The Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan, Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev, met at this time on the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Group (SCO) in Astana. Putin famous the “optimistic interplay” of bilateral relations “on a key difficulty, particularly commerce and financial cooperation.” “The commerce turnover is greater than 4 billion {dollars}, and 4.3 – 4.5 billion {dollars} are direct Russian investments within the financial system of Azerbaijan. The development is nice: within the first half of the 12 months, for my part, there was already a 13 % development, normally, every part is growing positively,” Putin stated. He significantly famous the aspect’s plans within the discipline of infrastructure, the place “the well-known North-South freeway is within the first place.”