BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 17. Azerbaijan is a long time partner of NATO, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said while making a press statements with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku, Trend reports.
"Azerbaijan is a long-time partner of NATO. We have worked together for many years. We appreciate very much your contributions to our KFOR mission in Kosovo, but also of course, your presence, your contributions to our mission in Afghanistan over many years, was extremely important. And you're absolutely right that one of the last troops to leave Afghanistan was actually Azeri troops because you were responsible for protection of the airport, which was a key task in the evacuation of the NATO presence in in Afghanistan. So this demonstrates that our partnership is about political dialogue but also about practical cooperation. And we welcome that", he said.