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Elmar Mammadyarov: â€œThe regional stability and security is impossible without the settlement of Nagorny Karabakh conflictâ€

19 May 2009 16:52 (UTC +04:00)

The State Secretary said she visited Baku to learn the opportunities for extension of cooperation, press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told APA. The guest said she hoped that the opening of Azerbaijanâ€™s honorable consulate in Bratislava, development of normative-legal basis between the two countries, determination of opportunities for the extensions of cooperation in energy and other sectors would contribute to the development of relations.

She said the number of Slovakian companies was involved in the transport-infrastructure projects in Azerbaijan and the business forum would be useful for further development of economic relations. She said Slovakia intended to develop relations with Azerbaijan within the Eastern Partnership Program and proposals of Azerbaijan on this issue were interesting for them.

Mammadyarov highly appreciated the interest of Slovakia to Azerbaijan and said it was mutual. The minister shared the opinion of Slovakian State Secretary on the extension of relations and stressed the importance of cooperation between the diplomatic academies of the two countries and exchange of cultural days. Mammadyarov said Azerbaijan was interested in the Eastern Partnership Program toward the close cooperation in the security, economic and humanitarian fields. He underlined the settlement of Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorny Karabakh as the main issue of security and said that the regional stability and security was impossible without the settlement of this conflict. He said the settlement of the conflict would open the new opportunities for the region and informed the guest about the Azerbaijani position in the conflict settlement in detail.