AZERBAIJAN EXPECTS US TO TAKE MORE STEPS TO SETTLE KARABAKH CONFLICT
news.az
June 30 2010
Azerbaijan
Ali Hasanov Azerbaijan attaches a great importance to the visit of
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Baku.
'There are many issues we have to discuss at the meetings to be held
within the framework of the visit', said chief of department on public
policy issues of the presidential administration, Ali Hasanov.
Answering journalists questions about 'which issues Azerbaijan
considers a priority at the negotiations with the United States,
considering the fact that energy partnership, security and democracy
issues are priority for Washington, Hasanov said Azerbaijan also
considers all these three issues to be the main ones'.
'However, we expect greater steps from the United States, as the Minsk
Group co-chairing country, in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict',
said chief of department of the presidential administration.
As for what Azerbaijan expects from the visit of the US Secretary of
State, considering the fact that the last visit on the level of the
US official was conducted 18 years ago by the then Secretary of State
James Baker, Hasanov said Azerbaijan gained state independence in 1992.
'Azerbaijan became independent only then and James Baker's visit aimed
at learning more about our country, while now Hillary Clinton will
visit Azerbaijan which is a developed country and a regional leader.
This is a specific strategic course of Azerbaijan, with which the
United States are already familiar, while that time there was no
course at all', said he.
According to him, today Azerbaijan is a developed country with its
foreign course and vision of the world processes.
'We hope after the visit the relations between our countries will be
deeper', concluded Ali Hasanov.
Ali Hasanov also said Azerbaijan welcomes the statement of presidents
of Russia, United States and France regarding the resolution of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.
He noted that despite some differences in the texts of the statement
in different languages, published in different mass media, this does
not change the point of the statement, under which all of the three
presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing states urge to liberate
Azerbaijani lands occupied by Armenia.
'We do hope that Armenia will hear this appeal and follow a
constructive way', Hasanov noted.
From: A. Papazian
news.az
June 30 2010
Azerbaijan
Ali Hasanov Azerbaijan attaches a great importance to the visit of
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Baku.
'There are many issues we have to discuss at the meetings to be held
within the framework of the visit', said chief of department on public
policy issues of the presidential administration, Ali Hasanov.
Answering journalists questions about 'which issues Azerbaijan
considers a priority at the negotiations with the United States,
considering the fact that energy partnership, security and democracy
issues are priority for Washington, Hasanov said Azerbaijan also
considers all these three issues to be the main ones'.
'However, we expect greater steps from the United States, as the Minsk
Group co-chairing country, in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict',
said chief of department of the presidential administration.
As for what Azerbaijan expects from the visit of the US Secretary of
State, considering the fact that the last visit on the level of the
US official was conducted 18 years ago by the then Secretary of State
James Baker, Hasanov said Azerbaijan gained state independence in 1992.
'Azerbaijan became independent only then and James Baker's visit aimed
at learning more about our country, while now Hillary Clinton will
visit Azerbaijan which is a developed country and a regional leader.
This is a specific strategic course of Azerbaijan, with which the
United States are already familiar, while that time there was no
course at all', said he.
According to him, today Azerbaijan is a developed country with its
foreign course and vision of the world processes.
'We hope after the visit the relations between our countries will be
deeper', concluded Ali Hasanov.
Ali Hasanov also said Azerbaijan welcomes the statement of presidents
of Russia, United States and France regarding the resolution of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.
He noted that despite some differences in the texts of the statement
in different languages, published in different mass media, this does
not change the point of the statement, under which all of the three
presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing states urge to liberate
Azerbaijani lands occupied by Armenia.
'We do hope that Armenia will hear this appeal and follow a
constructive way', Hasanov noted.
From: A. Papazian