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Azerbaijan, Georgia sign 2017 plan to expand defense cooperation

Xinhua, December 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

Azerbaijani Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov and visiting Georgian Defense Minister Levan Izoria signed a cooperation plan for 2017 here in Baku on Friday, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.

Speaking about high level strategic partnership between Azerbaijan and Georgia, Zakir Hasanov pointed out that cooperation between the two neighboring countries is very important in terms of regional security and steady development of both countries.

The minister said that hopes are high that cooperation plan that was signed between Azerbaijan and Georgia, will further promote the development of bilateral relations.

Georgian defence minister, in turn, said that his country is ready to join Azerbaijan-Turkey military exercises next year.

The parties exchanged views on the prospects of cooperation in the military sphere and in the field of military education, considered the possibility of holding joint military exercises, the organization of meetings of mutual interest.

The first initiative of military cooperation between neighboring Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia emerged in 2013 and was followed by the first official meeting of the defense ministers on the sidelines of NATO Ministerial in Brussels, in June 2014.

Further meetings of the ministers in Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan in August 2014 and in Georgia's Tbilisi in April 2015 put forward the planning and execution of joint training exercises in view of protecting the region's strategic energy-transport infrastructure. Endit