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If a Turkey-Georgia-Azerbajan confederation is developed, Georgia will have a secondary role, said former Ambassador of Georgia to Austria and Hungary and current expert on international issues Konstantin Zhgenti in an interview with Russian news source Resonance.
“In such a situation, a Georgia-Azerbaijan confederation is nearly impossible, let’s not even talk about a third member state of such a union,” he said.
In Zhgenti’s opinion, the idea of a confederation could’ve been raised within the aim of settling regional issues.
“All unanimously accept that without settling the issues in the region, healthy and real cooperation is impossible. Cooperation between two countries is not directed against a third state, even though this third state is going to think so if it’s not included in the union. Proof is also Azerbaijan’s restrained policy toward Russia. And in the context of normalizing Turkish-Armenian relations, Azerbaijan-American relations cooled down somewhat. Parallel to that, when Yerevan-Ankara relations came to a deadlock, relations between the US and Azerbaijan once again improved,” said the former ambassador.