POLITICS
NEXT SESSION OF MINISTERIAL COUNCIL OF DEFENSE OF CIS COUNTRIES DUE IN AZERBAIJAN
The next session of Council of the Ministers of Defense of the CIS countries will take place in the next year in Azerbaijan, the chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, Colonel- General Yury Baluevsky told correspondent of AZERTAC. As he said, the arrangement on carrying out of session of the Ministers of Defense of CIS countries in Baku has been achieved during visit of the Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan Safar Abiyev to Moscow where he has taken part in session of Council of the Ministers of Defense of the states of Commonwealth. The chief of the Joint Staff has expressed satisfaction with the meeting carried out with the Azerbaijan colleague and has told, that “Azerbaijan currently is included in the CIS, and I have with a great pleasure met the Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan”. As he said, dialogue about cooperation between Azerbaijan and Russia in the field of military-technical cooperation will be continued in the Azerbaijan capital.