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DEPT FOR EUR/CARC, EUR/RPM (ACOPE, RCARLAND), SCA/A (ARUSH) 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/22/2020 
TAGS: MOPS MARR PGOV PREL AF AJ
SUBJECT: AZERBAIJAN: AFGHAN TRAINING SUPPORT DEMARCHE 
 
REF: STATE 14366 
 
Classified By: Pol/Econ Counselor J. Robert Garverick, Reasons 1.4(b) a 
nd (d). 
 
¶1. (C) Poloff delivered Reftel demarche to Anar Jahangirli, 
chief of the Security Affairs Department at the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs.  Jahangirli was unable to confirm 
Azerbaijani participation at the 23 February Force Generation 
Conference, but said that the Ministry of Defense had been 
properly informed. 
 
¶2. (C) Regarding Azerbaijani contributions to ANSF training, 
Jahangirli said the GOAJ is finalizing proposals to present 
bilaterally to the Afghan government.  He notedthat in 2009 
the GOAJ had been very pleased withthe outcome of a USD 
170,000 demining program that involved both the dispatch of 
Azerbaijani personnel to Afghanistan and training of Afghans 
in Azerbaijan.  The GOAJ made other proposals to Kabul last 
year, he said, including offers by the Ministry of Defense to 
host Afghan cadets at the Military Academy and to negotiate a 
bilateral military cooperation agreement; and offers of 
training by the State Border Service and the Ministry of 
National Security, but the Afghan Government did not reply to 
those offers.  Jahangirli said the offers Azerbaijan will 
make in 2010 will offer more specifics up front, but declined 
to provide upper or lower bounds to what the GOAJ intended to 
spend on the proposals, or how many personnel will be 
involved. 
 
¶3. (C) Jahangirli also told Poloff that Deputy Minister of 
Foreign Affairs Araz Azimov plans to visit Afghanistan (Kabul 
only) in mid-March for 3-4 days. He will seek meetings with 
senior ISAF commanders and with Ambassador Eikenberry. 
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