ArmInfo.The Russian Foreign Ministry welcomes the active involvement of Azerbaijan in the Eurasian integration processes. This is stated in the response of the Russian Foreign Ministry to a question received at a press conference following the results of the activities of Russian diplomacy in 2022.
So, for clarification, against the backdrop of global international processes, what is the importance for Russia of the idea of the Greater Eurasian Partnership (GEP), relations with partners in the CIS, as well as the development and deepening of cooperation, including with Azerbaijan, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted that the GEP initiative, put forward back in 2015, is not an opportunistic project tied to a time interval for the Russian Federation.
The Ministry reminded that this is an invitation to the development of multi-vector and multi-level cross- border cooperation in bilateral and international formats.
As for the latter, the Russian Foreign Ministry continued, an important component of it is the conjugation of the potential of interstate associations, among which we see such practical cooperation-oriented and positively charged organizations as the SCO, the EAEU, and ASEAN.
"We welcome the active involvement of Azerbaijan in the Eurasian integration processes. In 2021-2022, a series of expert events dedicated to Eurasian topics, in particular, the issues of strengthening ties between Azerbaijan and the EAEU, were successfully held in Baku. The XV Eurasian Economic Forum became a landmark event in this regard, held in Azerbaijan in October 2022.
We are confident that further steps in this direction fully meet the interests of the republic, located in the center of the Eurasian continent," the Russian Foreign Ministry concluded.