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| Azerbaijan will increase the military and security cooperation with Turkey. | |||
The
Azerbaijani-Turkish High-Level Military Dialogue group will hold a meeting
in Baku on Dec. 18-20, has announced in a statement the Azerbaijani Defense
Ministry. The meeting will focus on military cooperation between the two
countries, said the statement. |
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 Military cooperation between Azerbaijan and Turkey started in 1992 with a bilateral agreement signed on military education. |
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Initiated
in 2007 with Political-Military Assistant Working Group, Assistant Working
Group on Cooperation in Defense Industry and Assistant Working Group on
Material-Technical Provision functioning within the mechanism, the Azerbaijani-Turkish
High- Level Military Dialogue is held once a year.
The Azerbaijani delegation is headed by Deputy Defense Minister while the Turkish side led by the country's Second Chief of the General Staff. Turkey was the first country to recognize Azerbaijan's independence declared on October 18, 1991. The two countries forged diplomatic relations on Jan. 14, 1992. Military cooperation between Azerbaijan and Turkey started in 1992 with a bilateral agreement signed on military education. Since then, the two governments have been closely cooperating on defense and security. |
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