U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates Visits Azerbaijan

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN - JUNE 6: (Front L-R) Major General Najafov, head of the international cooperation department at Azerbajan's Ministry of Defense, General-Colonel Safar Abiyev, Azerbajan's Minister of Defense standing with hands folded front, Yashar Aliyev, Azerbaijani ambassador to the United States, Donald Lu, charge d'affaires of the United States Embassy in Baku, Azerbajan, and Col. Doug Sachs, USAF, U.S. Defense Attache, wait on the tarmac to greet Secretary Robert M. Gates at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport June 6, 2010 in Baku, Azerbaijan. On the table in front of Aliyev is a letter from President Barack Obama. Gates left Singapore earlier today after participating in the Shangri-La Dialogue's Asia Security Summit, which ran from June 4 to 6, 2010. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster-Pool/Getty Images)