Baku, Tbilisi to become twin cities

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.