CICEK ATTENDS ALIYEV’S OATH-TAKING CEREMONY
Today’s Zaman
25 October 2008, Saturday
Turkey
Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek attended the oath-taking ceremony
of recently re-elected Azerbaijanian President Ilham Aliyev yesterday
in Baku.
Aliyev won the presidential election held on Oct. 15 by a wide
margin. Delivering a speech during the ceremony, Aliyev said he would
continue serving his country and people. Georgian President Mikhail
Saakashvili, whose country fought a brief war with Russia over the
breakaway region of South Ossetia in August, was also present at
the ceremony.
Turkey is a key regional ally of Azerbaijan and is currently promoting
three-way talks involving Armenia and Azerbaijan on ways to resolve a
long-standing conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkey refuses to open
its border with Armenia and restore diplomatic ties unless Armenia
withdraws from the Azerbaijani territory it invaded in the ’90s.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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