Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend K.Ramazanova / Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who is currently on an official visit to Jordan, stated in Amman his support to peace and prosperity in all Islamic countries, the Jordanian media reports.
"We would like to see peace and prosperity prevail in all Islamic countries and we would like to contribute to strengthening cooperation and solidarity between Muslim countries," he said.
"We are truly interested in what is happening in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan as well as other areas in the Middles and we also have our own problems with Armenia which still occupies part of our territories for more than a decade. "About 20 per cent of our land is still under occupation; there has been ethnic cleansing against the Azeri people. About one million of our population are now displaced and this a big problem for us and for the entire region," the Azerbaijani President alarmed.
As for Iran, it is a neighboring state and we have good relations based on mutual respect and noninterference in each other's affairs." We have no problems with Iran. On the contrary, Iran is a partner to us and we have great economic cooperation with this country, he said. He noted that Iran's nuclear crisis with the west should be settled peacefully.