Azerbaijan to increase gas deliveries to Bulgaria, Europe
Azerbaijan’s president says his country is a reliable partner and will stick to an agreement to double gas exports to the European Union by 2027
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Azerbaijan’s president said Friday that his country is a reliable partner and will stick to an agreement to double gas exports to the European Union by 2027.
Speaking to reporters in Bulgaria's capital, President Ilhan Aliyev called a new gas interconnector with Greece “a historic achievement and an opportunity for Azeri gas to reach Europe in larger quantities.”
Aliyev was in Sofia for the official launch Saturday of a new pipeline that will supply natural gas from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria, whose vital supply of Russian gas was cut off in April amid the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
At the event on Saturday, he will join heads of state and governments from the region, as well as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
