Azerbaijani-Russian relations, the visit of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to Baku and the prospects for cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Eurasian Union were the main topics of the last week in the Azerbaijani press.Particular attention was paid to Barroso's visit to Azerbaijan. This visit acquires an important character in the light of talks on cooperation between Azerbaijan and the EAEC."Azerbaijan expects maximum rapprochement with the European Union. This question is for us of strategic importance, and these relations have great potential", Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said after a meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, reports haqqin.az.Ilham Aliyev also noted that the EU is the main trading partner of Azerbaijan, and 80% of Azerbaijan's exports go to European countries.As the site minval.az says, during his visit to Baku the president of the European Commission made an important decision to accelerate the process associated with the new agreement between the EU and Azerbaijan. This is an agreement on strategic partnership in modernization. This agreement is extremely important for Baku and organically fits into the policy of Ilham Aliyev, the publication says."Today, foreign threats and risks to the country are such that Azerbaijan has to stick to balanced and unbiased lines. The course on European integration is a strategic choice for Azerbaijan, and the policy of rapid modernization also serves this goal. Even in the context of Ukrainian events and the increasingly ambitious plans of Moscow, the head of state, as shown by his meeting with Barroso, declares a commitment to this course, but the main focus has shifted from issues of political integration towards the partnership for modernization and towards a bilateral cooperation format. This is realistic and reasonable," the author notes.In their turn, articles about the prospects of Eurasian integration also became very popular in the Azerbaijani media. So, haqqin.az writes that Moscow apparently officially invited Baku to join the club of Eurasian states. The invitation was sent by the Belarusian president, but that does not change its political significance and meaning. Baku reacted accordingly: the representative of the Presidential Administration in a short statement, formulated with due diplomacy, responded that "Azerbaijan does not intend, and is not yet thinking of joining the Eurasian Union." The word "yet" is important in this answer," the newspaper writes."It would be logical to assume that the outlines of a new community in which some see the USSR and others a neo-imperial military-political bloc are the main cause of the "cold war" between Russia and US, which threatens to smoothly develop into a "hot" war," the article says.Noting the prospects of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Eurasian Union, the authors pay attention to the factor of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.According to the authors of the publication, Serzh Sargsyan has to wait for the next move of Ilham Aliyev. Azerbaijan can announce its intention to participate in the Eurasian project. And in this case, the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh republic has to confirm that it is ready to be represented in a union which includes Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani-Russian relations, the visit of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to Baku and the prospects for cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Eurasian Union were the main topics of the last week in the Azerbaijani press.Particular attention was paid to Barroso's visit to Azerbaijan. This visit acquires an important character in the light of talks on cooperation between Azerbaijan and the EAEC."Azerbaijan expects maximum rapprochement with the European Union. This question is for us of strategic importance, and these relations have great potential", Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said after a meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, reports haqqin.az.Ilham Aliyev also noted that the EU is the main trading partner of Azerbaijan, and 80% of Azerbaijan's exports go to European countries.As the site minval.az says, during his visit to Baku the president of the European Commission made an important decision to accelerate the process associated with the new agreement between the EU and Azerbaijan. This is an agreement on strategic partnership in modernization. This agreement is extremely important for Baku and organically fits into the policy of Ilham Aliyev, the publication says."Today, foreign threats and risks to the country are such that Azerbaijan has to stick to balanced and unbiased lines. The course on European integration is a strategic choice for Azerbaijan, and the policy of rapid modernization also serves this goal. Even in the context of Ukrainian events and the increasingly ambitious plans of Moscow, the head of state, as shown by his meeting with Barroso, declares a commitment to this course, but the main focus has shifted from issues of political integration towards the partnership for modernization and towards a bilateral cooperation format. This is realistic and reasonable," the author notes.In their turn, articles about the prospects of Eurasian integration also became very popular in the Azerbaijani media. So, haqqin.az writes that Moscow apparently officially invited Baku to join the club of Eurasian states. The invitation was sent by the Belarusian president, but that does not change its political significance and meaning. Baku reacted accordingly: the representative of the Presidential Administration in a short statement, formulated with due diplomacy, responded that "Azerbaijan does not intend, and is not yet thinking of joining the Eurasian Union." The word "yet" is important in this answer," the newspaper writes."It would be logical to assume that the outlines of a new community in which some see the USSR and others a neo-imperial military-political bloc are the main cause of the "cold war" between Russia and US, which threatens to smoothly develop into a "hot" war," the article says.Noting the prospects of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Eurasian Union, the authors pay attention to the factor of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.According to the authors of the publication, Serzh Sargsyan has to wait for the next move of Ilham Aliyev. Azerbaijan can announce its intention to participate in the Eurasian project. And in this case, the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh republic has to confirm that it is ready to be represented in a union which includes Azerbaijan.Azerbaijani-Russian relations, the visit of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to Baku and the prospects for cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Eurasian Union were the main topics of the last week in the Azerbaijani press.Particular attention was paid to Barroso's visit to Azerbaijan. This visit acquires an important character in the light of talks on cooperation between Azerbaijan and the EAEC."Azerbaijan expects maximum rapprochement with the European Union.
