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Azerbaijanâ€™s Ministry of Foreign Affairs denies information about non-permission of air corridor to Afghanistan

19 November 2009 12:08 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Victoria Dementyeva â€“ APA. â€œThousands of planes are flying to Afghanistan via Azerbaijan. All NATO countries have an opportunity to receive permission to conduct flights to Afghanistan via Azerbaijan. Baku gives one-year permission to some countries to conduct such flights. There are no problems in this issueâ€, said Azerbaijanâ€™s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Araz Azimov speaking about the APâ€™s report on non-permission of air corridor for NATO shipment from Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.

The Deputy Minister said Azerbaijan and NATO were negotiating the deployment of AWACS to Afghanistan via Azerbaijan, but Azerbaijan has not responded NATOâ€™s demand yet because there is a need in permission by all countries offering air corridor for deployment of such kind of planes. â€œNATO is negotiating AWACS deployment to Afghanistan with us, but Azerbaijan has not given negative response. This issue does not depend on Azerbaijan only. This issue should be coordinated with all countries on route, from Turkey to Afghanistan, including Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as wellâ€.