Kairat Osmonaliyev: Building warm relations with Azerbaijan is important for Kyrgyzstan

Establishing friendly relations with Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev, who has been successfully active in regional and global politics for a long time, is undoubtedly very important and necessary for our country, and therefore such importance is attached to the first state visit of the brotherly head of state, said the Kyrgyz ambassador to Azerbaijan Kairat Osmonaliev, Report informs.

According to him, now the relations between Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan are developing more dynamically than in previous years, great progress has been achieved in the political and diplomatic spheres: "For example, the last visit of the head of our state Sadyr Japarov to Azerbaijan (April 19-20) was made with a break of ten years, and the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev now visited Kyrgyzstan within the framework of bilateral relations without reference to any other international political event in the first times in almost twenty years of his presidency."

The ambassador said that, as a rule, the state trip gives a new impetus to bilateral relations and opens a new page in relations between them.

Osmonaliev emphasized that the presidents of the two countries are currently paying special attention to deepening cooperation in the economic field: "The volume of trade turnover between our countries is not high enough yet - approximately $10 million per year. But the potential makes it possible to increase this volume dozens of times on a mutually beneficial basis."

He added that the Trade House of Kyrgyzstan and the Kyrgyz-Azerbaijani Development Fund established in Baku will lead to progress in trade and economic relations between the two states in the near future.

The ambassador emphasized that the people of Azerbaijan and Kyrgyz are historically connected in terms of common roots, culture, traditions, and religion, so they have been and will continue to be a cultural and humanitarian component of bilateral cooperation.