ and mentioned the importance of regional projects which have been carried out through joint efforts in recent years. Aliyev said that the projects ‘changed the map of the region, political, economic, transportation and energy map.’