Damjan Krnjević: EU recognizes Azerbaijan’s importance for realizing its strategic ambitions

Azerbaijan-EU strategic energy partnership is further deepening, both in terms of the provision of more gas but also renewables in the years and decades ahead, Damjan Krnjević, Director for Policy Research, Analysis and Publications of the Institute for Development and Diplomacy at the ADA University, told Report.

“Why is this important in the context of the peace process? Because it shows that the EU is broadening its understanding of the consequences of the fact that Azerbaijan is the indispensable country when it comes to fulfilling the West’s strategic connectivity ambitions in all of Eurasia,” he noted.

He added that Ilham Aliyev-Maros Šefčovič meeting took place two weeks after the EU-Azerbaijan Energy Dialogue between EU commissioner for energy and Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov: “I think that meeting also went very well.”

“The imperative of the strategic energy partnership ensures the EU remains constructively neutral in its role as a facilitator of the peace process. This shuts out the influence of “spoilers” like the Armenian diaspora in the EU, particularly in France,” he said.