The Minister of Agriculture, Oded Forer, who is on an official visit to Azerbaijan, yesterday (Wednesday) toured the unique "Smart Village" project, which was established only 7 km from the Iranian border, and examined the assimilation of Israeli technologies developed in the project.
The visit took place after a meeting between Minister Forer and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
The "Smart Village" is Azerbaijan's flagship project.
Due to the close and strategic relations between Azerbaijan and Israel, President Aliyev decided that Israel would be Azerbaijan's main partner in the development of agriculture.
Citizens are expected to move there in the coming weeks and Israeli companies are leading its agricultural activities, including the establishment of barns with Israeli technology.
"I am happy for the opportunity to visit the smart village near the border with Iran and see a lot of Israeli knowledge and technology that builds life.
"It is wonderful to see how Israeli agriculture breaks boundaries and is a national pride," said the minister.
The visit comes after months of great tension between Azerbaijan and Iran, in which Iran accused Azerbaijan of hosting Israel's military and intelligence bases.
In October 2021, Iran even held a huge military exercise on the border, with the participation of 40,000 soldiers, threatening Azerbaijan that it must expel the "Zionists" from it.
In response, during one of President Aliyev's visits to the Iranian border, he was photographed publicly stroking an Israeli UAV, and vehemently refused to succumb to Iranian threats.
Since then tensions between the countries seem to have subsided, but the hostility to suspicion is still at its peak.
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