Liu said, President Xi Jinping and President Ilham Aliyev maintain close strategic communication, charting the course for China-Azerbaijan relations in the new era. The CPC attaches great importance to maintaining institutionalized exchanges with the New Azerbaijan Party, implementing the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, and continuously enhancing mutual trust and friendship between China and Azerbaijan. At present, both China and Azerbaijan have entered an important stage of respective development. General Secretary Xi Jinping, as the core of the CPC Central Committee and the core of the entire party, proposed a series of new concepts and new strategies for state governance and administration, leading the CPC and the country to achieve historic achievements and historic changes. The Chinese side firmly supports the Azerbaijani side in choosing a development path according to its own national conditions, stands ready to strengthen exchanges at all levels and in various fields with the ruling party of the Azerbaijani side and carry out exchanges and mutual learning on the party's governance capacity, organization construction, discipline inspection and supervision, press and publicity. He called for both sides to push cooperation in economy, trade, culture, education, tourism, and cooperation at local levels through inter-party channels, so as to benefit the two peoples.

Liu said，ten years ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping first proposed the major vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In the face of changes unseen in a century, General Secretary Xi Jinping has successively proposed the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and Global Civilization Initiative, injecting new and powerful forces into countries to meet challenges and share development. It is hoped that China and Azerbaijan will strengthen international cooperation, always firmly support each other on issues related to each other's core interests, promote cooperation such as the joint construction of the BRI, practice multilateralism, and champion international fairness and justice.

Budagov said he learnt about the splendid Chinese civilization and was impressed by the hospitality of the Chinese people through this visit. He visited the Museum of the Communist Party of China, gained a further understanding of the CPC's struggles over the past century, and admired the rapid development achievements made by the Chinese people under the leadership of the CPC very much. The top leaders of the two parties and our two countries have established a profound friendship. The New Azerbaijan Party and the CPC maintain close contacts. It is expected that the ruling parties of the two countries will strengthen high-level mutual visits and institutionalized exchanges, in a bid to lay a solid political foundation for the development of bilateral relations. The Azerbaijani side regards China as a true strategic partner and firmly supports the one-China principle. The two sides trust and respect each other on key issues concerning each other's core interests. The Azerbaijani side highly appreciates the Chinese side's important role in maintaining world peace and stability, and supports the Chinese side's major global initiatives. The Azerbaijani side is willing to actively participate in the joint construction of the BRI, and looks forward to more fruitful results of the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation to be held by the Chinese side. The Azerbaijani side hopes to work with the Chinese side to coordinate and cooperate under multilateral frameworks to promote regional peace and development.

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