BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 29. The new agreement with the EU is very comprehensive. It absorbs the new realities after second Karabakh war, and definitely will also address the new situation in the world, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said addressing the international conference under the motto “South Caucasus: Development and Cooperation”, Trend reports.
"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. But now, it is also on our agenda along with the issues like trade, energy, transportation, and humanitarian issues and issues related to democratic development. So we consider EU as a fair broker and welcome the efforts. So I think that's now when the Minsk Group co-chairmanship is dysfunctional, I think EU can play and it plays a very active role in the normalization process. So we support it, and we see the benefits. And by the way, my recent contacts with the Armenian colleague were in Brussels. So Brussels now became my main destination of travels. And one more thing to add that we are now in the final stage of agreeing some issues on our new agreement with EU which is according to our and EU’s assessment is ready more than 90%. There was a war there was a COVID that a little bit put it on standby. But I think that we can finalize it pretty soon. We have an agreement, but it was signed many years ago. So new agreement is very comprehensive. It absorbs the new realities after second Karabakh war, and definitely will also address the new situation in the world," the head of state said.