Baku / 07.02.20 / Turan: Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the NATO Allied Forces General Tod Walters held a meeting on February 6 at the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the military leaders exchanged views on strategic stability, the situation in crisis regions of the world, and discussed practical steps along the military line in order to prevent incidents caused by the military activities of the parties.
Prior to this, Gerasimov and Walters were received by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
Gerasimov also held a separate meeting with the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, Najmeddin Sadykov.
Over the past three years, the top military commanders of Russia and NATO regularly meet in Baku to discuss pressing regional issues. First, this concerns the conflict of interests and coordination in crisis areas of the world, and especially in the Middle East.-02D-
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