BAKU: Meeting of presidents Aliyev and Sezer

Azer Tag, Azerbaijan
May 24 2005

MEETING OF PRESIDENTS OF AZERBAIJAN’S ILHAM ALIYEV AND TURKEY’S AHMET
NECDET SEZER
[May 24, 2005, 21:01:35]

On May 24 at the Presidential Palace was held a meeting between the
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Ahmet Necdet
Sezer.

President Sezer said the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline’s commissioning
ceremony and its participation in that are historical events.
Turkey’s President has congratulated its Azerbaijani counterpart and
noted the pipeline will play an important role in the economic
development of both countries.

Having noted the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline will also
commissioning successfully head of the Turkish state has exclusively
recollected the role of the national leader of Azerbaijani people and
great son of the Turkic world Heydar Aliyev.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has highly estimated the position
of brotherly country and focused on political, economic, cultural
relations between the countries.

During the meeting was stressed that Turkey will support henceforth
the Azerbaijan’s position on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over
Nagorno Karabakh.

The Azerbaijani leader presented to President Ahmet Necdet Sezer a
keepsake gift, which had been specially made on the occasion of the
BTC pipeline commissioning.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS