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Azerbaijan, Turkey to mull military co-op prospects

2 December 2013 14:11 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijan, Turkey to mull military co-op prospects

By Sara Rajabova

Baku will host a meeting in the framework of the Azerbaijani-Turkish high level military dialogue on December 18-20.

The meeting will discuss the bilateral cooperation plan and prospects between Azerbaijan and Turkey, the Defense Ministry reported on December 2.

The meetings within the high-level military dialogue have been held once a year since 2007.

Usually, Azerbaijani delegation is headed by Deputy Defense Minister, while Turkish one - Second Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces.

Military cooperation between Azerbaijan and Turkey was established in 1992 with an agreement on military education signed between the Azerbaijani and Turkish governments. Since then, the two governments have closely cooperated on defense and security.

Since 1992, Azerbaijan and Turkey have signed more than 100 military protocols. The inked documents include a 1997 border protocol, a 2001 protocol between the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan and the General Staff of Turkey, a 2002 document between the same government agencies on cooperation in the area of war history, military archives and museum work, as well as a 2003 document between the governments of Azerbaijan and Turkey on training and assistance for Azerbaijan's State Border Service by Turkey's Armed Forces.

In 2011, Azerbaijan and Turkey signed an agreement on joint production of long-range missiles. The deal envisioned joint production of 107 and 122 mm missiles by an Azerbaijani ministry and Turkish weapons manufacturer Roketsan.

More than 20 Turkish defense industry companies have cooperation and commercial relations with Azerbaijan.

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