Azerbaijani Parliament speaker receives Hungarian ambassador to Azerbaijan

Speaker of Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova has received Hungarian Ambassador Tamás Torma to Azerbaijan.

Report informs, citing the press service of the Azerbajani parliament, that the speaker wished Torma a successful tenure in Azerbaijan as she received him on 10 April.

The bilateral diplomatic relations turned thirty last year; co-operation had been progressing dynamically and reached the stage of strategic partnership throughout those years, Mrs Gafarova said before stressing the special role in this of the two states’ leaders’ reciprocal visits and meetings as well as of the documents inked so far. A propos, she mentioned the signing of the Joint Declaration of Strategic Partnership during President Ilham Aliyev’s official visit to Hungary on 30 January this year. That document, the second to be concluded on this particular subject, has indeed raised the bilateral interaction to a new level, Sahiba Gafarova said.

Gafarova recalled fondly her own official visit to Hungary in 2021 and the meetings held during it as she was talking about the inter-parliamentary links. That visit did help continue the expansion of the connexions between the two legislatures, she added before saying that the friendship groups in the legislatures were bridging them. The interaction of the two countries' MPs within international organisations is laudable, Mrs Gafarova pointed out.

She also spoke about the liberation of Azerbaijani lands of Armenian occupation in 2020 and the current situation in the region that emerged after that accomplishment.

Torma thanked for the meeting, underlined parliamentary diplomacy’s ever growing in importance in the present time and highlighted the essential input of the inter-parliamentary friendship groups in furthering the progress of the relations between the two friendly countries and strategic partners. Both parliaments’ members collaborate fruitfully under the aegis of inter-parliamentary entities; they are supporting each other in the interests of the two states. Hungary’s mounting interaction with the Turkic World by virtue of the Organisation of Turkic States where Hungary is an observer will certainly bring about yet firmer positions of the countries, according to Mr Torma.

The sides also exchanged views about other topics of shared concern as the conversation went on.