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The strategic partnership between Azerbaijan and the USA that is based on the mutual beneficial cooperation and trust has entered the next phase characterized with advanced level of political dialogue, expansion of cooperation in sphere of security, strengthening of commercial and economic relations. These epithets can be used to summarize the results of the official visit that llham Aliyev paid to Washington on 26-28 April. The first visit of Ilham Aliyev as the President of Azerbaijan to the USA was arranged and held on the highest level.
The official visit that the President of Azerbaijan paid to the USA last week opened a new stage in bilateral relations. The USA attaches great importance to cooperation with Azerbaijan because of a role that our country plays in the region that is a very significant one from geo-strategic point of view. The intensive development of Azerbaijan, its transformation into the regional leader and a fact that hardly one problem in this unstable region of our planet can be solved without this country’s participation predetermines increased attention of the USA towards cooperation with Azerbaijan. Last week Ilham Aliyev paid an official visit to the USA and this fact was in the center of attention of the American establishment. Ilham Aliyev met with well-known state political figures, representatives of diplomatic missions, the congressmen, top officials from the leading American NGOs and representatives of business elite of the USA. These meetings contributed a lot into expansion of cooperation and allowed the representatives of the American side realize availability of new perspectives of the Azerbaijan state’s development. It was not occasional that after the negotiations with Ilham Aliyev the President of the USA emphasized that this country is interested in close cooperation with Azerbaijan and the young leader of this state.