Azerbaijan does not think of EU membership, said Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country Khalaf Khalafov during his visit to Lithuania.
"While we do not think about it. Time will tell. The quest for membership can not be an end in itself," he said in an interview with the Lithuanian newspaper Lietuvos Zinios.
On the question of the orientation of the country towards the EU and Russia, the deputy minister said that "the region of the South Caucasus, especially Azerbaijan, has become the center of a constructive dialogue between the West and Russia."
In Vilnius last week meetings of the Lithuanian-Azerbaijani Intergovernmental Commission were held.
Azerbaijan is included in the EU's Eastern Partnership program, but international experts are quite skeptical about the approval of Baku's desire to "strategic partnership" with the EU.
In November a summit will be held in Vilnius in the EU due to the chairmanship of Lithuania to the EU. -0 -
Politics
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On 26 July "Platform III of the Republic" made a statement which drew attention to the unlawful seizure of electronic devices of underage children of the arrested head of this structure Akif Gurbanov.
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From 19 to 26 July, 24 automatic rifles, 1 machine gun, 9 rifles, 28 grenades, 441 shells, 3118 cartridges of different calibre and other ammunition were found in Khankendi, the Azerbaijani Interior Ministry reported. During the mentioned period, the police found 1 machine gun, 50 grenades, 7 fuses, 3 shells and 320 cartridges of different calibre in Shusha.
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President Ilham Aliyev has approved by decree the Azerbaijan-Kazakh intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in military intelligence defense sector. The document was signed in Baku on 7 June 2024.
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At the trial of the opposition politician Tofig Yagublu, the statement of Elnur Vaqifoglu, another accused, was heard at the Baku Serious Crimes Court.
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