NATO APPRAISAL MISSION TO VISIT AZERBAIJAN

Trend News Agency
March 6 2008
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, Baku, 6 March /TrendNews corr K. Ramazanova/ The NATO
appraisal mission will visit Azerbaijan in mid-April, the NATO
coordinating officer for the South Caucasus Zbignev Ribatski said to
journalists in Baku on 6 March.

According to Ribatski, the purpose of his visit is to appraise the
fulfilment of the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP).

Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia are cooperating with NATO on IPAP.

The foundation for cooperation between Azerbaijan and NATO was
laid through signing a program-document within the framework of the
Partnership for Peace on 4 May 1994. Azerbaijan was the first amongst
the 27 OSCE member countries to join the program. In April 1996, an
official document envisaging concrete directions in the cooperation
was signed within the framework of the Partnership for Peace. Now,
by the program Azerbaijan is fulfilling about 50 tasks.

In August 2005, the Azerbaijani President signed the Decree on Approval
of the Working Plan on Individual Partnership between Azerbaijan and
NATO. Presently, the two sides are cooperating within the framework
of the second stage of the Working Plan.