President: Top summit to be of historic importance for entire Turkic world

"It is a great pleasure to see you. It is our first meeting. I am sure that we have numerous meetings ahead. It is remarkable that we are meeting as part of the Turkic Council event and this Council is becoming an organization. Certainly, this Top summit will be of historic importance for the entire Turkic world and create conditions to discuss bilateral relations between our countries," President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said at the meeting with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov in Istanbul on November 12, Report informs.

"We look forward to active cooperation on a wide range of issues in the political, economic and humanitarian spheres, and I think there is good potential in all areas. There have already been meetings at the level of foreign ministers and your foreign minister has visited Azerbaijan. I think that today we will give a good impetus to the further development of cooperation between our countries, so that our relations are sound and oriented on the end result for the benefit of our countries and peoples," he said.