On February 16, Baku will host a meeting of the Joint Chief of Staff Committee of the United States Joe Dunford with his Russian counterpart, Valery Gerasimov, a source at the US War Department told Turan IA.
According to the same source, the theme of the meeting will be issues of military cooperation between the two countries. The sides will also discuss issues of "communication between the military of the two countries in order to avoid misunderstandings and potential crises," the report says.
Where exactly they will meet and how long it will last, has not been reported.
A source in the Pentagon did not tell Turan IA why Baku was chosen a place for the meeting of the General Staff Chiefs of Russia and the United States.
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Politics
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NATO expressed condolences regarding the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, the Alliance's spokesperson, Farah Dalallah, said on her social media account.
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On December 26, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
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On December 26, the British Embassy in Baku lowered its flag in mourning for the victims of the AZAL plane crash in Aktau. "In connection with the Day of Mourning in Azerbaijan, the British Embassy in Baku has lowered the national flag in memory of the victims of the plane crash," reads the post on the embassy's social media account on platform X.
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The Kazakh side has published information about the nationality of 67 people, including 5 crew members of the AZAL plane that crashed on December 25 in Aktau. Among them, 38 people died, and 29 survived.
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