Belgium, Brussels, July 15 / Trend Tarek Mahmud /
NATO thanks Azerbaijan for its growing contribution in ISAF (the International Security Assistance Force) on the threshold of presidential elections in Afghanistan scheduled for August 20, NATO press-secretary James Appathurai told Trend .
The meeting of Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov with NATO deputy secretary general Claudio Bisogniero and representatives of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council had positive character.
Major discussed issues included fight against terrorism and regional security, especially Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Appathurai said.
NATO representations expressed satisfaction with efforts of Azerbaijan to solve conflict peacefully, step-by-step and acceptable for both sides, as well as hope that result of Moscow's meeting will be satisfactory, he said.
The North Atlantic Cooperation Council supports the Azerbaijani government's intention to conduct reforms in defense dynamically by persisting that stabile reforms are major factor of success and confirmed that NATO is ready for assisting Azerbaijan in its striving, he said.
Appathurai confirmed that efforts of public diplomacy to make presence of NATO more visible in Azerbaijan were successful.