Gultekin Hajibeyli: “We have always supported Turkish delegation at PACE”
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19 Oct 2009 18:07 ]
Baku – APA. “We never changed our position toward Azerbaijan despite that it did not recognize Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Sometimes they left us alone at the European Council Parliamentary Assembly unawares, but we have never left them alone. We have informed Azerbaijan about every round of talks with Armenia. This process is a good chance for ending of occupation of Karabakh, which is difficult for Azerbaijani troops to defend”, Turkish State Minister Egemen Bagish told Haberturk, APA reports. “It is impossible to understand the lowering of our flags, closing of the mosques, gas threats like Russian threats against Georgia and Ukraine and to explain it to the Turkish community. It is impossible to separate us from our Azeri brothers, because we need them and they need us. Heydar Aliyev said we are two states and one nation”.
Bagish said he hoped that this process would bring peace, stability and richness to the South Caucasus. “If we don’t use this chance, it will never come to us”.
Member of Azerbaijani delegation to PACE Gultekin Hajibeyli told APA that the Azerbaijani delegation was always together with the Turkish delegation at PACE. “There was no discrimination between us. We always supported the Turkish delegation. It must be so because the Turks should be in union with each other”.
Regarding non-recognition of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus by Azerbaijan, Hajibeyli said Turkey knew its reason very well. “Everyone knows that if the independence of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is recognized, the issue of recognition of Nagorno Karabakh independence will come to agenda immediately. It is not correct to make difference between the Turks in the Northern Cyprus and Nagorno Karabakh. All of us are Turks. It is not correct for the high-ranking officials to make such statements and to create coldness”.