President Ilham Aliyev's two-day state visit to Kyrgyzstan may ultimately be remembered as more than another diplomatic exchange, as the key outcome of the visit was the signing of the Declaration on Allied Cooperation, which elevated relations between Baku and Bishkek to a qualitatively new level. Kyrgyzstan has thus become Azerbaijan's third ally in Central Asia after Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and its fifth ally overall.

It is highly symbolic that during the visit, both leaders - Ilham Aliyev and Sadyr Japarov - awarded each other with the highest state awards of their countries, where the President of Kyrgyzstan presented his Azerbaijani counterpart with the Order of Manas of the first degree, the highest state award of the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Azerbaijani President awarded Sadyr Japarov with the Order of Heydar Aliyev, the highest........

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