President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan on Tuesday received Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk of Russia.

Noting the good level of trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, the president of Azerbaijan hailed the level of implementation of previously reached agreements, informed the press service of the Azerbaijani leader.

Aliyev touched upon the activities of the Intergovernmental State Commission on Economic Cooperation between Azerbaijan and Russia, and expressed hope that the Commission meeting would review the work done, discuss potential areas of cooperation apart from the traditional ones, including the expansion of trade and services, and define new areas for cooperation.

Also, the Azerbaijani president expressed his confidence that the activities of the trilateral commission chaired by the Russian, Azerbaijani and Armenian deputy prime ministers and, above all, the opening of transport and communication lines would be discussed during Alexei Overchuk’s visit to Azerbaijan. In this regard, President Ilham Aliyev said that a 60-kilometer section of the railway had already been built in Azerbaijan and would be completed next year.

He noted that Azerbaijan is also progressing work on the construction of a motorway in accordance with plan.

“Unfortunately, no action has been taken by Armenia in this regard, as it has not yet determined the geographical coordinates of the highway route to pass through its territory. Despite the fact that Azerbaijan has repeatedly raised this issue, Armenia has not responded,” Aliyev said.

The sides also discussed cooperation in trade and economy, transport, transit, logistics, finance, banking, energy, oil, and natural gas.