POLITICS
STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTRY OF AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC
The Azerbaijan-NATO cooperation links have successfully developed in the last years and as a result, the Republic of Azerbaijan as one of the active partners of NATO had presented the management of the Organization the Operation Plan on Individual Partnership in May current year.
As a military aggression of Armenia against Azerbaijan Republic, the country, where the exercises were to conduct, 20 percent of the territories are still under occupation and over one million of Azerbaijanis are refugees and IDPs.
Leadership of this country holds a sharp and non-constructive position in the carried out peace negotiations. In this case, for Azerbaijan, participation of the Armenian militaries in the exercises in the territory of the country was impossible.
The Azerbaijan side once again states its adherence to the principles of the Euro-Atlantic values and deepening its partnership with the Northern Atlantic Alliance and expresses hope that the years-old successful and effective partnership relations between NATO and the Republic of Azerbaijan will develop dynamically in the years coming.