Tuesday, January 29 2019 14:35

ArmInfo. We hope that the political dialogue between Azerbaijan and the European Union will have a positive impact on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh  conflict.  Head of the Political Club of the Southern Caucasus (Baku)  to Ilgar Velizade, expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo. 

"On the eve of the signing of the Agreement on the Comprehensive  Partnership of Azerbaijan with the European Union, Baku and Brussels  are faced with the task of intensifying the dialogue in all  directions.  And the Karabakh conflict is no exception. Especially  considering its importance and importance for Azerbaijan," the  political scientist said

Azerbaijan is preparing to sign the Comprehensive Partnership  Agreement with the European Union in 2019. Negotiations started in  February 2017. On July 11, 2018, the initialing of a document on the  priorities of the partnership between Azerbaijan and the EU took  place in Brussels. The final document was issued on October 15 in  Luxembourg. However, if the negotiations are not completed by May  2019, the agreement will not be signed this year, since the elections  to the European Parliament will take place in 2020 after which the  process of forming the new European Commission will begin.

According to Velizade, the EU today is one of the main economic and  political partners of Baku, which in turn is the most important  partner of Brussels in the Caspian and Caucasus regions. Especially  considering that Azerbaijan already has an agreement on strategic  partnership with a third EU country. In this light, he said, Baku  hopes that the development of a dialogue in the economic sphere will  give momentum and political cooperation with the European Union.

At the same time, the Azerbaijani political analyst believes that the  EU continues to try to impose its own opinion on Azerbaijan, even by  offering an equal dialogue. At the same time, according to his  estimates, Brussels demonstrates a completely different, privileged  approach towards Armenia. According to Velizade, the change of power  in Armenia does not give Yerevan a political indulgence

"In my opinion, such a selective attitude strikes at the prestige of  Brussels itself. And while the European Union still has significant  authority, Brussels should think about the causes and consequences of  such differences in relations with partner countries," the  Azerbaijani political scientist summed up.

In turn, another Azerbaijani expert, head of the "Humanitarian  Research Public Association " (Baku), Avaz Hasanov, is convinced that  the agreement with the EU will be signed this year. And this is  regardless of the position of the EU in the Karabakh conflict or in  relation to Armenia.  According to Hasanov, an agreement with the EU  is necessary for Azerbaijan, first of all, for leveling Russian  influence on Baku.