President Ilham Aliyev expressed his stance on the natural gas crisis between Russia and the European Union at the Media Forum

President Ilham Aliyev, during his meeting with participants of the Shusha Global Media Forum, shared his views on the natural gas crisis that has arisen between Russia and the European Union, Report informs via AZERTAC.

“With respect to Russia-European Union relationship on natural gas, we never took this factor as something, which we should take into account. We were never trying to compete with Russia, even when Russia was supplying 150 plus billion cubic meters to Europe, and we never were offering our service to substitute. No, for us, it's absolutely commercial. We always treated our energy policy as business-oriented. We never politicized it and never cut the gas supply,” noted the President.