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Daniel Fried: "Turkey-Azerbaijan-US cooperation will have a strategic impact on a region from the Black Sea to China"

15 December 2007 [15:19] - TODAY.AZ
The Turkey-Azerbaijan-US energy cooperation will consolidate the state system of Azerbaijan in conditions of stability and security in the region.

The statement was made by the US Deputy State Secretary Daniel Fried during the conference on the relations between the United States, Turkey and Azerbaijan and their importance for the Eurasian continent, held in the United States according to the US Embassy to Azerbaijan.

According to Fried, Azerbaijan will also be able to establish closer and stronger ties with other countries by means of this cooperation.

"We do hope that the cooperation between the three countries will have a strategic impact on a region from the Black Sea to China", he said.

At the same time, he noted that Nagorno Garabagh is a dangerous unsettled problem.

He noted that the late President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev attained great achievements in the establishment of independent state.

According to him, now the main question is the future of Azerbaijan, which has not found its answer yet.

"Will Azerbaijan follow the way of democracy, leading to national development? Azerbaijan will be able to do it in case of the establishment of democratic legislation, objective judicial system, free of political control, independent banking system. market and free mass media. It is the main task, currently facing President Ilham Aliyev", he noted,

D.Fried stressed the success of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan. He said the creation and the activity of the fund shows that the leadership of Azerbaijan is informed about the traps of gambling on the oil sector and undertakes measure to settle this issue.

/Day.Az/


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