FERIADO EN BAKU Day of Armed Forces

Extracto del diario Today.az de Baku

Under decision of the government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in June 26, 1918 established the first military unit- separate corpus. This decision gave legal opportunity to the first democratic government of the Moslem East to establish its own army. Then followed the state decree about the military obligation-call to the army. The measures taken by the Azerbaijan government in the establishment on the national army showed its results very soon. Azerbaijan National Army could resist the Armenian army.

In October 9, 1991, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Azerbaijan adopted the decision on the establishment of the Army.

June 26 declared the Day of the Forced Arms according to the decision of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan from May 22, 1998.