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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    February 2, 2005 Wednesday

    Moscow-Baku partnership meets interests of peoples - FM

    By Ksenia Kaminskaya and Viktor Shulman

    BAKU

    The development of strategic partnership between Russia and
    Azerbaijan meets the interests of the peoples of the two countries,
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

    Lavrov and his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov held talks on
    Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations, including Year of
    Azerbaijan in Russia to open this month, the situation in the
    Caucasus and interaction at the international arena.

    Mamedyarov shared Sergei Lavrov's view under which the development of
    strategic partnership between Russia and Azerbaijan "meets the
    interests of the peoples of the two countries and is an important
    factor of peace and stability in the Caucasus."

    The Russian minister met Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliyev and
    Prime Minister Artur Razi-zade. "Relations with Russia are very
    important for Azerbaijan," Aliyev said. He praised "political
    contacts, in particular between the leadership of the two countries."
    The Azerbaijani president noted the positive development of
    cooperation in the energy sector and humanitarian interaction. "This
    has a positive impetus on our relations and processes in the region,"
    the president said.

    The talks focused on the agreements reached as part of the
    Azerbaijani president's visit to Russia in February 2004. The sides
    stressed the need "to take concrete measures to develop business
    partnership in order to double trade turnover in the future."

    The negotiations touched on international issues, including "steps
    towards strengthening interaction in the fight against international
    terrorism." The foreign ministers of the two countries called for
    "stepping up cooperation within the U.N., the CIS, the OSCE and the
    Council of Europe." They discussed problems related to increasing the
    U.N. effectiveness and its reform.

    Lavrov and Mamedyarov supported the Prague process of negotiations
    between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan with the
    involvement of co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group on
    Nagorno-Karabakh settlement. The ministers exchanged views on working
    out the Caspian Sea legal status, holding the 2nd Caspian summit,
    principles of the military activity on sea and building underwater
    arteries.
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