Azerbaijan`s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has met a British delegation led by Simon Fraser, Permanent Under-Secretary and Head of Diplomatic Service of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, SIA reports quoting AzerTAc.
Minister Elmar Mammadyarov noted with satisfaction the current bilateral relationship and underlined the opportunities that exist to take political, economic and energy cooperation even further ahead. Drawing attention to mutually beneficial cooperation in energy sector, the FM said that dynamically developing economy now allows Azerbaijan to invest in the UK economy.
Permanent Under-Secretary Simon Fraser thanked the Minister for the meeting and underlined that the UK attaches great significance to cooperation with Azerbaijan. He also praised Azerbaijani investments into the UK economy and expressed the UK` s interest to see these investments to grow in the future. Mr Fraser also noted that the UK highly values Azerbaijan`s contribution to restoring peace and stability in Afghanistan, as well as its activities as non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Speaking about the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Minister Mammadyarov informed about the current state of peace process. He also emphasized that the continuing occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenian armed forces aims to further strengthen the current status-quo and stressed the need to withdraw Armenian armed forces from occupied territories of Azerbaijan as this would be first step towards achieving solution of the conflict. Commenting on recent statements of Armenian political and military circles on the possibility of commissioning of Khojaly airport, the Minister said that this would be grave violation of Azerbaijani airspace and that Azerbaijan`s just stance on the issue is in line and backed by all relevant international legislation, particularly Chicago Convention on Civil Aviation.
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