AZERBAIJANI DEFENSE MINISTER SIGNS ACTION PLAN ON MILITARY COOPERATION BETWEEN AZERBAIJAN AND THE US
Azeri Press Agency
[ 14 Sep 2007 19:58 ]
Azerbaijan’s Defense Minister, Colonel-General Safar Abiyev today
received deputy director of the US European Command Strategy,
Planning and Policy Department, Brigadier General William Mayville,
the ministry’s press service told APA.
The minister spoke about the relations between Azerbaijan and the
US and prospects of the cooperation. Noting that the relations are
of strategic character Safar Abiyev touched upon the situation in
the region an Armenia’s aggressive policy and said that international
organizations, states interested in the solution of the conflict should
be resolute to prevent Armenia from this position, William Mayville
said the importance of the problem is in the focus of attention of
the US and underlined that his country is interested in improving
Azerbaijan-US cooperation. At the end of the meeting Safar Abiyev
signed the Action Plan on military cooperation between Azerbaijan
and the US.
Commander-in-chief of NATO’s armed forces in Europe, Cradock signed
the document from American side.
The US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Anne Derse also attended the
meeting.