Editing Azerbaijani Armed Forces (section)

===NATO===
{{Main|Azerbaijan–NATO relations}}
[[File:Azerbaijani soldiers in Iraq 11.jpg|thumb|Azerbaijan deployed 150 peacekeepers during the [[Iraq War]].]]
The [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] (NATO) and Azerbaijan cooperate. Azerbaijan's [[Individual Partnership Action Plan]] (IPAP) and its [[Partnership for Peace]] (PfP) linkages lay out the programme of cooperation between Azerbaijan and NATO.

The Azerbaijani government has however delayed implementing IPAP-recommended reforms, however, in part at least because no decision had been taken to seek NATO membership. This is because Azerbaijan's foreign policy 'seeks to balance interests with the U.S., EU, Russia and Iran.'<ref>[[International Crisis Group]], Azerbaijan: Defence Sector Reform and Management, Europe Briefing No.50, Baku/Tbilisi/Brussels, 29 October 2008, p.1</ref>

According to a NATO diplomatic source some key officials at NATO headquarters in [[Brussels]] were pushing hard for engaging Azerbaijan on the membership question. "Turkey, Romania, Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom and the [[Baltic states]]," are among the member-states also backing a fast track for Azerbaijan's NATO membership.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav060409.shtml|title=Eurasianet|website=www.eurasianet.org|access-date=9 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090606053322/http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav060409.shtml|archive-date=6 June 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>

However, Azerbaijan made its policy of [[non-belligerent|not being aligned]] with a geopolitical/military structure official when it became a full member of the [[Non-Aligned Movement]] in 2011.

There is also a limited amount of military cooperation with the other countries of [[GUAM]]: Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.perspektivy.info/rus/konturi/vojennoje_sotrudnichestvo_mezhdu_postsovetskimi_gosudarstvami_2008-09-25.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721230818/http://www.perspektivy.info/rus/konturi/vojennoje_sotrudnichestvo_mezhdu_postsovetskimi_gosudarstvami_2008-09-25.htm|url-status=dead|title=Военное сотрудничество между постсоветскими государствами - Перспективы|archive-date=21 July 2011|website=www.perspektivy.info}}</ref>