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By Gunay Hasanova

Military personnel and military equipment of formations, military units of Combined Arms Army rose on alert, entered the areas of operational use and equipped with all necessary facilities within the large-scale exercises of the Armed Forces, Azertac reported.

Exercises are conducted in Nakhchivan in the areas of operational use with the aim of raising the level of professionalism of artillery formations and military units of Combined Arms Army.

To organize health maintenance at a high level during the battle, medical units were deployed in the field and are ready to carry out the necessary tasks.

The large-scale exercises to run until November 18 conducted according to the plan approved by the President of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev, involved ships and boats of the Naval Forces.

More than 60,000 members of military personnel, over 50 planes and helicopters, more than 150 tanks and armored vehicles, as well as up to 700 systems of missile and artillery forces are involved in the training.

The country’s armed forces regularly conduct military exercises since Azerbaijan remains in a state of war with Armenia, as Armenian forces occupy a 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding regions.

A ceasefire was signed in 1994, but negotiations still continue on a long-term peace agreement.

Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.

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