Speaker of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova had a meeting on 15 October with Speaker of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Igor Sergeenko who is visiting in our country.

The high standards to which Azerbaijan is hosting the 7^th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) and the successfulness of our country’s chairmanship of the CICA were both underlined in the conversation.

It was observed at the meeting that the relations of our countries resting upon sincere friendship, constructive dialogue, mutual trust and mutual support are expanding consistently across all the vectors and have the nature of strategic partnership. The role of the friendly relations between the Heads of State and of summit-level reciprocal visits and meetings in achieving the present high level of the relations was emphasised as well. Besides, they broached our countries’ successful co-operation in international organisation and mutual support over a number of issues upon international platforms.

The high-level development of the inter-parliamentary ties matching the current standards of our countries’ relationship was mentioned with contentment at the meeting. Speaker of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova recalled her official visit to Belarus in June 2024 and the meetings held there as well as the visits of Speaker of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Natalya Kochanova and of Speaker of the House of Representatives Igor Sergeenko to Azerbaijan. She said that those visits and meetings between the leaders of our Parliaments signified vividly the current level of relations between our legislative bodies.

It was further said that the friendship groups active in our Parliaments today maintain regular contacts whereas the sides’ MPs take part in events organised both in Azerbaijan and Belarus. They also mentioned our legislative bodies’ fruitful co-operation in such international organisations as the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the CIS Parliamentary Assembly and the Asian Parliamentary Assembly, and stressed the need to continue the activities.

The meeting also saw an exchange of opinions about other matters of shared interest.

The Press and Public Relations Department
The Milli Majlis