Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdallah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs, held talks here yesterday with Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.

According to the Azeri government news agency, the two sides sides shared a similar stand on international issues and that there exists a great scope for developing bilateral ties.

Mammadyarov valued his country's political relations with the Sultanate, noting that the two sides agreed to establish a legal basis to organise their economic, cultural and academic relations.