2018

3rd International DEFENCE EXHIBITION 25-27 SEPTEMBER BAKU EXPO CENTER BAKU, AZERBAIJAN POST SHOW REPORT www.adex.az 2018 ABOUT EXHIBITION

The international military exhibition, ADEX, is the region’s largest event in the field of defence industry and internal security, providing the participants with a unique opportunity to meet with military leadership of Azerbaijan, as well as the international military and defence community. ADEX is a platform for selling your products through direct buyers, ordering companies, influencers and end users. Along with products for the navy, aviation and army, the exhibition is an ideal ground for presentation of Homeland Security products. ADEX facilitates the exchange of experience among participants, visitors and experts in the sector, and a chance to upgrade products in accordance with requirements of the region’s defence industry market.

www.adex.az THE PRESIDENT`S VISIT

President reviewed the ADEX 2018 exhibition; the head of state visited stands, the open exhibition area, and spoke with heads of military-technical enterprises, and also visited the stand of the Ministry of Defence Industry of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

“ADEX exhibition has traditionally become an important event for ”the development of international military-technical cooperation and demonstrations of sophisticated weapons and technologies. By bringing together internationally acclaimed defence oriented institutions, powerful foreign companies and organisations, including official delegations and professionals, the exhibition has quickly turned into an effective platform for establishing business relationships and signing new contracts”.

Ilham Aliyev, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY

On the 25th of September 2018, the official opening of the 3rd Azerbaijan International Defence Exhibition, ADEX 2018 was held at the Baku Expo Centre.

THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE DELIVERED WELCOMING SPEECHES:

Fuad Aleskerov, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for Work with Law Enforcement Bodies and Military Issues, Head of Department

Yahya Musayev, Deputy Minister of Defence Industry of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Edward Strachan, Executive Director, Caspian Event Organisers THE OPENING CEREMONY WAS ALSO ATTENDED BY

ZAKIR HASANOV, KRASIMIR KARAKACHANOV, Minister of Defence of the Republic of Azerbaijan Deputy Prime Minister for Public Order and Security and Minister of Defence of the Republic of Bulgaria

NAJMEDDIN SADIKOV, PREDRAC BOSCOVIC, First Deputy Minister of Defence of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Minister of Defence of Montenegro Chief of The General Staff of the Armed Forces

ALI HASSAN BAHDON, KERIM VELIYEV, Minister of Defence of Jibuti Deputy Minister of Defence of the Republic of Azerbaijan For Personnel –Chief of Main Department For Personnel MUHSIN DERE, Deputy Minister of Defence of Turkey FUAD MAMMADOV, Deputy Minister of Defence of the Republic of Azerbaijan for Logistics – Chief of SIMONENKO SERGEY DMITRIYEVICH, the Main Department For Logistic Support Deputy minister of Defence of Belarus Republic

RAMIZ TAIROV, NENAD MILORADOVICH, Deputy Minister of Defence of the Republic of Azerbaijan Deputy Minister of Defence of Serbia Commander of the Air Force

REZA MOZAFFARINIA, KEREM MUSTAFAYEV, Deputy Minister of Defense of Iran Deputy Minister of Defence of the Republic of Azerbaijan Commander of the Combined Arms Army SHUKHRAT KHALMUKHAMEDOV, Deputy Minister of Defense of Uzbekistan REFERENCES FROM VIP GUESTS

Yahya Musayev, Zakir Hasanov, Deputy Minister of Colonel General Minister of Defence Industry of the Republic of Azerbaijan Defence of the Republic of Azerbaijan

“The ADEX exhibition, while bringing together the “The great interest shown by state authorities, most authoritative companies, organisations, business circles and industry agencies of foreign agencies and delegations from some of the world’s countries being a sample of the relevance and leading states, plays a crucial role in presenting importance of this event, demonstrates the standing the latest military technology, including a wide of Azerbaijan as an important strategic partner for range of weapons and munitions to defence and friendly and fraternal countries. The ADEX 2018 exhibition low-enforcement agencies of both Azerbaijan and is an effective platform for participating countries other countries, highlighting many innovations in to demonstrate their national military industry potential, this field. The support extended by the President to get acquainted with modern defence technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his and samples used in various fields of the regular visits to the event, now being held for the military-industrial complex, as well as with the latest third time, provide a special impetus to the types of military equipment, and to establish advancement of the ADEX exhibition” international cooperation” INFORMATION SUPPORT MEDIA REVIEW

