Hosting Eurovision in Baku this year helped Azerbaijan demonstrate its progress which the country managed to attain through the years of independence.
The statement came from Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mammadyarov.
"Azerbaijan's pride for the opportunity to host the Eurovision 2012 song contest reflects much more than love for music. It symbolizes the recovery of the country in the eyes of the international community and gives an opportunity to demonstrate our achievements through the years of independence", the article of the minister published on the website of The Wall Street Journal says.
In his article Mammadyarov speaks about a turning point in the history of the country during the USSR collapse and the restoration of national independence, war against neighbor Armenia and its implications, millions of refugees and the occupied part of the country, the overcoming of political and economic crisis of that period by Azerbaijan which thus made its way to economic growth and prosperity.
"Today, in 20 years after gaining independence, Azerbaijan has become one of the fastest economies in the world where the average annual growth in GDP in 2003-2008 made 20%", Mammadyarov says noting the great role of the national Oil Fund and the reasonable economic management.
"Azerbaijan has managed to combine the rapid economic growth, including the steady growth in non-energy sector, with economic and political stability", the minister's article says.
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