BERLIN HOSTS EU-AZERBAIJAN CONFERENCE

APA
Nov 17 2009
Azerbaijan

Baku. Lachin Sultanova – APA. Azerbaijani embassy in Germany
and Institute of European Policy organized a conference entitled
"EU-Azerbaijan relations: problems, ideas and prospects" at the
European Commission Office in Berlin, the embassy told APA.

Azerbaijani ambassador in Germany Parviz Shahbazov spoke about the
foreign policy course of Azerbaijan and called Azerbaijan-EU relations
a priority.

Member of German delegation to PACE, former member of Bundestag
Edward Linthner, professor of oriental studies of Marburg and
Hamburg universities Udo Steinbach, chief of the EU department of
Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nargiz Gurbanova and sector
chief of the law-enforcement department of the Azerbaijan Presidential
Administration Chingiz Asgarov addressed the conference.

The speakers mentioned importance of Azerbaijan for the European Union
and said the country had large potential for integration into Europe.

The German speakers said EU was sometimes non-active in the region
and called to take more advantages from the Union’s capacity. They
focus on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and said this conflict created
serious obstacle for cooperation and occupation of Azerbaijani lands by
Armenia was gross violation of basic principles of international law.

Representatives of German Bundestag, government agencies, different
political foundations and universities, journalists, scientists,
activists of Azerbaijani Diaspora in Germany participated at the
conference.