Bulgaria, Azerbaijan Agree on Defense Cooperation

Novonite.com
30 October 2004, Saturday.

The defense ministries of Bulgaria and Azerbaijan signed the
military cooperation plan to provide for experts exchange in the
field of military education, technical cooperation and industrial
entrepreneurship in the military field.

The delegation of Azerbaijan led by Defense Minister Colonel Safar
Abiyev has visited Sofia this week to discuss issues of bilateral
cooperation, the AzerTaj state news agency informed.

The two ministers conferred also over the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
over Nagorno-Karabakh during which Minister Abiyev expressed concern
about Bulgaria having not recognised so far Armenia as an aggressor,
training of terrorist groups and cultivation of drugs.

The recent official visit by President Georgi Parvanov to Azerbaijan
has given a powerful impetus to deepening of the Bulgaria-Azerbaijan
relations in all spheres, the state news agency of the Asian country
pointed out.