Azerbaijani Defense Ministry holds briefing for military attachés of foreign countries

Deputy Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General Chingiz Mammadov and chief of Defense Ministry’s International Military Cooperation Department, Major-General Ramiz Najafov held a briefing in the Military Academy of Azerbaijani Armed Forces for the military attachés accredited in Azerbaijan.

Defense Ministry’s press service said the meeting aims to inform the attachés about the achievements of the Azerbaijani Army, outcomes of the year and the future activities.

Ramiz Najafov said reforms were being carried out in the Armed Forces since 2007 within the framework of Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) signed between Azerbaijan and NATO and the process was more successful in 2009.

Najafov said the weapons and equipment had been modernized, teaching and training process was perfect, for the first time Azerbaijan’s military attachés accredited in foreign countries had met in Baku to discuss the cooperation, 10 official and working meetings on the ministerial level had been held in Azerbaijan, 8 official and working meetings in foreign countries, the contingent participating in the peacemaking operations had doubled, the country had military cooperation with 54 countries, 102 contracts and agreements had been signed with 27 of them.

Najafov said Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh should be solved peacefully, but if does not happen, Azerbaijan is ready to liberate its occupied lands.

/APA/