"As far as they concerned, in the meantime, we worked actively on bilateral track with member states of EU. And with nine of them we have signed or adopted strategic partnership declarations and agreements. So, this is one third of member states. And, I think Azerbaijan is unique among the Eastern Partnership group, the country which really achieved the strategic goal," said President Ilham Aliyev while receiving delegation led by Special Envoy of the European Union for the Eastern Partnership, APA reports.
"So, this is a good platform and we consider it as a basis for our negotiations with EU on agreement. And it is moving successfully but slowly. Successfully, because we have completed most of the chapters, more than 90 percent, slowly that we got stuck with respect to the issues which we think can be a resolved if we have political will from both sides. There are certain concerns in Azerbaijan, because any agreement which we signed or plan to sign must give additional benefit to us and to our partners. So, we cannot sign something which in a midterm or long term can create certain economic difficulties. Therefore, the chapters where we got stuck is basically I think is trade, economic and some other. I already gave instructions to our negotiators to speed up the process and I think that there is a chance to finalize it. I think that will be another important milestone in our cooperation. We will talk, of course, about energy development and energy diversification projects. We will know what we are talking about," added Ilham Aliyev.
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