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    RUSSIAN MEDIA ANALYZES PROSPECTS OF RUSSIAN-AZERBAIJAN COOPERATION
    [February 18, 2005, 18:38:59]

    Azer Tag, Azerbaijan
    Feb 18 2005

    Opening of the Year of Azerbaijan in the Russian Federation, the
    meeting of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and the President
    of Russia Vladimir Putin has received a wide resonance in the Russian
    mass media.

    So, in the newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets", the author Alexander
    Budberg writes, that if several years ago Azerbaijan was considered
    almost as the main opponent of Moscow in Trans-Caucasus, today is its
    main economic partner in region, "the strategic partner". In opinion
    of the author, contacts of Moscow and Baku carry, obviously,
    geo-politic character. Behind the "Year of Culture" always, first of
    all, stands desire to strengthen political and economic relations.
    Many Russian corporations want to enter the neighboring country, and
    the Russian leadership would wish, that such opportunity is given to
    them", writes A. Budberg. The author approves that Kazakhstan and
    Azerbaijan are two key countries in the CIS; "loss" of them would
    mean loss of the CIS. Further, the author marks: "With Azerbaijan we
    historically had uneasy relations. In the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
    Russia unequivocally supported Armenia. Now, Moscow tries to adhere
    to strictly neutral policy, but old faults simply so do not let off.
    Yet Yerevan is not ready to compromises around Karabakh. At the same
    time, the economic situation of the country worsens, that forces
    Armenia all to be united more closely with Russia and Iran. Not
    casually the Americans have made some outflow that ostensibly the
    Kremlin tries to organize the Moscow-Yerevan-Tehran axis. And though,
    in fact, the Kremlin is not interested at all in such politics
    tricks, the heavy economic condition of Armenia and desire as can be
    salted more rigidly to Washington can to move us to this side.
    Naturally, any such movement cannot cause sympathy in Baku where
    count itself a victim of aggression. All this complicates relations
    between Russia and Azerbaijan. But, on the other hand, strong and
    political and economic interests of two countries are obvious, that
    hardly existing difficulties can slow down process of rapprochement".

    In the newspapers "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", "Kommersant", "Gazeta",
    "Krasnaya Zvezda" and others also have in detail told about visit of
    the Azerbaijan President to the Russian capital, which has taken
    place on February 15-16.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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