On March 28, 2025, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Bin held consultations between Chinese and Azerbaijani foreign ministries with Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Elnur Mammadov in Beijing.

Liu Bin said China and Azerbaijan are good friends and close partners. Both sides have always firmly supported each other in maintaining national independence, sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity, as well as in advancing national development and revitalization. In recent years, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and President Ilham Aliyev, China-Azerbaijan relations have been upgraded to a strategic partnership, with even broader development prospects. China is ready to work with Azerbaijan to uphold the important common understandings reached between the two heads of state as the fundamental guide, and to promote the sustained, high-level development of China-Azerbaijan relations.

Elnur Mammadov said Azerbaijan attaches great importance to developing relations with China and will continue to firmly adhere to the one-China principle. Azerbaijan will actively participate in the high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, expand exchanges and cooperation in areas such as economy, trade, energy, connectivity, and people-to-people exchanges, strengthen collaboration on international affairs, and promote continuous new achievements in the development of bilateral relations.

The two sides also had an exchange of views on deepening cooperation within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia, as well as international and regional issues of common interest and concern.