Today, on November 9, Rovnag Aliyev, President of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has met Frank Mermud, special representative of the US State Secretary for Commerce and Business, and Ann Dersy, US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, a source in SOCAR told Trend.
According to the representative of the US State Secretary, American companies are satidfied with their cooperation with SOCAR and Azerbaijan. He expressed a wish that relations between American companied and SOCAR will develop and expand further.
Mr. Mermud also highly appreciated the large-scale campaign on cleaning polluted and contaminated lands of the Absheron Peninsula, which is to be implemented by SOCAR. He pointed out that American ecological bodies and environment protection organizations working using state-of-the-art technologies might participate in this project as well.
SOCAR's President told their quests about projects SOCAR was just about to implement in the future. He also pointed out that SOCAR's cooperation with American companies was mutualally beneficial and would be continued in the future. Having pointed out that works on cleaning the lands of the Absheron Peninsula and Baku Bay would be launched in 2007, Mr. Abdulayev asked American companies to provide SOCAR's Ecology Department the Azerbaijan party with concrete proposal on this project.