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PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV RECEIVES GERMAN DELEGATION LED BY FEDERAL MINISTER OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY
Azerbaijan`s President Ilham Aliyev received Friday German delegation led by Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Michael Glos.
Ilham Aliyev said: “Esteemed Mr. Minister, dear guests, I cordially greet all of you, welcome to Azerbaijan. I well remember our meeting. We met with you in Germany early this year and participated in a joint business forum. We then decided that you would visit Azerbaijan with a large delegation, and our developing economic relations will further strengthen after this. We attach huge importance to your visit. We think this visit demonstrates that economic ties between Azerbaijan and Germany have huge prospects, that we have quit a lot of mutual interests, and that new prospects for cooperation are being created. We are pleased that Germany`s interest in Azerbaijan`s economy is growing. We praise this and, for our part, we are ready to try our best to contribute to development of bilateral economic relations. I welcome you once again, and I believe your visit will be a success and we will achieve important results”.
Michael Glos said: “Mr. President, first of all I would like to express my gratitude to you for finding time to receive me. During our meeting when you were visiting Germany, I said I see prospects for economic cooperation between Germany and Azerbaijan as very positive, and vowed to make every possible contribution towards this. Your visit gave a huge boost to this. I believe we will continue these wonderful traditions of cooperating, and not only our countries will be closer economically, but also our people will be closer to each other. Mr. President, in general, when you are interested in a country and want to cooperate with it, you should first look at its history. Looking at your country`s history we can see that Azerbaijan has went through a difficult path. Of course, it was your father, late President Heydar Aliyev`s proper policy and your continuation of this policy that helped your country withstand those difficulties. And we highly appreciate this”.