AzerTag, Azerbaijan
Nov 19 2004
PRESIDENT OF AZERBAIJAN ILHAM ALIYEV RECEIVED CREDENTIALS OF
AMBASSADOR OF TURKEY
[November 19, 2004, 19:26:44]
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan has received credentials of
the newly appointed ambassador of Turkey to Azerbaijan, 19 November.
Ambassador Turan Moral presenting his credentials said that he was
pleased with appointing as an ambassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary to the Republic of Azerbaijan. He expressed deep
gratitude to the Head of Azerbaijan State that has welcomed his
appointment. Then, he presented a letter of credential to the
President of Azerbaijan.
Addressing the Turkish ambassador, President of Azerbaijan Ilham
Aliyev congratulated him on the new appointment and wished success in
his future diplomatic activity. `The relations between Turkey and
Azerbaijan are high level and develop intensively. After re-gaining
state independence, Turkey was the first state to recognize
Azerbaijan and since the links between two countries have developed
enough and cover all spheres.
In settlement of the most painful problem for Azerbaijan – the
Armenian-Azerbaijan, Nagorny Karabakh conflict, Turkey has always
been near to Azerbaijan. We always feel this support and Turkey
constantly backs fair position of Azerbaijan for peaceful settlement
of the problem in the frame of international law’, President Ilham
Aliyev emphasized.
Further, the Head of State said: `We are connected also by regional
projects. From the point of view of regional cooperation we have good
links and generally, our relations is good example for regional
cooperation. The world-scale project BTC and BTE bring closer our
countries.
And, as you know, national leader of Azerbaijan people Heydar Aliyev
has great contributions in realization of these projects. And it is
not casually that the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline was named
after Heydar Aliyev. In a word, our relations are at high level in
all fields’. Reminding his last visit to Turkey, president Aliyev
said: `The negations we carried out during the visit and signed
documents will bring us closer. I cordially congratulate you with
this appointment’.
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Head of Azerbaijan State and the Ambassador were taken their photos
in memory.
Then, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Ambassador Turan Moral
had warm conversation.
Head of the foreign relations department of President Administration
Novruz Mammadov attended the credential presentation ceremony.
