President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev have signed a joint declaration which sets out the position of the two countries on many issues and challenges.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev have signed a joint declaration which sets out the position of the two countries on many issues and challenges.
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>”We signed a joint declaration of the presidents of Ukraine and Azerbaijan. It reaffirms the readiness to provide mutual support for the sovereignty, territorial integrity of our state within internationally recognized borders, jointly counter hybrid threats, the desire to ensure peace and stability in the Black Sea-Caspian region and beyond. These and a number of other provisions of the declaration testify to the unity and closeness of our views on many issues and challenges of both regional and global dimensions,” Zelensky said
>In particular, the Joint Declaration establishes arrangements to provide mutual support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the two countries within their internationally recognized borders; the desire to intensify bilateral substantive cooperation in political and security, trade and economic, fuel and energy, military and technical, infrastructure, transport, aircraft, agro-industrial, cultural and humanitarian and other fields.
>In addition, the document defines readiness to intensify cooperation in combating hybrid threats, strengthens cooperation in the defense industry, and mentions direct intentions to deepen cooperation within international and regional organizations and fora, including the UN, OSCE, Council of Europe, GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development, and Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
>In addition, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk and Minister of Energy of Azerbaijan Parviz Shahbazov signed the intergovernmental agreement on food safety cooperation to simplify import, export, transit, and re-export procedures.
[Source](https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-economy/3385152-trade-land-energy-ukraine-azerbaijan-sign-bilateral-documents.html)
GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) are the new front apparently.
Azerbaijan isn’t exactly a nice country and a Russian puppet so i don’t get it..
[https://www.occrp.org](https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pegasus-project/life-in-azerbaijans-digital-autocracy-they-want-to-be-in-control-of-everything)
Since Armenia loves Russia, it only makes sense for Ukraine to love Azerbaijan, while daddy Russia pits them against each other
This is a defence commitment above all. Putin must be fumin, Baku is slipping from their clutches every passing day.
Azerbaijan and Ukraine have a lot in common. Karabakh and Lugansk/Donetsk are very similar conflicts.
It’s good that Azerbaijani territories were returned back. Hopefully Ukraine will get their territories back as well.
Ukraine’s reasoning is simple: they need more of those Bayraktar drones that AZ used to conquer Nagorno-Karabakh in order to have a reasonable deterrent against Russia, they need good relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan for that, so throwing Armenia under the bus is an unfortunate side effect of this reality.
Never understood why Russia let Armenia get dunked on during their recent war with Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan won because of modern equipment and drones from Turkey, why would powerful Russia not offer the same?