Ankara: Cicek Attends Aliyev’s Oath-Taking Ceremony

CICEK ATTENDS ALIYEV’S OATH-TAKING CEREMONY

Today’s Zaman
25 October 2008, Saturday
Turkey

Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek attended the oath-taking ceremony
of recently re-elected Azerbaijanian President Ilham Aliyev yesterday
in Baku.

Aliyev won the presidential election held on Oct. 15 by a wide
margin. Delivering a speech during the ceremony, Aliyev said he would
continue serving his country and people. Georgian President Mikhail
Saakashvili, whose country fought a brief war with Russia over the
breakaway region of South Ossetia in August, was also present at
the ceremony.

Turkey is a key regional ally of Azerbaijan and is currently promoting
three-way talks involving Armenia and Azerbaijan on ways to resolve a
long-standing conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkey refuses to open
its border with Armenia and restore diplomatic ties unless Armenia
withdraws from the Azerbaijani territory it invaded in the ’90s.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS