PREVENTING ARMS SALE TO ARMENIA BY ALBANIA IS ASSESSED AS SAMPLE FOR AZERBAIJAN’S GROWING INTERNATIONAL IMAGE: PRESIDENT

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
Aug 1 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku /corr. Trend S.Agayeva / Preventing arms sales to
Armenia by Albania is assessed as a sample for Azerbaijan’s growing
international image, said the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev,
on 1 August at the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan.

A relevant decision was made by the Government of Albania after the
Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan forwarded a protest letter. During
a 31 July conversation with Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar
Mammadyarov and Luis Basha, the Foreign Minister of Albania, Basha
said that the Government of Albania did not permit the selling of arms
to Armenia. Basha stressed that the relations between Azerbaijan and
Albania are significant within international organizations.

In his speech, Ilham Aliyev once again stressed that the
Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict may be settled only
within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. He said that he
will be continuing paying special attention to army establishment in
the region.

In addition, the State Head underlined that the tent camps settled by
the internally displaced persons who were expelled from their native
lands as a result of Armenian occupation will be liquidated by the
end of the year.