A group of 54 Azerbaijani military personnel was sent to Afghanistan in accordance with the plan and rotation for serving within NATO-led "Resolute Support" mission in Afghanistan.

According to the order of the Minister of Defense, an event on "Academic writing and publishing" was held at the Azerbaijan Armed Forces Military Academy in accordance with the NATO-Azerbaijan joint action plan for providing assistance to certain spheres of military education.

Within the framework of Defence Education Enhancement Program (DEEP), seminars on the topics "Strategy and force planning" and "Operational designing and planning" were held in Baku with the participation of academic teaching staff of the Azerbaijan Armed Forces Military Academy and the NATO/US Experts Group.

A working meeting with a group of NATO experts on the implementation of the documents of "Planning and Review Process" (PARP) and "Individual Partnership Action Plan" (IPAP) relating to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan was held in the Department of the International Military Cooperation on March 13.

Azerbaijan's Defense Minister, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov met with the delegation led by the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford on February 16.

According to the rotation plan, a group of 41 Azerbaijani military servicemen returned from Afghanistan to Baku. The group has been serving in Afghanistan within NATO-led non-combat "Resolute Support" mission.

The First Deputy of Defence Minister – Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces Colonel General Najmaddin Sadikov attended Military Committee in Chiefs of Staff Sessions in Resolute Support and Interoperability Partners formats held on 17 January at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.

The First Deputy of Defence Minister – Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces Colonel General Najmeddin Sadikov departs for Brussels (Kingdom of Belgium) to attend Military Committee in Chiefs of Staff Sessions in "Resolute Support" and "Interoperability Platform Partners" formats to be held on 17 January 2017 at NATO Headquarters.

Armenia, aiming at further intensifying the situation on Azerbaijani-Armenian state border using various means during the recent period, has further provoked the situation.

A group of Azerbaijani peacekeepers sent to Afghanistan

On December 16, Ministries of Defense of Azerbaijan and Georgia signed cooperation plan for 2017.

On December 9, Azerbaijan's Defense Minister, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Hungary to Azerbaijan Imre Laslotsky.

A working meeting with NATO/US experts was held in the Military Academy of the Armed Forces as part of NATO's Defence Education Enhancement Program (DEEP) to assist the development of the military education system of Azerbaijan's Armed Forces.

On November 25, Azerbaijan Defense Minister, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov met with newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Belgium to Azerbaijan Bert Skufs.

As part of the "NATO Days", a group of experts of NATO Allied Command Transformation visited the Military Academy of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan on November 24.

On November 24, Defense Minister, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov participated at the final meeting of the leadership of medical service, which was held in the Main Clinical Hospital of the Armed Forces.