AZERBAIJAN’S DEFENCE MINISTER OF 18 YEARS REPLACED
IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly
Oct 24 2013
Joshua Kucera, Istanbul – IHS Jane’s Defence Industry
Azerbaijan’s long-serving defence minister, Safar Abiyev, has been
replaced following the re-election of President Ilham Aliyev.
The new defence minister will be Zakir Hasanov, currently the commander
of the ‘Internal Troops’ of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Aliyev announced his new cabinet 22 October, and Abiyev was one of
only two ministers to be replaced.
Abiyev had held his position since 1995 and was believed to be an
Aliyev loyalist. He was known for his frequent threats of war against
the Armenian forces ruling the breakaway Azerbaijani territory of
Nagorno-Karabakh, which Azerbaijan lost in a war to Armenia in the
early 1990s.
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