Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan Zakir Hasanov today convened a consultation.

As reported Azerbaijani presses, citing the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, the consultation was held with deputy ministers, commanders of military subdivisions, chiefs of general departments, as well as heads of departments and services of the Ministry of Defense.

Hasanov called the attendees’ attention to the tasks that the President of Azerbaijan set forth during his visit to the occupied Armenian region of Hadrut.

During the meeting, the participants of the consultation analyzed the situation on the state border and ‘in the territories for temporary deployment of the Russian peacekeeping contingent’, referring to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

“Positively assessing the military exercises held by the troops for raising the level of combat-readiness of the subdivisions even higher, the minister assigned to conduct various kinds of exercises and drills in accordance with the conditions for real combats during daytime and at night,” the press release reads.