Russian President appeals to second Russian-Azerbaijani Interregional Forum participants

Russian President appealed to participants of the second Russian-Azerbaijani Interregional Forum "Russia - Azerbaijan: towards new horizons of interregional cooperation".

"I welcome you in Astrakhan at the interregional forum, which brings together representatives of state authorities, business and public circles of Russia and Azerbaijan for the second time," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s address posted on the Kremlin’s official website says.

"You are to discuss current issues related to reinforcing bilateral cooperation, consider perspective projects in the sphere of border trade, energy and transport, as well as information and communications sphere. It is important that the agenda focuses on further deepening of the Russian-Azerbaijani educational, scientific and cultural relations," the address says.

I hope that the forum will serve to strengthening economic and cultural partnership between the two countries, and your meetings will become traditional and serve to developing new needed initiatives," the address says.

The second Russian-Azerbaijani Interregional Forum "Russia - Azerbaijan: towards new horizons of interregional cooperation" kicks off in Astrakhan today. Plenary meetings and four roundtables will be held within the forum.


/Trend/