Chair of the Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova met with the Minister of Justice of Georgia Rati Bregadze as part of his current visit to Azerbaijan on 10 March.

Madame Speaker welcomed the Georgian minister and the delegation accompanying him before mentioning the history of the relations between Azerbaijan and Georgia, the two friendly neighbours, that dates back over many centuries. The bilateral diplomatic relations are turning thirty years in 2022. The bonds of amity the foundation of which was laid by the Great Leader Heydar Aliyev are maintained by President Ilham Aliyev successfully today, Sahiba Gafarova continued. The diversely-themed documents that Azerbaijan and Georgia had signed last year formed powerful legal frameworks for our versatile co-operation, she pointed out, adding that the memorandum that the Ministries of Justice of the two countries had inked today came as another input in the on-going progress of our collaboration.

Madame Speaker also mentioned Georgia’s active involvement in the major international projects implemented by Azerbaijan.

As regards the relations between the two parliaments, they have a special role in the advance of the Azerbaijani-Georgian relations, one which they are fulfilling through tightly-knit bilateral and multilateral interaction. Each legislature has a friendship group in action; our parliamentary delegations co-operate successfully under the aegis of the international parliamentary institutions, too.

The conversation went on. The Chair of the Milli Majlis told the Georgian guests about the big victory that Azerbaijan had achieved in the 44-day Patriotic War of 2020. She further informed them that by freeing its lands after thirty-year-long Armenian occupation Azerbaijan had made its national territory whole again and had also enforced the four resolutions of the UN Security Council while doing so.

Armenia had pillaged our entire tangible heritage in the Azerbaijani lands it had held in the grip of occupation. Our towns and villages had been sacked and destroyed. It is not for nothing that those places are called the Hiroshima of the 21^st century, after all. As Sahiba Gafarova pointed out to the Georgian guests, the Garabagh War is a fact of history already whereas Azerbaijan is working on bringing our former internally displaced people back to their native parts: those freed lands are being purged of mines, restored and rebuilt. Restarting communications in that area and the launch of the Zangazur Corridor would be of immense use for the whole region’s development and thrift, in the opinion of Mrs Gafarova.

The Minister of Justice of Georgia Rati Bregadze expressed his appreciation of the kind welcome before sharing his impressions of Azerbaijan, underscoring the importance of such visits for experience exchange and highlighting the two parliaments’ contribution to the advancement of the co-operation between our countries. The Georgian minister also thanked the Azerbaijani side for having built the close inter-parliamentary relations. Georgia is invariably a supporter of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, according to Mr Bregadze.

Besides, Rati Bregadze shared his ideas about fostering links between the two nations’ youth and about the work of the Diasporas. He wished Azerbaijan peace and stability.

First Deputy Chair of the Milli Majlis Ali Huseynli, the head of the Azerbaijan-Georgia Inter-Parliamentary Connexions Working Group Arzu Naghiyev, MP Amina Agazade, MP Kamal Jafarov, Chief of the Milli Majlis Staff Safa Mirzayev, Deputy Minister of Justice of Azerbaijan Togrul Musayev, Georgia’s Ambassador in Baku Zurab Pataradze and other officials attended the meeting as well.

Other matters of shared interest were talked over in the course of the conversation, too. 

The Press and Public Relations Department
The Milli Majlis