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Issue of opening Turkey-Armenia border closed and we must not return to this history: President Ilham Aliyev (UPDATE)

Politics Materials 13 May 2009 15:14 (UTC +04:00)
Issue of opening Turkey-Armenia border closed and we must not return to this history: President Ilham Aliyev (UPDATE)

Azerbaijan, Baku, May 13 / Trend , J. Babayeva/

The issue of opening borders with Armenia was put an end after Turkish senior officials' unequivocal statements. I think it is already a history and we must not return to it, CNN TURK television channel quoted Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev as saying at a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on May 13.

"The Armenian media has reported on opening of borders since early February. Inappropriate interpretation of these reports caused suspicions in Azerbaijani society. Senior officials from various countries assessed nominalization of Turkey-Armenia relations as an achieved fact. Of course, Azerbaijan had suspicions in this case. These suspicions were put an end in mid-April," Aliyev said.

Azerbaijani President said Turkey and Azerbaijan make joint efforts to ensure peace in the region.

"Turkey-Azerbaijan ties are multi-faceted. These relations have a long history. Our nations lived and created together. As an independent state, we take advantage of our opportunities to develop bilateral relations and make joint efforts to ensure peace in the region," the Azerbaijan president said.

President Aliyev said Turkey and Azerbaijan demonstrate unified position on many international issues.

"As we live in the region, we want a peace to be established in the region and Azerbaijan's territorial integrity to be restored as soon as possible so that the region could develop within cooperation. I am satisfied with talks we held and conversations we had. I believe sincere conversations clarified some issues as they did usually. The most important is that it provided a very good ground for future joint action and cooperation," President Aliyev added.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met face to face in Baku on May 13

The meeting focused on the current state of bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey in political, economic and other fields. The sides discussed the regional and international issues.

The Turkish prime minister arrived in Baku in the evening on May 12. Erdogan arrived in Baku in the accompany of his wife Amina Erdogan, State Minister Zefer Chaglayan, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Culture and Tourism Minister Ertogrul Gunay, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz and Transport Minister Binali Yildirim.

Turkish PM visited the grave of Azerbaijani National Leader Heydar Aliyev in the Cemetery of Honors.

Later Erdogan visited Martyrs' Lane to commemorate memory of the victims who died for independence of Azerbaijan, and the memorial complex of the Turkish soldiers in Baku.

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