The talks were held during Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov’s official visit to the Russian Federation.
From the transcript:
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Mikhail Mishustin:
Good afternoon, Mr Asadov. Good afternoon, dear guests. We are delighted to
welcome you to the Government House of the Russian Federation.
This is your first official visit
to Russia
as head of government, Mr Asadov. I am confident that our upcoming talks will
be constructive and substantive and will lend a fresh impetus to our
cooperation. I would also ask you to convey my warmest greetings and best
wishes to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, and on behalf of President of
the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
We highly value our long-term
partnership with friendly Azerbaijan;
we consider it important to raise it to a higher level, and fill it with new
content. Overall, our trade and economic cooperation is expanding at a good
pace. We prevented a significant decline in mutual trade in 2020 despite the
difficulties caused by the coronavirus. As early as at the beginning of this
year, from January to March, we boosted mutual trade by almost 3.5 percent,
which is about $680 million. This is a good figure.
Almost 1,000 companies with
Russian capital are operating in Azerbaijan; many large industrial
projects are being implemented, such as an assembly plant for GAZ cars, a
helicopter service centre, and a modern pharmaceutical facility. Combine
harvesters are also being manufactured. A number of major contracts are being
implemented, including for new railcars for the Baku metro.
The statements the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia
and Russia
adopted after the end of the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh have opened up
opportunities for more comprehensive development in the region. I am confident that
the unblocking of economic and transport links and development of new
infrastructure meet the interests of all states in the South Caucasus.
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We place special emphasis on inter-regional
ties. More than 70 Russian regions directly cooperate with Azerbaijan. We
are preparing for the Russia-Azerbaijan Interregional Forum; we will make sure all
the recommendations of our sanitary and epidemiological services are taken into
account during the event.
We are fighting the coronavirus
infection together. Russia promptly
delivered the test systems to Azerbaijan,
and dispatched medical teams to help. The first batch of the Russian Sputnik V
vaccine was delivered to Azerbaijan
in May. We are also ready to establish production of the Russian vaccine in Azerbaijan, to help
you with this. I am sure that this will enable Azerbaijan to vaccinate the people
in the shortest possible time.
After
today’s talks, we will sign a number of agreements on deepening cooperation in
a number of areas such as the information sphere, intellectual property,
customs cooperation, food security, and veterinary medicine.
We have a wide and meaningful
agenda. I am ready to discuss all of our important issues.
Mr Asadov, you have the floor now.
Ali Asadov: Mr Mishustin, colleagues,
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Let me first express my gratitude
to you for this high-level reception and warm hospitality that my delegation
and I are enjoying here. I also want to thank you personally, Mr Mishustin, for
your invitation to pay an official visit to the Russian Federation.
Yesterday, the leaders and
presidents of our two countries, Ilham Aliyev and Vladimir Putin, talked by
telephone.
I am very pleased to extend to
you, Mr Mishustin, and all members of your delegation, personal greetings and
best wishes from Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
I would like to begin by saying that
29 years ago, on 4 April, Azerbaijan
and the Russian Federation
established diplomatic relations. The bonds of friendship, cooperation and
mutual understanding have tied our countries and peoples together for many
centuries. Azerbaijan highly
appreciates its relations with the Russian Federation.
Thanks to the personal
involvement and the political will of our presidents, relations between our two
countries have reached the strategic partnership level and continue to be
dynamic. Mr Mishustin, for their part, the governments and relevant ministries
and departments in our countries are also working hard at this.
As you said, Azerbaijan has
agreements that give us extensive opportunities at the inter-regional level.
According to our information, 80 constituent entities of the Russian Federation cooperate with Azerbaijan. I
believe this helps promote our relations even further.
Of importance are the
intergovernmental commission’s efforts to tackle economic issues. Recently the
commission held its 19th meeting in Moscow.
Relations between Azerbaijan and
Russia rest on a solid legal framework, with over 230 intergovernmental and
inter-departmental agreements covering a broad range of issues relating to
trade, the economy, investment, healthcare, education and the defence industry.
Important documents that, in my
view, deserve special mention are the joint statement on priorities in economic
cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan, which the two presidents signed in
Sochi in 2018, and the governmental cooperation programme through 2024; the
ensuing action plan contains six road maps covering many aspects of cooperation
in the economy, healthcare and education that are being successfully carried
out.
You touched on
this issue and I also want to note the position of the Azerbaijani President
and the Azerbaijani Government: we praise the role the Russian Federation
played in the 44-day war. We also praise and are fully committed to fulfilling
the obligations specified by the presidents of Azerbaijan
and Russia
and the Armenian Prime Minister in the statement of 9 November – it was 10
November in our case.
You talked about new
opportunities in the post-battle period, including those offered in paragraph 9
(of the statement), the successful implementation of which should be credited
to the leadership of the deputy prime ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan and
Armenia, who stay in close contact.
Azerbaijan, for its part, is
fully committed to fulfilling its obligations under the statement of 9 (10)
November and the President’s statement of 11 January and will follow through on
them.
Mr Mishustin, I want to take
advantage of this opportunity to invite you to come to Azerbaijan on
an official visit. I believe a visit, at your convenience, would contribute a
lot to strengthening Russian-Azerbaijani relations.
Mikhail
Mishustin: Thank you, Mr Asadov.
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Signed documents:
Document signing ceremony
Document signing ceremony
Document signing ceremony
Memorandum of Understanding
between the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Russian Federation) and the State Agency on
Intellectual Property of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Signed
by: Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov and Minister of Economy of
the Republic of Azerbaijan Mikayil Jabbarov
Agreement between the Ministry of
Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation
and the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the
Republic of Azerbaijan on cooperation on communications and information
technologies
Signed
by: Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Maksut Shadayev and Minister
of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Rashad Nabiyev
Agreement between the Ministry of
Agriculture of the Russian Federation
and the Food Safety Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan on
cooperation on veterinary medicine
Signed
by: Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Sergei Levin and Chairman of the Food Safety
Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan Goshgar
Tahmazli
Protocol on the transition to the
integration of information systems in plant quarantine between the Federal
Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Russian Federation) and the Food Safety Agency
of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Signed
by: Head of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance
Sergei Dankvert and Chairman of the Food Safety Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Goshgar Tahmazli
Protocol between the Federal
Customs Service (Russian Federation) and the State Customs Committee of the
Republic of Azerbaijan on mutual recognition of the
results of customs control in relation to certain types of e-goods
Signed by: Head of the Federal
Customs Service Vladimir Bulavin and Chairman of the State Customs Committee of
the Republic of Azerbaijan Safar Mehdiyev
Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Export
Centre and the Azerbaijan Standardisation Institute
Signed by: General Director of the
Russian Export Centre Veronika Nikishina and Minister of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mikayil Jabbarov
