OFFICIAL NEWS
COOPERATION BETWEEN SCIENTISTS OF AZERBAIJAN AND RUSSIA SHOULD BE FURTHER DEVELOPING
PRIME MINISTER OF AZERBAIJAN ILHAM ALIYEV RECEIVED VICE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Having greeted warmly the guest, Prime Minister Ilham Aliyev pointed out that Alferov is highly appreciated in Azerbaijan as outstanding scientist. Underlining that Zhorest Alferov has an especially good attitude towards Azerbaijan, Prime Minister appraised this fact as an example of high level of relations between scientist of Azerbaijan and Russia. He expressed confidence in the further development of cooperation between scientists of the two countries.
Zhores Alferov expressed gratitude for the reception, and pointed out that he arrived in Baku on the occasion of the 85th jubilee of the well-known Azerbaijani scientist Hassan Abdullayev, who was the President of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan for long. The Russian scientist announced that for the last time he visited Azerbaijan in 1982 and he had seen positive changes taken place for this period and underlined he believed in the further progress of the country. President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev was always seeking for close cooperation between the Academies of Sciences of the two countries.
This cooperation was shown, particularly, in researches in the field of oil and geology. Alferov gave another example of joint activities in physics.
Prime Minister Ilham Aliyev underlined merits of academician Abdullayev both to Azerbaiiani and world science. He informed the guest on the congress of Russian press recently held in Baku, about economic and social reforms in the country and underlined that due to reforms, carried out under the leadership of President Heydar Aliyev since 1996, the volume of GDP is growing by 10 percent annually.
President of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Mahmud Kerimov was present at the meeting.