Washington, August 7 – President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met today in Washington with Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy of the President of the United States.
The meeting was preceded by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation between Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR and U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil.
The document was signed by Azerbaijan’s Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov and ExxonMobil Vice President John Ardill, in the presence of President Aliyev and Special Envoy Witkoff.
During their meeting, President Aliyev and Envoy Witkoff discussed the significance of the Azerbaijani leader’s working visit to Washington—made at the invitation of U.S. President Donald Trump—as a timely opportunity to deepen bilateral ties and address regional issues.
Talks also covered prospects for expanding strategic cooperation between Azerbaijan and the United States, the ongoing normalization process between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the broader regional peace agenda.
