🔉“The record is clear: there is no more reliable, non-Western pipelined oil and gas supplier to the EU than Azerbaijan. That’s why the EU keeps deepening its strategic energy partnership with Baku: we’re talking about a predicable, reliable, secure, and friendly partnership that goes back to the 1990s,” says IDD Director for Policy Research, Analysis & Publications Prof. Damjan Krnjević at the Third Geopolitical Summit organized by @danube.institute and the @heritagefoundation on the topic “Geopolitics of Energy in the Silk Road Region and its Implications for Europe.”

#IDDexpert #SilkRoad #Azerbaijan #Europe #energy #geopolitics

“Baku’s experience in the Second Karabakh War could also be useful for Afghanistan’s national army which is being updated now by the Taliban.” writes IDD’s Non-Resident Research Fellow Ruslan Suleymanov while analyzing prospects for Azerbaijan’s
outreach to Afghanistan.

Read more: https://rb.gy/u4nuj

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🔉We experts continue to analyze pressing topics on regional and international topics.
"With its upgrade C5+1 meeting, Washington appeared to want to demonstrate to the C5 leaders that high-level relations with the U.S. can indeed develop, thus allowing them to garner more negotiating power with countries like China and Russia. In the eyes of the United States, it seems that the upgraded C5+1 both contains China and fences in Russia."
This is a short extract from IDD's paper, "The C5+1 Upgrade.
Heightened Importance of the Silk Road Region for American Foreign Policy," authored by our Diplomat-in-Residence, Amb. Rodrigo Labardini.
🔗Read it now: shorturl.at/bMOU7
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IDD is a discussion forum for pressing issues.
 
🔉This time, we will be discussing the economic feasibility of the Metal smelting plant in Yeraskh, Ararat Province, Armenia.
 
The event, moderated by IDD’s Research Fellow Nazrin Baghirova and ADA University’s faculty member Orkhan Nadirov, will bring together economists, environmentalists, and experts from research centres to present our research findings based on the quantitative economic analysis of the plant operations and discuss the rationale of the decision to build the plant at the border with Azerbaijan.

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Mr. Sajjad Karim, former MEP for North West England, says that Azerbaijan will treat ethnic Armenians of 🇦🇿’s Karabakh region as “equal citizens”.

They are bridges for repairing relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Watch this episode of #IDDTalks for getting more details about the topic.

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🔗Watch it: shorturl.at/sJMVZ

Why Israelis should support Azerbaijani action in Karabakh?

Anastasia Lavrina, IDD’s Research Fellow and the host of the #IDDTalks Project, talks to ‘Israel Hayom’, an Israeli national newspaper, to give an answer to this question.

“In a period of less than twenty-four hours, Azerbaijan launched very successful anti-terrorist measures in Karabakh region of Azerbaijan against illegal Armenian forces,” says Ms. Lavrina while interpreting the historic time in which Azerbaijan currently lives.

Read more: shorturl.at/mrKV4

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