Kiev appeals to Baku for military supplies
By Rashid Shirinov
Baku will host meeting of the Azerbaijani-Ukrainian intergovernmental commission on military and technical cooperation in 2017.
Ukrainian Ambassador Alexander Mishchenko announced about this while talking to reporters on February 6, Trend reported.
A big delegation from Ukraine will join the meeting, which will discuss the state and prospects of cooperation in military -technical sphere, Mishchenko said.
The envoy added that a deep cooperation in this sphere is illustrative in the bilateral relations of two countries.
“The military- technical cooperation has always been one of the main components of our cooperation,” the ambassador said, adding that his country helped Azerbaijan in the military sphere in early 1990s, and now Kiev appeals to Baku for aid in the supply of some types of military equipment.
Azerbaijan domestically produces various types of small arms and melee weapons, artillery, armored vehicles, various aerial bombs, unmanned aerial vehicles, various types of ammunition for small arms, including small-caliber automatic pistols, optical devices and others.
Twenty-eight military factories of Azerbaijan’s Defense Industry Ministry have manufactured 1,160 kinds of defense products so far. Azerbaijan`s defense products are exported to more than 10 countries.
Azerbaijan and Ukraine enjoy sustainable prospects of bilateral relations in political, economic, energy, transport and humanitarian fields.
The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Ukraine was $234.7 million in the first nine months of 2016. A total of $201.8 million of them were the imports from Ukraine to Azerbaijan, according to Azerbaijan’s State Customs Committee.
In 2016, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko visited Azerbaijan, and a number of agreements were signed during the visit. Additionally, the presidents discussed implementation of joint projects in energy, transport and agricultural spheres.
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