Azerbaijan `hopes for good partnership` with Obama team
Azerbaijan hopes to forge good partnership relations
with new US President Barack Obama`s administration, President
Ilham Aliyev has said.
Aliyev said in an interview with the U.S. CNBC TV channel that his country maintained good relations with the previous government in Washington and hopes they would continue developing in the future.
"Our ties are in line with both countries` national interests. We hope that this positive tendency will continue with the new administration," Aliyev said.
He also emphasized that energy policies played an important role in US-Azerbaijan partnership.
The United States held its 44th presidential election on November 4, 2008. Barack Obama, the Democratic Party`s candidate, beat his Republican rival, John McCain, to become America`s first African-American president. The new US president was inaugurated on January 20. Prior to the elections, Baku was supporting not Obama, but McCain. The Azerbaijani community in the U.S. had also backed the Republican nominee.
Aliyev said in an interview with the U.S. CNBC TV channel that his country maintained good relations with the previous government in Washington and hopes they would continue developing in the future.
"Our ties are in line with both countries` national interests. We hope that this positive tendency will continue with the new administration," Aliyev said.
He also emphasized that energy policies played an important role in US-Azerbaijan partnership.
The United States held its 44th presidential election on November 4, 2008. Barack Obama, the Democratic Party`s candidate, beat his Republican rival, John McCain, to become America`s first African-American president. The new US president was inaugurated on January 20. Prior to the elections, Baku was supporting not Obama, but McCain. The Azerbaijani community in the U.S. had also backed the Republican nominee.
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