POLITICS
Military parade held this year showed the power of Azerbaijani state and army, President
Baku, July 16 (AZERTAC). The military parade held in June this year showed our strength, the power of the Azerbaijani state and army, President Ilham Aliyev said at a meeting of the Cabinet to discuss outcomes of the socio-economic development in the first half of 2011.
“The armed forces are strengthening and vast resources are allocated for that. In general, our military spending is $3.3 billion. This is 50 per cent more than the total state budget of Armenia, a country living in poverty.”
“Of course, $3.3 billion is a big amount. But it is both big and small. It is big because it is a lot of money. And it is small because we must pay even more attention to these issues. We should try to find the resources before the end of the year to further increase our military spending.”