Speaking about economic ties, Mustafayev reminded that the High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council is operating between the countries. The minister stressed that Azerbaijan implements its strategic projects jointly with fraternal Turkey, among such projects are the Southern Gas Corridor, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan-Kars, the STAR refinery and others.
Mustafayev also reminded that Turkey and Azerbaijan are currently negotiating the Agreement on preferential trade.
Data of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan shows that the trade turnover with Turkey in January-September 2017 amounted to almost $1.96 billion. According to the results of the reporting period, Turkey is the second trade partner of Azerbaijan in terms of commodity turnover.
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