Embassy of Republic of Azerbaijan to the Hellenic Republic

Bilateral relations

On bilateral relations

Azerbaijan-Greece bilateral relations

SUMMARY

Facts and nature of bilateral relations:

Greece recognized independence of Azerbaijan on December 31, 1991.

Diplomatic relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Hellenic Republic were established on April 2, 1992.

Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Hellenic Republic of Greece was opened on April 16, 2004.

Embassy of the Hellenic Republic in the Republic of Azerbaijan was opened on May 27, 1993.

Visits by Presidents:

President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Konstantinos Stephanopoulos paid an official visit to the Republic of Azerbaijan on June 20-22, 2004.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mr. Ilham Aliyev paid a working visit to the Republic of Greece on August 12-16, 2004 to attend the opening ceremony of the 28th Summer Olympic Games.
President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Karolos Papoulias paid an official visit to the Republic of Azerbaijan on April 5-6, 2011.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mr. Ilham Aliyev paid a state visit to the Hellenic Republic on June 15-17, 2014.

Visits by First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan:

First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ms. Mehriban Aliyeva accompanied the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mr. Ilham Aliyev on his state visit to the Hellenic Republic on June 15-17, 2014.

Visits by Primer Ministers:

Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Antonis Samaras paid a working visit to the Republic of Azerbaijan on May 19-20, 2013.
Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Antonis Samaras paid a business visit to the Republic of Azerbaijan on September 19-20, 2014, to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Southern Gas Corridor, and the event dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the “Contract of the Century”.
Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Kiriakos Mitsotakis paid a visit to the Republic of Azerbaijan to attend COP29 on November 13, 2024.

Visits by ministers of foreign affairs:

Foreign ministers of the Hellenic Republic visited the Republic of Azerbaijan on the following dates:

Theodoros Pangalos, official visit, April 10-11, 1997
Dora Bakoyannis (as Chairman of the OSCE), working visit, July 1-2, 2009
Dimitris Avramopoulos, official visit, April 29-30, 2013
Nikos Kotzias, official visit, February 02-03, 2016

Minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan visited the Hellenic Republic on the following dates:

Elmar Mammadyarov, working visit, November 30-December 2, 2009, (within the 17th meeting of the OSCE Ministers of Foreign Affairs)
Elmar Mammadyarov, official visit, February 24-25, 2011

Political Consultations:

The first political consultations were held between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs with the participation of delegations led by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic Alexandra Papadopoulou and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Fariz Rzayev, in Baku, on March 13, 2024.

Inter-parliamentary relations:

Working Group for the Azerbaijan-Greece inter-parliamentary relations in Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan consists of 8 parliamentarians. Mr. Bahruz Mammadov is the Head of the Group.

Speaker of Milli Majlis Mr. Oktay Asadov paid a working visit to the Hellenic Republic to attend a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation on June 9-11, 2008.
Speaker of Milli Majlis Ms. Sahiba Gafarova paid a working visit to the Hellenic Republic to attend the European Conference of Presidents/Speakers of Parliament of PACE on October 20-22, 2021.

Number of legal documents signed:

24 documents have been signed between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Hellenic Republic, 9 documents are under consideration by Greece.

Economic cooperation (main directions and trade turnover for 2021-2024):

Co-chairs of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Industrial, Scientific and Technological Cooperation between Hellenic Republic and the Republic of Azerbaijan are Mr. Parviz Shahbazov, minister of energy of Azerbaijan and Mr. Konstantinos (Kostas) Fragkogiannis, deputy minister of foreign affairs of Greece.

The Commission has convened 5 times so far. The last meeting of the Commission was held in Baku, on June 13, 2024.

Trade turnover between the Republic Azerbaijan and the Hellenic Republic
(in thousand US dollars)

Year	Export	Import	Trade turnover	Balance

2024 (Jan. – Sep.)	429.569,85	45.698,47	475.268,32	383.871,38
2023	1.363.448,28	32.341,55	1.395.789,83	1.331.106,73
2022	1.391.812,2	28.372,6	1.420.184,7	1.363.439,6
2021	415.415,9	20.363,0	435.760,9	3950,9