President Aliyev expressed confidence that the visit by Kotzias to Azerbaijan would help strengthen relations between the two countries. 

Recalling official visits by two Greek presidents to Azerbaijan and his two official visits to Greece, President Aliyev described this as a good sign of relations. The head of state stressed the importance of developing bilateral ties between the two countries even further.

 

Noting that Azerbaijan and Greece have a long history and unique culture, Kotzias said the two countries` peoples share a number of common values, and underlined the significance of effectively using this potential for further development of relations.

 

They exchanged views over the development of bilateral ties between the two countries in a variety of fields, the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and other issues.