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President Aliyev opens naval base

25 June 2015 14:04 (UTC+04:00)
President Aliyev opens naval base

By Nigar Orujova

Azerbaijan’s President, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev attended on June 25 the opening of a naval base on the occasion of the 97th anniversary of the establishment of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

The head of state first laid flowers at a statue of national leader Heydar Aliyev.

Defense Minister, Colonel-General Zakir Hasanov reported to Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev.

President Aliyev viewed the general layout of the base and then met with its personnel.

Chief of the General Staff of the Navy Shahin Mammadov reported to the head of state.

President Aliyev saluted the soldiers and addressed the event.

Then the head of state reviewed the conditions created at the naval base.

Over the past few years, Azerbaijan succeeded to modernize and strengthen the Caspian fleet inherited from the Soviet time.

At present, the Azerbaijani Navy is considered as the second, after Russia, strongest fleet in the Caspian Sea for its capabilities.

Azerbaijan celebrates the Day of the Armed Forces on June 26. The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the first secular democratic state of the Islamic world, took measures in the area of building armed forces. It was a very complicated process because the ADR had no national army when it was established in 1918.

According to the decision of the ADR government passed on June 26, 1918, a first regular military unit, the Separate Corps, was set up.

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Nigar Orujova is AzerNews’s staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @o_nigar

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