AzerTag, Azerbaijan
March 17 2005

AZERBAIJANI AND CZECH PARLIAMENTS INTENDS TO CLOSELY COOPERATE
[March 17, 2005, 19:38:59]

Ian Vidim, head of the parliament committe on defence and security
issues of the Czech Republic, met on March 17 with his Azerbaijani
colleague – vice speaker of Milli Majlis Ziyafat Askarov, reported
azerTAj correspondent.

Having underlined a friendly ties between two countries, Ziyafat
Askarov said that MP’s are sucessfully collaborated in the frame of
international organizations, as well as NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
He noted that today Azerbaijan is the most developed country of the
region. But the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh conflict,
occupation of 20 percent of the country’s territories and one million
of refugees and IDPs ousted from their homelands seriously impede
this development. The aggressor, Armenia ignores the resolutions
adopted by the United Nations, the Council of Europe Parliamentary
Assembly related to the problem.

Ian Vidim said that both country having a large potential for
expanding a mutual relations. There were some agreements for
developing a economical and trade relations between Czechia and
Azerbaijan. He noted that Czechia is support a peacefull settlement
of the problem over Nagorno Karabakh.