FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS NATO DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL
Having greeted the guest, Minister Elmar Mammadyarov expressed satisfaction with conducting NATO Summer School Week in Azerbaijan. He stressed the country attaches great importance to further development of cooperation with the Alliance in the framework of the Partnership For Peace Program in all spheres including science.
NATO Deputy Secretary General Jean Fournet thanked the Foreign Minister for the warm meeting and noted that opening of the NATO Summer School Week would have a positive impact on the all sided development of relationship between Azerbaijan and NATO. Mr. Fournet also informed the Minister on the meeting of the NATO Science Committee held in Baku on June 13-15.
During the meeting, Minister Elmar Mammadyarov was speaking of significance of the Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev’s visits to the Kingdom of Belgium in May and to Georgia in June 14-15, situation in the region, economic reforms implemented in the country, as well as development of oil sector, including Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipelines construction, insuring their security etc. He also touched upon the work being carried out at resolution of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, activities of the OSCE Minsk Group and hard living conditions of the Azerbaijani refugees.
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and NATO Deputy Secretary General Jean Fournet discussed a number of other issues of mutual interest, as well.
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