Baku and Washington agreed to conduct a dialogue of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the USA in order to harmonize the goals of energy security and climate. This was reported by the Ministry of Energy of Azerbaijan following the meeting of the head of the Ministry of Parviz Shakhbazov with the assistant to US President Sarah Ladislav.
The report said that the Minister of Energy of Parviz Shakhbazov met in the White House with the assistant to the US President on special issues, CEO of climate and energy of the National Security Council (White House) Sarah Ladislav.
The meeting discussed the importance of long -term cooperation on the implementation of regional and international energy security projects, as well as the role of the southern gas corridor during a difficult energy crisis in the EU.
“For three years, the southern gas corridor has set more than 31 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Europe. Currently, the expansion of the southern gas corridor and the increase in supplies to Europe is carried out by the efforts of Azerbaijan,” the department noted.
The meeting also noted that the rich potential of the renewable energy of Azerbaijan is aimed at implementing the country’s energy transition and diversification of energy supply to Europe.
In addition, the project of the corridor of the “green” energy of the Caspian-Black Sea-European “.
was mentioned.
The ministry noted that there is a decisive support for the development of the “green” energy of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
“In addition, the chairmanship of Azerbaijan in COP29 reflects its commitment to” green “energy, climatic agenda and decarbonization plans,” the Ministry of Energy noted.
touching the conduct of COP29, the parties exchanged views on the policy and plans of Azerbaijan related to the energy transition at the national and global level, a possible contribution to the process of financing climate and reducing methane emissions.
A agreement was reached on a dialogue of cooperation between Azerbaijan and the USA in order to harmonize the goals of energy security and climate