‘Azerbaijan is recognized as a reliable partner on global scale’
Baku, March 26 (AZERTAC). “Azerbaijan is recognized as a reliable partner on a global scale. During numerous meetings with my colleagues we can see again that the attitude towards Azerbaijan in the world is based on great respect and sympathy,” President Ilham Aliyev said in his speech in nationwide festivities on the occasion of Novruz holiday.
The President said “The policy of independent Azerbaijan is accepted and approved by the international community. Otherwise Azerbaijan would not have been elected as a member of the Security Council - the biggest structure of the world’s top organization that unites countries of the world. This is our historic victory, and this victory coincided with the 20th anniversary of our independence.”
The head of state noted “today Azerbaijan is respected worldwide. There is no international organization above the UN Security Council. We have been a member of this organization for more than a year now. We are speaking our mind and expressing our principled position there. As I noted in my earlier statements, as a member of this organization Azerbaijan supports and upholds international law and justice. At the same time, we have become a member of the Non-Aligned Movement. I can say that this is one of the biggest organizations after the UN, and we were immediately able to secure great support within the organization too. Thanks to our work at the first summit of the organization, the Non-Aligned Movement adopted its first fair resolution on the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. It emphasizes that this conflict must be resolved on the basis of the principle of territorial integrity.”