Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr. I.Alizadeh / Increase of the military budget of country does contradict international bills and legislations and cause danger of international organizations, MP Ziyafat Askarov, the deputy chairman of the Azerbaijani Parliament and chairman of the permanent parliamentary commission on security and defense issues said.
In compliance with the international legislations the military budget of any country may make up 4 or 6% of state budget. The military budget of the Azerbaijani Republic amount to 4.8% of the total budget of the country. We will propose to increase the military budget of the country, the MP said.
Azerbaijan's military budget reaches $1bln.The yearly state budget made up $10bln. International organizations expressed concern due to increase of the Azerbaijani military budget.
According to Askarov, Azerbaijan increases its budget in compliance with world economic processes, as well as increase of the economy influence on rise of military budget.
The Russian arms and military tecnics based in Georgia are gradually transformed to Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Russia gave amendment for $1bln to Armenia. Armenian press overestimate the military budget of Azerbaijan, Askarov said.