Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, 6 August / corr. Trend R.Meshadihasanli / The Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev intends to visit Azerbaijan, Ednan Karabayev, the Kyrgyz Foreign Minister, told Trend on 6 August.
"An exact date of this visit is still to be fixed and preparations are being conducted in this direction," the Minister said. He hopes that an exact date of President Bakiyev's visit will be fixed at a bilateral meeting between the Azerbaijani and Kyrgyz Presidents at the summit of heads of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries to be held in Bishkek in autumn.
Taking into consideration the potential of relations between Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan and economic growth, Karabayev is sure that interaction of two countries is still at an initial stage. "We appraised opening of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Bishkek, which will enable bilateral integration," he said. He considers trade and economic cooperation as the most important element in these relations and it should begin with the opening of airlines and formation of other transport communications.
According to Karabayev, Kyrgyzstan intends to draw a maximum attention to energy field, mining, refining industry and tourism from 2008 to 2011 under Development Strategy of the country, adopted by the Kyrgyz President. "Respectively, these can become the fields of the cooperation between our countries," he said.
The Kyrgyz Foreign Minster stressed that readiness of Bishkek to support fair settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. " Kyrgyzstan supports Azerbaijan's territorial integrity," he said.