Heydar Aliyev street opens in Ankara - UPDATED

07.11.2008

10:00

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev met with Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on November 6, reports Day.Az with reference to AzerTac.

The parties stressed the importance of the fact that President Ilham Aliyev had paid his first post-election official trip to Turkey, noting this visit will contribute to further strengthening of the friendly and brotherly relations between the two countries.

They also pointed out the importance of the Azerbaijan-Turkey bilateral relations in terms of enhancing cooperation in the region, and expressed confidence in their further expansion in all fields.

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06.11.2008

17:10

Day.Az reports with reference to ANS-Press that today President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the opening ceremony of Heydar Aliyev street in Ankara.

Along with Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva, the ceremony was also attended by Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Hilmi Guler, his spouse Mehtap Guler, chairman of the Boyuksheher municipality of Ankara Melik Gokchek, head of the Yenimehelle municipality Ahmed Duyar.

Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyev visited Heydar Aliyev's park and put flowers to H.Aliyev's memorial. The head of the state further visited Heydar Aliyev's school, locating in the same street. Ilham Aliyev and Mehriban Aliyeva visited the classes and talked to the teachers and pupils.

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16:46

President of Turkey Abdullah Gul stated at the reception in Ankara arranged in the honor of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev that he is glad that President of Azerbaijan paid his first visit to Turkey after his reelection, reports Day.Az with reference to the official website of the presidential administration of Turkey.

The Turkish President congratulated Ilham Aliyev with the reelection as a President. He noted that after gaining independence Azerbaijan won respect in the world for its stable and attentive policy and noted that "for this reason we recall late Heydar Aliyev". "He showed the best direction for Azerbaijan and featured the relations between the two countries by the phrase "one nation, two states", said Gul noting that under Ilham Aliyev's leadership the country attained even a greater progress.

President of Turkey noted that after the recent events in the Caucasus Azerbaijan and Turkey are making great efforts to establish peace and stability in the region.

Recalling that Azerbaijan provided the strongest support to the Caucasus Stability and Security Platform. Gul stressed the need to settle the Karabakh problem in the framework of the legal norms and under the UN principles.

Stating the creation of a new climate of mutual meetings, Gul continued: "We hope and believe that all problems will be settled in this wonderful climate and all countries will further cooperate with each others". In the end of his speech the Turkish President noted that Azerbaijan and Turkey has similar thoughts and demonstrate solidarity in all issue.

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16:00

Day.Az reports with reference to Turkish Anadolu news agency that speaking in the parliament of Turkey President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said regarding the resolution of the Karabakh conflict that Azerbaijanis, which were forced to flee their homes during war, must return to Nagorno Karabakh before discussing the future status of this occupied land.

He noted that the biggest problem of the South Caucasus is Nagorno Karabakh conflict. "Azerbaijani lands have been under Armenian occupation for about 20 years. Over 1,000,000 Azerbaijanis were obliged to flee their homes and turned into refugees.

Armenia ignores the resolutions of the UN Security Council on the liberation of the occupied lands of Azerbaijan. We hope that the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan will be restored. For this purpose it is necessary to put a political pressure on Armenia", announced he.

He noted that the unsettled conflict raises tensions in the region. The President of Azerbaijan voiced satisfaction with Turkey's approach to their said problem.

He said Azerbaijani-Turkish relations are on the highest level today. The President announced that Azerbaijan is getting stronger day by day. "We have a political will and friends for this purpose. The number of our friends is growing. But among them Turkey has a special place".

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15:22

"Joint efforts of Turkey and Azerbaijan are a stability factor in the region", said President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, according to Novosti-Azerbaijan.

"Implementation of any project either political of economic one is impossible without our participation and consent. Energy and transport projects, which are important both for the region and the entire world, are successfully implemented by our initiative", he said yesterday speaking at a reception in Ankara, organized by Turkish President Abdullah Gul in honor of the President of Azerbaijan.

The head of the state announced that the ties between Turkey and Azerbaijan cover all spheres and "we enjoy success in all of them".

"Our joint initiatives in the political, economic, energy and transport spheres strengthen our countries in separate and at the same time raise the cooperation between the countries to quite a new level of development and lead to strengthening of stability in the region", said Aliyev.

He noted that the success of both countries is backed my mutual respect, will of the people of Azerbaijan and Turkey.

"Turkey always supported Azerbaijan in its hard times. But today Azerbaijan has become stronger and is able to contribute to the bilateral relations", noted he.

The President also highly appreciated Turkey's role in restoration of peace in the Caucasus, "we welcome and support this".

"We have already seen the first results of Turkey's initiative of Caucasus Cooperation and Security Platform. We hope that this initiative will lead to the peaceful resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno Karabakh", said Aliyev adding that on the whole "the initiatives of Turkey and Azerbaijan are aimed only at cooperation".

/Day.Az/