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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent

BP projects have helped fund Azerbaijan military aggression, say campaigners

Ilham Aliyev and armed services personnel
Global Witness said BP’s long-standing partnership with the ‘dictatorship’ of Ilham Aliyev (pictured) had funded Azerbaijan’s militarisation and aggression against Armenia. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images

BP’s fossil fuel projects in Azerbaijan have helped fund the military aggression against Karabakh Armenians though the transfer to billions of dollars to the Azerbaijan government since 2020, a campaign group has claimed.

Global Witness said Azerbaijan’s share of two large oil and gas projects operated by the British oil company had earned its government more than four times its military spending since 2020, the year that war broke out in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

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