Azerbaijan joins CIS agreement on antiterror fight at Astana summit
Bilik Dunyasi news agency
15 Sep 04
Baku, 15 September: Meetings of the councils of government heads
and foreign ministers have finished in Astana. Issues of fighting
international terrorism and illegal migration were high on the agenda
at the meeting of foreign ministers.
Azerbaijan has joined the agreement on fighting international terrorism
and the Address to the peoples of the Commonwealth [of Independent
States, CIS] and the international community on the occasion of the
60th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War [World War II].
At the same time, Baku has refused to sign the address by CIS
member states to the OSCE due the fact that it is not interested in
transferring cooperation within the OSCE framework into the plane of
cooperation within the CIS. Neither did Azerbaijan join the agreements
in the military sphere and on a coordinated borderline policy.
[Passage omitted: reported details of the meeting of the Azerbaijani
and Armenian presidents]