Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said "diplomatic and regional reasons, the tensions and instability" were factors in delaying the exercise.
Earlier he served as the Chief of Staff to Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman in 2009, and as the Deputy Director General for Western Europe division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2009–2011).
He was also involved in high-profile investigations against top politicians, including Ehud Olmert, Avraham Hirschson and Avigdor Lieberman.
He is alleged to have illegally passed documents regarding the ongoing Israeli criminal investigation of long-term friend Foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman.
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Other visits to Baku were those of Israel's Minister of Agriculture Shalom Simhon in May 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Avigdor Lieberman in August 2007 and two visits of the Minister of National Infrastructures Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in June 2006 and June 2008 and visits of Azerbaijan's Ministers of Economic Development (February 2007), Emergency Situations (March 2007), Transportation (June 2007) and Ecology and Natural Resources (October 2007) to Israel.