President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said that from 2023 steps will be taken to export electricity to Serbia.

“I am sure that next year practical steps will be taken to export Azerbaijani electricity to Serbia,” Aliyev said in Baku on Wednesday, making a statement to the press following talks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.

Aliyev stressed that the energy sector is part of the cooperation between Baku and Belgrade.

“Recently, this area has become more important. Azerbaijan’s natural resources are already being exported in various directions, including to the European continent, including to the countries neighboring Serbia. There are opportunities for cooperation on both natural gas and electricity, relevant negotiations have been held,” Aliyev said.

He recalled that on December 17, an agreement was signed on the supply of electricity from Azerbaijan to Europe.

“The cable that will be laid along the bottom of the Black Sea will confirm that Azerbaijan is an important supplier for Europe in the field of electricity as well. All this opens new opportunities, new horizons, and we will cooperate in this area, of course, both in a bilateral format and in a multilateral format,” Aliyev stressed.

As reported, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime Ministers of Romania Nicolae Chuca, Georgia Irakli Garibashvili and Hungary Viktor Orban signed an Agreement on Strategic Partnership in the Development and Supply of Green Energy between the governments of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, and Hungary on December 17, 2022, in Bucharest “. We are talking about laying a cable of green “energy” and digital communications from Georgia to Romania along the bottom of the Black Sea. The cost of the project is estimated at 2.3 billion euros

Source: Turan News Agency