Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s strident warnings that Moscow would tolerate no talk of membership appears to have again deterred the alliance.

Azerbaijan is expected to produce 610,000 bpd in June and 620,000 bpd in July.

The foundations of Azerbaijan’s pragmatic foreign policy were laid by late President Heydar Aliyev in the early 1990s and, today, this has become Azerbaijan’s brand, i.e., the so-called “multi-vector” or “balanced” foreign policy strategy.

On Sunday, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry acknowledged that Armenia had produced long-demanded maps of minefields in at least one key part of formerly Armenian-occupied regions.