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    AzerNews, Azerbaijan
    April 1 2004

    New chairman of Russian Duma visits Baku

    The newly appointed chairman of the Russian Duma (parliament), Boris
    Gryzlov paid a two-day official visit to Azerbaijan on March 29.
    During the visit, the Russian Speaker held meetings with President
    Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister Artur Rasizada and Speaker of the Milli
    Majlis (parliament) Murtuz Alasgarov. Russian-Azerbaijani

    relations and development of inter-parliamentary relations were
    discussed during the meetings.

    Meetings
    On Monday, President Ilham Aliyev received a Russian Speaker Boris
    Gryzlov. Aliyev noted that bilateral relations were developing
    dynamically and all the problems between the two countries had been
    solved.

    Underlining that Azerbaijan and Russia have also expanded bilateral
    economic relations, President Aliyev said that the turnover of goods
    between the two countries was increasing yearly, stating that the
    Russian-Azerbaijani business forum will be held in Baku shortly.
    Stating that the inter-parliamentary working group established within
    the Russian Duma will direct its activities towards seeking common
    ground, Gryzlov said that prior to the business forum, the working
    group was scheduled to meet in Moscow early April. Updating the
    Azerbaijani President on the Russian parliament's activity, Gryzlov
    said that today, for the first time, 306 MPs representing the ruling
    Yedinaya Rossiya Party are in the Duma. The Russian Speaker said the
    Duma had 29 committees which were headed by the MPs from the Yedinaya
    Rossiya fraction. "Moreover, the Duma is working democratically. We
    adopt a sufficient number of decisions based on the proposals put
    forward by other fractions including the left-wing Communist Party of
    the Russian Federation," Gryzlov noted. He also said that the Duma
    was carrying out mutual activity and exchanged inter-parliamentary
    experience with the Azerbaijani parliament. Regarding Vladimir
    Putin's re-election as President of Russia as the 'great victory of
    the Russian people', President Aliyev stressed that Putin had made a
    great contribution to the democratic and economic development of
    Russia. He also underscored that bilateral relations would give
    impetus to the development of the two countries in the future. The
    expansion of bilateral parliamentary relations was high on the agenda
    during the meeting of Boris Gryzlov with his Azeri counterpart,
    Murtuz Alasgarov on Monday. Elaborating on Russia's parliamentary
    elections held this February, Gryzlov said that the new composition
    of the Russian Duma was comprised of all the democratic political
    forces of the country. Underlining that the Russian parliament will
    give priority to multi-sided relations with neighboring countries in
    the future, Gryzlov said, "We are also very interested in developing
    economic relations with Azerbaijan. Therefore, we plan to hold a
    meeting of the Azerbaijani-Russian economic commission after the
    gathering of the commission's working group." Touching upon the Upper
    Garabagh conflict, Speaker Alasgarov regarded the occupation of
    Azerbaijani lands by Armenia as a serious threat to Russia as well.
    Stressing that there is a need for Russia's support in the resolution
    of the conflict, Alasgarov said, "Russia, as a co-chair of the OSCE
    Minsk Group, should approach the matter sensitively. We are expecting
    Russia to do much work in this respect."
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