BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 8. With more years to come, the portion of trade with European Union will grow, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said, making a press statement after the meeting with President of Latvia Egils Levits, Trend reports.
"Azerbaijan’s gas supply to Europe is growing year after year. Last year, we signed here with the European Commission an important document on strategic partnership in the field of energy. Based on that, we are increasing our gas supply through the diversified supply routes, which have been created relatively recently. But of course not only energy security is uniting Europe and Azerbaijan. There are many other areas including transportation, education, trade. The European Union is our main trading partner. And definitely, with more years to come, the portion of trade with European Union will grow. Because, as I said, we will increase gas supplies, we will start soon supplies of electric energy from green energy sources. So, Latvia always played a very important and very positive role in closer cooperation between EU and Azerbaijan, as well as cooperation between NATO and Azerbaijan, which develop also very successfully. We're very grateful to our Latvian friends for this continued support. And with respect to our bilateral relations, there are many issues, which we need to address. So far, the agenda is relatively, is pretty broad," President Ilham Aliyev said.