DUSHABE, October 17, 2014, Asia-Plus -- On Thursday October 16, visiting Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met here with Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) Chairman Shukurjon Zuhurov.

“In the course of the talks, Shukurjon Zuhurov noted that Tajik MPs attach significance to expansion of  cooperation with Azerbaijan,” Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon, told Asia-Plus in an interview.

Tajik parliament speaker pointed to the necessity of expanding trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.

President Aliyev, for his part, reportedly noted that Azerbaijan and Tajikistan have cultural and historical commonalities and those commonalities could promote further expansion of bilateral cooperation between Azerbaijan and Tajikistan.

Azerbaijani president also underlined the significance of expansion of inter-parliamentary cooperation between the two countries.  Activities of parliamentary friendship groups create favorable conditions for expansion of bilateral cooperation between Azerbaijan and Tajikistan, President Aliyev said.