OREANDA-NEWS For Azerbaijan, BRICS is a platform for strengthening its relations with India, which is actively providing military and technical assistance to Armenia today. 

According to him, Baku is concerned about the development of military-technical cooperation between Yerevan and New Delhi. "Azerbaijan wants the Indian policy of cooperation with Armenia in the military-technical sphere not to be seriously aimed at increasing conflict in Transcaucasia," the expert noted, assessing the benefits for Azerbaijan from joining the BRICS.

The benefits for Azerbaijan, he notes, will be more geopolitical than geo-economic. The reason is that the BRICS, as a serious economic structure with a single economic system, is still at the stage of formation.

Niyazov also did not rule out that Azerbaijan's accession to the BRICS will help the republic further strengthen relations with China and Russia.