Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 15 May, Chairperson of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan Tanzila Narbayeva met with President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

President Ilham Aliyev thanked the delegation led by Tanzila Narbayeva for participating in the extraordinary meeting of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great son of the Azerbaijani people, outstanding statesman and public figure Heydar Aliyev, and for showing high respect to the memory of the national leader of this country.

Speaking about the current state of relations between Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev noted with satisfaction that they had been consistently raised to the level of strategic partnership. He stressed that mutual trusting and fraternal relations have been established between the heads of state, an effective mechanism for exchanging visits at the highest level has been created. “Last year alone, I visited Uzbekistan 3 times. This once again confirms that there is no closer friend for us than your country,” Ilham Aliyev said.

In turn, the Chairperson of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis thanked for the sincere reception and emphasized that in recent years, thanks to the efforts of the heads of state, relations between Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan have reached a qualitatively new level, positive dynamics of bilateral relations is observed in almost all directions and levels, most importantly, two fraternal countries support each other on the platforms of international and regional organizations.

Tanzila Narbayeva also stressed that the inter-parliamentary dialogue has become an important component of bilateral cooperation, the parliaments of Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan are making every effort and opportunity of inter-parliamentary relations to further strengthen the centuries-old friendship ties between our peoples, deepen mutually beneficial partnership in all priority areas of bilateral and multilateral cooperation.

During the conversation, the current state and prospects for the development of relations between Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan through an inter-parliamentary dialogue between the two countries were also discussed, views were exchanged on various areas of cooperation, including the implementation of specific projects in engineering, agriculture, textile industry, energy, investment and other areas.

In particular, it was noted that today Azerbaijan pays attention to the issue of using the achievements of Uzbekistan, studying its experience and implementing it in various sectors of the economy, for example, in the textile industry and sericulture, the development of IT parks and a cluster system.

The commonality of history, language and culture confirms the spiritual closeness of the Uzbek and Azerbaijani peoples. In this sense, it was noted at the meeting that the two peoples understand each other without interpreters, spiritual and educational dialogue is an important condition for strengthening friendly relations.

During the conversation, the importance of a promising continuation of fraternal relations between Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan was noted, and a proposal was made to consider organizing a special forum that contributed to the unification of the youth of the two states. areas of emergency response for the benefit of the peoples of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.