GENERAL MEDIA PARTNER 178 articles about the “ADEX 2018” exhibition OFFICIAL ONLINE SHOW DAILY AND WEB TV were published in 30 newspapers

OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER and 13 magazines

In 205 INFORMATION SUPPORT internet portals 2389 news reports were published

INFORMATION PARTNERS 84 reports about the “ADEX 2018” exhibition in news programmes INTERNET SUPPORT on 9 TV channels ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN TO ATTRACT VISITORS

Direct mailing based on a specialised database, including all the power structures of Azerbaijan

Distribution of invitation tickets by the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Defence Industry, the State Border Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Placing information in specialised publications, on specialised websites and social networks

Visual advertising in administrative buildings of power structures of the Republic of Azerbaijan

OUTDOOR ADVERTISING Transports Billboards Monitors Posters Roll-up banners OFFICIAL DELEGATIONS AT ADEX 2018

ADEX 2018 welcomed 34 military delegations (150 representatives) from 24 countries of the world:

Minister of Defence of Bulgaria Minister of Defence of Montenegro Minister of Defence of Djibouti Deputy Minister of Defence of Iran Deputy Minister of Defence of the Republic of Belarus Deputy Minister of Defence of Uzbekistan General Director - State concern "Ukroboronprom" Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus General Director of JSC Rosoboronexport Deputy Minister of Defence of UAE Deputy Minister of Defence of Turkey And others

Over 500 bilateral meetings were hold among exhibitors and international delegations OFFICIAL DELEGATIONS’ REFERENCES

“I am attending the ADEX exhibition “This exhibition provides an excellent “Ukraine is a long-standing partner in Azerbaijan as the Minister of opportunity to get acquainted with of Azerbaijan in militarytechnical

Defence of Bulgaria for the first time. the military potential of Azerbaijan, cooperation; we cooperate closely

First impressions of the event are Turkey, Israel and other countries. with the Ministry of Defence Industry very positive, everything is perfectly This is my first visit to the exhibition, and the Ministry of Defence, as well as a few Azerbaijani defence companies. organised, for which I want to and I appreciate the high level of Our cooperation is developing congratulate the organisers of organization of this event”. efficiently which is why coming to ” ” ”the exhibition. ” ” ”Azerbaijan is a pleasure; we find mutual understanding here, and together with our Azerbaijani colleagues we are moving forward hand in hand”.

Krasimir Karakachanov, Predrag Bošković, Pavlo Bukin, Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria Minister of Defence of General Director of for Public Order and Security, Montenegro “Ukroboronprom” Minister of Defence of Bulgaria VISITORS SCOPE OF VISITORS TO ADEX 2018 6534 from 44

VISITORS COUNTRIES Internal troops Air Force Navy Military educational institutions TOP COUNTRIES BY THE NUMBER OF VISITORS Civil Defence Forces State security services Republic of Belarus Russia Civil Aviation Defence industry Hunting weapons Ukraine Azerbaijan Border troops Law enforcement Fire safety Turkey UAE Shipbuilding Ground forces Customs Israel Textiles Telecommunications, Information Technology Transport EXHIBITORS ADEX 2018 EXHIBITION SECTORS 224 29 companies countries Emergency and rescue means

Unmanned systems 2 11 12000m Internal (domestic) security national groups exhibition space Military uniforms and equipment Military organizations / Associations / Educational institutions EXHIBITING COUNTRIES ADEX 2018 Electronic Warfare Systems, C4ISR Weapons and vehicles for ground troops Azerbaijan Spain Russia Ships, vessels and naval systems Belgium Iran Serbia Belarus Italy Singapore Electro-optical equipment and systems

