Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Georgi Parvanov of Bulgaria met in presence of delegations.
President Ilham Aliyev expressed confidence that the visit of the Bulgarian President to Azerbaijan would have very good results.
"Our bilateral relations are developing successfully. I am totally confident that your visit will make a valuable contribution to development of these relations," President Aliyev said.
President of Azerbaijan also said the political relations between Azerbaijan and Bulgaria is at high level and mutual visits are good example of this.
"Of course, the energy factor plays an important role in relations between our countries and the negotiations between the companies are underway. The successful development of cooperation between Azerbaijan and Bulgaria in all spheres is obvious and I am sure that the positive dynamics will remain," the Head of state said.
Bulgarian President, Georgi Parvanov, in turn, expressed his gratitude for the cordial welcome. He said "the most important thing is that friendly relations between our countries have turned into business relations as well."
"I think that it is very important to raise our relations to a new level. We would like the Bulgarian investments to be present in Azerbaijan as well," Parvanov said.

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