AZERI SPEAKER MEETS AUSTRIAN OFFICIALS IN BAKU
AUSTRIA TODAY
April 24, 2006 Monday 7:47 PM (Central European Time)
Speaker of Azeri Parliament Oktay Asadov met with a delegation
headed by the State Secretary of Austrian Foreign Ministry Hans
Winklerin, Trend reports with reference to press service of the Azeri
Parliament. Speaker said at the meeting Azerbaijan’s priority-driven
politics is the integration in Europe.
“Azerbaijan intends to extend relationships within Europe’s new
neighbourhood programme. In this respect, the republic officials are
leading conversations on development of an action plan. We should
note also that in some political issues, in particular Armenian-Azeri
conflict, the European Commission is not taking Azerbaijan’s concerns
in consideration,” he said. Speaker also said that staring 1992
European commission has provided our country over USD 400 million and
highly appraised cooperation under such programs as TACIS, TRASECA,
INOGATE and Food programme. The speaker informed the guests about
the development of interparliamentary relationships, preliminary work
performed in conjunction with re-elections of May 13.