Azerbaijan-Turkey Business Forum

BAKU (A.A) - November 28, 2011 - Azerbaijan's Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Sevinc Hesenova, has said that Azerbaijani-Turkish relations were a model to the world. 102 members of Turkey's Aegean Chamber of Industry (EBSO) and 205 Azerbaijani businesspeople held talks in Baku. Turkish and Azerbaijani businesspeople met at the Baku Park Inn Hotel as part of the Baku Business and Observation Trip organized by the EBSO on Monday. Speaking at the inauguration of the meeting, Sevinc Hesenova said that the concept of "one nation, two states" continued to progress by strategic steps and that Azerbaijani cooperation with Turkey in the field of natural gas was crucial for the future. "Azerbaijani-Turkish relations are a model to the world. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Erzurum pipelines are important for Europe's energy security," Hesenova stressed. The trade volume between Turkey and Azerbaijan for the year 2011 was around 1.4 billion USD. Close to 50 Azerbaijani companies have made investments in Turkey worth around 4.5 billion USD, Hesenova also said.