AZERBAIJAN ATTACHS PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO RELATIONS WITH USA

Baku, 6 November,(AzerTAj)“Azerbaijan attachs particular importance to relations with the United States of America.

These relations have followed an evolutionary
path, with our friendship and cooperation elevated up to the current level of
strategic partnership”, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said in his congratulatory
letter to Barack Obama on his election as the President of the USA.
The President noted “today`s close cooperation between our countries in a variety of
fields, especially, in that of energy security, and the US` direct involvement in
and overall support for the large-scale transnational projects under implementation,
is one of the major factors of our success.”
The letter says: “we welcome the efforts of the United State of America as a
Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk group towards fair settlement of our people`s most
painful problem, the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and pin great
hopes for its soonest resolution on the basis of the international legal norms and
principles, and for putting an end to the Armenian aggression and for liberation of
our occupied lands.
President Ilham Aliyev expressed confidence that friendly relations between the two
countries will continue to develop successfully.