Azerbaijan Defence Minister Zakir Hasanov met with chairman Sergei Gurulev of the State Military Industrial Committee of Belarus. 

They discussed the avenues for expanding cooperation between Azerbaijan and Belarus in the defense sector, and the two countries’ contribution to regional security, informs the Azerbaijan MOD press service. 

Gurulev pointed to the great prospects for cooperation between the two countries.  

Political theorist Roman Yakovlevsky commented on this talk. In his view, the aforesaid cooperation can be in terms of arms supply, Charter97.org reports.   

“Azerbaijan and Armenia are at war to this day, whereas Belarus has military commitments to Armenia, within the framework of the CSTO [i.e., the Collective Security Treaty Organization].

“And when we hear that military-technical cooperation is developing with one of the warring sides, this raises questions whose answers are not easy to find.

“The development of military-technical cooperation is full of prospect in terms of Azerbaijan’s solvency and, probably, in an interesting new product for Azerbaijan,” Yakovlevsky stressed, in particular.