AZERI PRESIDENT AGAIN RELIES ON MILITARY BUDGET IN SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH CONFLICT
ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia
Oct 23 2006
Next year the military budget of Azerbaijan will exceed 1 billion
dollars, said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at a meeting of the
Cabinet of Ministers, Azertag reports.
He said he was informed beforehand that the economic development of
Azerbaijan "will allow making the military budget of Azerbaijan equal
to the whole state budget of Armenia and even exceeding it." "I am
very glad that we have achieved this within such a short term, in two
and a half year. Of course, it will have an important part in the just
resolution of the Armeniabn-Azerbaijani Nagorny Karabakh conflict,"
the president said.