POLITICS
FOREIGN MINISTER ELMAR MAMMADYAROV VISITS EGYPT
The Egyptian Minister said touching on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, he supported the efforts by the OSCE Minsk group, as well as the talks between the leaders and foreign ministers of the conflicting states aiming at peaceful settlement of the problem. He expressed hope it would be settled soon in the framework of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Both Ministers pointed out that the economic relations between Azerbaijan and Egypt were not on a due level and stressed the importance of expanding trade and economic cooperation between the two countries. They welcomed the idea of opening the flight Baku - Sharm El Sheik- Cairo that, according to them, would increase the tourist flows between the countries, and intensify direct contacts among businessmen.
Informing his Egyptian colleague on the implementation of the large-scale projects in Azerbaijan including the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipelines, Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway as well as TRACECA, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov expressed his wish that Egypt joined the latter in an observer capacity.
Following the meeting, the two Ministers gave a press conference.
On the same day, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Chairman of the National Assembly of Egypt Ahmad Fathi Surur, and made a speech at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry’s Foreign Affairs Council.