Azerbaijan–Organization of Turkic States relations

[1] Economic relations among the member states considered as the main field that Turkic Council emphasizes cooperation and arranges several meetings and activities in order to achieve improvements.

[2] In October 2014, the Third Business Forum held in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan after the Fourth meeting of the Ministers of Economy of the Turkic Speaking States in Issyk-Kul on 19–20 June 2014.

[5] Azerbaijan cooperates with neighboring member states in a sphere of energy security and conducts activity in the Caspian Sea with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan and the main export routes pass through Turkey.

Furthermore, the commence of the building a new International Sea Trade Port in Baku with 25 million tons of cargo capacity and Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway will connect Asia and Europe by passing through Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.

[7] Taking into account the Nakhchivan agreement, the Council of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs assemble a day before annual summits for discussing issues and active participation in the sphere of politics and security.

Within the framework of the Fifth Summit Turkic Council held in Astana in September 2015, governors adopted the declaration, which reflects paragraph on Nagorno Karabakh conflict “reiterate the importance of the Armenia – Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict on the basis of sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of the internationally recognized border of Azerbaijan”.

The participants celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Nakhchivan Agreement on the establishment of the Turkic Council in addition to Uzbekistan’s joining the organization as a full-fledged member.