FM MEETS WITH OIC SECRETARY GENERAL

AzerTag, Azerbaijan
Sept 12 2006

Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met September 11 with Secretary
General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Ekmeleddin
Ihsanoglu to discuss the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over
Nagorno-Karabakh as well as the latest developments in the Middle
East, the 5th session of the Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers
and other issues, press service of the Foreign Ministry said.

Mr. Mammadyarov described as very important the resolution adopted by
the United Nations General Assembly at its 60th session in connection
with the damage caused by wide-scale fires in Azerbaijan’s occupied
territories.

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu stressed that burning of occupied Azerbaijani
territories by Armenia, and destruction of cultural and historic
monuments have been hindering the development of Azerbaijan’s tourism
sector.

Mr. Ihsanoglu said this issue has been widely discussed at the fifth
session of the Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers in Baku.

Elmar Mammadyarov and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu also discussed other topics
of mutual concern.