Aliyev had stunned Moscow by saying it was not doing enough to stop armed incidents along the frontier and threats nine months after Baku overwhelmed Armenia and re-took occupied Azerbaijani lands held for nearly three decades.

In an extensive interview with CNN Türk, he emphasised that statements by Kremlin officials that they want to help rebuild Armenia's devastated army - crushed during Baku's 2020 retaking of long-occupied Azerbaijani lands, "were devoid of logic".

The new tool allows to perform some of the important offshore activities such as inspection, planning and verification via remote use of high-definition images with measurement capabilities.

Gold production rose 1.1 percent year-on-year to 2,058 kg in January-July, while production of silver rose by 12.6 percent to 2,786 kg.

Oil and gas condensate production declined 2.6 percent in January to July from a year earlier to 20.096 million tonnes, while natural gas output increased 7.8 percent to 24.085 billion cubic metres (bcm) in the same period.

Azerbaijan's state energy firm SOCAR submitted an application to Russian oil pipeline operator Transneft to transport 1.209 million tonnes of oil via Russia in 2022, up from 1.09 million tonnes that is planned to be shipped this year.

Trade between Moldova and the "separatist" area is robust. Transnistria is even part of Moldova's Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the European Union, something unheard of in other "breakaway" ex-Soviet entities.