Azerbaijan has a strategic importance for Ukraine in the framework of the implementation plan for the replacement of Russian oil to Azerbaijan, told Trend on Monday, 6 February 2017, the Ambassador of Ukraine in Baku Alexander Mishchenko.
According to him, the Azerbaijani state company SOCAR has been running quite successfully in Ukraine. The diplomat noted that in the future, maybe, Ukraine will buy Azerbaijani gas.
“The diversification of energy sources and to avoid dependence on Russia for Ukraine is a matter of national security,” the diplomat said.
