FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS NATO DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL
[June 17, 2004, 16:23:11]
Azer Tag, Azerbaijan State Info Agency
June 17 2004
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Azerbaijan Republic Elmar
Mammadyarov met Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization Jean Fournet, Jun 16.
Having greeted the guest, Minister Elmar Mammadyarov expressed
satisfaction with conducting NATO Summer School Week in Azerbaijan.
He stressed the country attaches great importance to further
development of cooperation with the Alliance in the framework of the
Partnership For Peace Program in all spheres including science.
NATO Deputy Secretary General Jean Fournet thanked the Foreign Minister
for the warm meeting and noted that opening of the NATO Summer School
Week would have a positive impact on the all sided development of
relationship between Azerbaijan and NATO. Mr. Fournet also informed
the Minister on the meeting of the NATO Science Committee held in
Baku on June 13-15.
During the meeting, Minister Elmar Mammadyarov was speaking of
significance of the Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev’s visits to
the Kingdom of Belgium in May and to Georgia in June 14-15, situation
in the region, economic reforms implemented in the country, as well
as development of oil sector, including Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and
Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipelines construction, insuring their
security etc. He also touched upon the work being carried out at
resolution of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh,
activities of the OSCE Minsk Group and hard living conditions of the
Azerbaijani refugees.
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and NATO Deputy Secretary General
Jean Fournet discussed a number of other issues of mutual interest,
as well.