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Safar Abiyev: "Defense budget is our internal question"

31 August 2006 [11:50] - TODAY.AZ
"It is no matter that EU commissioner is dissatisfied with the increases in defense expenditure in Azerbaijan," stated Azerbaijani Defense Minister, Col.Gen Safar Abiyev.

The Minister does not take serious EU's external relations commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner's dissatisfaction with the increasing defense expenditures in Georgia and Azerbaijan. He said there is no ground for concerns of the European Union and other international organizations.

"We are not going to react to their statements. Azerbaijan knows what to do," Abiyev told the APA.

The Minister also said Azerbaijan will use all possible means, including increasing defense expenditure to liberate its territories and.

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