SUGGESTED TEXT FOR NOTE TO PRESIDENT ALIYEV

UNCLAS BAKU 000633 SIPDIS DEPT FOR EUR/CARC E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: OPDC OVIP PREL AJ SUBJECT: SUGGESTED TEXT FOR NOTE TO PRESIDENT ALIYEV REF: EUR/CARC O/I FOR BAKU, 7 AUG 09 ¶1. (SBU) Summary. In response to ref email, Post suggests the following text for a note from Deputy Secretary Steinberg to President Aliyev, thanking him for receiving the Deputy Secretary in Baku July 10: (Begin Text) Dear Mr. President, Please allow me to thank you most sincerely for our dinner and discussion in Baku on July 10. I deeply appreciate your hospitality and the opportunity our dinner presented for us to exchange views directly on several questions of mutual interest, such as the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, defense and security cooperation, and energy issues. I look forward to continuing our dialogue on these and many other important questions and further deepening the longstanding and successful cooperation between our countries. Sincerely, James B. Steinberg His Excellency Ilham Aliyev President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku. (End Text.) LU