BAKU. March 6 (Interfax-AVN) - The United States has not approached Azerbaijan about the possibility of using its territory to station radar as part of a planned U.S. missile shield in Europe, the Azerbaijani president's office announced on Monday.
"Today there is nothing specific to that effect on the agenda. Today there are no negotiations under way on this subject," senior presidential aide Novruz Mamedov told reporters in comments on a statement last week by the director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Lieutenant General Henry Obering, that the United States planned to station some of the future missile defense system's radar in the Caucasus.
"The Azerbaijani side has no official information to that effect," Mamedov said.
"Azerbaijan is one of the South Caucasus countries. There are other countries in the region as well," he said.