AZERBAIJAN, IRAN SET TO COOPERATE IN NATIONAL SECURITY, ANTITERROR FIGHT
Turan news agency
27 Jan 05
BAKU
“The Azerbaijani Republic and the Islamic Republic of Iran will make
effort to make the Caspian a region of peace, stability, good
neighbourhood and cooperation,” says a joint statement for the press
on the results of the official visit of Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev signed by the presidents of the two countries in Tehran
yesterday (26 January).
The document notes: “The sides stressed the importance of continuing
constructive dialogue to coordinate the convention on the legal status
of the Caspian based on consensus among the Caspian littoral states
and expressed in this connection their wish to boost efforts of the
special working group comprising deputy foreign ministers of the
Caspian states.”
In addition, the statement stresses that it is important that the
framework convention on protection of the marine environment of the
Caspian signed by all the Caspian states in Tehran in 2003 is ratified
and comes into force as soon as possible.
The sides intend to continue close bilateral and multilateral
cooperation “with the aim of strengthening the international
political, economic and legal order based on sovereign equality and
territorial integrity of all countries, non-interference in their
domestic affairs” and other accepted international legal norms.
Baku and Tehran confirm their readiness to continue cooperation within
the framework of the UN and its bodies, the Organization of Islamic
Conference (OIC) and other world and regional international
organizations.
The sides noted with satisfaction that the current contractual basis
serves as a reliable ground that ensures the comprehensive development
of relations between the two countries.
Azerbaijan and Iran also intend to cooperate in the fight against new
global threats such as international terrorism, illegal trade in
drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, transnational organized
crime, human trafficking and illegal arms trade.
The sides once again stressed that the UN and OIC resolutions on the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict have to be implemented and this problem
should be resolved “based on sovereignty, territorial integrity and
inviolability of the borders of the Azerbaijani Republic”.
The statement also stresses the sides’ intentions “to cooperate in the
field of national security and in accordance with individual
agreements, to facilitate ties between corresponding structures of the
two countries”.