Foreign Ministy: Azerbaijan cooperates with NATO within peacekeeping operations

“Azerbaijan has cooperated and will cooperate with NATO as a part of the peacekeeping operations under the alliance’s aegis in Afghanistan,” Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Elkhan Polukhov said commenting on media reports claiming that Azerbaijan not allowing flight of German troops through country’s airspace undermined NATO mission in Afghanistan.

As a part of cooperation with NATO, Azerbaijan has recently increased its peacekeeping contingent in Afghanistan. This successful cooperation is continuing with the alliance to date, Polukhov said.

Deutsche Welle previously reported that urgent decision by Bundestag in early July to send additional contingent of German soldiers to Afghanistan to serve maintenance of aircraft equipped with aviation complex of radar and guidance systems of AWACS type did not bring the desired result.

The report said more than three weeks German soldiers stayed in North Atlantic alliance point in in Konya, Turkey and later returned home to Germany. The reason for the failure of the mission is the lack of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan’s permission to use their airspace for flight of NATO aircraft to Afghanistan.

/Day.Az/