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TURKISH-AZERBAIJANI AGREEMENT 'TURNS NEW PAGE'
news.az
Aug 19 2010
Azerbaijan
Novruz Mammadov The Agreement on Strategic Partnership and Mutual
Assistance, signed by the Turkish and Azerbaijani presidents, brings
relations to a new level.
This is how Novruz Mammadov, head of the Azerbaijani Presidential
Administration's foreign relations department, described the agreement
in an interview with ANS TV yesterday.
"Indeed, the document turns a new page in relations between Azerbaijan
and Turkey," Mammadov said. "This document has proved once again
that in the long term there is potential for the development of
Turkish-Azerbaijani relations.
"This is a historical and strategic document. This agreement puts our
relations on a new level. Mutual support in this case implies that
Turkey can assist Azerbaijan in different processes", Mammadov said.
Commentators have described the 16 August agreement as retaliation
for a draft protocol extending the term of the Russian military base
in Armenia. Under the protocol, the Russian military is to ensure
Armenia's security alongside the Armenian armed forces.
Novruz Mammadov remained unruffled at the prospect of the protocol
being signed tomorrow during Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev's
visit to Yerevan.
"Within the CIS, there is a military organization of mutual assistance
of which Armenia and Russia are members. This organization provides
mutual assistance among countries in certain situations.
Theoretically, if Armenia is attacked, Russia has the right to
intervene as part of this organization," Mammadov said.
"However, the signing of the second agreement is hard to understand.
It does not matter to us - we are building our policy,~T Mammadov
concluded.
From: A. Papazian
news.az
Aug 19 2010
Azerbaijan
Novruz Mammadov The Agreement on Strategic Partnership and Mutual
Assistance, signed by the Turkish and Azerbaijani presidents, brings
relations to a new level.
This is how Novruz Mammadov, head of the Azerbaijani Presidential
Administration's foreign relations department, described the agreement
in an interview with ANS TV yesterday.
"Indeed, the document turns a new page in relations between Azerbaijan
and Turkey," Mammadov said. "This document has proved once again
that in the long term there is potential for the development of
Turkish-Azerbaijani relations.
"This is a historical and strategic document. This agreement puts our
relations on a new level. Mutual support in this case implies that
Turkey can assist Azerbaijan in different processes", Mammadov said.
Commentators have described the 16 August agreement as retaliation
for a draft protocol extending the term of the Russian military base
in Armenia. Under the protocol, the Russian military is to ensure
Armenia's security alongside the Armenian armed forces.
Novruz Mammadov remained unruffled at the prospect of the protocol
being signed tomorrow during Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev's
visit to Yerevan.
"Within the CIS, there is a military organization of mutual assistance
of which Armenia and Russia are members. This organization provides
mutual assistance among countries in certain situations.
Theoretically, if Armenia is attacked, Russia has the right to
intervene as part of this organization," Mammadov said.
"However, the signing of the second agreement is hard to understand.
It does not matter to us - we are building our policy,~T Mammadov
concluded.
From: A. Papazian