BELGRADE, Serbia, February 15. President of
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev spoke in regards to the future plans of the 2
international locations throughout his press assertion with President of Serbia Aleksandar
Vučić, Development
experiences.
Assertion by President Ilham Aliyev
– Pricey Mr. President, my expensive buddy,
Pricey girls and gents,
Mr. President, to start with, I wish to specific my
gratitude to you for the invitation and hospitality. It’s your
nationwide vacation immediately, Statehood Day, and but, you’re welcoming
the Azerbaijani delegation. We view this as a manifestation of the
excessive degree of our relationships. Serbia and Azerbaijan are two pleasant
international locations that all the time stand by one another.
Taking this chance, I wish to congratulate you and
all of the pleasant folks of Serbia on the event of Statehood Day.
It’s not by probability that this vacation is named as such. I’m nicely
conscious that the Serbian folks have all the time made nice efforts and
sacrifices to guard and strengthen their state sovereignty. My
expensive buddy, because the President of Serbia, you have got all the time put
statehood and state pursuits above all else. That’s the reason Serbia is
creating efficiently below your management, and your nation has
gained super respect internationally. On the similar time, main
reforms have been carried out within the financial and social spheres.
Because of this, Serbia, a rustic with out pure assets, has been
creating economically with nice success, relying by itself
power and with out receiving help from anyplace. In
present-day circumstances, particularly for a rustic positioned in
Europe, this needs to be considered as a major issue. I would love
to notice the very excessive management qualities of President Vučić. As
it’s possible you’ll know, our contacts have been ongoing for a few years. We
know one another nicely, now we have honest conversations, and pleasant
relations. I understand how a lot President Vučić is dedicated to the
Serbian folks, state, and public pursuits, and it’s exactly
these elements that underpin the success of any nation. In fact,
as mates of Serbia, we extremely recognize this and are completely happy about
it.
My expensive buddy has touched upon the problems we mentioned, so I do
not need to repeat them. Certainly, many points have been mentioned on the
first assembly of the Serbia-Azerbaijan Strategic Council immediately.
Earlier than that, we reviewed a variety of points in our one-on-one
assembly. We even have clear plans for the longer term, which encompass
additional strengthening our relationships within the political, financial, and
vitality sectors, persevering with to assist one another’s territorial
integrity and sovereignty on worldwide platforms and inside
worldwide organizations, implementing joint funding
initiatives, profiting from newly created alternatives within the
vitality and transport sectors, and creating a really sturdy synergy by
wanting additional forward.
President Vučić has already touched upon the way forward for the ability
plant to be constructed collectively. Because the President has stated, now we have
determined to maintain this subject below the presidents’ oversight. The
course of of making this energy plant relies on the funding
alternatives that exist in Serbia. As a result of if the funding
local weather weren’t constructive, Serbia wouldn’t be so engaging to
international traders. It’s exactly on account of the reforms that
many international locations, together with Azerbaijan, are prepared to speculate
considerably in Serbia.
The development and reconstruction of energy vegetation, in addition to
their rehabilitation, pave the best way for the longer term growth of
any nation. Particularly, international locations with out pure assets
usually fall into dependence. Subsequently, the presence of home
vitality and technology capacities ensures the vitality safety of
every nation, and I wish to notice the particular position of
President Vučić within the implementation of this mission.
On the whole, our relationships within the vitality sector at the moment are
creating in a diversified method. A while in the past, we began
exporting pure gasoline to Serbia, and immediately we determined to extend
the amount of our exports. Now Serbia may also convert the gasoline to
be exported into electrical energy, thereby buying clear electrical energy.
It will create alternatives for each the Serbian market and for
future exports. At present, Azerbaijan’s export potential within the vitality
sector is 2 gigawatts. This determine will solely enhance as a result of we
at the moment are engaged within the building of many renewable vitality vegetation
and are able to cooperate with Serbia on this space.
We are going to generate an extra 8 gigawatts of vitality capability by
2032, and a big a part of will probably be exported. To realize this, we
want new and bigger transmission capacities as a result of our most important export
vacation spot is Europe.
As for different points, let me repeat, my buddy has already spoken
about them. I don’t need to take up an excessive amount of of your time. I
imagine that the outcomes of my official go to won’t be lengthy in
coming. We are going to meet once more within the close to future. I’ve invited
President Vučić and members of the Serbian delegation to
Azerbaijan. I’m certain that we’ll meet a number of instances this yr –
each in Azerbaijan and, maybe, once more in Serbia. Each I and, I’m
certain, the remainder of the Azerbaijani delegation really feel completely at
dwelling right here. I’ve been to Serbia many instances and have witnessed
first hand the event happening in Serbia below the
management of President Vučić. Subsequently, I wish to as soon as
once more sincerely congratulate our Serbian mates and be a part of President
Vučić in his slogan: Lengthy reside Serbia! Lengthy reside Azerbaijan! Lengthy
reside Serbian-Azerbaijani friendship.
