While Europe remains the most commercially significant destination, export routes have been successfully diversified beyond the continent. Notably, gas deliveries to Syria have commenced for the first time, contributing to efforts to mitigate acute electricity shortages there. President Ilham Aliyev emphasized that diversification is essential not only for importing nations but equally for producers, highlighting that Azerbaijan’s model of cooperation, built on shared interests among transit states and consumers, has underpinned its steady progress for more than a decade.