Azerbaijani Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov met with Foreign Minister of Argentina Hector Marcos Timerman on the sidelines of his visit to this country.
It was underlined at the meeting that the opening of embassies in the two countries, mutual visits over last periods, strengthening of political dialogue between the sides, as well as holding of business forums created wide opportunities for extension of cooperation between Azerbaijan and Argentina.
The Ministers exchanged view about the issues in the agenda of regional and international arena, including the settlement of Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, the themes of cooperation within the international organizations and also discussed extension of the relations in economic-trade, capital, scientific and technologies spheres, especially opportunities of implementation of joint projects in energy, agriculture, pharmaceutics, ICT, infrastructure and construction sectors.
The sides underlined the importance of signing of documents between the two countries about the cooperation in spheres of extension of legal base, especially mutual protection of investments, elimination of double taxation, technical cooperation, education, culture, tourism, communication and technologies and judicial spheres.
The Azerbaijani and Argentine foreign ministers signed agreement "On cooperation between the Government of Azerbaijan and Government of Argentina in economic-trade sphere" at the end of the meeting.
Following the signing ceremony, the Ministers held a joint meeting. Both Ministers underlined the importance of this visit and discussions from the standpoint of extension of cooperation between the two countries and said that the intergovernmental economic commission, which will be established on a basis of the agreement, will be significant for the development of cooperation between the countries in economic sphere.

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