Moldovan PM meets his Azeri counterpart

Chisinau, 22 November /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today met Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov, on the sidelines of the Eastern Partnership’s Summit for Investments, organized by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London.

According to the government’s communication and protocol department, the two officials discussed the development of the economic relations, organization of forums of business people, as well as prospects for boosting the cooperation in the energy sector.

Ion Chicu reiterated Moldova’s interest in the promotion of the political dialogue between the two states at various levels. “I am sure that the social and economic relations between our countries have a much bigger potential. The present volume of mutual trade does not fully show the capacity of collaboration between our countries. It is necessary for us to develop several concrete stages and ideas, due to improve the future bilateral commercial and economic ties,” the Moldovan PM said.  

Prime Minister Chicu thanked the Azeri leadership for the financing of the construction of the cultural and education centre in Ceadar-Lunga, south Moldova Gagauz autonomy. The cost of the project, backed by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, is estimated at 1.5 million euros.  

In the end of the meeting, Ion Chicu invited Ali Asadov to visit Moldova along with business people from Azerbaijan, interested in a fruitful cooperation with Moldova.

In the first half of 2019, the Moldovan-Azeri mutual trade amounted to 3.2 million dollars and the export of Moldovan goods to Azerbaijan stood at 2.8 million dollars.