Azerbaijan, Baku, October 31/Trend, E.Aliyev/
The European Union (EU) should take an individual approach to each country in order to form genuinely solid, strategic relations with eastern partners such as Azerbaijan, former Bulgarian president Georgi Parvanov said while speaking at the Third Baku International Humanitarian Forum.
"In the coming days, the EU will hold discussions on the topic of assessment and continuation of Eastern Partnership policy. I believe that European Eastern policy should make an individual approach to each country. I hope that Europe will be wise and high-spirited enough to adopt such a decision," the ex-president said.
According to him, under the conditions when in recent years everything related to the implementation of the South Gas Corridor and Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), has concentrated on energy security, not the development of mutual trade, but the development of mutual investment has moved to the foreground.
The Bulgarian ex-president congratulated Ilham Aliyev on his confident victory in the presidential election. According to him, this victory demonstrates the nation's support to the modernisation policy pursued by the Azerbaijani president.
The Third Baku International Humanitarian Forum began at the Heydar Aliyev Centre on Thursday.
The forum is an influential platform for discussing the most important issues of humanitarian cooperation. Azerbaijan, possessing rich traditions of intercultural, civilised and inter-confessional cooperation is an ideal place for holding events in such a format.
The forum is an influential scientific and political platform of an international scale for seeking answers to global challenges to the civilisation in the 21st Century, holding dialogues of a large spectrum, exchange of views and discussions on the most important issues of humanitarian cooperation.
The co-chairs of the forum are the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Officials, former presidents, famous scientists and artists from over 100 countries and Nobel Prize winners are participating at the Third Baku International Humanitarian Forum.