AZERBAIJAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITING GERMANY
Mr. Mammadyarov handed over a letter to his German counterpart inviting the Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Azerbaijan.
The same day, the Azeri Minister joined the meeting organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Azerbaijan’s Embassy to bring together over 400 representatives of Germany’s political, economic and cultural circles.
Addressing the event, Markus Meckel, Deputy Chairman of the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said Azerbaijan is a country with rich cultural heritage, and noted the country’s role in development of economy in the region.
Elmar Mammadyarov said Azerbaijan is keen to further develop the bilateral ties with Germany.
He informed the gathered on the social and political situation in Azerbaijan, economic projects, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipelines projects, and the planed Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Gars railway project.
The Azeri Minister also spoke of Azerbaijan’s integration into the Euro Atlantic structures, and the prospects to further develop the bilateral ties with the European Union and joining its neighborhood policy.
A very large part of the Azerbaijani Minister’s speech was devoted to the peaceful solution to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Speaking of the horrible results of Armenia’s aggressive policy against his country, Elmar Mammadyarov underlined that this dispute hampers the establishment of peace and security in the region
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister also noted that Armenia conducted the policy of ethnic cleansing and illegal settlement in the occupied Azerbaijani territories and demolished and set on fire the cultural monuments of Azerbaijan.
Elmar Mammdayarov, who is accompanied in Germany by Azerbaijan Ambassador Parviz Shahbazov and other employees of the diplomatic mission, also gave interview to local newspapers “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” and “Berliner Zeitung”.
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