“Flag crisis”: Azerbaijan confirms that it considers Turkey its strategic partner
14:45 / 28.10.2009 “Flag crisis” between Azerbaijan and Turkey has ended. After it was promised that the persons, who insulted Azerbaijan’s flags in Bursa, would be punished, Azerbaijan made a sportive gesture. The flags of the two countries have been flying at Turkish Martyrs’ Lane since yesterday. The past crisis showed that Azerbaijan and Turkey have no alternative to the policy based on the mutual interests. So, the processes between the two states, which are the main players of the ongoing political processes in the region, have reached a new stage. The new stage requires that Azerbaijan and Turkey should take MUTUAL INTERESTS into account in the local, regional and international policy. Otherwise, frequent crises between the two countries will be inevitable. Immediate positive reaction of official Ankara to President Ilham Aliyev’s statement that Azerbaijan’s selling gas to Turkey at low price is illogical, showed that the opposite side had begun to attach importance to the mutual interests in the interstate relations. Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz’s statement “Turkey will pay difference in price for the natural gas bought from Azerbaijan” also proves it.
But under the present circumstances, the result has not changed – raising the flags at Turkish Martyrs’ Lane again shows that Azerbaijan considers Turkey its STRATEGIC PARTNER and has not given up this course.
Positive reaction of official Baku to Turkey’s punishing those who disrespected Azerbaijani flag and the step taken as an exception to the law on “Usage of the flags of foreign states and international organizations in Azerbaijan Republic” once more confirmed how much importance Baku attaches to the strategic partnership.
Since Azerbaijan regarded Turkish flag as the flag and pride of the friendly and brotherly state, not as the flag of a foreign state, it was allowed to raise Turkish flag again in the status similar to the Azerbaijani flag.Bu yazı ( 309 ) - dəfə oxunmuşdur
