OREANDA-NEWS. July 9, 2009. A range of bipartite agreements has been signed today within an official Baku visit of President Bashar Assad of Syria.

The package included intergovernmental agreements on exemption of two countries’ diplomatic passport holders from receipt of a visa, on cultural co-operation, on co-operation in the area of manufacture and energy sector, on mutual promotion and protection of investments, the Memorandum of Intentions on establishment of the Azerbaijan-Syrian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic, Scientific, Technical & Cultural Partnership.