Azerbaijan–Bulgaria relations

Cooperation is carried out in such areas as transport and transit of goods, tourism, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, science and high technologies, education, military equipment, etc.

[3] Prime Ministers of Bulgaria paid official visits to Azerbaijan in November 2007, April 2012, February 2014, June 2015, January 2018, March 2019.

[3] Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria paid official visits to Azerbaijan in November 1997, March 2004, October 2009, December 2012, May 2016, June 2019.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, paid working and official visits to Bulgaria in December 2004, April 2008, October 2018.

[3] The legal framework includes more than 70 documents on the implementation of cooperation in the political, commercial, economic, scientific, cultural and humanitarian spheres, signed since 1995.

The final protocols of the 4th and 5th sessions of the joint Commission also included an item on illegal activities in the territories of Azerbaijan occupied by Armenia.

[3] According to the data of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan, in the first 9 months of 2014, the trade turnover between the countries amounted to 123 million US dollars.

[11] On September 21, 2011, within the framework of the visit of the Minister of economy, energy and tourism of Bulgaria E. T. Traikov to Azerbaijan, an Azerbaijani-Bulgarian business forum was held in Baku, which was attended by about 80 entrepreneurs.

On November 5, 2012, within the framework of the visit of the Minister of regional development and public works of Bulgaria L. Pavlova to Azerbaijan, an Azerbaijani-Bulgarian business forum was held in Baku, which was attended by the heads of major companies in the field of logistics, transport and construction.

[14] On December 11, 2019, the two countries discussed cooperation in the field of cargo transportation to Europe via the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars route and then by ferries to the Black sea through the territory of Bulgaria.

[15] According to the agreement between Azerbaijan and the European Union on visa facilitation signed in Vilnius on November 29, 2013, Azerbaijani citizens can enter and leave the country on the basis of a permit-visa application starting from September 1, 2014.

On June 2, 2015, at the initiative of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Bulgaria, at the Bulgarian National library of St. Cyril and St. Methodius hosted an exhibition of publications about Azerbaijan.

[22] With the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the Trapezitsa architectural museum-reserve, located in the administrative center of Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria, was restored in 2016.

The Heydar Aliyev Foundation also provided financial assistance for the reconstruction of the 158-meter Western Wall, the construction of the 880-meter tourist alley, the cultural heritage Center, the repair of 3 medieval churches, etc.

At the moment, Azerbaijani and Bulgarian scientists attach importance to the study of the Black and Caspian Sea regions, as well as to conducting archaeological excavations on the territory of both countries.