Thursday, 06 April 2006

AZERBAIJAN \'WILL NOT JOIN ANTI-IRAN COALITION\'

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Azerbaijan wants to maintain \"good neighborly\" relations with all regional states, and for that reason will not join any coalition against Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told journalists in Baku on April 6. Azimov said his recent talks in Washington touched on Iran\'s insistence on its right to conduct uranium enrichment and the hypothetical threat to the region from Iranian nuclear weapons. But, Azimov added, the United States \"does not want anything from Azerbaijan\" in that context.
Azerbaijan wants to maintain \"good neighborly\" relations with all regional states, and for that reason will not join any coalition against Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov told journalists in Baku on April 6. Azimov said his recent talks in Washington touched on Iran\'s insistence on its right to conduct uranium enrichment and the hypothetical threat to the region from Iranian nuclear weapons. But, Azimov added, the United States \"does not want anything from Azerbaijan\" in that context. Azimov reaffirmed Baku\'s position that all countries have the right to use nuclear energy for exclusively peaceful purposes. Also on April 6, presidential-administration official Novruz Mammedov told journalists that the agenda for President Ilham Aliyev\'s visit to Washington in late April is being finalized. It will be Aliyev\'s first official visit to the United States since he came to power in October 2003 in an election that Washington criticized as falling short of international standards for a free and democratic ballot. (day.az)
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