TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS LEADERS OF ‘BROTHERLY AZERBAIJANI PEOPLE

ArmInfo
2009-10-23 12:36:00

ArmInfo. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had talks on
Thursday in Baku with both Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his
Azerbaijani counterpart, Elmar Mammadyarov, due to tensions between
the regional allies, which escalated upon the delivery of a diplomatic
note of protest to Azerbaijani officials because of their decision to
remove a Turkish flag in front of an embassy building in Baku. The
occasion of Davutoglu’s visit to Baku was a foreign ministerial
meeting of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
(BSEC) hosted by Azerbaijan. There was a positive environment during
the one-hour meeting between Davutoglu and Mammadyarov, diplomatic
sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Anatolia news
agency, as they noted that all issues between the two countries have
dealt with a broad perspective. Protocols signed between Armenia and
Turkey for re-establishing their ties and reopening their joint border,
the removal of Turkish flags in Baku as well as the recent developments
regarding efforts by the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which has been working for a decade
and a half to mediate the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between Armenia
and Azerbaijan, were discussed during the meeting between the two
foreign ministers, the same diplomatic sources told Anatolia. The
meetings between Davutoglu and Azerbaijani leaders "passed in the way
they should pass between officials of the two brotherly countries,"
the sources said, without elaborating.