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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev receives EU Commissioner for Energy GÃ¼nther Oettinger

15 April 2010 16:50 (UTC +04:00)

Baku - APA. Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev received the delegation headed by EU Commissioner for Energy GÃ¼nther Oettinger on April 15, press service of the president told APA. The head of state expressed his confidence in continuation of productive cooperation between Azerbaijan and EU in energy sphere. Speaking about good cooperation practice of our country with EU, President Aliyev noted the importance of conducting discussions over the works to be done for the establishment of lasting partnership in energy sphere. Touching upon the energy supply of Europe, the head of state noted that there was good potential for further extension the cooperation in this sphere by taking into account the energy sources, infrastructure and production level of Azerbaijan. Oettinger said that EU had relations with Azerbaijan not only in energy sphere, but also in all other spheres and close cooperation in power engineering would be continued in future. They exchanged views on cooperation perspectives in the direction of energy supply of Europe.