Azerbaijan attaches a great importance to the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Baku.
'There are many issues we have to discuss at the meetings to be held within the framework of the visit', said chief of department on public policy issues of the presidential administration, Ali Hasanov.
Answering journalists questions about 'which issues Azerbaijan considers a priority at the negotiations with the United States, considering the fact that energy partnership, security and democracy issues are priority for Washington, Hasanov said Azerbaijan also considers all these three issues to be the main ones'.
'However, we expect greater steps from the United States, as the Minsk Group co-chairing country, in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict', said chief of department of the presidential administration.
As for what Azerbaijan expects from the visit of the US Secretary of State, considering the fact that the last visit on the level of the US official was conducted 18 years ago by the then Secretary of State James Baker, Hasanov said Azerbaijan gained state independence in 1992.
'Azerbaijan became independent only then and James Baker's visit aimed at learning more about our country, while now Hillary Clinton will visit Azerbaijan which is a developed country and a regional leader. This is a specific strategic course of Azerbaijan, with which the United States are already familiar, while that time there was no course at all', said he.
According to him, today Azerbaijan is a developed country with its foreign course and vision of the world processes.
'We hope after the visit the relations between our countries will be deeper', concluded Ali Hasanov.
Ali Hasanov also said Azerbaijan welcomes the statement of presidents of Russia, United States and France regarding the resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.
He noted that despite some differences in the texts of the statement in different languages, published in different mass media, this does not change the point of the statement, under which all of the three presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing states urge to liberate Azerbaijani lands occupied by Armenia.
'We do hope that Armenia will hear this appeal and follow a constructive way', Hasanov noted.
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