Azerbaijani FM Elmar Mammadyarov has made several statements during the joint news conference with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The conference was held at the international airport of Heydar Aliyev upon completion of the US Secretary of State’s visit to Azerbaijan.
According to the US Department of State, on welcoming the participants of the news conference, Minister Mammadyarov said that they held very frank discussions of the issues of bilateral relations during the meeting with the Secretary of State.
'The United States has a co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group, playing its own vital role to bring peace and stability into the region, and trying to resolve, as soon as possible, the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Besides that, in the agenda was different other issues of mutual interest, including the energy security. And there was open discussion on the regional affairs, what's going on in the region, in our country, and particularly the vision of Azerbaijan for the future, the development of the south Caucasus and the entire region.
So, my understanding that - the very important visit of the U.S. Secretary of State - thank you, Madam Clinton -- and it was a very, very interesting and very, very frank discussion'.
The minister also added that he believes the United States is playing a great role for maintaining, first and utmost importantly, international peace and security in the world, as is enshrined in the United Nations charter, together with the other four members of the UN Security Council, .
'We believe that United States is also a global power, is interested in bringing and spreading stability and prosperity all around, in all corners of the world. And besides that, if you took a look inside of the - our bilateral ties, how it's developed through the years of our - after restoration of independence for Azerbaijan, it's an open secret that United States provide us a great support, particularly in so very important and vital project like building up of the oil pipeline (inaudible).
It's - we know clearly that US Administration - both, by the way, Republicans and Democrats - was very strongly behind the project. And, at the end of the story, this is starting to be a success story for the region. I think we are probably one of the few that can say that, with assistance of the construction and after the inauguration of the pipeline, the real money and the real prosperity comes particularly to Azerbaijan, at the same time it is also supporting Georgia.
We wish that the same will be addressed to Armenia. But then we come to address the issue of the conflict resolution. As soon as we will settle, at least we will start the first step, implementation of the - proposed by the co-chairs, ideas how to settle - how to move on this. I think that it will be a very serious breakthrough to - for the three south Caucasus states.
And in this regard, of course what Madam Secretary said, the role of United States is enormously important' he said.
News.Az
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