Azerbaijan and US committed to strategic partnership

Azerbaijan and the US are committed to continuing to work through the OSCE Minsk Group to try to resolve the longstanding conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday in Washington D.C. before the meeting with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, Trend reports.

"I just want to underscore the strategic importance of the relationship between the United States and Azerbaijan and the range of issues that we are working on together - bilateral issues, regional issues, even global issues," Clinton said, U.S. State Department's official website reported.

According to her, Azerbaijan and the U.S. are committed to broadening and deepening their relationship.

Mr. Mammadyarov in his turn mentioned that Azerbaijan is the leading state in the region with its significant role in the energy sector and participation in regional projects, as well as its balanced foreign policy, APA reports.

Commenting on US-Azerbaijani relations, Mr. Mammadyarov highly praised the developing and strengthening friendly ties between the two states.

Azerbaijani FM also stressed that Armenia has not yet implemented the UN Security Council’s four resolutions adopted in 1993 on the liberation of Azerbaijani territory.

In the afternoon, Mr. Mammadyarov met the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and the Assistant Secretary Philip Gordon. Two ministers discussed bilateral cooperation, energy security and the global, regional events, as well as Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.

As OSCE Minsk Group co-chair the US will continue full assistance to achieve an agreement between the sides, Secretary Clinton assured during the meeting.

Thanking for the invitation, FM Mammadyarov expressed his gratitude to the US for the efforts to solve Nagorno-Karabakh problem.