On Friday, Defense Minister, Colonel General Safar Abiyev strongly protested against the planned participation of Armenian officers in NATO’s Cooperative Best Effort-2004 desert exercises to be held in Baku in September within the Partnership for Peace Program.
Assa-Irada — General Abiyev underlined that the Azerbaijani people are surprised with the efforts by Armenia, which has occupied Azerbaijan’s lands and supports terror and separatism on the level of state policy, to take part in the NATO exercises in Baku.
“Armenia doesn’t recognize Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and doesn’t give up its territorial claims against Azerbaijan. There are no diplomatic relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia. In this case, the participation of the officers in the Armenian Armed Forces in the exercises held in Baku is not purposeful.”
General Abiyev stressed that the Azerbaijani people are against the planned participation of Armenian officers in the NATO exercises under the cover of international cooperation. The defense minister recalled that Azerbaijan refused to take part in NATO exercise held in Armenia in 2003.
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