Azeri deputy minister says Russia’s Caucasus combat experience ‘valuable’
Interfax
June 16 2005
Moscow, 15 June: The Azerbaijani deputy interior minister and
commander-in-chief of the country’s Interior Ministry troops,
Lt-Gen Zakir Hasanov, has described as valuable the combat experience
gained by the Russian Internal Troops in the North Caucasus and other
“hot beds”.
“We are also interested in an exchange of experience in the sphere of
combat training of troops,” Hasanov told journalists after a meeting
with his counterpart, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Interior
Ministry’s Internal Troops, Col-Gen Nikolay Rogozhkin, in Moscow on
15 June.
Touching on the situation in Nagornyy Karabakh, Gen Hasanov said
that “almost the entire world recognizes Azerbaijan’s territorial
integrity”.
“Our internal troops will carry out their tasks in Nagornyy Karabakh
fully once the issue is solved by political means,” the general said.
He underlined that the internal troops were preparing for performing
the tasks during the parliamentary elections due in November.