Due to the NATO making a decision on canceling Cooperative Best Effort - 2004 exercises, which were to be held in Baku, to all appearance the NATO will curtail financial aid to Azerbaijan and will keep back the sum spent on preparation of the exercises, Azeri military expert Uzeir Jafarov stated. "Our authorities had to state about their protest against the arrival of the Armenian officers beforehand, explaining it with Azeri military refusing to participate in the same exercises in Armenia last year," the expert considers. In his words, in the coming 2 or 3 years Azerbaijan will not be entrusted the holding of measures of such level. Besides, one should expect serious statements of the Alliance leadership, as for the first time in the history the holding of exercises was failed a few hours before their beginning, U. Jafarov said.