Benjamin Ben Eliezer, the Israeli national infrastructure minister, arrived in Azerbaijan in the morning of 2 June for an official visit.

“My visit is paid in the timeframe when the two countries have many spheres for cooperation. I encourage and advice my Israeli counterparts to visit Azerbaijan to seek ways for investing, and also calls the Azerbaijani business world to invest in Israel, particularly the infrastructure field,” the Israeli minister said in an exclusive interview for Trend Capital.

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko highly appreciated the results of energy security summit which took placen in Kiev on 22-23 May. In his exclusive interview to Trend Capital he said that the Energy Security Summit was a very important event both for Ukraine and entire Europe.

“The ideas to develop entire European policy in the energy resources transit field is gaining more understanding,” Yushchenko said.

The participants of the Summit has taken a next practical step in this connection, particularly regarding creation of a common energy transit area. At this stage, the Baltic Sea, Black Sea and Caspian Sea regions must be united.

“The common energy area must take into consideration the interests, rights and duties of all energy market participants – energy resources producing countries, transit countries and consuming countries. That will enable avoiding the attempts to use energy levers as a political impact tool in the international relations,” President said.

According to Yushchenko, the participants of the summit stated significant progress in diversification of energy resources and transportation roots.