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Thu, 01/01/2009 - 23:23
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AZERBAIJAN`S MILITARY BUDGET REACHED $2 BILLION, PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV

Baku, January 1 (AzerTAc). “Our military spending has reached USD $2 billion and is going to rise in 2009” President Ilham Aliyev said in his greeting message to the people of Azerbaijan on World Azerbaijanis Solidarity Day and New Year.
“We are doing this; we must do this because we live under conditions of war, which is not yet over.
“The first phase of the war has finished and we have to be ready to liberate our lands from invaders by any means. Military parade staged in 2008 demonstrated our military power to everybody” he said.
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