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Clinton Meets With Azerbaijani Foreign Minister
hetq
11:33, June 4, 2011
Here's a bit of the banter between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov before
their meeting in Washington D.C. on June 3.
Secretary Clinton: Well, good afternoon. It's a real pleasure for me
to welcome my colleague here in Washington once again. The minister
and I have had the great opportunity of meeting on numerous occasions
in the last two-plus years of the Obama Administration, and I just
want to underscore the strategic importance of the relationship
between the United States and Azerbaijan and the range of issues that
we are working on together - bilateral issues, regional issues, even
global issues. We are very committed to broadening and deepening our
relationship and we are also committed to continuing to work through
the Minsk Group to try to resolve the longstanding conflict in
Nagorno-Karabakh.
So we will have a lot to talk about this afternoon, but it is a
pleasure to see you once again.
Foreign Minister Mammadyarov: Thank you very much, Madam Secretary.
You said whole agenda - (laughter) - now I just want to add that I am
totally subscribed to it, and I believe that the relations between
Azerbaijan and the United States is developing quite well. I'll just
mention that the nature of it is a strategic one. Of course, we need
to even more deepening and strengthening our cooperation. Thank you
very much for all the words of trying to bring more peace and
stability to the region, particularly the resolution of
Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh problem. There was a recent
statement by the presidents which I believe also helpful from the
point of view that this unresolved conflict is on the screen of the
international community.
Secretary Clinton: Indeed.
FM Mammadyarov: And we all together have to work harder to make a breakthrough.
Secretary Clinton: Thank you. Thank you, Elmar.
FM Mammadyarov: Thank you very much.
Secretary Clinton: Thank you very much. Thank you all.
hetq
11:33, June 4, 2011
Here's a bit of the banter between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov before
their meeting in Washington D.C. on June 3.
Secretary Clinton: Well, good afternoon. It's a real pleasure for me
to welcome my colleague here in Washington once again. The minister
and I have had the great opportunity of meeting on numerous occasions
in the last two-plus years of the Obama Administration, and I just
want to underscore the strategic importance of the relationship
between the United States and Azerbaijan and the range of issues that
we are working on together - bilateral issues, regional issues, even
global issues. We are very committed to broadening and deepening our
relationship and we are also committed to continuing to work through
the Minsk Group to try to resolve the longstanding conflict in
Nagorno-Karabakh.
So we will have a lot to talk about this afternoon, but it is a
pleasure to see you once again.
Foreign Minister Mammadyarov: Thank you very much, Madam Secretary.
You said whole agenda - (laughter) - now I just want to add that I am
totally subscribed to it, and I believe that the relations between
Azerbaijan and the United States is developing quite well. I'll just
mention that the nature of it is a strategic one. Of course, we need
to even more deepening and strengthening our cooperation. Thank you
very much for all the words of trying to bring more peace and
stability to the region, particularly the resolution of
Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh problem. There was a recent
statement by the presidents which I believe also helpful from the
point of view that this unresolved conflict is on the screen of the
international community.
Secretary Clinton: Indeed.
FM Mammadyarov: And we all together have to work harder to make a breakthrough.
Secretary Clinton: Thank you. Thank you, Elmar.
FM Mammadyarov: Thank you very much.
Secretary Clinton: Thank you very much. Thank you all.