Azerbaijani President: "We highly value our bilateral relations" - VÄ°DEO

Azerbaijani President: "We highly value our bilateral relations" - <span style="color: red;">VÄ°DEO
# 30 March 2016 22:39 (UTC +04:00)

President Aliyev thanked US President Barack Obama for his invitation to participate at the fourth Nuclear Security Summit in Washington D.C.: “We consider it as a sign of friendship and partnership. We highly value our bilateral relations. U.S.-Azerbaijan relations have already a long history of 25 years, and these relations always were very close, cordial, and now they are relations of strategic importance. We have very active political dialogue. As Mr. Secretary already said, we met many times before but first time here in Washington. We have economic cooperation, which is developing. U.S. companies invested more than $10 billion to our economy, which is also a good sign of economic cooperation and good sign of economic development of our country. We jointly implemented such important projects as construction of oil pipelines connecting Caspian and Mediterranean Seas for the first time with the strong support of United States. And now, as Mr. Secretary mentioned, we are working jointly on Southern Gas Corridor, and the project of energy security, energy diversification, and the long-term benefit to all the participants – producers, (inaudible), consumers. And we are very grateful to the Government of United States for its strong support in implementation of this project. Frankly speaking, without that support, it may have taken much more time and effort to implement the project. We are on track, we’ll be on time, and in two, three years, the Southern Gas Corridor will be in operation.

Touching Armenian-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh conflict President noted that the conflict must be resolved based on UN Security Council resolutions, which demand immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Armenian troops from our territories: “The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, all the conflicts in post-Soviet area and in the world, must be resolved based on territorial integrity of the countries. We’re also close partners on issues related to security in the region. Azerbaijan provides its support, logistical support, in operations in Afghanistan, overflights, land transportation. Also we have almost 100 servicemen serving shoulder to shoulder with NATO servicemen in Afghanistan. So the agenda of our relations is very broad. Today, of course, we’ll cover these issues as well as regional problematic, and I’m sure the meeting will play important role in further development of our friendly ties."

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