Azerbaijan is continuing to develop cooperation with NATO in such areas as democratisation, security and defence sector reform, anti-terrorism, as well as science and environment. Azerbaijan need’s to maintain a careful balance between its relations with the West and its neighbours Russia and Iran, unlike Georgia, Azerbaijan’s leadership has never stated explicitly that it wishes to join the alliance. The roundtable analysed the current state and future prospects of NATO-Azerbaijan relations. According to the panellists, NATO-Azerbaijan cooperation proved fruitful and positive over the past ten years and Azerbaijan’s manifested desire to upgrade its cooperation with NATO might be met at the NATO Newport Summit that will take place in early September 2014.