AzerTag, Azerbaijan
March 14 2005

PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV RECEIVES DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER OF TURKEY
[March 14, 2005, 17:37:55]

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received a
delegation of Turkey led by the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister,
Ambassador Ahmet Uzumchu, March 14.

The Head of State said the friendly and brotherly Azerbaijan-Turkey
relations are developing in all fields, and recalling with
satisfaction his official visits to Turkey, highly appreciated the
regular political consultations between the two countries.

Noting the high standard of cooperation in the framework of
international organization, President Ilham Aliyev described the
involvement of both countries in the world-scale energy projects as
very significant factor.

Touching upon the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over
Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani leader advised the talks now taking
place in the framework of the Prague process are held at foreign
ministers level. President Ilham Aliyev expressed hope these talks
would contribute to the conflict’s resolution, and stressed the
importance of more attention to the problem from the international
organization.

Mr. Ahmet Uzumchu first conveyed to the Azerbaijani President sincere
greetings from President of Turkey Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The guest confirmed that friendly and
fraternal relationship between Azerbaijan and Turkey is successfully
developing in political, economic, military and other spheres. As for
the negotiations on the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, he noted that Turkey regularly holds political
consultations with the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan towards
peaceful solution to the problem.