ILHAM ALIYEV MET WITH ARMENIAN AND AZERI INTELLECTUALS
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29.06.2007 12:06
On 29 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 Russia, Armen Smbatyan and Polad
Bulbuloglu, toured Stepanakert and Shushi on 28 June under the aegis
of the OSCE. Later on they visited Yerevan to meet with Armenian
President Robert Kocharyan.
The group included Prof. Armen Smbatyan, the Armenian Ambassador
to Russia, Prof Sergey Sarachyan, the Rector of the Yerevan State
Conservatoire, Acad.
Radik Martirosyan, the President of the National Academy of Sciences
of Armenia, Prof. Alexander Grigoryan, People’s Artist of Armenia,
Head of the Russian Drama Theater, Lyudmila Grigoryan, 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 Karabakh conflict 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, Trend reports.