Published January 17,2025
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Azerbaijan and Georgia held high-level discussions Thursday geared toward strengthening bilateral ties.
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili met in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to debate political, financial and humanitarian facets of their nations’ strategic partnership in addition to regional points.
Regarding regional safety issues of mutual curiosity, Bayramov knowledgeable Botchorishvili about post-conflict reconstruction, demining and peace efforts in addition to challenges to lasting peace within the South Caucasus, in response to Baku’s Foreign Ministry.
“Azerbaijan and Georgia have always approached international law with sensitivity, and we have always supported each other’s territorial integrity and will continue to do so,” Bayramov later mentioned in a joint press briefing.
“Unfortunately, we cannot say the same about the other country in the region, Armenia,” he mentioned. “Only as a result of the 44-day Patriotic War and the one-day anti-terror operations did Azerbaijan restore its territorial integrity and sovereignty.”
“Despite our lands being underneath occupation for a few years, our individuals being displaced from these areas, and acts of vandalism in opposition to our cultural monuments, Azerbaijan has provided Armenia to work on a peace treaty.
“This initiative was put forward to ensure peace and stability in our common home, the South Caucasus,” he added.
‘AZERBAIJAN’S PARTNERSHIP IS IMPORTANT FOR GEORGIA’
Botchorishvili emphasised the significance of her nation’s strategic partnership with Azerbaijan.
“The strategic partnership with Azerbaijan is very important for Georgia,” she mentioned throughout the press convention.
“There is a very strong friendship between our peoples. It is very gratifying that there is a strong partnership between our countries,” she added.
She emphasised Georgia’s precedence of integrating into European and Euro-Atlantic constructions, noting its standing as a European Union candidate nation and the necessity for joint efforts by each Georgia and the EU to realize this aim.
She additionally highlighted the significance of sturdy relations with neighboring nations, together with a strategic partnership with Armenia, and expressed Georgia’s readiness to make use of its potential to help peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian army occupied Karabakh—a territory internationally acknowledged as a part of Azerbaijan—and 7 adjoining areas.
Most of the territory was liberated by Azerbaijan throughout a 44-day conflict within the fall of 2020, which ended after a Russian-brokered peace settlement that opened the door to normalization talks and the demarcation of their border.
In September 2023, Azerbaijan established full sovereignty in Karabakh following an “anti-terrorist operation,” after which separatist forces within the area surrendered.
Source: www.anews.com.tr