BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 21. The Azerbaijani
parliament moves to deepen engagement with the United States
Congress to strengthen bilateral relations, Trend reports.
The matter has been included in the work plan of the Committee
on International Relations and Inter-Parliamentary Ties of the
Azerbaijani parliament for the 2026 spring session.
Lawmakers plan a series of targeted measures intended to support
closer cooperation with Congress, citing the recent elevation of
Azerbaijan - U.S. relations following the signing of historic
documents in Washington on August 8, 2025.
The committee’s work plan for the spring session of 2026 also
includes providing support for the activities of Azerbaijani
parliamentary delegations in international organizations to enhance
cooperation with the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA),
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary
Assembly (OSCE PA), Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(PACE), Commonwealth of Independent States Parliamentary Assembly
(CIS PA), North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly
(NATO PA), Turkic Parliamentary Assembly (TURKPA), Parliamentary
Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC),
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), GUAM Parliamentary Assembly (GUAM
PA), and Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (Euronest PA).
The plan further calls for recommendations to improve the
effectiveness of cooperation between the Azerbaijani parliament and
the European Union–Azerbaijan Cooperation Council (Consilium),
while emphasizing closer ties with the parliaments of the
Organization of Turkic States (OTS), guided by the view that “our
family is the Turkic world.”
In addition, lawmakers aim to strengthen engagement with the
Non-Aligned Movement Parliamentary Network (NAM PN) and the
Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC), underscoring
Baku’s intention to pursue a more active and diversified
parliamentary diplomacy.
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