AZERBAIJAN TO OPEN EMBASSIES IN SIX MORE COUNTRIES
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July 14 2011
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan has embassies and diplomatic missions in 65 countries
worldwide at present.
The statement came from head of the foreign relations department at
the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Novruz Mammadov.
Embassies of Azerbaijan will be opened in five to six more countries
soon, but persons to lead these diplomatic missions have not been
appointed yet, Mammadov said.
‘This is actually a good fact. Moreover, when compared with other
states, you can see that this is a very good indicator. Most of
the countries of our level have not more than 40-50 embassies in
foreign countries. This once again shows development of Azerbaijan,
its place in the international arena, rating and efficiency of external
relations,’ he added.
Baku urges Armenia to use chance to settle Karabakh conflict
Armenia should stop protracting the resolution of the Karabakh
conflict and use the current chance to settle the problem, said chief
of department for foreign relations of the Azerbaijani Presidential
Administration Novruz Mammadov.
‘The current situation is that it is necessary to make use and attain
the peaceful and fair resolution of the conflict’, Mammadov said in
the interview with the Azerbaijani TV channel.
He said the recent presentation of new initiatives of Russian President
Dmitriy Medvedev on the resolution of the conflict to the conflict
parties ~Qreally shows that a very important stage has come in the
negotiation process~R.
He continued that the same is proven by the ongoing visit of the OSCE
Minsk Group co-chairs to the conflict area and almost the ultimatum
statement of the mediating countries about the need to change the
status quo in the conflict.
‘However, unfortunately, the Armenian side is protracting the
attainment of the result under some pretense’, chief of the department
of the presidential administration said.
Azerbaijan, Turkey enjoy high-level relations
The relations between these two fraternal and friendly states will
further develop.
The statement came from Novruz Mammadov, official of the Presidential
Administration of Azerbaijan, while commenting on claims that
Azerbaijan-Turkey relations have cooled over last years.
These two states support each other to a great degree, the official
said.
‘Leaders, people and all structures are aware of this. Some may think
that these states experience certain problems. Siblings within a family
can also have problems. But the essence of a family is that they talk
and solve problems between them. I think that from this viewpoint
the relation, fraternity, friendship and partnership between Turkey
and Azerbaijan are unprecedented. The main point is that both sides
know this very well,’ Mammadov added.
Gun.Az, Interfax-Azerbaijan, 1news.az