We laid a good basis for effective cooperation in the gas field: President of Azerbaijan - UPDATED

30.06.09

10:00

Upon completion of a ceremony of signing Azerbaijan-Russia documents, Presidents Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia gave a joint press conference.
In his statement for the media outlets, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said that there is a high level of political interaction between the two states.
“Various economic projects are being successfully implemented. Despite, a slight drop in trade turnover driven by the world financial crisis, the dynamism and structure of the trade turnover allow us to say that it is a temporary obstacle, which will be overcome. With the documents signed today, I am sure, we will sea a dramatic increase in trade turnover next year,” said President Ilham Aliyev
“Today, we laid a good basis for effective cooperation in the gas field. Today, Gasprom and SOCAR signed a deal which marks a new chapter in our relations. I think, this will be very successful and mutually beneficial cooperation, which will fully meet interests of Russia and Azerbaijan”
“Also, we forged ahead today, took very important step to finally delimitate borders between our states. We agreed principles, which will be the basis for moving ahead and signing documents”
“Of course, today, we discussed resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. We are grateful to Russia and personally, to President for active participation in the process of resolution. A meeting between Presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, which was held earlier this month with the attendance of the President of Russia, created a good atmosphere for continuing talks. We hope Russia will continue to participate in resolution of this complicated issue both as a mediator and a neighbor,” added President Ilham Aliyev.
President of Russia Dmirty Medvedev said “the fact that we meet frequently will contribute to developing strategic ties between Russia and Azerbaijan”.
He noted “our countries are major energy suppliers. We worked and continue to work in oil sector, but now we open gas direction. I think that this is a good beginning towards improving contacts in this direction and involving in mutually beneficial cooperation in gas sector. A document we signed today is a good beginning”.
The Russian leader said “as regards to other areas of cooperation, we have done a lot over the past years. Last year we signed a new strategic document – Agreement on friendship and partnership. This document is being executed and what we signed today is concretization of that document.
The Russian leader noted several documents were signed today including an agreement on the Caspian Sea, diplomatic issues, real estate and memorandum on main principles of completing delimitation of the state border.
Touching upon the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia would continue to contribute to resolution of the dispute.

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09:55

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has all chances to be solved in a near historical prospect, and Russia is ready to do best for this, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during press conference in Baku held jointly with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijani state television AzTV reported. 

He added that the conflict can be resolved only based on the international law, and the most important is that the sides - Azerbaijan and Armenia are ready to consider all matters, which gives a hope for a solution to this long conflict.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that Azerbaijan supports the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis of UN resolutions.

The question of self-determination of peoples can be resolved within territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev said to press conference.

"We were able to make several steps forward, and there are many expectations that the conflict will be resolved," said Aliyev.

He added that despite signing a ceasefire agreement in 1994, the conflict still remains unresolved, but now there are more hopes for its solution than before.

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09:50

As a result of the visit of the President of the Russian Federation to Baku, Azerbaijan and Russia signed a joint declaration on the Caspian Sea, as well as joint statement on basic principles of completing the delimitation of state borders and the distribution of water resources of the Samur River between the countries, Azerbaijani AzTV state television reported.

Also, in presence of the Presidents of the two countries, Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov and the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov signed a joint statement on the preparation of the Inter-Governmental agreement on the terms of placement and maintenance of diplomatic missions of Russia in Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan in Russia, as well as an agreement between the governments of Kabardino-Balkaria and Azerbaijan on trade and economic, scientific-technical and cultural cooperation.

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09:40

As a result of today's meeting with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan and Russia will take a new format of cooperation in all spheres, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on June 29 at a meeting with Ilham Aliyev in Baku, AzerTAj state news agency reported.

A number of papers will be signed, over which work was done, that reflects the strategic character of friendly relations between Azerbaijan and Russia, said Russian President.

"We are ready to do everything to strengthen these relationships," said Medvedev.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev also said that the meetings of the Presidents over the past year underscore the dynamic nature of the relationship.

Ilham Aliyev added that signed last year the Agreement on Friendship and Strategic Partnership is successfully implemented.