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    TOP AZERBAIJANI OFFICIAL VISITS TURKEY

    news.az
    April 1 2010
    Azerbaijan

    Ramiz Mehdiyev A delegation led by the head of the Azerbajani
    Presidential Administration, Ramiz Mehdiyev, is paying an official
    visit to Turkey.

    The delegation was welcomed at Ankara's Esenboga Airport by the
    Turkish president's general secretary, Mustafa Isen, and Azerbaijan's
    ambassador to Turkey, Zakir Hashimov.

    The Azerbaijani delegation paid its respects at Ataturk's mausoluem,
    Anitkabir.

    The delegation met the secretary general of Turkey's National Security
    Council, Serdar Kilic. The meeting noted that relations between
    the two fraternal countries were on a high level and discussed the
    prospects for further cooperation.

    The delegation met the Grand National Assembly's foreign affairs
    committee chairman, Murad Mercan. Welcoming the visitors, Mercan
    said that all Turkish MPs, regardless of whether they were in power
    or the opposition, regarded the problems of fraternal Azerbaijan as
    their own problems.

    Ramiz Mehdiyev said: 'Today I have arrived in my homeland and I am
    meeting my brothers here. The statement of our great leader Heydar
    Aliyev that "We are one nation, two states" is right. This is primarily
    connected with the historical past of the Turkic nations. We are really
    one nation, but historical processes have led to the appearance of
    two states. Currently, the ties between the two countries are on a
    high peak. It has been a pleasure for me to exchange views and talk
    to my brothers here.'

    The delegation visited Gazi University in Ankara, where Rector Riza
    Ayhan briefed them about the university's work. Ramiz Mehdiyev gave
    a lecture on the modern state of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani-Turkish
    relations.

    He said that Azerbaijan was the most dynamically developing in the
    South Caucasus and the world leader in terms of GDP growth. He said
    Azerbaijan had a balanced foreign policy which assigned a special
    place to fraternal Turkey.

    'Our relations are unique in the region and the world. Since the first
    day of independence, Azerbaijan has felt Turkey's support and become
    stronger and is already a support to Turkey.

    'Armenia which lives with myths about the construction of a great
    "Armenia from sea to sea" has always made territorial claims on Turkey
    and Azerbaijan throughout its 200-year history,' Mehdiyev said.

    'From the beginning of the 19th century Armenia has been conducting
    planned terror and genocide against Azerbaijanis which continued in
    different historical periods,' Mehdiyev said.

    He said that the the politicians and peoples of Azerbaijan and Turkey
    should be alert to ensure that no one could spoil the relations
    between them.

    As an example of Turkish support for Azerbaijan, Mehdiyev cited
    cooperation on projects such as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline,
    the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline and Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway.

    The delegation is continuing its visit to Turkey.
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