NATO WILL CURTAIL FINANCIAL AID TO BAKU, AZERI MILITARY EXPERT CONSIDERS

PanArmenian News
Sept 15 2004

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Due to the NATO making a decision on canceling
Cooperative Best Effort – 2004 exercises, which were to be held
in Baku, to all appearance the NATO will curtail financial aid to
Azerbaijan and will keep back the sum spent on preparation of the
exercises, Azeri military expert Uzeir Jafarov stated. “Our authorities
had to state about their protest against the arrival of the Armenian
officers beforehand, explaining it with Azeri military refusing to
participate in the same exercises in Armenia last year,” the expert
considers. In his words, in the coming 2 or 3 years Azerbaijan will
not be entrusted the holding of measures of such level. Besides,
one should expect serious statements of the Alliance leadership,
as for the first time in the history the holding of exercises was
failed a few hours before their beginning, U. Jafarov said.