DEFENSE MINISTRIES OF AZERBAIJAN AND BULGARIA SIGN 2005 MILITARY COOPERATION PLAN
During their meeting, the Ministers discussed the issues of bilateral cooperation between Azerbaijan and Bulgaria in the framework of the NATO Partnership for Peace Program and anti-terror coalition. The Bulgarian Minister noted that the recent official visit by President Georgiy Parvanov to Azerbaijan gave a powerful impetus to deepening of the Bulgaria-Azerbaijan relations in all spheres.
Colonel General Safar Abiyev informed his counterpart on the history of founding the independent Azerbaijan state, integration of the country in NATO and Euroatlantic organizations as well as on military and political situation in the South Caucasus.
Dwelling on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, Minister Abiyev expressed concern about non-recognition so far of Armenia as an aggressor, training of terrorist groups and cultivation of drugs and settling of ethnic Armenians in the occupied territories from which the great number of native Azerbaijanis were forcedly ousted.
We appreciate the Bulgarian government for the new impetus given to the peace process since the country’s Foreign Minister’s presidency of the OSCE, he said. The Colonel General invited his Bulgarian counterpart to visit Azerbaijan.
In the end, the two Defense Ministers signed the military cooperation plan for 2005 covering experts exchange in the area of military education, technical cooperation and military-industrial establishment.
The delegation of Azerbaijan led by Defense Minister Safar Abiyev also met with deputy Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria Yunal Lutfi, deputy Foreign Minister of the country Mrs. Gergana Grancharova and deputy Prime Minister Plamen Panayotiv, as well as visited Bulgarian National Military University named after Vasiliy Levskiy.
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