Azeri president attends NATO summit in Portugal
LISBON – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Friday left for Lisbon, Portugal to attend a NATO summit.
28 members of the alliance are expected to approve a strategic concept covering the next ten years at the two-day meeting.
Baku and Brussels have been cooperating within NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PfP) program since 1994. Also, the South Caucasus republic is collaborating with the bloc within the NATO Individual Partnership Plan. IPAP, signed in 2005, envisions improvements in the military field, political and economic reforms, and other areas.
Since 1999, Azerbaijani troops have been assisting NATO’s peacekeeping efforts in Kosovo, and since 2002 - in Afghanistan.
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