Relationship dossier
Azerbaijan
Canada
Relationship assessment
Economic cooperation alongside political friction over Nagorno-Karabakh
Azerbaijan toward Canada
+15Azerbaijan has pursued bilateral economic ties with Canada, including through the bilateral foreign investment agreement signed in 2014. The breadth of Azerbaijan's government cooperation with Canada beyond these arrangements is unclear.
Canada toward Azerbaijan
+5Canada has pursued bilateral economic cooperation with Azerbaijan, including through the foreign investment agreement signed in 2014. It has also criticized Azerbaijan's actions in Nagorno-Karabakh and raised concerns about the rights and security of the region's Armenian population.
Overall relationship
+10The relationship has a limited cooperative foundation in bilateral economic arrangements, including a foreign investment agreement, alongside political friction over Nagorno-Karabakh. These features support a mixed assessment rather than a close partnership or sustained confrontation.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Azerbaijan and Canada maintain formal diplomatic ties and have pursued practical economic cooperation, including a bilateral foreign investment agreement. Relations are also affected by Canada's criticism of Azerbaijan's actions in Nagorno-Karabakh and concerns about the rights and security of the region's Armenian population. The relationship combines limited institutional and economic cooperation with political friction.
Areas of tension
- Canada's criticism of Azerbaijan's actions in Nagorno-Karabakh and concerns about the rights and security of the region's Armenian population.
Key developments
Azerbaijan and Canada signed a bilateral foreign investment agreement.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of bilateral investment and other economic arrangements are unclear.
- The extent of recent direct government cooperation is unclear.
- The effects of Canada's statements on Nagorno-Karabakh on ongoing bilateral engagement are unclear.