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The relations between Ukraine and Azerbaijan should reach the new level, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

“Our relations should be on a new level. We must increase the commodity turnover and the presence of Ukrainian business in Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani business in Ukraine,” Zelensky said in a press statement with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in Baku.

“We agreed with Mr. President that at the beginning of next year we will definitely create not just a working group, but a real team of people who will come on behalf of the President of Azerbaijan to Ukraine and look unbiasedly at all those facilities, opportunities, enterprises with which we can together work,” Zelensky said.

He also said that the parties expressed interest in the mutual development of tourist flows and cooperation in the field of logistics and road infrastructure.