President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received Deputy Prime Minister of the Italian Republic Claudio De Vincenti, who is in Baku to attend the Opening Ceremony of the First European Games.

Deputy Prime Minister Claudio De Vincenti said he was deeply impressed by the Opening Ceremony of Baku 2015 Games.

Successful development of the relations of strategic partnership between Azerbaijan and Italy was underlined during the meeting. The sides stressed the importance of the visit in terms of discussion of various areas of cooperation, and discussed the issues of the expansion of relations in the fields of energy, investment making, agriculture, environmental protection, non-oil sector and others.