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01 December 2009 [13:26] - Today.Az
Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov paid a working visit to the United Kingdom on Nov. 23-25.
Azimov had conducted meetings with a number of officials during the visit.
Bilateral relations, regional security and transnational criminality, illicit drug traffic, mutual exchange of information, cooperation within the framework of energy and non-oil sector, as well as international organizations were discussed during the political consultations.
The sides expressed satisfaction with the current level of relations between Azerbaijan and Great Britain and stressed the importance of further extension of these ties.
Nogorno-Karabakh conflict and the talks on peaceful solution of the problem were also in the focus of attention during the meetings.
Azimov had a meeting also with members of British-Azerbaijan Interparliamentary Group and attended the 995th Wilton Park high-level international conference titled “The South Caucasus and Wider Black Sea Neighborhood: Regional Developments and Prospects for Euro-Atlantic Integration”.
During his speech at the conference, he stressed the significance of solution to the regional conflicts within territorial integrity of states and added that Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict threatened security in the South Caucasus and the whole Europe.
/APA/
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