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  • BAKU: NATO Supports Azerbaijan's Territorial Integrity

    NATO SUPPORTS AZERBAIJAN'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY

    Trend News Agency
    Sept 17 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan, Baku, 17 September /Trend News corr. R.Novruzov/
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) supports the territorial
    integrity of Azerbaijan and is interested to develop relations with the
    strategically important country. The statement was made in Brussels
    at the 26+1 meeting on Azerbaijan-NATO cooperation within Individual
    Partnership Plan on 17 September, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said
    to Trend News.

    Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and the officials of
    the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of National Security and Ministry
    of Interior Affairs represented the country at the meeting.

    Mammadyarov touched upon the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict at the
    meeting with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the
    ambassadors of NATO countries. He said the conflict must be settled
    only on the basis of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity.

    The conflict between the two countries of the South Caucasus began
    in 1988 due to Armenian territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Since
    1992, Armenian Armed Forces have occupied 20% of Azerbaijan including
    the Nagorno-Karabakh region and its seven surrounding districts. In
    1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement at which
    time the active hostilities ended. The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk
    Group ( Russia, France, and the US) are currently holding peaceful
    negotiations.

    The foundation for cooperation between Azerbaijan and NATO was
    laid through signing a program-document within the framework of the
    Partnership for Peace on 4 May 1994. Azerbaijan was one of the 27
    OSCE member countries to join the program.

    In April 1996, an official document envisaging concrete directions
    in the cooperation was signed within the framework of the Partnership
    for Peace. Now, Azerbaijan is fulfilling about 50 tasks in conformity
    with the program.

    On 3 August, 2005, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed the Decree
    on Approval of the Action Plan on Individual Partnership between the
    Azerbaijan Republic and NATO.

    Azerbaijan and NATO are now cooperating within the second stage of
    the Action Plan on Development of Individual Partnership between
    Azerbaijan and NATO.
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