MEETING OF AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV WITH PRESIDENT OF CZECH REPUBLIC VACLAV KLAUS

Azer Tag
[May 17, 2005, 14:55:51]

On May 17, President of the Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliyev met
with his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus. Both leaders have expressed
satisfaction with the cooperation between the two countries in
political, economic and other spheres noting the expected opening of
the Azerbaijan Embassy in Prague would promote further development of
the bilateral relations bringing them to a qualitatively new level.
In particular, the Presidents stressed the importance of enhancing
Czechia-Azerbaijan cooperation in the sphere of tourism.

President Ilham Aliyev also spoke of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
over Nagorno-Karabakh noting despite its hard consequences for his
country, it supports peaceful and international law-based settlement
of the problem.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus has expressed his support for the fair
stance of Azerbaijan as for the issue.

The two Presidents have also exchanged views on a number of other
issues of mutual interest.