President Ilham Aliyev's remarks during interview in Nakhchivan in world media spotlight

Foreign policy
  • 13 August, 2026
  • 20:34
President Ilham Aliyev's remarks during interview in Nakhchivan in world media spotlight

The leading international media outlets have widely covered Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's remarks made during the interview with Azerbaijan Television in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Report informs via AZERTAC

Russian media outlets "Kommersant", "Interfax", "Vestnik Kavkaza" and "NEWS.ru" highlighted the key points from the President's interview. The reports quoted President Ilham Aliyev as saying: "I repeat, in our region, there is no other country that is as comprehensively supplied with energy as Azerbaijan, whether in terms of oil and gas or electricity. By expanding our export capabilities to neighboring countries, we will at the same time gain access to the European market."

The articles published by "Interfax", "Vestnik Kavkaza", "NEWS.ru" featured the Azerbaijani President's remarks on the growth of energy exports, European electricity transit from Georgia and Türkiye via the Black Sea Energy project and expanding solar capacity in Nakhchivan.

The reports highlighted the President's remarks on the unified development concept for Garabagh, East Zangazur, and Nakhchivan, the transport potential of the Zangazur corridor, plans to route power transmission lines from mainland Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan through Armenia.

Georgian news portals such as "Interpressnews.ge", "1TV.ge" and "BPN.ge," as well as "Ambebi.ge" website also widely covered President Ilham Aliyev's remarks during his interview in Nakhchivan. The articles mentioned that the head of state emphasized the importance of the trilateral statement for Armenia, noting that the document has also been characterized as an act of capitulation.

Turkish news portals such as "Anadolu Agency", "Haberler.com", "Doğruhaber", "Yeni Akit", Yozgat", "Türkgün", "YeniBirlik", "SonDakika.com," "Saraymedya", "Ankara NetHaber", "Yeni Akit" newspaper, "Fikirturu.com" portal, "TRHaber" also highlighted President Ilham Aliyev's remarks on the opening of the Zangazur corridor, the implementation of TRIPP project, the corridor's annual cargo transportation potential of at least 15 million tons, and its potential to include fiber-optic, electricity, and in the future oil and gas lines in addition to transport.

"Kıbrıs Türk" information portal of Northern Cyprus published various articles highlighting President Ilham Aliyev's remarks on the readiness of the project to construct power transmission lines from the main part of Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan through the territory of Armenia, and the fact that the Zangazur corridor could cover not only transport, but also energy, fiber-optic, and, in the future, oil and gas lines.