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Ushpiz: Israel supports Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity

04 April 2017 [11:36] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Rashid Shirinov

Israel’s position on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains unchanged, said Alon Ushpiz, the country's Foreign Ministry Deputy Director General, stressing that Israel supports Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.

He made the remarks during a meeting with Azerbaijan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov on April 3.

Ushpiz noted that the relations between the two countries are above the strategic level and it became possible thanks to the historically friendly relations of the two nations, cooperation in such important spheres as energy and security.

The Israeli official also expressed satisfaction with the growth of the volume of trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Israel. Israel is interested in the development of cooperation with Azerbaijan in all spheres, added Ushpiz.

Khalafov, for his part, noted the high level of cooperation in political, economic, military and technical spheres.

The diplomat named such fields as agriculture, tourism, renewable energy as priority spheres for cooperation and added that Israel’s experience in these areas is interesting for Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan is one of the few Muslim countries, which maintains deep political, diplomatic and economic ties with Israel.

The two countries cooperate not only in trade and economic sphere (Israel imports Azerbaijani oil through the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline), but also have broad interaction in military and military-technical spheres. During the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in mid-December, the two countries signed agreements on standardization, double taxation and agricultural cooperation.

In general, Israel is in the tenth place in terms of Azerbaijan's trade turnover with other countries.

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