Baku/16.08.19/Turan: The head of state issued a decree on conferring the highest military ranks to service members of the State Border Service (GPS).
Major Generals Abbas Khalilov and Ehram Hajiyev became Lieutenant Generals.
Colonel Ramin Bagirov became a major general.
Captains of the first rank Abbas Giyasov and Ziyad Agayev were awarded the title of Rear Admiral.
The president also signed the assignment of honorary titles to the group of military and civil servants of the State Border Service and the award of state awards to them.
Presidential orders are timed to the professional holiday of border guards, celebrated on August 18.
On August 18, 1919, the Parliament of the Azerbaijan People's Republic adopted a law on the protection of the country's borders. This year the border troops of the country celebrate a centenary. -06D-
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