On July 7, the two-day international seminar of NATO Implementation of Partner Action Plan against terrorism (PAP-T): participation and contribution of partner-countries to operations of NATO against terrorism was completed in Baku. The meeting brought together 50 representatives from 32 countries around the world, Trend reports with reference to the public relations center of the National Security Ministry of Azerbaijan.
The minister of national security of Azerbaijan lieutenant-general Eldar Mahmudov delivered a speech at the conference, noting that the effective cooperation between NATO and Azerbaijan has been continuing for more than 12 years. Besides, he pointed out that the appearance of Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev at the final session of NATO Parliamentary Assembly is the indicator of the strengthening and expansion of the cooperation of sides.
Mahmudov highly assessed the Individual Cooperation Action Plan of Azerbaijan and NATO, which was confirmed according to the order of Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev dated August 3, 2005. Irrespective of the continuation of the aggression by Armenian side against Azerbaijan, social-economic development allows to strengthen the role of official Baku in the regional and international arena. All these permitted to strengthen the position of Baku in the settlement of Armenian-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Armenia should understand the real situation, told Mahmudov.
The deputy prime minister of Azerbaijan Ali Hasanov greeted the participants of the seminar on behalf of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan Republic.
The representatives of NATO highly assessed the efforts of Azerbaijan in organizing the seminar. It was stated that Azerbaijan is an active participant of the antiterrorism coalition, and the position of official Baku in this process was highly assessed.
On the second day of the seminar, a video-conference with Headquarter of the North-Atlantic Alliance was held. During the video-conference, the NATO secretary general assistant on defense planning John Chalstone expressed his gratitude to Azerbaijan for highly conducting the seminar.
Cooperation of Azerbaijan with NATO was highly assessed
