State President Truong Tan Sang arrived at Heydar Aliyev internationalairport in Baku on May 13 afternoon for a three-day official visit toAzerbaijan.

The President was welcomed at theairport by Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Eyyubov Yaqub, DeputyMinister of Foreign Affairs Khalaf Aly Oglu Khalafov, AzerbaijaniAmbassador to Vietnam Anar Imanov, and Vietnamese Ambassador toAzerbaijan Nguyen Thanh Son.

The Vietnamese Head ofState is scheduled to meet with Azerbaijani leaders and witness thesigning of cooperation agreements between the two countries.

He will also meet with Azerbaijani war veterans as well as professorsand experts who once helped train Vietnamese oil and gas engineers.

He is expected to attend the Vietnam-Azerbaijan business forum and meet with Vietnamese students in the host country.

Vietnam and Azerbaijan established diplomatic relations in1992. Since then, the two countries have maintained regular delegationexchanges and coordinated at international forums, including the UnitedNations.

Last year, two-way trade reached 422million USD, up 97 million USD from 2013. Vietnam mainly exportedmobile phones, computers, electronics and components, aquatic products,confectionary and cereals to Azerbaijan while importing crude oiland petrol.

Oil and gas is the key pillar in theirbilateral cooperation, with Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group opening arepresentative office in Azerbaijan in 2011.

The two nations also inked a number of agreements, including those onvisa exemption for holders of diplomatic and service/public passport,and cooperation in trade and science-technology and avoidance of doubletaxation.-VNA