Earle Litzenberger describes Azerbaijan as partner of importance to USA

Speaker of the Milli Majlis (Azerbaijani Parliament) Sahiba Gafarova has today met with the US ambassador to Azerbaijan Earle Litzenberger, Report informs, citing the official website of the parliament.

At the meeting, speaker Gafarova said that the bilateral diplomatic relations were turning thirty years in 2022 and Azerbaijan and the USA had been able to build up rather extensive cooperation in various areas in the years past. Mrs Gafarova highlighted energy security, the US backing to the regional energy projects geared into motion at Azerbaijan’s suggestion, international counter-terrorism and the close interaction in several economic fields.

The significance of the inter-parliamentary relations was mentioned, too, as were the efforts made by the friendship groups active in both legislative assemblies and those groups’ regular meetings taking place in different formats. Azerbaijan is keen on deepening her interactions with the USA, not only at the federal level but also as far as the individual states’ legislatures are concerned, according to Mrs Gafarova.

Azerbaijan’s victory in the 44-day Patriotic War and the new regional realia birthed by the Azerbaijani victory in that war, and our lands’ liberation after close to thirty years of occupation were brought up as well. Mrs Gafarova proceeded to underscore our country’s commitment to peace and stability, and the fast-paced restoration and rebuilding work our country is set on meaning to finishing de-mining the freed lands and getting back there our citizens who had had to spend three decades in the capacity of the IDP.

We trust that a peace treaty will be signed between the two states and that that will generate a new momentum behind the regional countries’ progress, according to Sahiba Gafarova.

The US ambassador in Baku, Earle Litzenberger, said his thanks for the kind greetings before describing Azerbaijan as a partner of importance to the USA and saying that the USA thought it very important to further the relations and was interested in continuing making them more intensive and extensive. Promotion of the inter-parliamentary connexions would be a great help with that, Mr Litzenberger added.

Other matters of shared interest were talked of during the conversation, too.