On July 12th President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and President Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan met in presence of delegations. 
The heads of state addressed the participants of meeting.
Welcoming his Tajik counterpart, the Azerbaijani President in particular said:
"Dear Emomali Sharifovich!
Esteemed guests! Allow me once again to welcome You. I am grateful that You have accepted our invitation to visit our country. We attach great importance to Your visit and as a whole, the relations between our states which have good history and fine prospect. Today, we have already exchanged views on important questions of mutual relations in political and economic spheres, and have planned ways of solution of specific goals. Today, concrete commissions of relevant bodies will be given certain instructions related to Your visit.
I hope, the visit will be success. The documents which we will sign also create good, new base for development of mutual relations. Between our peoples, historically there are very close, fraternal relations. They are supported with mutual interests of our states. We actively cooperate also in the international affairs, on the international structures. We support each other. And, of course, we consider Your country as friendly and brotherly. We hope for continuation of active cooperation in all directions. Your visit has therefore special importance for our relations. I am convinced that it will give a new impetus to development of our relations, and we will actively cooperate in the future as two friendly, brotherly states for the blessing of our countries and peoples.
Once again welcome.

Expressing gratitude for warm reception, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon said:
Dear Ilham Heydarovich,
Esteemed Azerbaijani friends,
First of all, allow me to express once again our sincere gratitude for the invitation to visit Your country. We are grateful to You and in your person to the government and the people of friendly Azerbaijan for hospitality we are shown.
We attach great importance to this visit and we perceive it as logic continuation of our constant contacts that began in 2007.
In this context, with special feeling of warmth we remember Your fruitful visit to Tajikistan that has given a strong impulse to development of mutually beneficial cooperation of two countries in all spheres.
Tajikistan highly estimates friendly, substantial and constructive interstate relations with the Republic of Azerbaijan and gives particular attention to their further development.
Today, the Tajik-Azerbaijani relations are many-sided and cover key directions of cooperation. Our countries, being members of the United Nations, OSCE, the CIS, ОIC and some other international and regional associations, have the same interests that should be embodied in realization of concrete joint projects and programs in areas, where our possibilities mutually fill each other. In this context, the mentioned and other universal and regional mechanisms of interaction are a favorable platform for coordination of the efforts of two countries, as well as mutual support of positions of the sides on the global problems which are a subject of common concern.
Thank you very much.

AzerTAc