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Azerbaijan will remain a country of strategic importance to NATO - James Appathurai

12 December 2014 08:30 (UTC +04:00)

Appathurai said NATO has specific projects regarding the policy of energy security and cyber security, stressing that the Azerbaijani government for a short time signed the necessary documents for NATO’s new operations to be carried out in Afghanistan and NATO welcomes Azerbaijan’s contributions to ISAF operations.

“NATO will cooperate with Azerbaijan in the fields of defense education, energy security, cyber security, and fight against terrorism. We are working together with Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action to demine these lands for secure settlement of population. We are pleased to do good for the people of Azerbaijan. We can raise cooperation up to the level of strategic partnership. Conducting dialogue on human rights and management is very important for the alliance,” he noted.

James Appathurai said the successful cooperation in security issues within IPAP platform continues, adding they will further focus on the development of relations regarding NGOs and extraordinary security challenges.

With respect to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the special representative noted that though NATO doesn’t play any role in the solution of the problem, the alliance supports the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs to resolve the conflict.

“We expressed our position in the NATO summit communiqué. We want to achieve a peaceful and satisfactory resolution of the conflict for all parties,” he noted.

In the resolution adopted within the recent Wales Summit, NATO expressed support for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan.