Trade relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia have already begun.
“Elchi” reports that this was stated by Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan – Head of the Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Azerbaijan, during the “South Caucasus: A Strategic Center in the Making” panel held within the framework of the V Antalya Diplomacy Forum.
“We are already coming to the Antalya Diplomacy Forum with a peace agenda. There is no longer war and confrontation in the region as before. Azerbaijan is committed to both the content and the spirit of the Washington summit. The Armenia-Azerbaijan–Armenia normalization process was supported with the participation of Donald Trump, and a normalization agreement between the two countries was initialed. We also understand that beautiful documents can be adopted between states, but these documents should not remain only on paper. The main issue is taking practical steps, and Azerbaijan has demonstrated concrete steps in this direction. We are trying to move the peace agenda to a real plane, strengthen it, and turn it into concrete measures by establishing pragmatic interaction with the Armenian side, which will create a basis for building trust between the two countries. In this context, progress in the first direction is going well, and we are trying to increase the momentum in other directions as well. At the same time, trade relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan have already begun. Such steps were considered unimaginable a few years ago, but now it is becoming a reality,” Hikmet Hajiyev noted.