How Fair Are Predictions about Rapprochement between Baku and Brussels?

Baku / 05.06.18 / Turan: Negotiations over the conclusion of the partnership agreement between Azerbaijan and the European Union have not yet yielded significant practical results. Turan was informed about this by an informed diplomatic source in Brussels, who is familiar with the situation.

Representatives of Baku in every possible way hamper the resolution of political and economic issues and try to include the issue of the Karabakh conflict in the agenda of the talks, the source said.

A certain progress is only in the humanitarian cooperation.

"Therefore, loud statements that the negotiations are successfully moving forward and that an agreement will be concluded soon, are groundless," the source said.

Recall that a few years ago, official Baku said it does not like cooperation with the European Union within the framework of the Eastern Partnership program and Azerbaijan wants to have a separate agreement with the European Union regulating all aspects of cooperation.

Negotiations on this issue have been going on for several years, but there is no practical result.

At the same time, negotiations with the Armenian side on this issue were conducted only a year and a half and successfully ended with the signing of a partnership agreement.

"There is an opinion that Baku is more inclined to cooperation with Russia than with the European Union.

Baku understands that after the change of power in Armenia, Yerevan will inevitably go on rapprochement with the European Union. Therefore, Baku wants to play on the discontent of Moscow with the conduct of Yerevan," the source said. -71B-