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DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
May 4, 2011 Wednesday
UKRAINE AND AZERBAIJAN ARE GOING TO STRENGTHEN THE MILITARY
TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, April 29, 2011, p. 7
Ukraine and Azerbaijan are going to strengthen cooperation in the
areas that are definitely interesting for Russia. First of all, they
speak about energy projects and sales of Ukrainian military hardware.
Experts drew such conclusion commenting on the official visit of
Ukrainian leader Victor Yanukovich to Baku.
President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovich arrived to Baku. Right from the
international airport named after Geidar Aliyev his car went to the
countryside residence of the President of Azerbaijan. Leaders of the
two countries had a tete-a-tete conversation and afterwards there were
Azerbaijani-Ukrainian negotiations.
Experts pointed out that in the course of the tete-a-tete meeting the
presidents had to touch on the topic of military technological
cooperation. Azerbaijan is one of the main buyers of Ukrainian
military hardware. A delegation of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine had
a three-day visit to Baku in March. Expert of the center for research
of the army, conversion and disarmament Sergei Zgurets reports,
"Ukraine supplied 14 modernized fighters to Azerbaijan recently and
started a program for modernization of helicopters. In 2009, Ukraine
supplied BTR-70, self-propelled howitzers, artillery systems and Mi-24
helicopters." Answering a question about the accusations on the part
of Armenia many politicians of which presume that Ukraine helps
Azerbaijan to get ready for a new war, the expert said, "The situation
is of conflict kind in the political aspect. However, Russia
cooperates with both conflicting countries in the military field
successfully."
From: A. Papazian
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
May 4, 2011 Wednesday
UKRAINE AND AZERBAIJAN ARE GOING TO STRENGTHEN THE MILITARY
TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION
Source: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, April 29, 2011, p. 7
Ukraine and Azerbaijan are going to strengthen cooperation in the
areas that are definitely interesting for Russia. First of all, they
speak about energy projects and sales of Ukrainian military hardware.
Experts drew such conclusion commenting on the official visit of
Ukrainian leader Victor Yanukovich to Baku.
President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovich arrived to Baku. Right from the
international airport named after Geidar Aliyev his car went to the
countryside residence of the President of Azerbaijan. Leaders of the
two countries had a tete-a-tete conversation and afterwards there were
Azerbaijani-Ukrainian negotiations.
Experts pointed out that in the course of the tete-a-tete meeting the
presidents had to touch on the topic of military technological
cooperation. Azerbaijan is one of the main buyers of Ukrainian
military hardware. A delegation of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine had
a three-day visit to Baku in March. Expert of the center for research
of the army, conversion and disarmament Sergei Zgurets reports,
"Ukraine supplied 14 modernized fighters to Azerbaijan recently and
started a program for modernization of helicopters. In 2009, Ukraine
supplied BTR-70, self-propelled howitzers, artillery systems and Mi-24
helicopters." Answering a question about the accusations on the part
of Armenia many politicians of which presume that Ukraine helps
Azerbaijan to get ready for a new war, the expert said, "The situation
is of conflict kind in the political aspect. However, Russia
cooperates with both conflicting countries in the military field
successfully."
From: A. Papazian