AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT RECEIVES A GROUP OF AZERBAIJANI AND ARMENIAN INTELLECTUALS

TREND News Agency, Azerbaijan
June 29 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr S.Ilhamgizi / On 28 June Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev received a group of Azerbaijani and Armenian
intellectuals who visited Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia on 28 June.

A group Azerbaijan and Armenian public figures led by the Armenian
and Azerbaijani Ambassadors to Russian, Armen Smbatian and Polad
Bulbuloglu, toured Khankandi and Shusha on 28 June under the aegis of
OSCE’s. Later on they visited Yerevan to meet with Armenian President
Robert Kocharian.

The group included Prof. Armen Smbatian, the Armenian Ambassador
to Russia, the Honorary Culture Figure of Armenia, Prof Sergey
Sarachian, the Rector of the Yerevan State Conservatoire, Acad. Radik
Martirosian, the President of the National Academy of Sciences of
Armenia, Prof. Alexander Grigorian, People’s Artist of Armenia,
Head of the Russian Dram Theater, Lyudmila Grigorian, Head of the
Therapeutic Department of the Republican Hospital of Armenia, Prof
Polad Bulbuloglu, the Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia, People’s
Artist of Azerbaijan, Prof Farhad Badalbayli, the rector of the Baku
Musical Academy, People Artist of USSR, Prof Kamal Abdullayev, the
Rector of the Baku Slavic University, correspondent member of the
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Honorary Scientific Figure,
Prof Azer Pahsa Neymatov, the Chairman of the Azerbaijani Union of
Theater Figures, People’s Artist of Azerbaijan, Ilham Fataliyev,
the honorary Engineer of Azerbaijan, a businessmen.

Reaffirming his country`s position on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
over Nagorno-Karabakh, President Aliyev emphasized that the dispute
could only be solved on the basis of the principles of territorial
integrity of Azerbaijan and inviolability of borders, with granting
a high level of self-governance to Nagorno-Karabakh.