On September 19, 2024, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Bin met with Ambassador of Azerbaijan to China Bunyad Huseynov.

Liu Bin said that China and Azerbaijan are good friends with sincerity and mutual trust, and good partners based on equality and mutual benefit. In July this year, President Xi Jinping met with President Ilham Aliyev during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Astana, and jointly announced upgrading bilateral relations to a strategic partnership. China is ready to work with Azerbaijan, guided by the important common understandings reached between the two heads of state, to continuously deepen political mutual trust, consolidate mutual support, steadily advance mutually beneficial cooperation, carry out people-to-people exchanges in an all-round way, and jointly promote bilateral relations at a new starting point and a high level.

Bunyad Huseynov said that Azerbaijan is willing to be a reliable partner of China, and will take the opportunity of establishing a strategic partnership between the two countries to enhance high-level exchanges, deepen cooperation in various fields, and further enrich bilateral relations. Azerbaijan is willing to strengthen cooperation with the SCO and support China's work as the rotating presidency.