(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 27 . Military cooperation
between Azerbaijan and Turkey is developing in an ascending line,
Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan, Colonel-General Zakir Hasanov
said in an interview with AZERTAG, Trend reports.
'First of all, it is sincere relations between the heads of the
states of the two countries that give impetus to this. Our
strategic alliance is based on friendship and brotherhood. The
political and moral support provided by comradely Turkey to
Azerbaijan during the Patriotic War is undeniable. As you know, on
June 15, 2021, in Shusha, the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Turkey
signed a Declaration on strategic alliance between the two
comradely countries. I would say that this Declaration has an
exceptional role in the further development of bilateral relations.
The activities arising from the declaration are rigorously carried
out in the Azerbaijani army.
Experts of the engineering and fortification units of the
Turkish Armed Forces provide us with direct assistance in clearing
our liberated territories of landmines and unexploded munitions.
Thus, Turkish instructors, together with the personnel of
engineering units, conduct special courses on mine clearance and
other courses that meet international standards. By the way, I
should note that the personnel of engineering units in total
cleared about 21 thousand hectares of our territories from mines
and unexploded munitions in our liberated territories. During the
clearing of territories, 9464 unexploded munitions, 6126
anti-personnel mines, 2172 anti-tank mines, and in general about 18
thousand munitions were found and destroyed,' he said.
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