POLITICS
PAKISTANI PRESIDENT RECEIVES AZERBAIJAN FOREIGN MINISTER
Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov updated President Musharraf in detail on the steps the country had taken with respect to the settlement of the Armenia - Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh noting that Azerbaijan is striving to solve the problem on the base of the international legal norms, UN SC’s relevant resolutions and its territorial integrity. The Minister expressed his gratitude to the Pakistani President for supporting the fair stance of Azerbaijan in various international organizations.
Elmar Mammadyarov also stressed the necessity to bring economic relations between the two countries up to the level of their existing political partnership.
President Musharraf expressed his country’s readiness for active cooperation with Azerbaijan in oil and gas sector, light industry and agriculture. He also expressed confidence that relevant structure of Azerbaijan and Pakistan would take active steps in this direction.