This question is for us of strategic importance, and these relations have great potential", Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said after a meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, reports haqqin.az.Ilham Aliyev also noted that the EU is the main trading partner of Azerbaijan, and 80% of Azerbaijan's exports go to European countries.As the site minval.az says, during his visit to Baku the president of the European Commission made an important decision to accelerate the process associated with the new agreement between the EU and Azerbaijan. This is an agreement on strategic partnership in modernization. This agreement is extremely important for Baku and organically fits into the policy of Ilham Aliyev, the publication says."Today, foreign threats and risks to the country are such that Azerbaijan has to stick to balanced and unbiased lines. The course on European integration is a strategic choice for Azerbaijan, and the policy of rapid modernization also serves this goal. Even in the context of Ukrainian events and the increasingly ambitious plans of Moscow, the head of state, as shown by his meeting with Barroso, declares a commitment to this course, but the main focus has shifted from issues of political integration towards the partnership for modernization and towards a bilateral cooperation format. This is realistic and reasonable," the author notes.In their turn, articles about the prospects of Eurasian integration also became very popular in the Azerbaijani media. So, haqqin.az writes that Moscow apparently officially invited Baku to join the club of Eurasian states. The invitation was sent by the Belarusian president, but that does not change its political significance and meaning. Baku reacted accordingly: the representative of the Presidential Administration in a short statement, formulated with due diplomacy, responded that "Azerbaijan does not intend, and is not yet thinking of joining the Eurasian Union." The word "yet" is important in this answer," the newspaper writes."It would be logical to assume that the outlines of a new community in which some see the USSR and others a neo-imperial military-political bloc are the main cause of the "cold war" between Russia and US, which threatens to smoothly develop into a "hot" war," the article says.Noting the prospects of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Eurasian Union, the authors pay attention to the factor of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.According to the authors of the publication, Serzh Sargsyan has to wait for the next move of Ilham Aliyev. Azerbaijan can announce its intention to participate in the Eurasian project. And in this case, the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh republic has to confirm that it is ready to be represented in a union which includes Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani-Russian relations, the visit of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to Baku and the prospects for cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Eurasian Union were the main topics of the last week in the Azerbaijani press.Particular attention was paid to Barroso's visit to Azerbaijan. This visit acquires an important character in the light of talks on cooperation between Azerbaijan and the EAEC.
"Azerbaijan expects maximum rapprochement with the European Union. This question is for us of strategic importance, and these relations have great potential", Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said after a meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, reports haqqin.az.
Ilham Aliyev also noted that the EU is the main trading partner of Azerbaijan, and 80% of Azerbaijan's exports go to European countries.
As the site minval.az says, during his visit to Baku the president of the European Commission made an important decision to accelerate the process associated with the new agreement between the EU and Azerbaijan. This is an agreement on strategic partnership in modernization. This agreement is extremely important for Baku and organically fits into the policy of Ilham Aliyev, the publication says.
"Today, foreign threats and risks to the country are such that Azerbaijan has to stick to balanced and unbiased lines. The course on European integration is a strategic choice for Azerbaijan, and the policy of rapid modernization also serves this goal. Even in the context of Ukrainian events and the increasingly ambitious plans of Moscow, the head of state, as shown by his meeting with Barroso, declares a commitment to this course, but the main focus has shifted from issues of political integration towards the partnership for modernization and towards a bilateral cooperation format. This is realistic and reasonable," the author notes.
In their turn, articles about the prospects of Eurasian integration also became very popular in the Azerbaijani media. So, haqqin.az writes that Moscow apparently officially invited Baku to join the club of Eurasian states. The invitation was sent by the Belarusian president, but that does not change its political significance and meaning. Baku reacted accordingly: the representative of the Presidential Administration in a short statement, formulated with due diplomacy, responded that "Azerbaijan does not intend, and is not yet thinking of joining the Eurasian Union." The word "yet" is important in this answer," the newspaper writes.
"It would be logical to assume that the outlines of a new community in which some see the USSR and others a neo-imperial military-political bloc are the main cause of the "cold war" between Russia and US, which threatens to smoothly develop into a "hot" war," the article says.
Noting the prospects of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the Eurasian Union, the authors pay attention to the factor of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.According to the authors of the publication, Serzh Sargsyan has to wait for the next move of Ilham Aliyev. Azerbaijan can announce its intention to participate in the Eurasian project. And in this case, the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh republic has to confirm that it is ready to be represented in a union which includes Azerbaijan.
