BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 23. We believe in President Ilham Aliyev's word more than into any signature whatsoever, President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić said during the joint press conference with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in Belgrade on November 23, Trend reports.
"Azerbaijan is a super-power when it comes to production and export of gas. And in seven, eight or ten years Azerbaijan will be exporting more than 35 billion cubic meters of gas to date and the export is around 22 billion cubic meters of gas. Out of that more than half goes to the European countries and that is why we work on establishing interconnector between Serbia and Bulgaria so that we could provide in advance important amounts and quantities of gas from our friends in Baku. We discussed the electricity transmission because there is a huge European project that is going to connect Georgia, Romania, Hungary and Azerbaijan. We are going to discuss with our European partners to join, because this is the underwater cable of a huge power. It goes under the Black Sea in order to successfully join our transmission network to the Romanian or Hungarian one, so that we could buy energy in the future and they buy secure and guarantee full energy safety for our country. It is also because of the growth of the industrial production in our country and for constantly bigger needs of our citizens. We are going to need this energy safety and we are very grateful in that regard to our friends from Azerbaijan, and in particular to President Aliyev for understanding this. Serbia is, of course, a reliable partner, and I made a joke a while ago. President Aliyev told me that he couldn’t believe when he saw, they built to us as you know a road, a highway actually to Tartak to Brelina. This league Brelina section was built by them. It was really difficult section and they delivered on time, almost without a day of delay which was strange for us and they surprised when we one year and a half earlier we paid the entire debt that we took back in 2011. We fully paid in advance, because countries usually don’t do that, but Serbia is in custom of doing things like that whenever we can to repay our debts. Why I said this, because also in that regard Azerbaijani side understands that Serbia is a very reliable partner, as we have always known that President Aliyev and Azerbaijan are absolutely a reliable partner not only to us but to everybody. And I told President Aliyev, because of all transparent protocol matters to sign some things, but for us his word is enough. Because we believe in his word more than into any signature whatsoever. That’s quite enough for me. When he says something, I know it’s going be like that. So, for us this is really important," President Vucic said.