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By Aynur Jafarova

A NATO training team is conducting training for Azerbaijani servicemen in Baku on the topic "NATO operational planning process", Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on October 1.

According to the Individual Partnership and Cooperation Program for 2013, the mobile training team of the Allied Joint Force Command, located in Brunssum, the Netherlands, started the training course at the NATO Armed Forces Training Center in the Azerbaijani capital.

Participants will attend briefings and in-class exercises covering the process of NATO operational planning; stages and groups of operation planning; planning documents; strategic documents; the concept of development and scenario of operations; determination of the latest results, strategic objectives and constraints, etc. during the course, which will last four days.

This is one of the trainings being held within the Partnership for Peace on the basis of the Individual Partnership and Cooperation Program.

The cooperation between Azerbaijan and NATO covers a variety of areas, including security, emergencies, mine clearance and military reform. The program of cooperation between Azerbaijan and NATO is set out in the Individual Partnership Action Plan on Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan is among the eight partner countries that have confirmed their presence in Afghanistan after 2014. Peacekeepers of the country will stay in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US troops from the country by the end of 2014. However, after 2014 Azerbaijan will reduce its contingent in Afghanistan.