Members of the Milli Majlis Working Group for inter-parliamentary connexions with Saudi Arabia had an online meeting with participants of the inter-parliamentary friendship group on Azerbaijan of the Consultative Assembly of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 23 June.

The Milli Majlis deputy and leader of the above-said working group Fatma Yildirim began with introducing the group membership and proceeded to talk about the important tasks befalling the parliaments in the business of furthering the inter-state relations. She also broached the necessity of broadening the legal basis for the current co-operation to grow stronger and said with confidence that the parliamentarians of neither side would spare efforts to those ends.

Azerbaijan’s mutual relations with Saudi Arabia occupy a special place in our foreign politics: our countries are bound together with the brotherly relations, the shared Islamic heritage and the all-out co-operation that serves their interests. As for the official visits of the two state leaders, those have generated a strong momentum behind the expansion of our relations, according to Mrs Yildirim.

The Azerbaijani parliament’s working group leader also touched on the subject of the thirty-year-long Armenian aggression policy and its grave aftermath.

Going further, the Milli Majlis deputy commended the constant Saudi Arabian support for the just position of Azerbaijan in the UN, the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation and other influential international assemblies as well as she did the declaration circulated by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the Patriotic War. Mrs Yildirim thanked the Saudi side for their support.

The leader of the inter-parliamentary friendship group of Saudi Arabia’s law-advisory body Fayez bin Abdullah Al-Shehri said, ‘We are united with the priorities of culture, history and the Islam, and they are more profound that political ties are… The liberation of Garabagh and provision of its own territorial integrity is the rightful cause of Azerbaijan. We have always supported and will go on to support Azerbaijan on the subject in the international organisations.’

As the member of the Shura Council added, he thought it important to further our inter-parliamentary relations, intensify reciprocal visits, build joint operations of our private sectors and have specialists commanding both Azerbaijani and Arabic at the embassies and within the tourism sector.

A member of the Azerbaijani Parliament’s Working Group and Chairman of the parliamentary Health Committee Ahliman Amiraslanov informed the Saudi colleagues of the arrangements made in our country concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. The Azerbaijani MPs Jeyhun Mammadov and Afat Hasanova told the Saudis of Armenia having destroyed Islamic monuments and graveyards, and brought up several other current topics.

Those members of the inter-parliamentary friendship group Saudi Arabia-Azerbaijan speaking during the meeting witnessed their intentions to maintain close co-operation with our country in the areas such as tourism, sports and culture. They also voiced their wishes for more profound inter-parliamentary connexions, friendly ties and co-operation.

MP Kamaladdin Gafarov (the Milli Majlis) and representatives of the Saudi Majlis ash-Shura were taking part in the meeting, too.

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The Milli Majlis