Speaker of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova wished the ambassador of Hungary to Azerbaijan Tamás Torma a successful tenure in our country as she received him on 10 April.

The bilateral diplomatic relations turned thirty last year; our co-operation had been progressing dynamically and reached the stage of strategic partnership throughout those years, Mrs Gafarova said before stressing the special role in this of the two states’ leaders’ reciprocal visits and meetings as well as of the documents inked so far. A propos, she mentioned the signing of the Joint Declaration of Strategic Partnership during President Ilham Aliyev’s official visit to Hungary on 30 January this year. That document, the second to be concluded on this particular subject, has indeed raised our interaction to a new level, in the opinion of Sahiba Gafarova.

Mrs Gafarova recalled fondly her own official visit to Hungary in 2021 and the meetings held during it as she was talking about the inter-parliamentary links. That visit did help continue the expansion of the connexions between the two legislatures, she added before saying that the friendship groups in the legislatures were bridging them. Our MPs’ interaction going in international organisations is as laudable, Mrs Gafarova pointed out.

She also talked about Azerbaijan having freed her lands of Armenian occupation in 2020 and the current situation in the region that emerged after that accomplishment.

The ambassador of Hungary to Azerbaijan Tamás Torma thanked for the meeting, underlined parliamentary diplomacy’s ever growing in importance in our time and highlighted the essential input of the inter-parliamentary friendship groups in furthering the progress of the relations between the two friendly countries and strategic partners. Both parliaments’ members collaborate fruitfully under the aegis of inter-parliamentary entities; they are supporting each other in the interests of our states. Hungary’s mounting interaction with the Turkic World by virtue of the Organisation of Turkic States where Hungary is an observer will certainly bringing about yet firmer positions of our countries, according to Mr Torma.

There was then an exchange opinions about other topics of shared concern as the conversation went on.

The Press and Public Relations Department
The Milli Majlis