Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt expressed doubts about the sincerity of the Azerbaijani authorities for participating in the EU program “Eastern Partnership”, reports the Azerbaijani news agency “Turan.”
“Azerbaijan is a special story. They are sitting on oil and have a somewhat more authoritarian political development that would create problems for us,” he said during his speech at the Atlantic Council in Washington.
Bildt noted that the program of “Eastern Partnership” faces greater challenges than in the time of its adoption in 2008.
According to him, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine are actively moving forward on the path of European integration, Armenia has decided to join the Customs Union and the situation with Belarus remains unclear.