The Azerbaijani embassy in the US told APA that along with the committee’s members and activists of the American Jewish Committee, Azerbaijan’s permanent representative to the UN Agshin Mehdiyev and Azerbaijani ambassador at large and former ambassador to the US Yashar Aliyev, representatives of the diplomatic missions and the State Committee on Work with Diaspora attended the event.
Delivering a keynote speech at the awarding ceremony as a part of large-scale conference of the American Jewish Committee, president of Committee Robert Elman spoke about the strategic importance of Azerbaijan for the US, especially for Israel and expressed his satisfaction with the contribution made by his organization to the cooperation between the states.
Robert Elman said awarding of David Harris is a splendid example of evaluation of the Committee’s cooperation with Azerbaijan.
Ambassador Elin Suleymanov said Azerbaijan’s positive relations with the US and Israel source from the friendship between the Azerbaijani and Jewish people, said Azerbaijan is an example of tolerance in the international arena. Giving information about the “Friendship” order, the diplomat said David Harris has been awarded by President for his merits in the development of the relations between the US and Azerbaijani people.
David Harris asked to express his gratitude to Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev for being awarded “Friendship” order, said meetings with President Ilham Aliyev during his visits to Azerbaijan in capacity of executive director made positive impressions on him, expressed his satisfaction with being awarded as a friend of the state like Azerbaijan. David Harris underlined the importance of Azerbaijan’s cooperation with the US in combating terrorism, strengthening of the relations with Israel against the background of delicate geographical realities, pleasant attitude towards the Jews in our country.
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