European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced, on Monday 18 July during a joint press conference in Baku, that they had reached a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to double Azerbaijan’s fossil gas imports to the European Union within a few years.
The announcement is part of the EU’s efforts to diversify its gas supply sources since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in order to move away from its energy dependence on Russia.
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