Azerbaijani Deputy Premier meets Ukrainian Ambassador

Baku, October 21, AzerTAc Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, chairman of the State Committee for Refugee and IDP Affairs Ali Hasanov has met Ukrainian Ambassador to the country Alexander Mishchenko. They discussed problems of refugees and IDPs of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Hasanov said effective cooperation between Azerbaijan and Ukraine was established in all fields. The Deputy Premier expressed disappointment over the fact that the OSCE Minsk Group has made no progress in solving the conflict on the basis of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and in returning the refugees and IDPs to their lands. He stressed the importance of stepping up the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group in settlement of the conflict. Alexander Mishchenko, in turn, praised rapid economic development of Azerbaijan, as well as the country`s increasing influence in the world, progress achieved in improvement of social conditions of refugees and IDPs in the country. Alexander Mishchenko said the official Kyiv is willing to learn the Azerbaijani government’s experience in solving IDPs problems, which emerged in the wake of the Ukraine developments.