Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov during a phone conversation on Thursday discussed the work on the documents of the 5th Summit of the Caspian states (Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan).

The monitoring mission of members of the European Committee of the Regions believes that the presidential election held in Azerbaijan on April 11 are legitimate, a mission member, member of the European Committee of the Regions from Estonia Mart Vorklaev said.

Distributing the pre-prepared material as preliminary results is disrespect for the will and choice of the partner country, Novruz Mammadov, assistant to the Azerbaijani president for foreign policy issues, head of department, tweeted on April 12.

As of Jan. 1, 2018, the number of cars hit 1.34 million units in Azerbaijan, Chairman of the State Statistics Committee Tahir Budagov said in an interview to the website of the ruling party of Azerbaijan.

The OIC Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen, congratulated the people of Azerbaijan on the successful conclusion of the presidential elections on 11 April 2018, and congratulated President-elect Ilham Aliyev on his victory.

The views of members of the observation mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on the presidential election in Azerbaijan are a pre-prepared provocation, political analyst Bahruz Guliyev told Trend on April 12.

In January-March 2018 Azerbaijan’s foreign trade turnover amounted to AZN 5,546,139,380, up 34.64% or AZN 1,427,059,630 compared to a year earlier.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko phoned Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the press service of the Azerbaijani president said in a statement.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has commented on the preliminary conclusion of Western organizations in connection with the April 11 presidential election in Azerbaij

Azerbaijan does not regard the initial report by the observation missions of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the results of the April 11 presidential election as fair and objective, Hikmat Hajiyev, spokesman for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry, told APA.