POLITICS
DOCUMENTS ON TRUST MEASURES UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Trust Measures Catalogue, the basic document of the Trust Measures Meeting, is being developed at the expert’s level in Almaty, AzerTAj correspondent reports. 16 states including Azerbaijan are the members of this organization. Azerbaijan was represented at this event by advisor of the Embassy of Azerbaijan to Uzbekistan Surkhay Aliyev.
The catalogue was amended at the sitting. The catalogue will fix principles of interaction among states in military-political, economic, cultural and ecological spheres. The participants also discussed the Clause on Secretariat and procedural rules of the Trust Measures Meeting in Asia.
The Trust Measures Catalogue should be approved by the Foreign Ministries of 16 countries in October 2004. The catalogue may be considered as a concrete step towards maintenance of security in the Asian region.
The rest documents will be signed by the acceding countries in the second summit in 2006. An official opening of the Secretariat of the Trust Measures Meeting is expected to take place at the summit.