Azerbaijan in spotlight of Japanese magazine

Tokyo, May 17 (AzerTAc). Japanese Pavone magazine, with a circulation of 100,000, has published an article about Azerbaijan at the initiative of the country`s embassy in Tokyo. The four-page article provides an insight into the history, culture of energy-rich Azerbaijan. It says Azerbaijan has a favorable location as it sits at the crossroads of Eastern and Western, Northern and Southern cultures, and lies on the ancient Silk Road. The article says Azerbaijan was part of the Soviet Union between 1920 and 1991 and recovered its independence in the 90s of the 20th century. It says Armenia used the chaos in Azerbaijan caused by the collapse of the USSR to occupy the Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions. The article also praises the country`s oil strategy. “The oil strategy devised by national leader Heydar Aliyev resulted in the signing of the Contract of the Century in 1994, which marked the beginning of the full-scale development of hydrocarbon resources in the Caspian. This strategy gave a kick-start to rapid economic development, in particular, production at the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli fields and implementation of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, Baku-Tbilisi-Erzerum, Shahdeniz projects.” The article also narrates on the friendship exchange agreement between the Azerbaijani region of Ismayilly and Japan`s city of Ito. It says the Japanese firm Kosuqi Zohen Co. LTD built the “Japanese garden” in the Heydar Aliyev Park in Ismayilly in 2010, and that the opening ceremony was attended by President Ilham Aliyev.