Azerbaijan, Czech Republic to hold political talks
By Laman Ismayilova
Azerbaijan and the Czech Republic will discuss further prospects of the political cooperation during the consultations to be held between the two countries’ foreign ministries.
The talks are expected to be held in the first half of 2017 in Prague, the Azerbaijani Embassy in the Czech Republic told Trend on January 13. The consultations will be held between the Azerbaijani and Czech deputy foreign ministers.
Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov will lead the Azerbaijani delegation in the talks.
The embassy said that the sides will discuss the prospects of a political dialogue in both bilateral and multilateral formats, cooperation within international organizations, as well as deepening of cooperation in culture and education and the development of trade and economic relations.
The parties are also expected to mull the prospects of cooperation within the GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development and the Visegrad Group.
Meanwhile, THE next meeting of the Azerbaijani-Czech Intergovernmental Commission and joint business forum scheduled for January 17-18 in Baku.
The governmental delegation of the Czech Republic will be accompanied by representatives of major Czech companies operating in the fields of agriculture and food industry, finance, insurance, energy, logistics, construction, law, chemistry, engineering, glass manufacturing, and other sectors of the economy.
The delegation that will include representatives of several ministries and state departments will be headed by Czech Minister of Industry and Trade Jan Mládek, who will also meet with the Azerbaijani high-ranking officials in Baku.
The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and the Czech Republic amounted to $312.02 million in January-November 2016, and $214.17 million of which accounted for the export of Azerbaijani goods to the Czech Republic, according to the Azerbaijani State Customs Committee.
The Czech Republic ranks 12th in the list of main importers of Azerbaijani goods. The share of the Czech Republic in the total export from Azerbaijan totaled 2.58 percent in January-November 2016.
---
Follow us on Twitter @AzerNewsAz