FM: Azerbaijan-Ukraine relations has a strategic nature

Relations between Azerbaijan and Ukraine are of strategic nature, said Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov during a joint briefing with his Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin.

"Our political positions coincide at international venues as well and the meeting of Azerbaijani-Ukranian intergovernmental commission will take place for the next year" Mammadyarov noted.

In turn, Klimkin added that the two countries have tangible results in the economy.

"In the first nine months of 2017 we achieved a greater trade turnover than in the whole 2016," he said. "The growth was 66 percent. In addition, there is also a five-fold increase in the transportation of goods through Azerbaijan."