Ilham Aliyev congratulated the host of the European Political Community Summit, which was held in Yerevan. The summit addressed various topics, including connectivity, and Aliyev delivered a video address in which he made statements about the end of separatism in Nagorno-Karabakh and criticized European institutions. Reports of Aliyev's interactions with the summit host, and other meetings, are somewhat unclear, with conflicting information about whether he met or will meet with the host in other locations.