Chief of General Staff of Azerbaijani Navy is announced

Chief of General Staff of Azerbaijani Navy has been appointed.

As Azerbaijani media inform referring to military sources, the appointment of the second-rank Captain Shahin Mammadov as a Chief of the General Staff of the Azerbaijani Navy has been approved by the order of the Azerbaijani Defense Minister on May 15.

Mammadov acted as the Chief of General Staff in late March, 2014 after the Chief of the General Staff of the MNF, the First-rank Captain Yunus Mammadov’s dismissal from his post.

Since then S.Mammadov has also acted as the Commander of Azerbaijani Navy.

Commander of the Azerbaijani Navy, Vice Admiral Shahin Sultanov was dismissed on March 11, 2014.