Baku. Victoria Dementyeva – APA. Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has commented on the withdrawal of NATO military contingent from Afghanistan and Azerbaijan's participation in this process, APA reports. The Minister said in an interview with the “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” that multimodal transportation methods will be applied to withdraw troops from Afghanistan from 2014. This comprises three routes: the northern route through Uzbekistan and Russia, to send forces to Georgia’s Black Sea ports by rail after they come to Baku through Karachi port (Pakistan) or by planes, send NATO forces to Turkey by the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway after it is commissioned. “All the three routes are being reviewed, and NATO leadership will select one of them. The use of the Caspian Sea is not discussed for now,” said the Minister.
Touching on the establishment of the U.S. military base in the Caspian Sea, Mammadyarov said that one of the issues discussed by the Caspian countries is to avoid third countries’ military presence in the sea: “I can speak on behalf of Azerbaijan. Our legislation prohibits the presence of foreign military bases in the country."
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