No:350/23, Press release on the meetings of Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov at the Parliament of the United Kingdom
23 June 2023 02:20
On 22 June 2023, within the framework of his working visit to the United Kingdom, Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov held meetings with a number of members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, including Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee Alicia Kearns, Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister for Europe, North America and UK Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty, as well as members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Azerbaijan. The meeting was attended by Lord Evans, Lord Waverley, Baroness Uddin, Lord Hussain, Bob Blackman and David Duguid.
The sides emphasized the importance of developing interparliamentary cooperation and partnership relations between the two countries. During the meetings, the sustainable partnership between Azerbaijan and the United Kingdom in the field of energy and prospects for developing cooperation, including alternative energy, were discussed. Azerbaijan’s growing role in Europe’s energy security, as well as in the “Middle Corridor” and transport-transit field, was conveyed.
The Minister informed the counterparts about the normalization process of Azerbaijan-Armenia relations in the post-conflict period, the current state of negotiations on the peace agreement, intensive restoration and reconstruction works carried out in the liberated territories, the start of the process of return of internally displaced persons to their native lands, and the mine problem existing in the area as the main obstacle to this.
The sides also conducted an exchange of views on the situation in Ukraine, regional security issues and other topics of mutual interest.
