BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 21. It is impossible to turn Azerbaijan against Serbia or Serbia against Azerbaijan, President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said, making press statements, following the one-on-one meeting with President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on December 21, Trend reports.
"We have discussed all forms of cooperation. We have a strong and sincere friendship. It is impossible to turn Azerbaijan against Serbia or Serbia against Azerbaijan. This is impossible. No-one has the ability to do such a thing, nor is there any pressure on anyone to do so. We support each other's territorial integrity. This has been and will continue to be the case. I am grateful to President Aliyev because he knows exactly the difficulties we face in maintaining order in the territory of our country and in safeguarding the requirements of the UN Charter. I am also grateful for learning many things about the future from him. Because I can see what awaits us in the future more realistically and more seriously.
We have analyzed possible areas of cooperation together. It goes without saying that we have many issues to cooperate on in the field of energy. We have already discussed ways to build and develop our own transmission systems to transport electricity by a subsea line to Romania and Hungary. We have also reviewed how we can be energy beneficiaries. We have discussed ways to get Azerbaijani gas through the interconnectors we are going to build together with Bulgaria and North Macedonia. All this is important for us. But I think we are opening up some new areas of cooperation that are just as important, maybe even more important that these. We are talking about our common activities, the exchange of technology in the defense industry and work on some products that we can take to the markets of third countries together. Because I think that if we have a joint approach, we, as Serbia and Azerbaijan, have great potential. This is why we are meeting for the second time in one month. Serbian delegations will be visiting Azerbaijan often, and an Azerbaijani delegation will visit Belgrade in a few days. I have had a very productive discussion with the Minister of Defense Industry. I believe that together with representatives of the defense industry, we have learned a lot from Azerbaijan about the activities of the armed forces, as well as the structure of the armed forces. We are ready to exchange information on many issues. We produce certain good ammunition and weapons. We are ready to consider ways to modernize everything together and keep pace with the world on the way to becoming self-sufficient. Because in this difficult period, we have seen how major countries can lose so much power in a short period of time and how sanctions can have a devastating impact. We must be ready to protect and secure our countries in a future that will not be very peaceful," Vucic said.