Baku hosts Azerbaijan defense exhibition ADEX 2018

The Azerbaijan International Defense Exhibition ADEX 2018 has launched at the Baku Expo Center today.

The opening ceremony was attended by assistant to the Azerbaijani President for Work with Law Enforcement Bodies and Military Issues, Department Head Fuad Alasgarov, Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov, Deputy Minister of Defense Industry Yahya Musayev and other officials.

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has viewed the exhibition, Zakir Hasanov and Yahya Musayev informed the head of state of the exhibition. Then he viewed pavilions of the exhibition.

This year, 224 companies from 29 countries take part in ADEX. The exhibition features 11 national stands from Azerbaijan, China, France, Iran, Israel, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, Belarus, Ukraine, Pakistan, representing leading companies from these countries.

Many countries have expanded the area of their national expositions; the top four with the largest number of companies represented are Turkey (41 companies), Russia (25 companies), Israel (14 companies) and Belarus (10 companies). Kazakhstan, India and Estonia are taking part in the exhibition for the first time.