*BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 21*. The second Trilateral Meeting of the Chairs ofthe parliaments of Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Türkiye held in Istanbul wasconcluded with the signing of the Istanbul Declaration and the joint pressstatement of the speakers that followed the inking ceremony, Trendlink citing the press service of Milli Majlis.
Chairman of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Mustafa Sentop andChairman of the National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan RajaPervaiz Ashraf said at the event that the signed declaration was immenselyimportant since it was going to bring about a further advance in therelations amongst our countries.
As she greeted the session participants on behalf of the delegation of theMilli Majlis of the Azerbaijani Republic, Speaker Gafarova voiced thepleasure with another visit to the brotherly Republic of Türkiye. SahibaGafarova thanked Chairman of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Prof.Mustafa Şentop for the invitation to the second Trilateral, for thehospitality and for the high level of arrangement achieved in the secondjoint meeting of the leaders of the Azerbaijani, Pakistani and Turkishlegislatures.
The Chair of the Milli Majlis recalled the recent celebration in thebrotherly Türkiye of the 15th of July the Democracy and National Unity Day,saying that the people and state of Azerbaijan had condemned thetreacherous coup d’état attempt from the very first minutes and had takentheir place right next to Turkey as ever.
The first Trilateral Meeting of the leaders of the Azerbaijani, Pakistaniand Turkish parliaments was held upon the instance of the Milli Majlisapproximately a year ago. The triple co-operation format created there isof formidable importance. It is because today’s elevated ebb of linksbetween our fraternal countries stands out for the sustained progress ofdiverse co-operation whereas the parliamentarians as their respectivepeoples’ deputies are contributing to that progress by having incepted thisplatform. Besides, the platform highlights the significant role ofparliamentary diplomacy as an important means of international co-operationin our time.
It was said next that the joint efforts made in the expired period underthe roofs of international parliamentary organisations and our fruitfulco-operation, too, proved that the triple platform was very much needful.
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Making the format yet stronger had been discussed at the second Trilateral.The parliamentary speakers had also considered ways to transform it to apractical triple inter-parliamentary co-operation platform. They had alsocontemplated and talked over development prospects.
‘I should like to mention the Istanbul Declaration adopted in the course ofthe second Trilateral Meeting. It communicates the unity of thoughts andour common stance with regards to many essential issues. The Declarationmatters in that it shows the mutual trust and support of the parliaments ofour brotherly countries.
‘I am emphatically thankful to the parliaments of the brotherly countriesfor their support for the restoration and re-construction of thede-occupied lands of the Azerbaijan Republic and for establishing a goodneighbourhood based on the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrityand inviolability of borders in the South Caucasus,’ Gafarova said.
The discussions conducted and the decisions passed today are going to makean input of their own in a continued strengthening and broadening of thetrilateral co-operation for the benefit of our countries and their peoples,concluded the Speaker of the Milli Majlis.