Baku hosts political consultations between Azerbaijan and Germany

Baku. 23 January. REPORT.AZ/ Baku hosted next political consultations between Azerbaijan and Germany at the level of foreign ministries.

Report was told in the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

Azerbaijan was represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov and the Federal Republic of Germany by Director for Eastern Europe, aucasus and Central Asia of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Andreas Peschke.

Khalafov said that regular consultations within foreign ministries were perceived as a tradition and that this tradition was a useful platform.

Talking about the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Khalafov noted that the German government's decision not to grant a visa to the separatist regime was highly appreciated by Azerbaijan as Germany's support for the settlement process and Azerbaijan's territorial integrity.

Peschke noted that Germany's position on the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict is unambiguous and supports the settlement of the conflict based on the principles of the Helsinki Final Act.

The sides also exchanged views on the issues of mutual interest, including the current state of relations between Azerbaijan and the European Union, readmission, migration issues.