British-inspired Azeri military doctrine to be ready by mid-2005

Sources:

ANS TV, Baku
22 Dec 04

Assa-Irada, Baku
22 Dec 04

[Presenter] Azerbaijan’s military doctrine and security concept
will be ready by mid-2005. Then the documents will be reported
[presumably submitted] to the president of the country. A special
working group is now drawing up the documents. The aide on military
issues to the Azerbaijani president, Vahid Aliyev, has said that the
military doctrine and security concept will cover all spheres of life
in the country.

[Vahid Aliyev, speaking to microphone] The armed forces, security
bodies, ecology and all other aspects should be taken into
consideration. These documents must be worked out conceptually
and in such a way that they will give priority to Azerbaijan’s
interests. The Azerbaijani laws on national security, reconnaissance
and counter-reconnaissance were drafted, examined by experts, endorsed
by the Milli Maclis and adopted this year. The appropriate bodies
will abide by these laws in their work now.

[The Azerbaijani news agency Assa-Irada quoted Aliyev as saying on
the same day that “on the president’s instruction, we are working on
the security concept and military doctrine considering international
experience” and, in particular, that of Germany and Great Britain]