BAKU. Jan 19 (Interfax-AVN) - Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Friday credited his country with generating serious international support in 2008 for its position in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
"A resolution by the UN General Assembly that supports the position of Azerbaijan marks a political and diplomatic success for us," Aliyev told a government meeting.
Another achievement is a declaration that he and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan signed in Moscow, Aliyev said.
He said that in 2009 Azerbaijan would spend an equivalent of $2.3 billion on defense.