During the visit to Azerbaijan, the delegation of the Agency held a meeting in the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Zaza Vashakmadze, Chairman of the State Agency for Religious Issues, Giorgi Ukleba, Deputy Chairman, and Gvantsa Tskhovrebadze, Protocol Manager, met with Fazail Ibrahimli, Deputy Chairman of the Parliament, and Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Religious Associations.

The Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of Azerbaijan thanked the guests for the visit and noted that the rights of ethnic Azerbaijanis, including religious rights, are fully protected in Georgia. He also expressed the support of the state of Azerbaijan for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia and noted that the friendship between the two neighboring states has a long tradition.

The chairman of the Agency was interested in the religious policy of the state of Azerbaijan. According to the Vice-Speaker,  religious tolerance is a very important achievement of the country and Azerbaijan attaches great importance to it. The Vice-Speaker of the Parliament introduced the Religion Law adopted in 1992 to the Georgian side. This is a law on freedom of religion, which protects the rights of all ethnic groups, and this law, according to Fazail Ibrahimli, should be interesting and shared for Georgia as well. The Vice-Speaker offered the assistance of experts in the field of legislative activities to the Georgian side.

At the end of the meeting, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to Azerbaijan Zurab Pataradze said that for the first time the head of the Georgian State Agency for Religious Issues paid an official visit to Azerbaijan with a delegation, which will lay the foundation for many good deeds and take Georgian-Azerbaijani relations to a new level, many important issues will be resolved in the relations between the two countries.

At the end of the day, a dinner was held on behalf of the Chairman of the State Committee on Religious Associations of the Republic of Azerbaijan in honor of the delegation of the State Agency for Religious Issues.