"Ankara Very Much Wants the 21st Century to Become Century of Settling Conflicts: Interview with Foreign Minister of Turkey
Israel, Jerusalem /corr. Trend R.Mammadov / Trend exclusive interview with the Foreign Minister of Turkey, Ali Babajan.
- What is your opinion of the current level of cooperation between Turkey and Azerbaijan?
- Azerbaijan is our fraternal country. Cooperation between Turkey and Azerbaijan is based on deep historical roots. Our peoples are connected by the ancestors formed over many centuries. Friendship and cooperation has strengthened further in recent years. Today Turkey and Azerbaijan have reached a close unity and developing economically our countries surely head towards the future. Azerbaijan is carrying out international projects which will assist in strengthening stability and security, economic development and integration of the region. Turkey actively participates in all these global projects. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline, Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway project form new stages of development in the region. Consolidating our efforts regard to this and coordinating our policies, we can fully ensure the economic interests of the two countries. Currently commercial and economic relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan are developing intensively, but yet it does not fully reflect the existing potential – we should use this potential. There are high-level relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan. We have good reliable relations with the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev. It is not incidental that the newly elected President of Turkey, Abdulla Gul, will make one of his official visits to Azerbaijan at the beginning of next month. "
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