EUROPEAN INTEGRATION IS A MAIN PRIORITY- ALIYEV
Interfax News Agency
July 15 2008
Russia
Azerbaijan’s cooperation with the Council of Europe and other
international organizations is a foreign political priority, Azeri
President Ilkham Aliyev said at a meeting with participants of
an international conference dedicated to the tenth anniversary of
establishing the Azeri Constitutional Court.
Baku is making important moves on the track of integrating into the
European family, the Azeri presidential administration told Interfax
referring to Aliyev’s speech at the meeting.
Aliyev said that the successful implementation of the new neighborhood
policy, together with the European Union, and energy activity are
examples of such moves.
Secretary of the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission Gianni
Buquicchio, who also attended the meeting, noted that after Azerbaijan
joined the CoE it has been cooperating tightly with this organization.
Aliyev also touched upon the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. Armenia occupied
a part of Azeri territory, which led to the fact that over a million
people were ousted from their native lands, the president said,
adding that the Azeri government is taking measures to resolve the
issue of forced migrants.