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Serbian President to visit Azerbaijan

31 March 2010 12:56 (UTC +04:00)

Following the presentation ceremony, the ambassador and president had one-on-one meeting. Boris Tadic congratulated on opening of Azerbaijani embassy in Serbia, Eldar Hasanov on his new appointment, asked to convey his greetings to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and underlined that he respects Azerbaijani President very much, the two presidents had friendly relations. Boris Tadic noted that he will soon visit Azerbaijan and will be pleased with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to Serbia. He said a number of contracts and agreements regulating the relations between Serbia and Azerbaijan will be signed during the visit.

Serbian President Boris Tadic underlined once more that his country supports Azerbaijanâ€™s sovereignty, territorial integrity, our countryâ€™s just position on Nagorno Karabakh conflict. He expressed his gratitude to Azerbaijani leadership for supporting Serbia in Kosovo problem. Touching on Serbia-Azerbaijan economic-commercial relations, President Tadic said the two governments should do much to improve the relations and cooperation, necessary instructions were given to a number of state agencies of Serbia. Mr. Tadic once more said Serbia is interested in improving the political and economic relations with Azerbaijan, asked Eldar Hasanov to hold meetings with speaker of the parliament, foreign minister, minister of economy, energy minister, presidentâ€™s advisor on economic issues, to be in Serbia more in order to give an impetus to the development of the bilateral relations.

Ambassador Eldar Hasanov conveyed Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyevâ€™s greetings to Boris Tadic, gave information about political, economic, social situation, democratic reforms carried out in Azerbaijan, underlined that successful domestic and foreign policy pursued by President Ilham Aliyev to maintain political stability, economic development is strongly supported. At the end of the meeting, the ambassador drew attention to the personal relations between the two presidents, underlined that Mr. Boris Tadicâ€™s visit to Azerbaijan in May will pave the way for the development of mutual interests and bilateral relations.

Eldar Hasanov also made a speech at the conference organized for the newly-appointed ambassadors to Serbia. minister of science and technological development Bozidar Djelic, foreign minister Vuk Jeremic and defense minister Dragan Sutanovac also attended the conference. Elder Hasanov underlined that Azerbaijani leadership attaches great importance to the development of the relations with Serbia.
The official opening ceremony of Azerbaijani embassy in Serbia will be held on May 28.