Representatives of Azerbaijan, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine also agreed to establish a new contractual-legal base for multilateral cooperation and an interstate system to monitor emergency and inter-regional satellite systems. They also agreed on the need to integrate land-based infrastructures using a signal from the Global Navigation Satellite System, cooperation in the space field and the creation of a unified system of satellite monitoring of agricultural land.
“The partners stressed the need for the development of joint work on the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes, taking into account the priorities established by the CIS Development Concept and an action plan for the implementation of the second phase (2012-2015) of the CIS Economic Development Strategy for the period up to 2020,” the statement says.
Azerbaijan entered the space club in February 2013 with the launch of the first Azerbaijani telecommunications satellite Azerspace-1, which provides digital television, data transmission, VSAT multi-service networks, and governmental communications services.The country operates the low-orbital satellite AzerSky and plans to launch another telecommunication satellite Azerspace-2 by the end of 2017.At present, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan have orbiting satellites in space.
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