AzerTag, Azerbaijan
June 2 2006

AMBASSADOR OF AZERBAIJAN TO CANADA HELD MEETINGS IN SENATE AND
CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES
[June 02, 2006, 20:49:48]

Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Canada Fakhraddin Gurbanov has held a
series of meetings at the Senate and Chamber of Representatives of
this country, the embassy spokesman said.

Ambassador Gurbanov told of independent foreign policy Azerbaijan
actively pursues after it gained state independence in 1991. The
country takes active part at world and regional organizations,
continuously conducts reforms to establish legal and democratic
state, to develop market economy.

The Ambassador also updated on the favorable investment environment
in the country, economic reforms, development of non-oil sector and
involvement of investments in the country’s dynamically developing
economy.

Mr. Gurbanov in detailed informed on the history of the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict, its reasons, sequences and plight of over one
million Azerbaijani refugees and IDPs who left their homelands as a
result of Armenian aggression.

The Ambassador disclosed position of Azerbaijan to peacefully settle
the conflict, in the frame of international law and territorial
integrity of countries.