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    AZERBAIJAN EXPECTS US TO TAKE MORE STEPS TO SETTLE KARABAKH CONFLICT

    news.az
    June 30 2010
    Azerbaijan

    Ali Hasanov Azerbaijan attaches a great importance to the visit of
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Baku.

    'There are many issues we have to discuss at the meetings to be held
    within the framework of the visit', said chief of department on public
    policy issues of the presidential administration, Ali Hasanov.

    Answering journalists questions about 'which issues Azerbaijan
    considers a priority at the negotiations with the United States,
    considering the fact that energy partnership, security and democracy
    issues are priority for Washington, Hasanov said Azerbaijan also
    considers all these three issues to be the main ones'.

    'However, we expect greater steps from the United States, as the Minsk
    Group co-chairing country, in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict',
    said chief of department of the presidential administration.

    As for what Azerbaijan expects from the visit of the US Secretary of
    State, considering the fact that the last visit on the level of the
    US official was conducted 18 years ago by the then Secretary of State
    James Baker, Hasanov said Azerbaijan gained state independence in 1992.

    'Azerbaijan became independent only then and James Baker's visit aimed
    at learning more about our country, while now Hillary Clinton will
    visit Azerbaijan which is a developed country and a regional leader.

    This is a specific strategic course of Azerbaijan, with which the
    United States are already familiar, while that time there was no
    course at all', said he.

    According to him, today Azerbaijan is a developed country with its
    foreign course and vision of the world processes.

    'We hope after the visit the relations between our countries will be
    deeper', concluded Ali Hasanov.

    Ali Hasanov also said Azerbaijan welcomes the statement of presidents
    of Russia, United States and France regarding the resolution of the
    Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.

    He noted that despite some differences in the texts of the statement
    in different languages, published in different mass media, this does
    not change the point of the statement, under which all of the three
    presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing states urge to liberate
    Azerbaijani lands occupied by Armenia.

    'We do hope that Armenia will hear this appeal and follow a
    constructive way', Hasanov noted.




    From: A. Papazian
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