Celebration of Independence of Azerbaijan in Italy
Azerbaijani embassy in Italy organized an official reception at Roma
Cavalieri Hilton on the Republic Day of Azerbaijan on May 28.
Representatives
of the Italian government organizations, education and culture centers,
local media and diplomatic corps in Roma, as well as Azerbaijanis
living in Italy attended the reception, press service of the embassy
told APA.
Welcoming the guests, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Italy
Vagif Sadigov spoke about the ancient statehood traditions of
Azerbaijan, history of the Republic Day. Ambassador Sadigov said this
year Azerbaijan celebrated 20th anniversary of the restoration of its
state independence and informed the guests about the problems the
country faced in this period, Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan and
its painful results. Despite all of these obstacles, the government of
Azerbaijan, based on ancient statehood traditions, has achieved stable
political situation and conducted important reforms since 1993. These
reforms have brought its first positive results since the second half of
1990s. With its strong and rapidly developing economy, today Azerbaijan
became a leading country in the South Caucasus and strong democracy in
the southeastern Europe.
Mentioning the Azerbaijani-Italian
relations, he said political relations between the two countries are
developing in the high level. Underlining the developed economic
relations between the countries, Ambassador Sadigov said Italy became
the largest trade partner of Azerbaijan in the past five years.
Reminding
about the celebration of 150th anniversary of uniting Italy in Rome two
days later, Vagif Sadigov said Azerbaijani people shared happiness of
the friendly Italian people and at the invitation of Italian President
Giorgio Napolitano, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will join the
anniversary events in Rome.
Azerbaijani music was played at the
event and then the guests received books and brochures containing
information about Azerbaijan.