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  • BAKU: Ilham Aliyev Receives OSCE Co-Chair Steven Mann

    Azer Tag, Azerbaijan
    April 22 2004

    ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN, NAGORNY KARABAKH CONFLICT SHOULD BE SETTLED ON
    THE BASE OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL NORMS
    PRESIDENT OF AZERBAIJAN ILHAM ALIYEV RECEIVES THE US CO-CHAIR OF THE
    OSCE MINSK GROUP
    [April 22, 2004, 18:04:27]

    President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received U.S.
    co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Mr. Steven Mann at the Presidential
    Palace, April 22.

    President Ilham Aliyev congratulated the diplomat on the new
    appointment and wished him every success in this office. He noted as
    well that Mr. Mann is well known in Azerbaijan as a direct
    participator in the large-scale projects implemented in the country.
    Your related activities were very positive and successful. I am well
    aware of this personally as we were working together. The regionally
    important Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan project is being successfully realized,
    and I hope your activity in this new office will also be a success,
    said the Head of State.

    President Ilham Aliyev further stressed the large threat the
    Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorny Karabakh poses to the
    regional stability, and noted that Azerbaijan wants the problem to be
    settled in the framework of the international legal norms as soon as
    possible. `Nagorny Karabakh and 7 other regions of Azerbaijan has
    been under occupation for many years; our fair demand is to put an
    end to the occupation and restore our territorial integrity. I hope
    the Minsk group will continue its activities as a result of which the
    problem will be finally solved,' Mr. Ilham Aliyev said.

    Having expressed his satisfaction with this visit to Baku and the
    opportunity to meet President Ilham Aliyev, Mr. Steven Mann reminded
    on his participation in the ceremony of laying foundation of the
    East-West energy corridor held in the Azerbaijan capital, and
    emphasized that it is exactly the place, where all the rest of energy
    projects start.

    Touching upon the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Mr.
    Steven Mann announced the new tasks set to him by the U.S. Government
    that he was going to fulfill: to work with the conflicting parties
    and achieve fair resolution of the problem.

    In conclusion, Mr. Steven Mann thanked President of Azerbaijan Ilham
    Aliyev for the warm meeting.

    The meeting was attended by Chief of the Presidential
    Administration's Foreign Relations Department Mr. Novruz Mammadov and
    U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mr. Reno Harnish.
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