In this situation, when Azerbaijan continues the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh despite the decision of the international court, the EU must strengthen the pressure on Azerbaijan. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the founding chairman of Rasmussen Global international political consultancy organization and former Secretary General of NATO, stated this to reporters in Armenia on Tuesday

The EU has reached an agreement with Azerbaijan in the field of energy, and this can be used as a critical platform for discussing the issue, Rasmussen said.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev may be as much an autocrat as Russian President Vladimir Putin, Rasmussen added, but the latter does not believe that Aliyev would like to find himself in the same situation as President Putin and become an “international aggressor.”

And that is why, Rasmussen, said he once again calls on Aliyev to stop the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh.