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NATO stands ready to support Azerbaijan's defence reforms, NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning Huseyin Dirioz said during the NISA-organized conference on the topic of "Celebrating 20th anniversary of Independence: Evaluation of Azerbaijan's foreign policy" in Baku on Friday.

He said Azerbaijan is indeed contributing to combating global concerns such as terrorism.

As a key player in the energy sector, Azerbaijan is a champion for cooperation in the energy security, Dirioz stated.

Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Ministers Araz Azimov and Hafiz Pashayev, Romanian ambassador to Azerbaijan Daniel Ciobanu and ambassadors of foreign countries accredited to Azerbaijan attended the conference.

The NATO International School (NISA) in Azerbaijan aims to establish the cooperation in the Euro-Atlantic region and beyond between NATO members and partner countries, young scholars, independent experts, as well as between military and civilian representatives, to discuss urgent threats and to explore the ways to solve them together.

NATO's cooperation with the South Caucasian countries - Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia is based on the programmes: Partnership for Peace, Individual plan of activity on cooperation and Planning and Analysis. These documents define the goals and objectives of the Alliance to render consultative aid to partner countries in the reforms made in the sphere of defence, security and military policy.