Azerbaijan supplies 12,000 tonnes of petroleum products to Armenia - Aliyev

BAKU. May 4 (Interfax) - Azerbaijan, which began supplying petroleum products to Armenia in December 2025, has brought the total amount of supplies in this direction to 12,000 tonnes.

"We have started supplying our petroleum products (gasoline and diesel fuel) to Armenia, thereby initiating trade relations. At present, 12,000 tonnes of our petroleum products have been exported to Armenia," Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at the European Political Community summit in Yerevan.

"We have been living in peace for only nine months and are only learning to live in peace. Last August in Washington, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a joint declaration. President Donald Trump, as already mentioned, also signed it as a witness. The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan initialed the text of the peace agreement. For us, and I am confident for our Armenian partners, peace has already been achieved," Aliyev said when speaking at the summit via videoconference.

According to him, peace has allowed Azerbaijan and Armenia to begin mutual trade relations.

"After achieving peace, Azerbaijan unilaterally [in October 2025] lifted all transit restrictions against Armenia that had been imposed back in the early 1990s," he said, adding that Baku has ensured the transit of 28,000 tonnes of cargo to Armenia since the autumn of last year.

According to the Azerbaijani State Statistics Committee, petroleum product supplies to Armenia amounted to 1,200 tonnes (referring to Premium Euro-95 motor gasoline worth $788,800) in December. In January 2026, Azerbaijan sent two shipments of petroleum products to Armenia - 979 tonnes (motor gasoline) and 1,700 tonnes (motor gasoline and diesel fuel). In February, according to media reports, 4,500 tonnes of diesel fuel were sent.