AzerTag, Azerbaijan
Oct 15 2005
FOREIGN MINISTER ELMAR MAMMADYAROV VISITS EGYPT
[October 16, 2005, 23:22:04]
Baku, 16 October (AzerTAj). Paying an official visit to Egypt Foreign
Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov met here with his
counterpart Ahmad Abu Al-Jeit on October 15. The parties discussed
ways of enhancing Azerbaijan-Egypt cooperation in political and
economic fields as well as within international organizations, and
exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East and international
security issues.
The Egyptian Minister said touching on the Armenia-Azerbaijan
conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, he supported the efforts by the OSCE
Minsk group, as well as the talks between the leaders and foreign
ministers of the conflicting states aiming at peaceful settlement of
the problem. He expressed hope it would be settled soon in the
framework of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Both Ministers
pointed out that the economic relations between Azerbaijan and Egypt
were not on a due level and stressed the importance of expanding
trade and economic cooperation between the two countries. They
welcomed the idea of opening the flight Baku – Sharm El Sheik- Cairo
that, according to them, would increase the tourist flows between the
countries, and intensify direct contacts among businessmen.
Informing his Egyptian colleague on the implementation of the
large-scale projects in Azerbaijan including the construction of the
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipelines,
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway as well as TRACECA, Foreign Minister Elmar
Mammadyarov expressed his wish that Egypt joined the latter in an
observer capacity.
Following the meeting, the two Ministers gave a press conference.
On the same day, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Chairman
of the National Assembly of Egypt Ahmad Fathi Surur, and made a
speech at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry’s Foreign Affairs Council.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress