Azerbaijan promotes four Defense Ministry officers to senior ranks

President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree promoting several servicemembers of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense to senior military ranks.

“The decree states,” Operative Information Center-OMM reports.

“Guided by Paragraph 24 of Article 109 of the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, I hereby decree:

The following servicemembers of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan shall be promoted to senior military ranks:

Military rank of lieutenant general

Major General Zaur Zeynalabdul oglu Rustamov

Military rank of major general

Colonel Elnur Ali oglu Alasgarli

Colonel Hikmat Rovshan oglu Aliyev

Colonel Telman Asgar oglu Huseynov.”