Azerbaijan seeks to develop cooperation with the European Union and NATO, but is not going to join them, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, ITAR-TASS reported.
Mammadyarov said "integration into Euro-Atlantic structures remains a priority for Azerbaijan's foreign policy, but we must clearly understand that integration does not mean membership".
"Our cooperation with NATO and EU will continue in the interest of reform that we need," Mammadyarov noted. He recalled that Azerbaijan tries to adopt European standards in many different areas of life.