150 Azeri peacekeepers will leave for Iraq August 12-15. According to the data of the defense ministry of Azerbaijan, “ITAR-TASS” agency reports, their stay in Iraq will cost $3.5 million annually. The US has assumed most of the expenses. The servicemen from Azerbaijan will be placed in Kirkuk, Najaf and Karbel, where Muslim sanctuaries are situated and Iraqi Turkmans, ethnically close to Azeris, compactly live.





