Azerbaijan, Baku, April 3 / Trend , N.Abdullayeva/
NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy Mr. Jean-François Bureau will discuss Azerbaijan's cooperation with the alliance in Baku.
Bureau will visit Baku on April 8, the Romanian Embassy in Azerbaijan told Trend .
Bureau will participate in the international conference on the NATO's 60th anniversary.
The conference will take place in Baku on April 9.
Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov and Romanian Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu will attend the event, as well.
A report on history of the alliance, as well as its peacekeeping role in conflict settlements will be made at the conference.
Cooperation between Azerbaijan and NATO was established on the base of "Partnership for Peace" program signed on May 4 inn 1994. Azerbaijan was one of 27 OSCE countries joining this program.
As part of the "Partnership for Peace" program, an official document was signed in April 1996 to specify concrete directions of interaction. At present, Azerbaijan is fulfilling roughly 50 partnership tasks in line with the program.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree to approve "Action plan on Azerbaijan's individual partnership with NATO" on Aug. 3 in 2005.
At present cooperation is being implemented under the second stage of the "Action plan on Azerbaijan's individual partnership with NATO".
Azerbaijan cooperated with NATO as part of the alliance's peacekeeping mission in Iraq and Kosovo and such cooperation last in Afghanistan at the moment.
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