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RENO HARNISH: WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO REPEAL SECTION 907 AGAINST AZERBAIJAN
19.05.2005 03:32
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Azerbaijan considers the US its strategic ally,”
Azeri Defense Minister Safar Abiyev stated at a meeting with the
US Ambassador and representatives of Capstone group, reported the
525 Baku newspaper. He noted that with the support of the US the
implementation of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan project was possible. “We
would like the US to further increase its active involvement in the
solution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict,” the Minister said. On
behalf of the Azeri people he also expressed concern that the Section
907 of the Freedom Support Action, passed by the US Congress over
Azerbaijan in 1992 is not still repealed. “Today’s Armenia’s policy
is composed of continuing the occupation, forgery of the history,
deception of the world community, representing the Armenian people
as a one that has experienced many sufferings. I state we will not
give even an inch of our land to anyone. If the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict is not solved, there will be no tranquility in the South
Caucasus,” Abiyev emphasized. Ambassador Harnish stated that the
visit of the Capstone group evidences the US is the strategic ally
of Azerbaijan. Referring to a statement of President George Bush made
in Tbilisi, the diplomat accentuated that the US will always support
the independence of the Caucasian peoples.
“The US will always continue military cooperation with Azerbaijan. We
will do our best to repeal the Section 907 of the FSA,” R. Harnish
stated.