BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 29. Azerbaijan as a generator of regional projects, whether it is transportation, energy, played already an important role in the trilateral cooperation between Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said addressing the international conference under the motto “South Caucasus: Development and Cooperation”, Trend reports.
"With respect to Azerbaijan, I think that in ten years’ time, of course, we will be much stronger and I hope that by that time, maybe even earlier, all the disagreements and problems with Armenia will be resolved and the region of the Southern Caucasus will be firmly integrated and three countries of the Southern Caucasus will already have close cooperation. There are opportunities for that. Azerbaijan as a generator of regional projects, whether it is transportation, energy, played already an important role in the trilateral cooperation between Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia, which actually then became a foundation for broad European cooperation. Without that, which we did in 2006, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, today’s energy security of Europe would be much more vulnerable, because then gas pipeline wouldn’t have been built. So, as a generator and as, of course, the biggest economy in the Southern Caucasus with the great potential to grow, because only these three months our economy grew 7% and our export more than 90%, including 45% in non-energy related export, and a generator of wealth and a generator of stability. But, it will depend, of course, on the agenda in Armenia, what will happen there, the plans of Armenian government for peace agenda, whether they will be implemented or not," the head of state said.