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KYRGYZ PRESIDENT TO VISIT AZERBAIJAN: FOREIGN MINISTER
Trend News Agency
Aug 7 2008
Azerbaijan
Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, 6 August / corr. Trend News R.Meshadihasanli / The
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev intends to visit Azerbaijan, Ednan
Karabayev, the Kyrgyz Foreign Minister, told Trend News on 6 August.
"An exact date of this visit is still to be fixed and preparations
are being conducted in this direction," the Minister said. He hopes
that an exact date of President Bakiyev's visit will be fixed at a
bilateral meeting between the Azerbaijani and Kyrgyz Presidents at
the summit of heads of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
countries to be held in Bishkek in autumn.
Taking into consideration the potential of relations between Kyrgyzstan
and Azerbaijan and economic growth, Karabayev is sure that interaction
of two countries is still at an initial stage. "We appraised opening
of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Bishkek, which will enable bilateral
integration," he said. He considers trade and economic cooperation
as the most important element in these relations and it should
begin with the opening of airlines and formation of other transport
communications.
According to Karabayev, Kyrgyzstan intends to draw a maximum attention
to energy field, mining, refining industry and tourism from 2008
to 2011 under Development Strategy of the country, adopted by the
Kyrgyz President. "Respectively, these can become the fields of the
cooperation between our countries," he said.
The Kyrgyz Foreign Minster stressed that readiness of Bishkek to
support fair settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. " Kyrgyzstan supports Azerbaijan's territorial integrity,"
he said.
Trend News Agency
Aug 7 2008
Azerbaijan
Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, 6 August / corr. Trend News R.Meshadihasanli / The
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev intends to visit Azerbaijan, Ednan
Karabayev, the Kyrgyz Foreign Minister, told Trend News on 6 August.
"An exact date of this visit is still to be fixed and preparations
are being conducted in this direction," the Minister said. He hopes
that an exact date of President Bakiyev's visit will be fixed at a
bilateral meeting between the Azerbaijani and Kyrgyz Presidents at
the summit of heads of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
countries to be held in Bishkek in autumn.
Taking into consideration the potential of relations between Kyrgyzstan
and Azerbaijan and economic growth, Karabayev is sure that interaction
of two countries is still at an initial stage. "We appraised opening
of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Bishkek, which will enable bilateral
integration," he said. He considers trade and economic cooperation
as the most important element in these relations and it should
begin with the opening of airlines and formation of other transport
communications.
According to Karabayev, Kyrgyzstan intends to draw a maximum attention
to energy field, mining, refining industry and tourism from 2008
to 2011 under Development Strategy of the country, adopted by the
Kyrgyz President. "Respectively, these can become the fields of the
cooperation between our countries," he said.
The Kyrgyz Foreign Minster stressed that readiness of Bishkek to
support fair settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. " Kyrgyzstan supports Azerbaijan's territorial integrity,"
he said.