Azerbaijan, Iraq hold second round of political consultations

[ad_1] BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 21. Azerbaijan’s Deputy International Minister, Yalchin Rafiyev, visited the Republic of Iraq on April 20, 2025, Pattern stories through the Ministry of International Affairs of Azerbaijan.

The go to included the second spherical of political consultations between the Ministry of International Affairs of Azerbaijan and the Ministry of International Affairs of Iraq, held in Baghdad.

The consultations have been led by Deputy International Minister Yalchin Rafiyev on behalf of Azerbaijan, and Hussein Muhammad Bahr Al-Ulum, Iraq’s Deputy International Minister for Bilateral Relations.

Throughout the talks, either side engaged in in depth discussions on the present state and future prospects of bilateral political, financial, commerce, power, humanitarian, and interparliamentary relations. The potential of increasing mutual cooperation inside multilateral frameworks, significantly by way of worldwide organizations such because the UN, the Group of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the Non-Aligned Motion, was additionally addressed. The discussions touched on potential collaboration beneath the UN Framework Conference on Local weather Change (COP).

Rafiyev delivered a complete briefing to the Iraqi contingent relating to the present post-conflict panorama, the intricacies of the peace course of, ongoing reconstruction initiatives within the liberated zones, the systematic landmine clearance operations, and the repatriation of displaced residents to their native areas.

Each entities engaged in a discourse relating to geopolitical and transnational issues of reciprocal significance.

Throughout his go to, Deputy International Minister Rafiyev additionally met with the Minister of Communications of Iraq and Chairwoman of the Joint Fee on Commerce, Financial, Scientific, Technical, and Cultural Cooperation between the 2 governments, Hayam Al-Yasiri. They emphasised the fee’s important contribution to the improvement of financial, commerce, and humanitarian cooperation and expressed confidence that the upcoming session of the fee, scheduled to happen in Baku, will additional strengthen bilateral relations.

In a gathering with Iraq’s Deputy Minister of Setting, Jasim Abdulazeez Humadi, Rafiyev mentioned Azerbaijan’s profitable presidency of COP29 and areas of cooperation on local weather change.

Rafiyev additionally visited the "Rewaq Baghdad Middle for Public Coverage," the place he met with the middle’s director, Abbas Al-Anbouri, and took part in a roundtable dialogue. The roundtable targeted on Azerbaijan’s overseas coverage, COP29 presidency, the nation’s stance on regional and worldwide points, and future developments in Azerbaijan-Iraq relations. Rafiyev additionally addressed quite a few questions from individuals relating to the peace agenda between Azerbaijan and Armenia, in addition to ongoing reconstruction efforts within the liberated territories.