Azerbaijan appreciates NATO support to the country's territorial integrity and sovereignty which was reflected at the declaration adopted recently by the summit, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said at a meeting with NATO Assistant Secretary General Jan-Fransua Bureau, foreign ministry press centre said on April 9.
The Azerbaijani foreign minister noted the country's successful cooperation with NATO and stressed important of the Individual Partnership Action Plan under which Azerbaijan cooperate with the alliance.
Bureau was satisfied with level of Azerbaijan's cooperation with NATO and hoped for its further development.
Azerbaijan and NATO signed Partnership for Peace Program on May 4, 1994. Azerbaijan was one of the first of the 27 OSCE member states to join the program.
An official document identifying directions of cooperation as a part of the Partnership for Peace Program was signed in April 1996. Azerbaijan is fulfilling about 50 partner tasks under the program.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on Approving Individual Partnership Action Plan of the Republic of Azerbaijan with NATO on August 3, 2005. The cooperation is currently being carried out as a part of the second stage of the IPAP.
Azerbaijan cooperated with the NATO as a part of the alliance's peacekeeping force in Iraq and Kosovo. This cooperation is continued in Afghanistan at present.
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