Azerbaijani official opposes distributing weapons to secondary schools

Azerbaijani Education Minister Misir Mardanov opposes distributing weapons to secondary schools.

"We observed the bitter results of this duringthe events [a grenade blasted in secondary school in 1999] in Sumgayit," Mardanov told journalists on Wednesday.

He said a separate room is and should be allocated for military training in all secondary schools. These rooms are and must be provided with equipment.

The military training subject is conducted theoretically in secondary schools, Mardanov said.

"There are a sufficient number of military schools and academies. So we can not transform secondary schools into the military," he said.

The ban on providing secondary schools with weapons prevents holding qualitative lessons on basic military training in Azerbaijan, Deputy Education Minister Elmar Gasimov said earlier at the public debate on the development of the State Program "Azerbaijani youth in 2011-2015".

"It is banned to provide schools with weapons for practice in accordance with the Defense Ministry's special order," he said. "The ban must be lifted. Schools must be provided with weapons."


/Trend/