Azerbaijani, Turkish, Georgian defense ministers to meet in Gabala
Azerbaijani, Turkish and Georgian defense ministers Zakir Hasanov, Ismet Yilmaz and Tinatin Khidasheli will meet on May 14, Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry reported.
During the meeting to be held in Azerbaijan's Gabala city, the ministers will discuss the military and technical cooperation and hold trilateral and bilateral meetings.
The first initiative of military cooperation between Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia emerged in 2013 and was followed by the first official meeting of the defense ministers on the sidelines of NATO Ministerial in Brussels, in June 2014.
Further meetings of the ministers in Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan in August 2014 and in Georgia's Tbilisi in April 2015 put forward the planning and execution of joint training exercises in view of protecting the region's strategic energy-transport infrastructure.
Last time, the defense ministers of the regional neighbors have come together in Istanbul on December 17 to look though the development perspectives of the trilateral military ties.
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