NATO parliamentary assembly might discuss delivery of Russian military hardware to Armenia

Asgarov said he had no information about the agenda of spring session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, but added that Azerbaijani delegation would traditionally bring up a point about Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.

Touching upon the issue on Russia’s selling weapons to Armenia, the First Deputy Chairman of Milli Majlis stated that certain discussions had been conducted at the Parliament in this respect. "It was decided to discuss the issue within the framework of intergovernmental friendship groups and to send a delegation consisting of Azerbaijani parliamentarians to Russian Duma. We will take our stance only after the discussions and Russia’s investigations. If Russia’s investigation does not satisfy us, arm-shipment to Armenia will be discussed in NATO Parliamentary Assembly. We are very concerned about this issue, because Russia is a mediator in regulation to Nagorno Karabagh conflict. Russia has undertaken commitment not to sell weapons to none of these conflict parties until the solution of problem".

Speaking about Azerbaijani Army’s coordination to NATO standards, Asgarov emphasized that the initial phase of works carried out in this direction had already been concluded. The works on the second phase will commence soon.

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