Baku, May 15, AZERTAC
The Great Leader is a personality who played an exceptional role in Azerbaijan's state building and contributed to the development of the Azerbaijan-Egypt relations, President Ilham Aliyev said as he received Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Arab Republic of Egypt Hanafy Ali Gebaly.
President Ilham Aliyev expressed gratitude to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Egyptian Parliament for his participation in a special session of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan to mark the 100th anniversary of National Leader Heydar Aliyev.
Recalling with pleasure the visit of President of Egypt Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev said that this visit had given a serious impetus to the development of relations between the two countries and during the visit they discussed development of Azerbaijan-Egypt relations in various areas, including in economic and trade ones as well as cooperation in energy, agriculture, health and other spheres.