Azerbaijan – US relations based on the Energy Card

... energy resources could be transported to Europe, bypassing Russia and Iran and thus decreasing the regional and international influence of these two countries. Azerbaijan and Georgia are important to the US and Europe as transport countries of Caspian gas and oil. In the future, Azerbaijan may also be an important transit state, transporting landlocked Central Asian energy resources to Europe. On-going negotiations between Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and European counterpartsmay result in relevant agreements ...