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Azerbaijan and Poland signed three documents on Thursday at the conclusion of talks between President Ilham Aliyev and his counterpart, Lech Kaczynski, in Baku.
The papers included the bylaws of the Consultation Council of the two countries` presidents, Azerbaijan`s state-run news agency, Azertag, reported. Also, Rovnag Abdullayev, President of the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR, and Pawel Olechnowicz, Chief Executive of Lotos, Poland`s second biggest oil refiner, inked a letter of intent covering joint oil production and refining.
Further, Chief-of-Staff of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, Secretary of the Security Council, Ramiz Mehdiyev, and Polish Minister of National Defense, Aleksander Szczyglo, signed a schedule of cooperation for 2009 and 2010 between the two countries` national security agencies.
During the talks between Presidents Aliyev and Kaczynski, the parties expressed their satisfaction with the development of bilateral relations in the political, economic, cultural and humanitarian fields, stressing the importance of these ties in terms of cooperation within the European Union. It was noted that the Polish leader`s visit to Baku represented a new stage in taking Azerbaijan-Poland relations to a higher level.
According to President Aliyev`s decree, the Polish leader was conferred with the order named after the national leader, the late President Heydar Aliyev, for his outstanding work in the expansion of friendly relations and collaboration between the two countries.

`Azeri integrity a must`
As President Kaczynski received the Heydar Aliyev Order, Azerbaijan`s top award, following talks with his counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, he said preservation and restoration of Azerbaijan`s territorial integrity should be ensured in settling the country`s conflict with Armenia, the state-run news agency, Azertag, reported.
"Certainly, I am for a peaceful solution of this problem. But, in fact, settlement of this issue must be only as follows: the rights of minorities must be observed while providing for the preservation and restoration of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
"Personally, I have no doubts on this issue. Violation of any given country`s territorial integrity with the use of force is unacceptable. No one should act under the flag of even the most powerful patron. I know that this problem emerged exactly this way," Kaczynski said.
President Aliyev, for his part, pointed out that his Polish counterpart has always advocated for the principles of resolving the Garabagh conflict in line with his country`s integrity, and thanked him on behalf of the Azerbaijani people for his support.
Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with the signing of a ceasefire in 1994, but Armenia continued to occupy Upper Garabagh and seven other Azerbaijani districts in defiance of international law. The OSCE-brokered peace talks have been fruitless so far.