Azerbaijan, Poland to eye new prospects for economic co-op
By Nigar Orujova
Azerbaijan and Poland will review the new prospects for
cooperation in the economic sphere.
The sides will hold negotiations during the 7th meeting of
Azerbaijan-Poland intergovernmental commission on economic
cooperation in Baku on December 15, Poland's embassy in Azerbaijan
reported.
A delegation of the Polish government, led by Deputy Prime
Minister, Minister of Economy Janusz Piechocinski will pay a visit
to Azerbaijan.
The co-chairs of the commission are Azerbaijan's Energy Minister
Natig Aliyev and Janusz Piechocinski.
The delegation also is expected to hold discussions on the
expansion of the bilateral trade turnover and economic cooperation,
as well as making investments in Azerbaijan.
Earlier, the Director of the Foreign Relations Department of
Poland's National Chamber of Commerce, Jerzy Drozdz, said the
agrarian sector, production of food products, and other areas can
be promising spheres for expanding the cooperation between
Azerbaijani and Polish entrepreneurs.
"We positively assess the cooperation with Azerbaijan, especially
between small and medium-sized enterprises and want the Polish
entrepreneurs to establish cooperation with their Azerbaijani
colleagues," he said. "Certain agreements have been reached in the
sphere of industrial production and I hope these agreements will be
implemented in the near future."
Drozdz noted that Polish entrepreneurs gradually are moving to a
new stage of cooperation, namely to the stage of making
investments.
Several Polish firms make investments in Turkey, as well as in a
number of CIS countries. These firms also expressed readiness to
participate in the Azerbaijani market, Drozdz said.
"Azerbaijan is known as the world's oil country, and everything
that is connected with the oil industry is also interesting for
Polish entrepreneurs," the department director noted.