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NPR News: 10-10-2023 2PM EDT
Baku, October 10, AZERTAC
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council Nikolai Patrushev.
The head of state noted that there is a wide range of issues on the agenda of relations between the two countries. President Ilham Aliyev pointed out that the period since the signing of the Declaration on Allied Interaction between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation showed that the bilateral relations are indeed of allied nature, and underlined that it manifested itself in all spheres.
The President of Azerbaijan expressed confidence that the cooperation would continue to strengthen in regional security, economic relations, transport and other fields.
Nikolai Patrushev, first of all, conveyed President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin’s greetings and best wishes to the head of state.
President Ilham Aliyev thanked for the greetings and asked Nikolai Patrushev to pass on his own greetings to Vladimir Putin.
The Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council paid his respect to Great Leader Heydar Aliyev in connection with the 100th anniversary of the National Leader.
The head of state expressed his gratitude over the conduct of events at the state level in Russia on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Great Leader.
Nikolai Patrushev reiterated that bilateral relations had deepened even more since the signing of the Declaration on Allied Interaction between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation.
They shared their opinions on global and regional issues including cooperation within international organizations, and discussed regional cooperation.
The head of state underscored the need to solve regional issues in the 3+3 format with involvement of the regional countries and noted the conduct of meetings in this format at respective levels.
During the conversation, they shared their views on the Azerbaijan-Russia-Iran cooperation to develop the North-South Transport Corridor.
(Reuters) – A top Russian security official, Nikolai Patrushev, met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday.
Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is a former director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and is seen as a main advocate of hardline, hawkish policies within the Kremlin.
“A wide range of issues of Russian-Azerbaijani co-operation in various spheres was discussed. Emphasis was placed on topics related to ensuring and strengthening regional and international security and stability,” Russian news agencies quoted the Security Council’s press service as saying.
Azerbaijan last month staged a lightning offensive to regain control over Nagorno-Karabakh – a mountainous region run for three decades by ethnic Armenians. The territory was the main focus of two wars between Azerbaijan and neighbouring Armenia, Russia’s long-time ally in the region, now falling out of Moscow’s zone of influence.
Most of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh left for Armenia after the Azerbaijani offensive.
(Reporting by Maxim Rodionov, Editing by Ron Popeski and Grant McCool)