EU COUNTRIES SATISFIES WITH REFORMS IN AZERBAIJAN
[June 04, 2005, 15:22:56]
Azer Tag, Azerbaijan
June 4 2005
Vice speaker of the Milli Majlis Mrs. Govhar Bakhshaliyeva received
delegation of the Slovenian Parliament led by the National Party
leader Zmago Jelinic, reported the parliament press service.
Mrs Bakhshaliyeva expressed the great significance attached by
Azerbaijan to the relations with EU and its Neighborhood policy and
emphasized the recently signed Executive Order of the Azerbaijan
President Ilham Aliyev on establishing a commission for integration
into Europe Union. In his opinion, commissioning of the Heydar Aliyev
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan main export pipeline will be new impulse for this
integration process.
The Azerbaijani parliament’s vice-speaker has also informed the guest
about economic, social and legal reforms in the country, noted that
more rapidly development of Azerbaijan and all region has stumbled
on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno Karabakh that has
brought to humanitarian catastrophe with over 1 mln. refugees and
IDPs in Azerbaijan. In his opinion, as the OSCE chairman Slovenia
will contribute to peace process.
Mr. Zmago Jelinic said they visiting Azerbaijan on the invitation
of the Association for support of development of civil society
in Azerbaijan. As he noted, in some European countries has been
disseminating untruth information about Azerbaijan. For example,
delegation from Switzerland recently has prepared improbable report on
Azerbaijan. As the European parliament’s member I must say that we are
always attaches a great importance to learn a truth about Azerbaijan
and disseminate it in the European countries, said the guest.