“The 9th meeting of the Azerbaijan–Latvia Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Scientific-Technical and Cultural Cooperation held in the city of Shusha was very important for our future cooperation. Because we also indicated additional fields of cooperation. Discussions primarily focused on the cooperation in the agricultural sphere,” Armands Krauze, Latvia’s Minister of Agriculture and Co-Chair of the Commission from the Latvian side, told journalists in Shusha.

Noting that the meeting also featured discussions on animal husbandry, the Latvian minister said: “We could work together with animal trade to get very good breed animals, cattle, dairy cattle, meat cattle, to Azerbaijan from our Baltic States, especially from Latvia. We have very good, the best in our region, Auction House, which sells already 30,000 animals per year, with big part exporting to Türkiye. So, there is no problem to sell also to Azerbaijan, which is high quality.”

Armands Krauze stated that another important area of cooperation could be forestry. “I think it's very important for all countries around the world to reduce the climate change, to restore forests. I know, especially in this region during the occupation, many areas of forests are destroyed. So, you need to restore this forest. We have the “Nordic technologies”, what we can use in our region. But we are cooperating how we can introduce this here, and that is cheaper way to restore and faster way to restore forests,” the minister mentioned.

Emphasizing that the participants also engaged in discussions on transport, logistics, finance, the Latvian minister added: “The State Secretary of the Latvian Ministry of Economics delivered a presentation on these areas, highlighting the specific opportunities for cooperation.”

“We could even collaborate in the field of film industry. Because everyone in Latvia knows the place in Baku where the film “Diamond Arm” was shoot. It's real good idea how we can encourage our film industries to use our capitals or our countries to show the films. And that's a way what Riga already is doing,” the minister added.