President Ilham Aliyev received a Jordan Country parliamentary delegation in Baku on June 21. Mazen Turki Sa'oud El Qadi led the House of Representatives delegation during the visit tied to the 20th Session of the Conference of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States.
Aliyev said relations between Azerbaijan and Jordan are based on friendship and brotherhood, and that cooperation in political, economic, humanitarian, interparliamentary and other fields would continue to expand in the future. The reception also carried a practical parliamentary purpose: the two sides discussed future contacts between the legislative bodies of Azerbaijan and Jordan.
Baku meeting and parliamentary ties
The visit in Baku placed the parliamentary track at the center of the bilateral agenda. Aliyev said Mazen El Qadi’s participation in the 20th Session of the Conference of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States would contribute to the development of bilateral relations, which gives the encounter a second function beyond ceremony: it linked a bilateral meeting to a wider OIC parliamentary setting.
Mazen Turki Sa'oud El Qadi used the meeting to convey the greetings of King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein to Aliyev, and Aliyev asked that his own greetings be conveyed to the Jordanian king. Aliyev also invited King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein to visit Azerbaijan, a move that keeps the relationship moving through personal and institutional channels at the same time.
Azerbaijan and Jordan positions
The exchange also showed how the two governments frame their relationship inside broader regional positions. Aliyev said Azerbaijan has consistently backed Islamic solidarity and has always supported a two-state solution to the Palestinian issue, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital. Mazen Turki Sa'oud El Qadi said Azerbaijan has always attached great importance to cooperation within the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and to issues of concern to the Arab and Islamic worlds.
That mix of friendship and policy alignment matters because it shows the meeting was not only about courtesy. It sat inside a shared diplomatic language that includes interparliamentary cooperation, Islamic solidarity, and a clear Azerbaijani position on the Palestinian issue, all of which can shape how any future legislative contacts are framed.
Mazen Turki Sa'oud El Qadi in Baku
Mazen Turki Sa'oud El Qadi said the reception and hospitality reflected the existing friendly and brotherly relations between Azerbaijan and Jordan. He also said Azerbaijan has become a beautiful and secure country as a result of Aliyev’s far-sighted and wise policies, and he said the beauty and cleanliness of Baku had left a deep impression on him.
For readers watching Azerbaijan and Jordan closely, the next practical point is not a new declaration but whether the two legislative bodies turn these exchanges into a clearer work plan. The meeting produced that opening, and it left the rest to follow-up between the House of Representatives and Azerbaijan’s side.
