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News.AZ January 30, 2010 Azerbaijan's military contingent in Afghanistan doubled in 2009 The commissioning of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway project will help create potential for the speedy and safe transit of cargos to Afghanistan. According to the news service for Azerbaijan’s FM, the statement came from Azerbaijan’s FM Elmar Mammadyarov who spoke at the international conference on Afghan issues organized on the initiative of Great Britain, the UN and Afghanistan in London. "Azerbaijan contributes to the cargo transportation to Afghanistan with the use of existing infrastructure yet the commissioning of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway project will help create opportunities for the speedy and safe transit of cargoes to Afghanistan", he said. According to the minister, in this sense Azerbaijan is ready to continue military assistance to ISAF [if] it leads to establishment of security, stability and development in Afghanistan. "Since the first days Azerbaijan has joined the operation of international security assistance forces, thus demonstrating the solidarity with the Afghan people and the world community. In 2009 we doubled the number of our servicemen there and currently ISAF involves 90 Azerbaijani servicemen", Mammadyarov said. .... Afghan servicemen will also train at the Military Academy and other military schools of Azerbaijan.... =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: rwroz...@yahoo.com or stopnato-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Daily digest option available. ==============================
