BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 29. We are grateful that they seriously addressed our concern which I already mentioned that there was a big disproportion between the financial package to Armenia and Azerbaijan, and that was corrected, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said addressing the international conference under the motto “South Caucasus: Development and Cooperation”, Trend reports.
"We highly appreciate the role of EU in the post conflict normalization, and particularly President of European Council Mr. Charles Michel. He visited the region, Azerbaijan and Armenia last year when we had very long and very constructive discussions with him about our plans about EU position. Also, we are grateful that they seriously addressed our concern which I already mentioned that there was a big disproportion between the financial package to Armenia and Azerbaijan, and that was corrected. Now we are only waiting for some more specific details. Because our position was and it was delivered to European Union leadership that Azerbaijan wants to get as much as Armenia in the same proportion. As much loans with the same interest rate from European banks and as much grants. I think that is a very fair position. Then we had as you know, several sessions of interaction in Brussels. December and April trilateral meetings were organized by Mr. Charles Michel. There was a video conference in February and with the participation of President of France. We also regularly communicate by telephone. And there is a plan to organize a follow up of our Armenian-Azerbaijani representatives in the beginning of May, again in Brussels. So we highly welcome this efforts. For us, European Union is a very important partner. And we have a very broad agenda with EU. Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict was never part of that, because it was dealt with Minsk Group and EU was a little bit distant," the head of state said.