Azerbaijan may send team to Somalia to specify concrete projects

Azerbaijan can send a team to Somalia to specify concrete projects, said President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev during a joint press conference with President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Baku, Report informs via AZERTAC.

"Prior to the visit of Mr. President, the big delegation from Azerbaijan visited Somalia a week ago, which mainly worked on preparation of the visit and at the same time on how to build strong economic, political, cultural ties in the future," Ilham Aliyev said.

According to the Azerbaijani president, this process should continue: "As a result of the official visit of the President, I think, we need to send another team to Somalia with concrete targets and goals to identify the areas of investments and also to specify the concrete projects, where Azerbaijani investments can be accepted and can be helpful. Its infrastructure, ports infrastructure, agriculture - Mr. President informed me about the vast potential. I also informed him about our targets for creating self-sufficient agriculture in Azerbaijan. So, I think we can create quite substantial synergy in this area."