Baku, November 30, AZERTAC

“The rules-based world order is at stake because of the selective application of international law and widespread double standards,” said Farid Shafiyev, Chairman of the Board of the Center of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center), during his address at the panel titled "The West and Global Security: Two Blocs, Really?" within the 16th edition of the MEDays Forum in Tangiers, Morocco.

He noted that since the early 1990s, Azerbaijan has faced the repercussions of a policy of double standards.

“Azerbaijan, as a victim of occupation, has always advocated for the principles of international law.”

Farid Shafiyev further spoke about the priorities of Azerbaijan's foreign policy.

"If in the early 1990s we increasingly spoke about Euro-Atlantic integration, now we have opted for non-alignment status. The geopolitical events in our neighborhood—the events in Georgia in 2008 and the war in Ukraine—have revealed the true nature of double standards."

According to him, double standards exacerbate the geopolitical fault lines between states.

Speaking on the current state of international affairs, the AIR Center Chairman mentioned that it would be incorrect to divide the world into the West and the Rest. Unlike during the Cold War era, the world is now multipolar, with more rising regional and global powers.

He also noted that Azerbaijan has promoted the agenda of the Global South during its NAM chairmanship and afterwards.

"In terms of solutions to the problems, I would say that multilateralism should be strengthened, and economic decolonization must be carried out," he concluded.