According to the joint plan of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Human Rights Ombudsman, representatives of the Ombudsman's Office has conducted monitoring on "Ombudsman Institute and its work to protect the rights of servicemen" to study the human rights situation in the Azerbaijan Higher Military School named after Heydar Aliyev and the Military Lyceum named after Jamshid Nakhchivansky.

Azerbaijan Naval Forces based on NATO standards conducted in Baku within the framework of NATO Operational Capabilities Concept (OCC) Programme the self-evaluation level 1 (SEL-1) of the Maritime Interdiction Operations Boarding Party declared (MIO BP) into the NATO OCC Pool of Forces.

The Minister of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov has met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Azerbaijan, Mr.

The Ministries of Defense of Azerbaijan and Germany held a bilateral talks in Baku according to the "Plan of bilateral cooperation between the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Federal Ministry of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany for 2017".

According to the rotation plan, a group of 50 Azerbaijani military servicemen returned from Afghanistan to Baku.

The ceasefire monitoring on the Line of Contact, near the village Horadiz (Fuzuli region) held in accordance with the mandate of Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on October 25, ended with no incident.

The First Deputy of Minister of Defence – Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Colonel General Najmeddin Sadikov attended the Chiefs of Defense Conference on Countering - Violent Extremist Organizations (C-VEOs) held in Washington, USA.

The first meeting of the Joint Working Group is held in BakuOn October 24, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov has met with the delegation led by the Deputy Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the head of the Joint Working Group on Bilateral Military Relations and Military-Technical Cooperation from the Iranian side, Major General Hojatollah Ghoreishi.

On 25 October 2017, the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in accordance with its mandate plans to conduct the next ceasefire monitoring exercise on the LOC, near the village Horadiz (Fuzuli region).

On October 23, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov has met with the newly appointed head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Azerbaijan, Ambassador Kestutis Jankauskas.