POLITICS
OFFICIAL VISIT OF AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER TO UKRAINE
Greeting the foreign minister of Azerbaijan, the Ukrainian Premier congratulated him with the forthcoming State Independence Day of Azerbaijan, expressed wishes of peace, welfare, progress and prosperity.
In the curse of meeting, passed in warm atmosphere, discussed were issues of bilateral cooperation.
Foreign minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov wished Victor Yanukovich – candidate to President of Ukraine – success at the coming presidential elections.
The same day, President Leonid Kuchma received foreign minister of Azerbaijan Republic. At the meeting, high level of Ukrainian-Azerbaijani interstate relations were underlined, and also was focused realization of agreements reached during the visit of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev to Ukraine.
Discussed were questions of trade-economic cooperation, political situation in Ukraine and Azerbaijan, and a number of other issues of international content. Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Ukraine Talat Aliyev took part at the reception.
Then, foreign minister of Azerbaijan met his Ukrainian counterpart K. Grishchenko. Minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine noted the Ukrainian side attaches great significance to the relations with Azerbaijan. It is pleased that, Mr. Grishchenko emphasized, President Ilham Aliyev successfully continues the political course, pursued by national leader of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev.
Elmar Mammadyarov, in turn, underlined that the Azerbaijani-Ukrainian links are established on contacts, laid by founder of the independent Azerbaijan state Heydar Aliyev and president of Ukraine Lenid Kuchma. And the recent visit of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev to Ukraine, Elmar Mammadyarov stressed, has led the friendly relations between two countries, to higher level.
The meetings passed in complete understanding.
On conclusions of the visit, the foreign ministers of Ukraine and Azerbaijan have signed the “Plan on conducting consultations between MFA of Ukraine and Azerbaijan Republic for 2005”. The ministers answered numerous questions of local and foreign media representatives.
Then, the Azerbaijani delegation headed by Minister Elmar Mammadyarov laid a wreath on the Monument to the victims of hunger in Ukraine in 1932-1933s.
Official visit of the Azerbaijani foreign minister to Ukraine continues.