EU says talks with Azerbaijan on new deal in ‘final stage’

  22 January 2020    Read: 1474
 EU says talks with Azerbaijan on new deal in ‘final stage’

The European Union and Azerbaijan are in the final stage of the negotiations to sign a new partnership agreement, Kestutis Jankauskas, Head of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan said. 

Jankauskas made the remarks at a conference dedicated to the results of the EU technical assistance project entitled “Support to the State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SSC) to reach European Standards in National Accounts, on observed economy, business statistics and producer price index,” AzVision.az reports. 

“EU-Azerbaijan ties will reach a new level after the new agreement is signed,” the diplomat noted.

He stressed that the EU is now Azerbaijan’s number-one trading partner.

Jankauskas also reiterated EU’s support for the implementation of transport projects passing through the territory of Azerbaijan.


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