"As you know, our last year’s meeting was held through video conferencing. However, despite some concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, I am very glad that you have decided to attend the meeting in person. At the same time, I regret to say that some meeting participants have been infected and they therefore unable to attend today. I wish them good health and a speedy recovery. I am sure that Azerbaijani doctors will do everything possible to return them to normal life as soon as possible," said President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at the 8th Ministerial Meeting of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) Advisory Council which was held at Gulustan Palace, Baku, on February 4, 2022, APA reports.
"As I mentioned, last year’s meeting was held in the format of a video conference. Today we restored the traditional format of our interaction and of course it creates better opportunities not only to address important issues which are in front of us but at the same time, to have bilateral and multilateral contacts. Every February, we traditionally review what has been done during the previous year, and plan our future steps. I would like to say that every Advisory Council meeting was marked with some achievements. Every year we report about some achievements and we are very happy. I think we can congratulate ourselves that this time we can report about the success of the completion of the Southern Gas Corridor project. The last day of 2020, 31 December was the day, by the way, it’s a day of the solidarity of Azerbaijanis of the world and we are very glad that this very important day for Azerbaijanis we reported about the completion of the Southern Gas Corridor, its last part TAP project. And of course, I would like to also express gratitude to all the participants of the project, first of all to European Commission," said Azerbaijan's President.