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.