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Mammadyarov: "Azerbaijan has no plan of switching to US arms"

22 March 2007 [23:38] - TODAY.AZ
Azerbaijan has no plans of abandoning Russian armament, switching to the American one. Minister of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov made the statement in Washington.

"We have very good Russian armament. Why should we change it for anything? Most important is that the army personnel know it well. In the case of switching to something else, we would have to train the personnel anew," the head of Azerbaijani foreign ministry said.

Nevertheless, he observed that "a pretty good warfare cooperation" develops between Azerbaijan and the US.

"In the context of bilateral defense cooperation and in the framework of the NATO Partnership for Peace Program, we have very interesting programs. In particular, on terrorism and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," Mammadyarov informed, Day.Az reports referring to Kommersant. Regnum

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