ALI HASANOV: "WE THINK THAT AZERBAIJAN’S REACTIONS HAD SOME INFLUENCE ON THE US POLICY PLANNING CENTERS"

APA
April 21 2010
Azerbaijan

Baku. Kamala Guliyeva – APA. "We regard the reaction of the U.S. State
Department on the discontent of Azerbaijan as normal and believe they
will be objective in Nagorno Karabakh conflict till the end.

We hope and think that public reactions in Azerbaijan also had
some influence on the US policy planning centers", Chief of the
Socio-Political Department of Azerbaijan’s Presidential Administration
Ali Hasanov told journalists while commenting on US State Department’s
attitude towards dissatisfactions of Azerbaijan, APA reports.

Chief of Department said that Azerbaijan did not want to spoil
relations with the U.S.: "We do not want to spoil the partnership
with the United States. Unfortunately, sometimes circumstances force
it. We hope that the United States, as before, will maintain their
healthy and partnership position in relation to Azerbaijan, and in
accordance with this, we will fulfill our commitments concerning the
interests of this country".

Speaking about Azerbaijan’s protest against the fact that the U.S.

demonstrated biased position in relation to the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict and protect the interests of Armenia and as well as the
coldness recently observed in the relations between the two states, US
State Department Spokesman Mark Toner Mark Toner said that his country
supported the position of none of the sides in the settlement process
of the conflict, and that there was no coldness in the US-Azerbaijan
relations.