“Our heart beats together with Turkey. This is one of the main documents of Azerbaijani statehood. This should be evaluated as the most important document in the field of protection of new reality created in the region. Shusha declaration is one of the documents ensuring the future of liberated Karabakh, Azerbaijan,” said Samad Seyidov, the head of the foreign affairs committee of the Azerbaijani parliament.

The Shusha Declaration, officially the Shusha Declaration About Alliance, is a declaration on allied relations signed between Azerbaijan and Turkey on 15 June 2021.

The joint declaration on allied relations was signed in Shusha on 15 June 2021, between President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan as part of the latter’s official two-day visit to Azerbaijan.

The declaration touched various issues in political, economic, trade, culture, education, sports, energy security sectors, the Southern Gas Corridor, cooperation in the field of the defense industry, military cooperation and mutual military assistance, the so-called “Zangezur corridor”, possibilities of cooperation within the framework of the proposed six-party platform (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Georgia), opening a Turkish consulate in Shusha. (ILKHA)