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Members of Russian State Duma assess Azerbaijanâ€™s membership to UN Security Council â€“ POLL

Members of Russian State Duma assess Azerbaijanâ€™s membership to UN Security Council â€“ <font color=red>POLL</font>

02 November 2011 15:41 (UTC +04:00)

Moscow. Farid Akbarov â€“ APA. â€œUNâ€™s confidence in Azerbaijan is a value giving by the international organization to the achievements of Azerbaijan in recent yearsâ€, chairman of the Russian State Dumaâ€™s committee on CIS issues, MP Alexei Ostrovsky said, APA correspondent reports from Moscow. â€œI consider that Ilham Aliyev worthily follows the foreign policy course started by Heydar Aliyev. I welcome the independent position of Azerbaijan and personally Ilham Aliyev. His policy is not based on the position of the West, more exactly, economic partners, but dictates the interests of Azerbaijani people. The new status at the United Nations will contribute to the strengthening of Azerbaijanâ€™s independenceâ€.

The committee chairman said Russia and Azerbaijan are strategic partners. â€œIt is seen in both personal relations between the presidents and all instances of the two countries. We donâ€™t divide the regional countries to the friends and enemies. We have same attitude toward Azerbaijan and Armenia. We advocate for peaceful solution of the problem. I consider that the new status of Azerbaijan at the United Nations will have an impact on the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflictâ€.

Member of the State Duma of Russia from the Communist Party Anatoly Lokot said that his countryâ€™s support to Azerbaijanâ€™s candidacy to the non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council was an important political step: â€œIt showâ€™s Russiaâ€™s goodwill. I believe that Azerbaijan will appreciate this friendly support. Russia is a strategic country for Azerbaijan. There are many things tied us. We mustnâ€™t forget that many Russians and Russian-speaking population are living in Azerbaijan. The relations with the South Caucasus have great significance for Russia. Though several western countries wanted to interrupt our relations, their attempts failedâ€.

â€œI assess Azerbaijanâ€™s election as the non-permanent member to the UN Security Council as an estimation given by the world community and Russia to the positive changes observed in Azerbaijanâ€, said Deputy Chairman of the State Duma’s Security Committee Vladimir Kolesnikov.

According to him, it is an estimation given to democratization process in Azerbaijani society, level of society and human security: â€œAt first, as a person who has visited Azerbaijan many times, I can say that one can leave this country with pleasant impressions. I wish the achieved successes to develop Azerbaijan yet moreâ€.

Kolesnikov said that the justice would win in the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict: â€œI wish the law to win in the settlement of this conflict, the settlement process to be based on lawâ€.