Azerbaijan State Border Service and Frontex sign working arrangement
Baku, April 19 (AZERTAC). The State Border Service of Azerbaijan and the European Union agency for external border security Frontex (legally: European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union) have signed a working arrangement in Warsaw.
The document was signed by Executive Director of the agency Ilkka Laitinen and Chief of Azerbaijan`s State Border Service, Lieutenant-General Elchin Guliyev.
The Working Arrangement`s chief components include the development of activities in the field of information exchange and risk analyses, training and research-and-development related to border management as well as the elaboration and coordination of joint operational measures and pilot projects on border control. Sharing of experience is also envisaged with a view to developing efficient border-control procedures, enhanced technical capabilities and exchange of best practices. The overarching goal of the Working Arrangement is to improve interoperability and cooperation between the border authorities of EU Member States and Azerbaijan.
This is the eighteenth Working Arrangement in place between Frontex and the authorities of a non-EU country and aims to establish and gradually develop mutual cooperation on border security-related matters.
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