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    Azeri president congratulates Bush on re-election

    Azartac news agency, Baku,
    4 Nov 04


    To the president of the United States of America, His Excellency
    George W. Bush

    Dear Mr President!

    I congratulate you on your re-election as president of the United
    States of America and wish you success.

    I want to express my conviction that you will continue your activities
    to ensure peace and stability in the world.

    We are a friend of the United States of America and attach special
    importance to the development of our cooperation. Azerbaijan, which is
    establishing democratic, law-governed and secular society, is
    determined to raise its bilateral relations with the United States of
    America to a higher level.

    I express my gratitude to you for supporting the joint exploitation of
    rich energy resources in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea,
    their export to the world market, the construction of the
    Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas
    pipeline.

    As a reliable strategic partner of the United States of America,
    Azerbaijan will continue to make its contribution to the ensuring of
    peace and security in the region and to the fight against terrorism. I
    want to stress again that Azerbaijan's position on this issue is
    unchangeable.

    As has been the case from the very beginning, Azerbaijan is in the
    same coalition as the United States of America in the fight against
    terrorism and its various manifestations.

    At the same time, we pin great hopes on the efforts of the United
    States of America as a co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group and your
    efforts personally for a fair solution to the Armenian-Azerbaijani
    Nagornyy Karabakh conflict within the framework of Azerbaijan's
    territorial integrity and norms and principles of international law.

    I believe that friendship and comprehensive strategic cooperation
    between our countries will expand and strengthen even more in line
    with the mutual interests of our peoples.

    Dear Mr President!

    I wish you strong health, success in your work and constant progress
    and prosperity to the people of the United States of America.

    Truly yours,

    Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev,

    Baku, 4 November 2004
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