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Defense Minister receives US Ambassador Reno Harnish

18 April 2006 [09:14] - TODAY.AZ
Defense Minister, Colonel-General Safar Abiyev received US Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish.

As APA reports, after greeting the visitor, the Minister said during his mission as an ambassador, Mr.Harnish made a lot of contributions to the development of bilateral relations as well as the military cooperation relations between Azerbaijan and the United States.

Touching on the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, Mr.Abiyev said the United States should make much more efforts for the settlement of the conflict within international law norms and territorial integrity of Azeraijan.

"I hope American co-chair Steven Mann's visit to the region will have a positive impact in the solution of the conflict," the Minister underlined.

Ambassador Harnish said that there existed strategic cooperation between the US and Azerbaijan. He noted that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's upcoming official visit to the United States would give an impulse to the further development of relations between the two countries.

The sides discussed the prospects of the relations between the two states.

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