BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 9. Certain financial matters related to resource projects are being discussed with the U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM Bank), President Ilham Aliyev said this during an interview with Azerbaijani media in Washington, Trend reports.
"Due to President Trump's vision and policy, today fossil fuel, which has been unfairly discriminated against for the last decade or even more, is back on track. Our team was here in negotiations with international financial institutions, with the EXIM Bank of the United States, with potential financing for fossil fuel projects and for transportation and hydrocarbon transportation infrastructure. So energy will definitely continue to be one of the important parts of our cooperation.
In our MoU which we signed with President Trump, energy has a special place. So when we say energy, it is oil, it is gas, and potentially renewables. Today, Azerbaijan is supplying natural gas to 10 members of NATO, 10 American allies. And with respect to pipeline gas delivery, we cover 14 countries. So in that respect, again about pipeline gas, Azerbaijan is one of the leading countries in the world. Supplying 10 members of NATO and 10 members of the EU, we just recently started supplying natural gas to Syria. So we have already entered the Middle East region, and will expand our geography in Europe and also in the Middle East," said President Ilham Aliyev.