"Of course, with respect to Eastern Partnership, you know that from the very beginning of this program Azerbaijan was very supportive and participated actively in different events, including summits," said President Ilham Aliyev while receiving delegation led by Special Envoy of the European Union for the Eastern Partnership, APA reports.
"Now, I agree that it is time to modernize it, to review what has been done, because it is already more than a decade has passed since the program was launched. And members of the Eastern Partnership have made their choice. Some of them signed Association Agreement, some of them joined Eurasian Economic Union, the only one is Azerbaijan which joined none of the formats. And the economic performance, economic stability, political stability and, of course, the liberation of our territories show that our foreign policy was based on pragmatism and was targeted. And the main target was to restore the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan which we did two years ago. Therefore, of course, there is a need to see what are the new opportunities with respect to the Eastern Partnership. As far as we are concerned, we considered this program, this platform not as a platform of cooperation between the member states but as an additional opportunity to enhance cooperation with EU. Because with five other members of Eastern Partnership group we have different relationship. And, of course, for us was important to have additional mechanism of cooperation with European Commission. Now, I think, you are right in the current geopolitical circumstances, we need to review," noted the head of state.
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