BAKU. April 5 (Interfax) - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has criticized the U.S.-EU-Armenia meeting held in Brussels on Friday.
"It creates another source of danger to the South Caucasus," the Azerbaijani presidential website quoted Aliyev as saying at a meeting with Turkish parliament member, head of the Turkish delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Mevlut Cavusoglu.
According to the website, Aliyev said that senior U.S. and EU officials initiated phone calls in recent days and tried to convince Baku that the meeting did not target Azerbaijan. Yet he believes the meeting seeks "to create division lines in the South Caucasus and isolate our country."
Anti-Azerbaijani statements made by the European Parliament and the Council of Europe since September 2023 and the attempts to turn Armenia into a military outpost in the South Caucasus will have serious consequences, Aliyev said. "This is why we made the statements to warn our partners in the United States and Europe about that," he said.
The geopolitical situation has changed, Aliyev said. He noted the importance of preserving the solid alliance between Azerbaijan and Turkey and said he was confident that "the dreams of everyone wishing to break this alliance will not come true."