Azerbaijan values Turkey’s support in Karabakh conflict – president

ANS TV, Baku
19 Nov 04

[Presenter] The newly-appointed Turkish ambassador to Azerbaijan,
Turan Morali, submitted his credentials to President Ilham Aliyev
today. Aliyev congratulated Morali on his appointment. He said that
Turkey was the first country to recognize Azerbaijan’s
independence. Speaking about the history of Azerbaijani-Turkish
relations, Aliyev said that the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan [oil pipeline] and
the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum [gas pipeline] projects developed these
relations even more.

[Aliyev speaking at ceremony of submitting credentials] Turkey always
sides with our country in the settlement of Azerbaijan’s most painful
problem, the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagornyy Karabakh conflict. We have
been constantly feeling this support and feel the same
today. Azerbaijan has been trying to settle this conflict only within
the framework of international legal norms, and we are confident that
we will achieve our goal and the international legal norms will be
applied.