PRESIDENT ALIYEV ENJOYS ENORMOUS POPULARITY IN HIS COUNTRY, PAUL GOBLE
Paul Goble, Director of Research and Publications Department of the Azerbaijani Diplomatic Academy, interviewed by the Voice of America, said that President Ilham Aliyev enjoys enormous popularity in the country. No matter the leading political parties took part at the elections or not, Ilham Aliyev would certainly win the elections, he emphasized. According to Paul Goble, stability is an important factor in the South Caucasus, one of the dangerous and troubled regions of world. Azerbaijan plays a strategic role in transportation of the Caspian oil via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline through Georgia and Turkey to the world markets.
“As President Ilham Aliyev noted,” Mr. Goble stresses, “Azerbaijan pursues expedient foreign policy keeping balance between Iran and Russia, taking into account strategic interests of the East in the Central Asia and of the West - in Turkey, Europe.”
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