BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 26. Today, bilateral
relations between Azerbaijan and Georgia have nice potential for
strengthening and growing in new instructions. Current
geopolitical developments have created quite a lot of obstacles for a
massive variety of international locations in each the East and the West. In this
sense, Azerbaijan and Georgia are gaining new significance within the
international area.
President Ilham Aliyev’s go to to Georgia definitely performs an
vital function not solely within the growth of the bilateral
partnership between the 2 international locations however can be vital in
phrases of recent political and financial circumstances created not solely in
the South Caucasus but in addition past it.
The go to of President Ilham Aliyev to Georgia could be very well timed in
the present geopolitical realities, Giga Bedineishvili, a Georgian
economist and professor on the Free University of Tbilisi, advised
Trend.
“Today, for instance, power and transport cooperation are excessive
on the agenda for each our international locations. Taking under consideration the
strategic pleasant partnership between Azerbaijan and Georgia,
there are additionally alternatives for additional development in these and lots of
different areas,” he mentioned.
According to the knowledgeable, the EU and lots of different international locations exterior
the bloc are undoubtedly concerned with transport routes by means of the
South Caucasus, because the demand for various routes grows, and if
Azerbaijan and Georgia can work collectively, To enhance their
transport connectivity, it’s going to profit not solely them but in addition many
different gamers within the wider area.
Bedineishvili confused that the advance of transport
communication contains such vital points as the event of
e-commerce and the creation of a joint database which, if correctly
developed, will positively have an effect on total commerce relations between
Azerbaijan and Georgia, and their additional export to different
international locations.
Meanwhile, Pr. Vakhtang Maisaya, a Georgian knowledgeable, Doctor of
Political and Military Sciences, additionally confused the significance of
President Ilham Aliyev’s go to to Georgia from the viewpoint of
strengthening bilateral relations.
“This go to proves as soon as once more the strategic friendship between
the 2 international locations. Our international locations have joint financial pursuits,
particularly within the power sector. Naturally, Azerbaijan and Georgia
can prolong a serving to hand to the EU, which is presently getting into a
very troublesome interval of the power disaster,” he mentioned.
According to the knowledgeable, Azerbaijan, as the principle provider of
power sources by means of the Trans-Anatolian (TANAP) and
Trans-Adriatic (TAP) pipelines, and Georgia, as a regional
transport hub, can efficiently develop their cooperation on this
sense for the advantage of different international locations.
“This will additional strengthen the trilateral cooperation between
Azerbaijan and the EU-Georgia, in addition to strengthen the place
of GUAM-a, a construction that was established to reinforce the widespread
pursuits of our international locations. This will contribute to regional
stability throughout the South Caucasus. In this sense, President
Aliyev arrived in Georgia on the proper time and on the proper time,”
Maisaya added.
Thus, the function of Azerbaijan, Georgia and the South Caucasus as
a complete within the international area is rising. Due to the clearly
outlined priorities of President Ilham Aliyev’s overseas coverage,
Azerbaijan has develop into a key accomplice for quite a lot of European and
regional international locations. By strengthening relations with its rapid
neighbors, Azerbaijan places the significance of the complete area to a
new degree.
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