Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and Tbilisi (Georgia), will become twin cities, the Georgian bureau of Report informs.
The initiative belongs to the Azerbaijani Embassy in Georgia.
The work on a memorandum on the establishment of twin-city relations between Baku and Tbilisi is nearing completion.
Deputy Mayor of Tbilisi Andria Basilaia noted that the mayor’s office is very interested in the capital of Georgia reaching a qualitatively new level of relations with Baku, the central city of a friendly and fraternal state - Azerbaijan.
Baku and Tbilisi have been partner cities since 1997. The industrial cities of Azerbaijan and Georgia Sumgait and Rustavi became twin cities in 1952.