BAKU (Sputnik) — On Saturday, Hasanov arrived in Tehran with an official visit at an invitation of Dehqan.
"During the meeting between the delegations of two countries prospects of enlargement of military and military-technical cooperation have been discussed and [the sides] exchanged opinions on regional security," the ministerial statement read.
5 March 2017, 12:19 GMT
Contacts between Baku and Tehran have been intensifying since August 2016, when Azerbaijan, Iran and Russia signed a joint declaration on deepening cooperation between the countries in various spheres. In March 2017, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev paid an official visit to Iran, where the sides signed a number of bilateral agreements.
Iran has a 765-kilometer (475-mile) long border with Azerbaijan and taken into consideration the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nargorno-Karabakh breakaway region. Tehran said it was interested in sustaining regional stability and preventing any escalation of tensions between the sides.
