“The relations between Azerbaijan and Lithuania have good groundwork, the sides have signed more than 20 agreements between governments and agencies,” Lithuanian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Artūras Žurauskas said in his interview to APA.
As reported Ambassador said the political relations between the two countries were strong enough. “Cultural-humanitarian cooperation, mutual relations in the sphere of tourism are developing. Business and economy are special directions of our relations, special attention must be paid to the opportunities of development in these spheres. Azerbaijan and Lithuania can cooperate in the spheres of transport, power engineering, ecology. Construction boom is observed in Azerbaijan. Lithuania’s construction industry is perfect and can compete with Turkey. Moreover, we would like to see more Azerbaijani investors in Lithuania,” he said.
Touching upon the participation of a Lithuanian rock group in a concert held in Nagorno-Karabakh issue Žurauskas noted that: ““I do not think that a Lithuanian actor’s visit to Nagorno Karabakh will have serious impact on our relations with Azerbaijan. It doesn’t mean that we don’t recognize the occupation fact. The creative person’s visit doesn’t reflect the official position of Lithuania. The citizens of Lithuania have the law “On freedom of movement” and the borders are not closed. We do not hold anyone by force, the citizen himself decides where to go and what may follow?