Bulgaria Kazakhstan USA Arms and ammunition Great Britain Cyprus Turkey Aerospace Defence Systems Germany China Ukraine Holland Latvia France Radar systems Israel Lithuania Czech Republic Simulation and training systems India Pakistan Estonia Vehicles and equipment for railway troops Indonesia EXHIBITOR REFERENCES

Selçuk YAŞAR, Salih INNECI, Violeta Shatova, Andrey Masalskiy, President and CEO CEO/Owner, DLG Tactical representative of Adviser to the General Director of of ROKETSAN (Turkey) the VMZ EAD the State Concern (CC) - (Turkey) (Bulgaria) Ukroboronprom

“Roketsan has participated in the “ADEX 2018 is extremely important “The ADEX exhibition is available “Military-technical cooperation Azerbaijan International Defence for us as we see this exhibition as not only to potential clients in between Ukraine and Azerbaijan has Exhibition in Baku regularly since 2014. a great opportunity to introduce Azerbaijan, but also to existed for many decades. Our stand In addition to being a major our brand to the Central Asian representatives from at ADEX 2018 was visited by the comprehensive and fully integrated market and beyond”. other countries of the world, , Ilham Aliyev, exhibition, ADEX is an important which is very important who stressed the importance of platform for displaying both countries’ for Bulgaria”. bilateral cooperation. We also met with capabilities and sharing knowledge the Minister of Defence of Azerbaijan, amongst Defence Industry leaders”. Zakir Hasanov, who showed interested in our active defence systems. We also take notice of the strengthening of the Azerbaijani army, which is currently already one of the strongest in the region. We are glad that many new enterprises have been established in Azerbaijan’s defence industry, with whom we plan to develop cooperation”. OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE EXHIBITION

On the second and third day of the ADEX 2020 exhibition, the Daily News was released.

Official Daily News of the ADEX exhibition is a unique printed and digital media outlet for publishing brief progress reports on the exhibition; it also contains information about the latest technologies and developments, including news from participating companies, expert reviews on different sectors of the military-industrial complex, interviews with leading industry experts and desk reviews of the national market for security systems. EVENTS WITHIN THE EXHIBITION

The first day of the ADEX 2018 exhibition ended with an official evening reception, which was held at the Heydar Aliyev Centre.

The participants of the exhibition, as well as guests, among whom were the leadership of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Defence Industry of Azerbaijan, heads of the International Military Delegations and representatives of the diplomatic corps, attended the reception.

www.adex.az EVENTS WITHIN THE EXHIBITION

THE MILITARY HISTORICAL MUSEUM, BEING A PARTICIPANT IN THE ADEX 2018 EXHIBITION, PRESENTED A DISPLAY OF MILITARY UNIFORMS OF THE ARMED FORCES OF AZERBAIJAN FROM 1918-1920

AS PART OF THE EXHIBITION, B2B MEETINGS WERE HELD AT WHICH EXHIBITORS MET WITH POTENTIAL PARTNERS AND CUSTOMERS organisers support sponsor

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE INDUSTRY MINISTRY OF DEFENCE PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY

OFFICIAL HOTELS OFFICIAL STAND BUILDER travel partner EXHIBITION OVERVIEW TO BE HELD ADEX2020

AZERBAIJAN DEFENCE EXHIBITION EXHIBITION SECTORS:

AEROSPACE DEFENCE SYSTEMS ORGANISERS ARMS AND AMMUNITION ELECTRO-OPTICAL EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEMS ELECTRONIC WARFARE SYSTEMS, C4ISR SOFTWARE EMERGENCY AND RESCUE MEANS

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE INDUSTRY INTERNAL (DOMESTIC) SECURITY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS / ASSOCIATIONS / EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS MILITARY UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT SUPPORT RADAR SYSTEMS SHIPS, VESSELS AND NAVAL SYSTEMS SIMULATION AND TRAINING SYSTEMS MINISTRY OF DEFENCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN TECHNOLOGY AND EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCTION, MAINTENANCE AND DISPOSAL OF WEAPONRY UNMANNED SYSTEMS www.adex.az VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT FOR RAILWAY TROOPS WEAPONS AND VEHICLES FOR GROUND TROOPS