Azerbaijan plays an important role in the liquidation of the global energy security threats, the new USA ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse told on July 3 in Baku, presenting the copy of the credential to Azeri foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov.
The new ambassador highly assessed the important role of Azerbaijan in realization of global energy projects. She mentioned the importance of the cooperation between the USA and Azerbaijan in different sectors of economy, as well as development of the oil sector in the country, agriculture, information technologies and agro business. Speaking about the joint fight with the international terrorism, the diplomat stressed the necessity of expanding the cooperation in the sphere of security. Touching on Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Anne Derse mentioned the need of partly resolving the conflict, release of Azerbaijans occupied territories and returning of refugees and internally displaces persons to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Mammadyarov congratulated the ambassador on new position and wished successes. He stressed the importance of the cooperation with the Euro-Atlantic structures which hold reforms in political, economic and humanitarian spheres.