Azerbaijan has begun exporting oil products to Armenia on 18 December, marking a milestone in the ongoing peace process and economic cooperation between the two countries. Experts say the move could serve as a bridge toward deeper regional stability and collaboration.
The fuel shipment, which marks the first such delivery in decades, comes during renewed efforts to normalise relations between the two neighbours and follows a series of trust-building measures aimed at restoring regional connectivity.
Speaking to AnewZ, Murad Muradov, Deputy Director at Topchubashov Centre, described the move as a significant milestone in the peace process.
“I think it's a very important step in terms of confidence building, first of all,” Muradov said, noting that energy cooperation had been considered as a peace-building tool as early as the 1990s. “Economic cooperation can always be an important bridge towards peace.”
Muradov stressed the symbolic importance of the fuel export, especially following the recent transit of grain through Azerbaijan.
“Selling fuel, which is produced in Azerbaijan, is even a more significant and symbolic step,” he said, adding that he hopes it will “help to cement the positive momentum that we have been enjoying since the Washington memorandum in August.”
The fuel shipment follows an agreement reached on 28 November in Gabala, a city in the north west of Azerbaijan, where Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev met with Armenia’s Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s public acknowledgment of the shipment sends a positive political signal, the analyst said, despite domestic and international criticism.
“The fact that Prime Minister Pashinyan openly recognised it is also… a big signal that we have this momentum,” he said, adding that Yerevan appears ready to defend the process despite external pressure.
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