Azeri security minister visits Pakistan, discusses antiterror fight

Turan news agency
17 Feb 05

Baku, 17 February: Azerbaijani Minister of National Security Eldar
Mahmudov visited Pakistan on 11-14 February at the invitation of the
director-general of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency,
Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani. During the visit, Mahmudov had a meeting with
Kiyani, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Ehsanul
Haq, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao and other officials,
the public relations centre of the Ministry of National Security has
told Turan news agency.

During the negotiations, the sides discussed problems of regional
and international security, cooperation in the sphere of fighting
terrorism, illegal drug trafficking, illegal migration and other
types of transnational crime.

Mahmudov pointed out that the Armenian-occupied territories of
Azerbaijan are being used for transnational criminal activities.

In turn, the Pakistani side said that Islamabad condemns Armenia’s
aggression against Azerbaijan and stressed the need to settle the
conflict in line with international law.