US DEFENCE CHIEF SAYS IRAQ ELECTIONS DISCUSSED IN BAKU
Lider TV, Baku
12 Aug 04
(Presenter, over video of Rumsfeld at news conference at Baku’s Heydar
Aliyev airport) US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld’s visit to
Azerbaijan has ended.
At a news conference a short while ago Rumsfeld spoke about the
purpose of his visit to Baku. He said that the USA was in talks with
allied countries in connection with the upcoming presidential
elections in Iraq. Rumsfeld said that he had discussed this subject
during his Baku talks as well.
As for the settlement of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict, Rumsfeld
hoped that this problem would be resolved within the framework of
Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.