President meets Turkish counterpart

Baku, May 24, AssA-Irada

On Tuesday, President Ilham Aliyev met with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet
Necdet Sezer, who arrived in Baku on the same day to attend the ceremony of
pumping first oil into the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline.
Sezer said that participating in the BTC commissioning is a historical event,
noting that the pipeline and other economic projects will play an important
role in the development of the two countries’ economies.
The Turkish President said that the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline will be
commissioned solemnly as well, pointing out the late Azerbaijani President
Heydar Aliyev’s outstanding contribution to the implementation of these
large-scale projects.
`Turkey will further support Azerbaijan’s position on the peaceful
settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Upper Garabagh,’Sezer said.
President Aliyev highly assessed Turkey’s support to Azerbaijan andvoiced
his satisfaction with the level of bilateral political, economic and cultural
relations.*