Our Economic Policy, Industries and Enterprising Committee had a meeting with the visiting delegation of the Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation (TÜRKONFED) at the Milli Majlis on 5 November.

The committee chairman Tahir Mirkishili greeted the Turkish guests before starting a conversation about the soaring Azerbaijani-Turkish relations and economic co-operation and bringing up our country’s advantageous investment environment and the legislative frameworks in place to regulate it. An emphatic mention was made of the new Bill on the state-private sector partnership that is going through parliamentary debates currently, with Mr Mirkishili proceeding to fill the Turkish business people in on that draft.

The new bilateral co-operation opportunities to be found in the Azerbaijan lands freed during the 44 days’ Patriotic War were mentioned too. In general, the Azerbaijani side is keen on seeing Turkish companies in general and TÜRKONFED in particular closely engaged in the restoration and rebuilding work afoot in those territories and in creating new production facilities, according to Mr Mirkishili.

The TÜRKONFED board chairman Süleyman Sönmez, in turn, said he was glad to have come to the parliament of Azerbaijan; he went further to tell about his organisation which, he pointed out, is represented in building, textiles, equipment manufacture, energy, agriculture, finance and other sectors. The Confederation happens to be the largest business union of Turkiye what with 30 federations, 300 associations, approximately 50,000 companies and numerous regional and industry-specific business entities brought together under its umbrella. As for its operating areas, Mr Sönmez voiced the interest of TÜRKONFED in restoration and building projects and other economic undertakings in Azerbaijan – including the liberated territories of Azerbaijan.

The deputy chairman of the Azerbaijani parliamentary committee Ali Masimli and the MPs Vahid Ahmadov, Anar Mammadov and Rufat Guliyev shared their views upon a continued intensification of the Azerbaijani-Turkish relations and boosting the trade volumes and mutual investments.

Expanding the economic co-operation is a topic that was discussed at length as the meeting went on.

The Press and Public Relations Department  

The Milli Majlis