Today.Az, Azerbaijan
May 30 2008

Elkhan Nuriyev: "The United States and Russia do not have problems
with Azerbaijan, but they do have great problems with Georgia and
Armenia"

30 May 2008 [11:41] – Today.Az

Today Azerbaijan is the only country in the South Caucasus which
enjoys stable internal political situation, said Elkhan Nuriyev, chief
of the center of strategic researches under President of Azerbaijan.

He said Azerbaijan conducts stable, balanced, multi-directional and
diversified external policy, which is recognized by the United States,
Russia, European Inion and even Iran and added that this very
stability, effectively maintained by the country’s leadership, helps
us modernize the overall society, modernize economy and sociopolitical
sphere.

"The country is developing and modernization is possible only in a
stable state. Despite the problems peculiar of our country Azerbaijan
is developing. Most of my foreign colleagues state that Azerbaijan is
a stable country", noted Nuriyev.

He said Azerbaijan has chosen his own way-the way of
modernization. "We preserve what we have and we are improving. We have
our own national development strategy, which helps us modernize
economy and external policy", noted Nuriyev and added: "Today
Azerbaijan has turned into a strong geopolitical pragmatic actor. It
often seems to me that Russia and USA are jealous about the
multi-directional external policy of Azerbaijan, but on the other
hand, it was Russia and the United States which found common grounds
in our country and they are satisfied with the external policy of
Azerbaijan. The United States and Russia do not have problems with
Azerbaijan, but they do have great problems with Georgia and Armenia".

/Day.Az/

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