Ukraine and the European Union have appealed to Azerbaijan to assist in negotiating a new natural gas supply agreement following the expiration of the current transit contract with Russia, announces Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. According to him, negotiations with the Ukrainian authorities, the EU, and Russia are ongoing, and all parties seem interested in continuing the supplies. “We will help if we can. I think it’s possible to prolong this deal,” Aliyev said at a conference Saturday in the town of Shusha. He noted that if Russian gas supplies through Ukraine, Austria, and Slovakia wer…