Speaker: Tehran-Baku ties, at highest level

November 25, 2007 - 0:0

BAKU (IRNA) -- Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel here on Saturday said Iran-Azerbaijan cooperation stands at the highest possible level.

He made the remark while addressing a group of students and teaching staff of several Baku-based universities.
Haddad-Adel further expressed his satisfaction with the current level of political, economic and cultural relations between the two friendly countries.
Describing his meetings with the Azeri president, prime minister and other senior officials of the country as ""positive and constructive"", he said the Islamic Republic of Iran sees no restriction on expansion of bilateral ties with the Azerbaijan Republic.
The Iranian Majlis speaker received an honorary doctorate at a special ceremony at Baku States University.
The Iranian speaker arrived in Baku on Friday at the head of a parliamentary delegation on a two-day official visit.
Addressing a press conference in Baku Friday, Haddad-Adel also said Iran is determined to defend its peaceful nuclear program.
He said, ""The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has approved Iran's peaceful nuclear activities.""
The Islamic Republic of Iran, in order to prove the peaceful nature of its nuclear program, has had full cooperation with the IAEA inspectors, he said adding that the IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, in his positive report on Iran's nuclear program, announced that ""there had been no deviation in the country's peaceful nuclear activities"".
On Tehran-Baku bilateral cooperation, he said the two countries are determined to boost bilateral ties in the areas of energy, construction of power plant at Aras River and petrochemicals.
As to the Karabakh dispute, Haddad-Adel voiced Iran's support for the Azeri territorial integrity.
""Tehran is determined to help peaceful settlement of the dispute through expansion of ties with both Baku and Yerevan,"" he said.